Just now breaking on MSNBC that Arlen Specter is going to announce he is switching parties, which will give the Democrats that 60 vote margin. UPDATE: Chris Cillizza reports: Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter will switch his party affiliation from Republican to Democrat and announced today that he will run in 2010 as a Democrat, according […]
I have always hated those things. These are the “contracts” you sign when you start a new job stating you won’t go to work for a competitor. Well California’s Supreme Court has just now ruled them null and void: Californians have the right to move from one company to another or start their own business […]
Bob Franken has written an article blasting the NV judge who said Dennis Kucinich could appear in the NBC debate: The Nevada judge who ruled that NBC must include Dennis Kucinich in the Tuesday night debate not only needs to go back to law school, he needs a refresher course in high school civics. Happily, […]
In 2000 most of us saw right through the political ambitions of Fox when they pronounced George Bush as the winner of the election. Of course those of us who saw that were labeled as conspiracy theorists by the far right, but since then it has been proven time and time again. Now the really […]
The WORST Governor in the history of Ohio: The state Supreme Court on Wednesday publicly reprimanded Ohio Gov. Bob Taft for his ethics violations in office, a black mark that will stay on his permanent record as an attorney. Taft, a Republican and great-grandson of President William Howard Taft, pleaded no contest in 2005 to […]
The Workers’ Comp scandal here in Ohio is getting more involved. The number of victims are also increasing in this scandal: Hundreds of injured workers temporarily received less in state benefits than they deserved because of poor record-keeping at the state insurance fund for injured workers, according to a memo released Monday by Gov. Bob […]
So why do the Republicans in Alabama not support someone like Roy Moore? Remember him? He was the state supreme court justice that put the ten commandments outside of the courthouse and refused to remove them. I mean they didn’t just not support him – they destroyed him: With 70 percent of precincts reporting, Riley […]
This is huge news from my state: For the first time in Ohio history, the state Supreme Court ruled that the governor has a limited power to withhold documents from the public when the information is “made for the purpose of fostering informed and sound policymaking.” But in a 5-2 decision, the court majority said […]