June 19, 2013
11:15 a.m.
How dumb is THIS?
You might call North Dakota the antithesis of President Obama’s political base.
Whites make up 90 percent of its population, which is fewer than one million people and mostly in rural areas. Its proportion of people 65 and over excee...
June 19, 2013
11:15 a.m.
Hmmm. All that talk of a few weeks ago about impeaching President Obama for his involvement in IRS targeting of conservative groups (see HERE, for example) suddenly seems to have faded away.
I wonder why. Does it have anything to do with the fact that ...
June 19, 2013
11:15 a.m.
As I’ve noted on previous occasions (HERE, for example), polls on the matter of snooping by the National Security Agency and how to deal with NSA leaker Edward Snowden have shown divergent results that blur the lines between the left and right o...
June 19, 2013
11:15 a.m.
In recent weeks, and especially over the past few days, this humble little blogging enterprise has been plagued by various technical problems, some of which have made it difficult or impossible for prospective readers to connect with us.
But thanks to ...
June 18, 2013
5:15 p.m.
Gee whiz! What a surprise THIS is!
Former Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) believes women have no place in elite military units, he said Tuesday in a Facebook post accusing President Barack Obama and the Defense Department of enacting a policy change that does...
June 18, 2013
5:15 p.m.
THIS is going to confuse the hell out of some wingnuts:
Bill Ayers [above] believes President Obama should be put on trial for war crimes at The Hague, the Weather Underground co-founder told Real Clear Politics in an interview posted Tuesday.
Ayers t...
June 18, 2013
5:15 p.m.
The U.S. Constitution requires supermajority votes in the Senate only in very limited circumstances — mainly to approve treaties and override presidential vetoes.
The Founding Fathers had no intention that a supermajority would be required for Se...
June 18, 2013
11:15 a.m.
The leaflet above was circulated in the Dallas area a few weeks before John Kennedy was assassinated there 50 years ago.
Need I say more?... Read more...
June 17, 2013
5:15 p.m.
Steve Benen NAILS IT:
When opponents of a bill are reduced to talking about the literal, physical size of the legislation, they’ve completely given up on the pretense that public policy matters. If opponents of immigration reform want to debate t...
June 17, 2013
5:15 p.m.
You may have heard or read today that there was a rash of shootings in Chicago over the weekend, and at least seven people were killed (HERE).
But you probably have not heard something Chicago Police spokesman Adam Collins SAID this morning:
While we’...
