Month: February 2011

Jet lag caused an early awakening this morning. I had come in from Geneva Wednesday pm. Online by 4.30 am which was good, since I found among my e-mails an announcement for a protest on 6th Avenue at 9 am. Well, I had read a...

Steve Benen thinks that there is a 70% likelihood that the government will shut down on March 4th because Congress will not be able to produce a continuing resolution. I’d place the odds at closer to 100%. After all, even...

I am kind of curious whether people like Stanley Kurtz actually believe what they write or if they are fully in on their own con. There is a fairly significant contingent in what passes for the right’s intelligentsia that...

The Wall Street Journal very predictably supports the public sector union-busting efforts of the Wisconsin Republican Party and their novice governor. To them, all these protestors are just like the unwashed Greeks and Frenchies...

A little bird told me that if an alleged Black Muslim Kenyan Marxist Fascist DEMOCRAT was not President of the United States of America, and a Republican was, Senator Jim Demented Demint would not have said this: “This...