The Washington Post is hosting a new service online, you can now track the voting record of your elected U.S. officials (Congress and Senate) at this marvelous new site. This is awesome because it makes it trivially easy to track how effectively your elected official is actually representing you to your government. Step up to […]
I am not usually a big Will Ferrell fan, but his recent jabs at the current occupant of the oval office are hysterically funny and dead on the money! Check out this clip from DevilDucky.com for a really good example of why so many of us can’t take the president seriously.
I continue to enjoy reading Richard N. Goodwin’s excellent book “Remembering America: A Voice From the Sixties” and had a sudden inspiration while reading about how America backed and stumbled into the Vietnam war. Conventional wisdom is that America became involved in Vietnam as a result of the continuation of a foreign policy practiced steadily […]
So it is nearly a week since the election and I am still thrilled to have taken an active role in it. The hours of work, the challenge of doing things I never thought I’d like doing, and the pain in the wallet of political contributions are all worth it! In exchange you get to […]
Barry Ritholtz has a very interesting write up on why financial markets like coalition governments so much over at The Big Picture, it makes an interesting read if you are into relationships between capitol markets and politics.
I really don’t feel that the recent decision by Federal Court to uphold the president’s right to hold U.S. Citizens without charges indefinitely has shocked enough people. This case amounts to throwing the Bill of Rights (amended into the U.S. Constitution) out the window or down the drain. If our government can hold us in […]
There is a very interesting and revealing story in the Washington Post about why the wealthy appear to be more likely to support President Bush’s adventure in colonialism than the less affluent. It appears, though no scientific studies have been made, that the wealthy have less to lose as their children are not likely to […]
When will voters in this country wake up to the tight relationship between the Republican party and criminals?The Republican National Committee is paying for the legal defense of James Tobin (more that $722,000 to date!!!). Tobin has been indicted for suppressing voter turnout and using auto-dialers to block get out the vote efforts. He is […]
Once again we are confronted with a pack of lies by own own nation’s president. When George W. Bush says, about Social Security: “The system is headed for bankruptcy.” That is a deliberately misleading lie. The Social Security system is not headed for bankruptcy. It is headed for a time when it will begin reclaiming […]
“Two nations, under Bush – very divisible… with liberty and justice for only a chosen few.” Wow – that sums it all up, n’est pas? A week after the fiasco of 2004 I am still reeling from the realization that a significant proportion of American voters are so ignorant, and so immoral, that they could […]
