The lies of Mitch McConnell are legion. We all know this. Having lost the health insurance reform battle, he’s now doubling down on the failed “we need to start of and form a bipartisan bill” approach by applying the same strategy to financial sector reform. The GOPosaurs have have to be terrified of this fight. As Chris Hayes pointed out […]

I hate spam in my inbox. But every once in awhile, one comes along that makes it worthwhile. I got one of those yesterday. Here it is, exactly how I received it: Dear SBCGLOBAL.NET Subscribers, This is to inform you that due to too many Spam mail that you receivethese days, we would be performing maintenance in our web database […]

Well, they did it. The teabaggers had a rally right smack in the middle of the University of Michigan campus, here in the heart of the Liberalville that is the People’s Republic of Ann Arbor. And can I just say this?: ho hum. Seriously. You take away the racist and homophobic and violent signs and what you have left is […]

Dave Franklin is running for the Michigan House of Representatives seat in Michigan’s 54th district, a seat currently held by Michigan gubernatorial candidate Alma Wheeler Smith. Dave Franklin hates him some government. And Dave Franklin especially hates him some Democratic Party grassroots organizers. Yesterday, on the Facebook page for a Tea Party protest on the campus of the University of […]

Honestly, I’m just boggled by this. The Tea Party of Ann Arbor is holding a Tax Day rally on Thursday, April 15th on the University of Michigan Diag. Seriously. Right here in the heart of Michigan liberalism! I just don’t get it. Do they honestly think they aren’t going to be completely swarmed by a ton of Ann Arbor liberals, […]

It’s masochism on my part, I suppose, but I have gotten on the email lists of the two leading GOP contenders who are seeking the nomination to challenge Congressman Mark Schauer (MI-07) this November. The leading leading contender is an odious man named Tim Walberg who held the position for only one term before being sent packing in 2008. His […]

Yesterday morning, Organizing for America (OFA) held an event at the Ann Arbor Community Center to thank Congressmen John Dingell (MI-15) and Mark Schauer (MI-07) for their leadership and votes on the recently-enacted health insurance reform law. The two men represent opposite ends of Congressional spectrum. Congressman Dingell has served longer than any current member of the House of Representatives. […]

Well, not MY newspaper but the Gannett paper in the town where I work (Howell), the Livingston County Daily Press & Argus. As I mentioned in my blog the other day (It’s not just FOX News, People), the Press & Argus is doing their damndest to promote the teabaggers. That day there were two articles about the teabaggers, one on […]

The teabagger (or shall we say “Teapublican”?) poo is going to really hit the fan later this year. Why? Because Barack HUSSEIN Obama is going to let the Bush tax cuts expire. Well, actually Congress is going to but let’s not quibble. Fresh from raising taxes on upper-income Americans to help expand health insurance coverage, President Obama and Democratic lawmakers […]

For some reason I thought we had put headlines like this behind us: Mad cow worry prompts beef recall But, as a vegetarian, I have to say that I just absolutely LOVE the first line of the story: A North Dakota bison processor is recalling about 25,000 pounds of whole beef heads because the animals’ tonsils may not have been […]

As Rachel Maddow so clearly stated during her show last Friday, there’s a whole lotta makin’ shit up goin’ on out there. Yes, a great deal of it is coming from the FOX News machine. But not all of it. All you have to do is to look at the local newspapers across the country to see that. Today’s edition […]