Free Speech and Campaign Contributions
Another in an occasional series on free speech: One person, one vote. One person, one amount. Following up previous posts, again on the recent legal argument that money, in the context of political...
View ArticleFree Speech and Attacking Social Security
Applying lessons from some of the history below, up top: Regardless of the individual views of ordinary Republicans as citizens, the national party apparatus of the GOP has never ceased trying to undo...
View ArticleBin Laden, Pakistan, and corporate media narrative
With thousands of Afghanis, Iraqis, and U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan and Iraq since Sept. 11, 2001, Osama bin Laden, the fugitive icon of terrorist networks, was finally tracked down and killed in...
View ArticleOsama bin Laden killed, president announces
Osama bin Laden was killed in a compound hidden deep in Pakistan, President Obama announced Sunday night. Complete transcript of the president’s statement linked here. From the statement: “Yet Osama...
View ArticleNew intelligence at the White House: Osama bin Laden killed
President Obama announced Sunday night that Osama bin Laden was killed in a compound in Abottabad, Pakistan: ” . . . shortly after taking office, I directed Leon Panetta, the director of the CIA, to...
View ArticleDrowning the Middle Class in the Bathtub, part 1
Alan Greenspan called for eliminating the debt ceiling –and the press missed the story. In response to Republican so-called budget proposals, President Obama says it best: “There’s nothing serious...
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Using Perry to winnow the GOP field?
If GOP strategists plan to use Rick Perry to thin the Republican field, they risk further disasters It’s too early to be writing about the White House race for 2012, but here goes anyway– The GOP...
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Apology from Texas, humor from the Yellow Dog Dems
Apology from Texas, humor from Yellow Dog Dems If I do laugh at any mortal thing, ’tis only that I may not weep . . . Rick Perry in state office A little humor helps. View video here: Dear America...
View ArticleEarthquake in Cheverly, Maryland
Earthquake in Cheverly, Maryland August 23–About ten minutes or a quarter to 2:00 p.m., my whole house shook. So did my neighbors’. This was a real earthquake. My house is brick; everything shook from...
View Article“Rick Perry is finished” line being pushed by anti-immigrant PAC
Coming soon from more than one rightwing group near you, the following message. Self-explanatory. ALIPAC’s “Perry Is Finished” Press Release Goes Viral Across America ! Rick Perry Is Finished...
View ArticleSPOILER NON-ALERT
Now, that’s a spoiler: Statewide Statistics % Precincts Reporting 100.00 Total Number Precincts 591 Num. Precincts Reporting 591 Registered Voters 544,532 Click on map to enlarge. View map as PDF...
View ArticleThat anonymous New York Times Op-Ed: could this be an actual “senior official”?
ANONYMOUS NYTimes Op Ed – a “senior official”? Are you SURE, New York Times? You know you’re in trouble, as a reader, when you face apocalyptic rhetoric trying to pretend it’s measured, as in,...
View Article“It’s about the integrity of that institution.”
Why is President Donald Trump trying to appoint someone with a track record of drunkenness to the Supreme Court? The nomination of Judge Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court should not be a partisan...
View ArticleKavanaugh, Ford: It’s not ’50-50′: We do have facts
What’s called a hearing will take place this morning, on the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court and the statements of Professor Christine Blasey Ford– Hoping we don’t hear...
View ArticleKavanaugh’s calendar: I don’t believe Kavanaugh, and he lied to the president...
Some people seem to like being lied to. In fact, there are some people who’d rather be lied to by a man than told the truth by a woman. Let’s hope President Trump isn’t one of them. If Judge Brett...
View ArticleWho sent the bombs to Obama officials?
I am very curious to know who mailed the homemade-looking manila-envelope bombs to President Obama and the others. It is too soon for an affirmative theory. CNN and MSNBC instantaneously call President...
View ArticleIs there a ‘Blue wave’?
Is a ‘Blue wave’ really coming? I’m not so sure. Or to put it better, I cannot see it from here, in the blue state of Maryland. I’ll come back to the question next week. For now, here are some numbers...
View ArticleUpdates on that ‘blue wave’question for 2018 midterms
Is a ‘Blue wave’ really coming? Again, from those helpful people at TargetSmart, sent around initially by Politico “Morning Score”–below are the ten highest vote totals, reported or estimated, of early...
View ArticleMore ‘blue wave’ statistics: Today’s updates
Today’s ‘Blue wave’ data– From TargetSmart, sent earlier by Politico’s “Morning Score,” here are the ten highest vote totals of early voters and absentee voters, by state. Texas, modeled GOP, still...
View ArticleThis week: A ‘blue wave’ tomorrow?
Still a question whether a ‘blue wave’ is coming on November 6. Making Democrats look good Arithmetic-of-the-field numbers make the Democrats look good. In races for open seats in the U.S. House of...
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