Month: October 2013

Yesterday, Governor John Kasich (R-OH), muscled home a Medicaid expansion over the disapproval of his own legislature. Meanwhile, Governor Chris Christie (R-NJ) relented on gay marriage in the Garden State by refraining from any...

Overheard about town: MAN NUMBER ONE (observing MAN NO.2 eating some kind of dessert item out of a Starbucks bag, good-naturedly inquires): “What is that? Like a $10 cake?” MAN NUMBER TWO (taken aback, collects...

Any entity that can pay a $13 billion fine and still be profitable can also pay a lot of people to say that the entity is the victim of “government zealotry.” And then there are the suck-ups who don’t even need...

. In hindsight one of the best diaries that predicted the Neocon foreign policy, continued under Obama and Ms Clinton, to “democraticize” Syria and bring freedom to the Syrian people. A regional catastrophy in the...

Paul Rosenberg has a lot of gall trying to explain logical fallacies to the unwashed masses. President Obama is a walking embodiment of this fallacy. He is so eager to embrace Republican ideas— Bush’s TARP, tax cuts in his...