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“Rick Perry is finished” line being pushed by anti-immigrant PAC 28 Sep 2011 | 12:24 pm
Coming soon from more than one rightwing group near you, the following message. Self-explanatory. ALIPAC’s “Perry Is Finished” Press Release Goes Viral Across America ! Rick Perry Is Finished ht...
Earthquake in Cheverly, Maryland 24 Aug 2011 | 06:06 am
Earthquake in Cheverly, Maryland August 23–About ten minutes or a quarter to 2:00 p.m., my whole house shook. So did my neighbors’. This was a real earthquake. My house is brick; everything shook fro...
Apology from Texas, humor from the Yellow Dog Dems 18 Aug 2011 | 08:27 am
Apology from Texas, humor from Yellow Dog Dems If I do laugh at any mortal thing, ’tis only that I may not weep . . . Rick Perry in state office A little humor helps. View video here: Dear A...
Using Perry to winnow the GOP field? 16 Aug 2011 | 07:52 am
If GOP strategists plan to use Rick Perry to thin the Republican field, they risk further disasters It’s too early to be writing about the White House race for 2012, but here goes anyway– The ...
Drowning the Middle Class in the Bathtub, part 1 4 Jun 2011 | 09:04 am
Alan Greenspan called for eliminating the debt ceiling –and the press missed the story. In response to Republican so-called budget proposals, President Obama says it best: “There’s nothing serious a...
New intelligence at the White House: Osama bin Laden killed 12 May 2011 | 08:01 am
President Obama announced Sunday night that Osama bin Laden was killed in a compound in Abottabad, Pakistan: ” . . . shortly after taking office, I directed Leon Panetta, the director of the CIA, to ...
Osama bin Laden killed, president announces 11 May 2011 | 07:59 am
Osama bin Laden was killed in a compound hidden deep in Pakistan, President Obama announced Sunday night. Complete transcript of the president’s statement linked here. From the statement: “Yet Osama ...
Bin Laden, Pakistan, and corporate media narrative 11 May 2011 | 07:57 am
With thousands of Afghanis, Iraqis, and U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan and Iraq since Sept. 11, 2001, Osama bin Laden, the fugitive icon of terrorist networks, was finally tracked down and killed i...
Free Speech and Attacking Social Security 11 Apr 2011 | 09:11 am
Applying lessons from some of the history below, up top: Regardless of the individual views of ordinary Republicans as citizens, the national party apparatus of the GOP has never ceased trying to und...
Free Speech and Campaign Contributions 5 Apr 2011 | 08:42 am
Another in an occasional series on free speech: One person, one vote. One person, one amount. Following up previous posts, again on the recent legal argument that money, in the context of political d...