Lou Dobbs is taken to task by Telemundo’s Maria Celeste misreporting the incidences of leprosy among illegal immigrants After years of fearmongering on his prime time CNN show, Dobbs may run for office, his current state of residence is New Jersey which is 16.3% Hispanic. Good luck with that.
Read more →Remember this debate? Then Sen. Hillary Clinton was all: Meet me in Ohio! and then Sen. Barack Obama was all: fine then. Monday November 23, 2009 Dave Winer. I assumed that because we elected Obama to end the war in Iraq that it went without saying that the war in Afghanistan would be ended...
Read more →Background on this new innovation in preventing sex (aka what cannot be prevented): Yes, God wants us to be compassionate and kind and tender with each other. Not only that, but he wants us to love our enemies and serve our neighbors. As long as there is no body on body action. I’m talking...
Read more →Apparently, Michael Steele and the RNC is gearing up for the dirty fight through 2010 by recruiting the creator of the infamous and yet effective “White Hands” political advertisement: Update 6:03 p.m.: Alex Castellanos, a Republican media consultant, will take over as a senior communications adviser to RNC Chairman Michael Steele, according to a...
Read more →Now you tell us: Former Gov. Sarah Palin’s book, “Going Rogue,” blames her first legislative director for moves early in her term that helped poison her relationship with state lawmakers. But the ex-aide, John Bitney, calls Palin’s account a fabrication and said he wishes his former boss would leave him alone. via Portrayal in...
Read more →What goes around, comes around.
Read more →No pre-existing conditions, now everyone pay up for your higher premium, higher deductible insurance plan.
Read more →See war is the one thing Republicans will support and not demand the American tax people pay for, ever. Its fine to finance war on debt. Later on, the republican can just say: I didn’t support the debt. Even though as we are still in two wars every prominent GOPer said that that the...
Read more →Christopher Beam makes the case that subjecting cosmetic procedures to the “botax” (a 1% tax), that is currently in the health care reform legislaion because people that get cosmetic surgery may earn more money after surgery. But surgeons say there’s plenty of anecdotal evidence to suggest that a larger cup size (or smoother nasal...
Read more →Is it just me that thinks when someone says: It’s safe to do A because B has never happened. B is about to happen because if A has never happened, there is a first time for everything? Well, Never and it’s friends Nobody and No one show up in the FDIC’s Suze Orman and...
Read more →It took two Bush Administration officials to properly defend Attorney General Holder’s completely correct and precedented decision to try 9/11 defendants in federal criminal court. In deciding to use federal court, the attorney general probably considered the record of the military commission system that was established in November 2001. This system secured three convictions...
Read more →Why, because choosing what to do about war in a country called the place where empires go to die while the country you lead is in a deep recession is just like choosing to super-size at the burger joint drive through. Just super size it and let’s go. The more President Obama examines our...
Read more →In addition to horrifically burning the skin, ingesting white phosphorous may cause liver, heart or kidney damage, according to the Agency For Toxic Substances and Disease Registry PDF. The DoD denied using white phosphorous against “insurgents” until 2005 when the Pentagon admitted US forces used white phosphorous as “an incendiary weapon” during the assault on Fallujah in...
Read more →Good move is apologizing. Ratigan is loud, but his show isn’t useless. He constantly harps on the government’s inability to effectively regulate the financial sector and investigate wrong doing in the securities market, and that’s good. I am not sure if it will prove to be dated, most people never knew cared about a...
Read more →US Representative Joe Sestak debunks the utility of torture, notes that as an Admiral he was in the Pentagon when the attacks occurred, that Bush 43′s military tribunals were incomplete and still believes that Article III of the US Constitution exists and has served as well. O’Reilly is mad, that Zacarias Moussaoui was able...
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