Month: April 2009

A little understood parliamentary trick called ‘budget reconciliation’ allows the majority party in the Senate to pass legislation with a mere 50 votes (plus the tie-breaking vote of the vice-president). Basically,...

One thing you can add to the list of why you hated the Bush administration? They engaged in prosecutorial misconduct during Sen. Ted Stevens trial by failing to turn over exculpatory material to the defense. Because of this,...

Coleman lost another court battle? Damn activist judges. Supreme Court here we come! In a few years, that is . . . Isn’t it funny how the courts are really, really important to Republicans whenever they might lose an...

I’m kind of amazed that there are seventeen Republicans in the House willing to vote against the Vision Care for Kids Act of 2009. Maybe that’s why they’re struggling to win a seat from New York tonight despite...

A principle that is used extensively in engineering systems,redundancy,in effect,says don’t put all your eggs in one basket.Nature itself uses this to create diversity in all plant and animal life. Given this universal...