My Favorite Authors/Books: Peter Hessler
As my initial contribution to the Recommended Books series I present not one, but three volumes, all of them written by American author Peter Hessler and all of them focused on China. Collectively...
View ArticleUnsigned WSJ Editorial Attacks Guardian and BBC
An unsigned editorial in the Wall Street Journal tears into the Guardian newspaper and the BBC for hypocrisy and claims they have tarred the entire News Corps organization with the sins of a few.We...
View ArticleWhy We've Already Lost the Bi-Partisan Committee Battle w/Poll
Personally, I think if you asked the millions of Americans who see this pending debt ceiling plan as a giant steaming mound of animal feces what they dislike most, it would be that after weeks of...
View ArticleBREAKING: State Dept. Gives OK to Tar Sands Pipline w/poll
Seeing yesterday's posts about mounting progressive efforts to try and block an environmentally questionable pipeline to transport tar-sands generated petroleum from Canada to the U.S., I was tempted...
View ArticleSenator Schumer Asked Me for Money. I Said NO! (W/Poll)
Today's mail included a thick envelope from the Democratic Party's Senate Campaign Committee and Committee Chair Senator Charles (Chuck) Schumer of NY. It had all the usual direct mail gimmicks.A...
View ArticleWingnuts Agree: Cain has a Problem - w/Poll
Amidst all of the second guessing and rationalizing over last night's disastrous (for them) election results, the gang at Red State dot com does seem to agree on one thing -- Herman Cain is a walking...
View ArticleDear Canadians: This isn't US vs. You - We're in it Together
News is breaking today that the Obama Administration, backed by the U.S. State Department, will not approve the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline between Canada and the U.S. See Meteor Blades...
View ArticleGuardian Reports "Data Pool 3" Might be Murdoch's Smoking Gun
Lost amidst all of the press focus on the Florida primaries is a Sunday Guardian UK article by Nick Davies, the reporter whose dogged multi-year probe of the Murdoch press empire's phone hacking led to...
View ArticleMitt: My Beliefs are Clear (Albeit Somewhat Limited...and Likely Subject to...
A brief diary but loads of fun. Monday, March 19th, the Mittster delivered a talk at the University of Chicago (home to the famed Milton Friedman school of Economic survivalism) and his...
View ArticleCharles Blow Aims the Dagger at Romney - Will the Public or the Media Drive...
NY Times columnist Charles Blow's latest posting Candidate Blank is a deadly weapon....the rapier point of which could and should be the blade that destroys his campaign for President. If this is the...
View ArticleNew Evidence: The Degree of Financial Fraud Globally is Beyond Your Wildest...
The following offers no deep analysis…..just some links and key points from a few fairly recent random articles in the global media…..and some of them will really astound you – starting with a new...
View ArticleWhaddya Get at a “Conservative Beauty Pagent?” All White Contestants!
Claiming that American beauty pagents have a “liberal bias,” and have been “overtaken by the liberal movement and liberal thinking people,” conservative organizers put together the 2012 “Miss...
View ArticlePA Hires GOP Hacks to Promote Voter ID Law It Admits Isn't Needed
The rationale for the sham that is Pennsylvania’s new Voter ID law is steadily becoming clear and the image is not a pretty one:The July 24th Huffington Post: “Defendants in a case against one of the...
View ArticleGood Lord Tim: Say it Isn't So...YOU have Tax Problems Too? w/Poll
Poor Mitt...he just can't catch a break. With the Democratic Party and the media hounding him to reveal just what he paid in taxes for the past decade, the LAST thing he needs is a potential running...
View ArticleIt's Time for the Marshall Plan: Make the GOP OWN Romney Ryan Medicare
About eight years ago, the Bush Administration launched an effort to "reform" Social Security by "privatizing" it. The idea was to shift employee payroll contributions from the federal Social Security...
View ArticleFOX Reveals: Ryan Plan is "Substantive" Hot Air
Esquire's Charlie Pierce today provides campaign trail coverage of our good friend and "policy wonk" Paul Ryan on the stump in Longwood, Colorado and it's obvious the folks who came to see him love...
View ArticleCorbett Administration Makes Priorities Crystal Clear
You want a really really great example of GOP priorities? You will absolutely love this very brief note from the Philly News: especially when you compare it with another Corbett administration...
View ArticleThe Growing Internal GOP Split - Mike Huckabee's "Wedgie"
It didn't get a lot of attention the other day when Mike Huckabee sent out an e-mail to his list of fervent right-wing evangelicals, but if you read carefully, the specific wording and claims he made...
View ArticleMy LTE Calls BS on Pollster's Op-Ed Claim That "GOP Can Win Women"
On Sunday, Sept. 2nd, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's Op-Ed page rolled out the newsprint carpet to let "GOP Pollster" Kellyanne Conway argue that "The GOP can win women". (This sprawling epic...
View ArticleWhazzup? Has the Mittster Got Money Problems?
This is, admittedly, only speculation, but there are increasing signs tonight that the Romney campaign may be suffering from cash shortages, leaving it hampered in its supposed plans to wallpaper media...
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