Month: November 2010

What Really Matters

The National Security Archive is in the news because they forced the issue of the U.S. sheltering of Nazi war criminals into the open, eventually leading someone to leak the full unredacted report to the New York Times. But that...

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Blue Dogs Don’t Get Why They Lost

It’s kind of amazing that the New York Times can write an article about Heath Shuler and the Blue Dogs without ever trying to analyze why so many of them lost. Shuler actually won reelection, but he doesn’t seem to...

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Some Tax Facts from Citizens for Tax Justice

Obama may need to read these reports. Information for the coming tax battles with the greedy. From Citizens for Tax Justice: Here are five points explained in the report: Very few business people (3 to 5 percent) are rich enough...

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Disingenuous Republicans

Remember this? Anyone over the age of thirty-five has seen that video and should know that a bill cannot become a law unless Congress first passes it and sends it to the president for a signature. So, if the House Republicans...

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Palinism is Bushism, But Worse

People have struggled to define what the Tea Party stands for, but Sarah Palin has provided a manifesto for the incoming freshmen. She starts with the conceit that the results of the midterm elections have put the government...

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