The Washington Post has a fascinating article today about an 18 year-old young woman trapped between wanting, desperately, to serve the United States in the military and her inability to do so because she was brought here as an undocumented citizen when she was 11. When Noheli Carrasco takes charge of her teenage battalion at South Lakes High School – […]

During his speech to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce this week, President Obama said this: Now is the time to invest in America. Today, American companies have nearly $2 trillion sitting on their balance sheets. I know that many of you have told me that you are waiting for demand to rise before you get off the sidelines and expand, […]

If there’s one government program folks on both the left and the right love to hate it’s the Toxic Asset Relief Program (TARP). Started under George W. Bush and continued under Barack Obama, it seems everyone from the farthest-right tea party to farthest-left liberals hate it. It’s about to turn a profit. The program under the $700-billion financial bailout package […]

Funniest animated blog about dogs EVAH: Hyperbole and a half’s “Dogs Don’t Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving” Hat tip to my daughter and sister-in-law, both of whom sent me this. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Speaking of dogs, a woman in England returned her recently-rescued Jack Russell terrier to the animal shelter where she had gotten it. Why? Because it clashed with her curtains. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~A […]

I know this is no surprise but Republicans are considering privatizing Medicare. Months after they hammered Democrats for cutting Medicare, House Republicans are debating whether to relaunch their quest to privatize the health program for seniors. House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., is testing support for his idea to replace Medicare with a fixed payment to buy a private […]

Last October, the Obama administration announced that it is considering raising auto fuel economy standards to as high as 62 mpg by 2025. The move went mostly under the radar. The White House has said it is considering a range of fuel economy standards for 2017 to 2025, with 62 mpg being on the high end, and the alliance said […]

Yesterday I posted the results of an analysis I did of all 242 Republicans in the US House of Representatives. I looked at the bills & resolutions each of these men and women had sponsored and cosponsored. What I found was that, on average, 46% of the bills any individual sponsored or co-sponsored was related to the partial or complete […]

The Republicans have now been in office two weeks so I thought it was worth taking stock of what they’ve accomplished. I’ve just completed a rather in-depth analysis of the bills and resolutions that all 242 GOP members of Congress (not the Senate) have either sponsored or co-sponsored. What I found was that, on the average, 46% of the bills/resolutions […]

WTF is it with Tea Partiers and their desire to solve every problem with violence? The latest effluent (membership req’d) from Judson Phillips of the Tea Party Nation is another example. In his essay, he rightly characterizes the Westboro Baptist Church and their leader, Fred Phelps, for the shitbags they are. Not content with that, however, he goes on with […]

Tonight Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and President Obama attended the very moving memorial service in Tucson, Arizona. Although he was invited to ride on Air Force One to attend as well, Speaker of the House John Boehner decided to stay in Washington, D.C. Why? So he could attend a cocktail party. I’m not kidding. Speaker John Boehner will host a […]

Now that all eyes are on Sarah Palin waiting for her to respond to accusations that she has a role to play in the amount of political violence in our country recently , she steps into the fray and does something else completely idiotic. In a video comment/response released on her Facebook page today, she had this to say: “Vigorous […]