After having spent the past four years in the minority, you would think congressional Republicans could actually come up with some sort of plans. Instead they lay out their “wish list”, but never present any path to make these wishes a reality. That was scene again last week with the Republicans new “Pledge to America”. […]
I guess the first amendment is null and void: A photographer taking pictures of a BP refinery in Texas was detained by a BP security official, local police and a man who said he was from the Department of Homeland Security, according to ProPublica, a non-profit news organization in the U.S. The photographer, Lance Rosenfield, […]
John Cole points out the ending of the CBS article: The trip Columbus probably cost taxpayers between $500,000 and $1 million. Air Force One alone bills out at $100,000 per hour, and the round trip is nearly two hours. Adding to the cost are military aircraft to carry limos and secret service vehicles, Marine One […]
A new poll out has found that a majority of Minnesotans are embarrassed by their most famous member of Congress, Michele Bachmann: A new survey of Minnesotans shows that a majority of residents — 56 percent — are embarrassed by Rep. Michele Bachmann. The release of the survey, commissioned by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, […]
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 […]
Next year seniors won’t see an increase in their monthly Social Security checks. The increase, which is determined by cost of living up to June of the previous year, was determined to not be necessary by the government. A lot of people depend on these checks, and as well depend on Medicare. Currently Medicare has […]
It looks like some Texas charities are trying to ascertain a child’s status as a legal resident or not before allowing them to receive gifts in their toy drives: They don’t claim to know who’s been naughty or nice, but some Houston charities are asking whether children are in the country legally before giving them […]
It sounds like Bush is going to come out of hiding: Nearly 10 months after leaving office, former President George W. Bush plans to emerge from self-imposed political hibernation on Thursday as he starts a new public policy institute to promote some of the domestic and international priorities of his presidency. You mean the very […]
President Obama is getting more forceful in his fight for real health care reform, which is a much welcomed site. Yesterday he started invoking FDR and reminding people how the Republicans opposed social security. Then during the Johnson years they opposed Medicare. In both fights the GOP labeled the people pushing for change as “socialists”. […]
This is the problem living in the information super age, where so much is only a click away: Records from a cell phone used by President-elect Obama were improperly breached, apparently by employees of the cell phone company, his transition team said Thursday. Spokesman Robert Gibbs said the team was notified Wednesday by Verizon Wireless […]