Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky feels very passionate about preventing the trial, conviction and execution of Americans on U.S. soil via drone attack; so passionate that today he took to the floor of the Senate to filibuster the confirmation of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Nobody outside the GOP was paying much attention when President Obama used recess appointments as a way to circumvent the Senate approval process last year; this week one federal court was paying very close attention. A three-judge panel of the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Political junkies, such this author, didn’t hear anything from President Obama in his second inaugural address that we couldn’t have scripted ourselves; but nonetheless there were some clues that the president has chosen to swing wildly left setting up at […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Without the first shot being fired GOP members of the House are already waving the white flag of surrender. The House will vote this week to raise the nation’s $16.4 trillion debt ceiling for three months while denying pay for […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After what appeared, even to this author, to be the nail in the coffin of the speakership of John Boehner, an angel came to his defense offering the Speaker a much-needed lifeline. The power behind the well-known “Taxpayer Protection Pledge,” […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Obama’s Saved Jobs Remember President Obama’s great stimulus package that “saved or created” millions of jobs? Time after time the president touted the thousands of teachers, police and firefighter jobs that had been saved by his stimulus; yet it seems […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When Harry Barks Remember when Barack Obama was going to usher in a new era of congeniality in our politics? In his famous words he said, “…we have never been just a collection of individuals or a collection of red […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Do We Need Coal? In the 1950s newspapers were brimming with stories on “Black Lung” or Coalworker’s pneumoconiosis, a chronic lung condition that ranged from a minor cough to bronchitis and in rare cases death. The condition was caused by long-term […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Like Washington as usual? Then Chuck Schumer’s your hero! You might not agree with Newt Gingrich’s statements about the federal court system, but the politics involved is downright repugnant. One more example of Washington corruption, this time a tasty morsel of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Tea Party be damned! The Democrats and Republicans will spend with abandon this Holiday season to avoid being labeled uncaring. The House and Senate are set to spend approximately $120 billion to extend the payroll tax “holiday,” plus up to $50 […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…