Sorry wingnuts. It wasn’t terrorism. The “mooslims” weren’t trying to torch Israel. Instead it was a 14 year old boy that accidentally started the fire: A 14-year-old boy from the Carmel region admitted Monday to throwing a piece of burning coal into the forest and causing what later became the largest and most devastating forest […]
For years this has been my picture of choice to describe the right: Today I must replace it with this gem from yesterday’s “tea party” protests the wingnuts held For those not familiar with the term “teabagging”, please click here when the children aren’t around, then be thankful that those brave Bostonians weren’t opposing a […]
Finally we are starting to see some accountability from the wasted adventure called Iraq: In what could turn out to be the greatest fraud in US history, American authorities have started to investigate the alleged role of senior military officers in the misuse of $125bn (£88bn) in a US -directed effort to reconstruct Iraq after […]
Just breaking on CNN that Republicans on the Judiciary Committee have blocked the confirmation of Eric Holder for Attorney General for one week. Apparently the big show stopped was rather or not he would prosecute people involved with torture (imagine that). This leads me to a couple of points: What do the Republicans have against […]
And here we go: More than 100 voting machines in Kenton County have been shut down on a judge’s order. Secretary of State spokesman Les Fugate said at least two machines in Kenton County weren’t properly registering straight-ticket votes. The malfunctions could affect the tightly contested state Senate race between incumbent Republican Jack Westwood of […]
No – not Palin’s speech last night, but rather the review of Palin’s speech by James Fallows. As I watched last night I really thought that she was doing a hell of a job at energizing the base, but the people she really need to connect to weren’t impressed. I find out I am not […]