One can only hope so: Amid mounting signs that Rahm Emanuel will leave the White House to run for mayor in Chicago, Democratic insiders say President Barack Obama is likely to choose a new chief of staff who’s already in his orbit but has experience with previous administrations. The goal: to keep a comfort level […]
This is an interesting article from the AP: A brother of U.S. House Republican leader John Boehner (BAY’-nur) would have seen his unemployment benefits dry up if the congressman had succeeded in his push to defeat an extension-of-benefits bill passed this week. Boehner and most fellow Republicans opposed the measure Thursday, but 61-year-old Bob Boehner […]
This is how sick the Republican Party has become, supporting a candidate who had no respect for the 9/11 workers what so ever: One month after the September 11th attacks, Scott Brown was one of only three Massachusetts State Representatives to vote against a bill to provide financial assistance to Red Cross workers who had […]
New numbers came out today and one of them shows that inflation rose 2.7% last year. That’s pretty bad when people aren’t making us much money and we still have a big unemployment problem, but the problem doesn’t stop there. Social Security recipients didn’t get a raise this year. The calculated that in June, so […]
To all the Republicans out there who think Sarah is great for your party, please take a moment and consider this: Palin resigned as Governor last July. A few months later she starts a nationwide book tour. She refuses to speak at CPAC and instead speaks at a tea party convention. She would have made […]
Anyone who has read this blog for awhile should know how I like to talk about other empires in history and their sudden collapses and compare it to the rapid rise of the American empire. Here’s an interesting animation illustrating the fall of some of the biggest empires over the past couple of centuries. While […]
The right is up in arms (no pun intended) over President Obama’s plan to scrap the Bush missile defense system. He hasn’t totally given up on it, instead working towards making a more mobile and cost effective system. The right just doesn’t like that. The main idea of this missile defense system has been for […]
When you think about Sarah Palin, its really hard to keep track of just how bad of a pick she was. Last night Countdown did a mockup of some of her greatest hits. When you watch all of this put together you really get a perspective on just how unprepared she was. If she does […]
Via Sullivan comes this very interesting map: I would be happy to see us become a green colored nation, but wouldn’t mind becoming blue either. Of course we need more than an abolishment of the death penalty; we also need an entire overhaul of our justice system. When it comes to per populace incarceration rates, […]
Sure we have heard so much about it this week, but to really put it into a geeky perspective one must look at his first 100 days in a way only Facebook can provide. My favorite: