In 2007 Rick Perry signed an executive order in Texas requiring all public school girls to get the vaccine Gardasil, which protects against the sexually transmitted disease HPV. The decision caused outrage on all sides of the political spectrum and Perry later had to rescind the order. Gardasil is manufactured by Merck. During Monday night’s […]
We’re already fighting wars in Iraq, Afghanistan/Pakistan and Syria, but now it appears the U.S. has entered a fourth theater: The Obama administration has intensified the American covert war in Yemen, exploiting a growing power vacuum in the country to strike at militant suspects with armed drones and fighter jets, according to American officials. The […]
Since the oil started flowing 83+ days ago there have been those on the right floating conspiracy theories. They range from “Liberals blew up the well” to “Obama doesn’t want to stop it quick so it looks bad”. Well now we have one of these claims coming from an actual GOP member of Congress. Here’s […]
Joe Sudbay points to a post by political psychologist/neurologist Drew Westen on Huffington Post where he gives a very brutal, yet honest, assessment of President Obama: Somehow the president has managed to turn a base of new and progressive voters he himself energized like no one else could in 2008 into the likely stay-at-home voters […]
Image by caribb via Flickr The New York Times is reporting on a new alliance forming against the Justice Department and criminalization over all in our country. That alliance is the right and left. Generally the right has always supported the aggressive position of the federal government when it comes to prosecuting crimes, but given […]
I believe this news is a perfect example of my “sliding scale” of political parties I discussed in my previous post. A lot will try and claim that Scozzafava made this decision out of malice against people like Palin, but I believe it isn’t that simple. Scozzafava was more to the right on fiscal issues, […]
So here we are one week from the kick off of summer – Memorial Day weekend! We are also a week past the traditional “end of frost” – Mother’s Day. These past two weekends mark the highlight of the suburbia outdoor art festival. It’s a time when people flock to their local garden centers like […]
The wingnuts are still trying to claim that this country is more to the right and nothing changed yesterday. Well America elected a Socialist, Marxist President; a person on the left most edge of the political spectrum. Those descriptions are according to John McCain. Overall the Republicans have been calling Obama the most Liberal Senator […]
Yesterday we saw how one of Malkin’s commenters in her closed community eluded to Jim David Adkisson, the shooter in that Tennessee church, was really not a conservative, but rather wanted to make conservatives “look bad”. Well the Knoxville Police have released some of the findings from the search of Adkisson’s home: Police found right-wing […]
The collapse got a temporary reprieve: Bear Stearns Cos., teetering on the brink of collapse from a lack of cash, got emergency funding from the Federal Reserve and JPMorgan Chase & Co. in the largest government bailout of a U.S. securities firm. After denying earlier this week that access to capital was at risk, Bear […]