In a time where the big discussion is rather or not we should extend tax cuts to the top 2% of earners in the country, this is what’s happening: The poverty rate rose to 14.3 percent during 2009 from 13.2 percent the previous year as household income stayed flat and the number of people without […]
This is some really good news for those of us in OH-8: The Democratic National Committee is launching a new ad targeting West Chester’s John Boehner, who would become House Speaker if the Republicans take the House. It starts airing on cable nationally Tuesday, according to DNC spokesman Alec Gerlach. I think I speak for […]
You can tell it’s election season. Commercials are on the air and the robocalls are ringing off the hook. The yard signs are in full bloom along with the attack ads. But the biggest indicator that an election is nearing? More charges of Republicans using copyright material without permission: A company has sued Republican U.S. […]
Sad, but not shocking: A group of teenagers in western New York has been accused of harassing members of a mosque by yelling obscenities and insults during evening prayers for Ramadan, sideswiping a worshiper with a vehicle and firing a shotgun outside, the authorities said Tuesday. The teenagers were cornered by members of the mosque, […]
If the Republicans win back the House then they plan on letting us relive the bad part of the 90’s: If President Barack Obama needed any more incentive to go all out for Democrats this fall, here it is: Republicans are planning a wave of committee investigations targeting the White House and Democratic allies if […]
Whenever we hear about the government trying to regulate internet providers, the right gets in a frenzy. They start screaming about “government takeover” and “interfering in private business”. Perfect examples of this can be seen in Rand Paul speeches. Now a new report shows that internet providers routinely lie about the speeds you get from […]
This comes on the heals of Sharron Angle attacking him on the issue: The First Amendment protects freedom of religion. Senator Reid respects that but thinks that the mosque should be built some place else. If the Republicans are being sincere, they would help us pass this long overdue bill to help the first responders […]
The Washington Post has put together a great chart to show how the Democratic tax plans actually help those making less than $250,000 a year more than the Republicans. The Democratic tax plan also costs $36.6 billion less than the Republican one: (Click for larger view) So when you look at it in simple graphical […]
Sovereign citizens are the craziest of the crazies. They are the most extreme of the right, believing that the federal government has zero authority and even rewrite history to say as much. But it doesn’t stop there. These people are also some of the worst predators out there: They call themselves sovereign citizens, U.S. residents […]
Robert Gibbs gave an interview to The Hill in which he takes some shots at the left: The press secretary dismissed the “professional left” in terms very similar to those used by their opponents on the ideological right, saying, “They will be satisfied when we have Canadian healthcare and we’ve eliminated the Pentagon. That’s not […]