Month: October 2009

I assume you remember when Newt Gingrich’s Republicans shut the government down in 1995. They thought they had some giant mandate from the people to gut the federal government and really stick it to the poor, but it turned...

The New York Times quotes current and ex-government officials as saying Blackwater helped the CIA with planning, training and surveillance. Several million dollars were spent on the programme but no militants were caught or...

Well, this paragraph reads a bit funny, doesn’t it? Just days after winning the presidency, Obama vowed that he would be “a fierce advocate for gay and lesbian Americans.” But nine months later, many in the...

With Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl of Arizona blocking the extension of unemployment benefits, you have to wonder how the Republicans expect to sell the idea that there are populists who are looking out for the little guy. It...

I hear that the Phillies-Rockies game has been snowed-out. Football players don’t let a little snow dissuade them.