Month: February 2010

Saying that you are going to cut taxes for 95% of Americans is a good strategy on the campaign trail. Actually doing it? Not so much (.pdf). People are stupid.

Mathieu Bastareaud scoring one of his two tries against Scotland. I know ET isn’t a hotbed of sporting fanatics and Rugby isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but I feel the urge to write my annual diary on rugby as...

The weekly Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll is out and it continues a disturbing trend. While the poll shows Obama with strong favorability numbers, the Democratic Party as much less unpopular than the Republican Party, and Reid and...

Flags, not crosses: “If you take 1,000 so-called tea partiers and ask them what this movement is, you’ll get 1,000 different interpretations,” Mark Williams, a talk-radio host and chairman of the Tea Party,...

The US Missile Defense Agency is claiming a successful test of their Airborne Laser Testbed system (built by a coalition of Boeing, Northrop and Lockheed). In short they claim the laser missile defense system successfully shot...