Palin just finished with the debate tonight, and let me just say, I think she's ready to be queen. I'm a convert, she really sold me tonight. What with everything she said about this and about that, and freedom, tolerance and freedom and all those things, and that folksy charm, I just can't tell you. Yes, I think America saw our future matriarch tonight, and with the brood we saw on stage afterwards, her progeny could rule us for a long, long time. Long live the Queen! She's a maverick's... Read Full Story
The Consumers Union wants to encourage young people to talk about the Dangers of Debt. They are seeking submissions of editorial cartoons, from 18-25 year-olds, that speak to the "Dangers of Debt." Your cartoon can cover debt problems you've experienced, ones you know about from your family and friends, or the ones we are all reading about every day in the news. More information here.Love political humor? Then you'll love the Humor Times! www.humortimes.com Read Full Story
Project Censored came out with their latest, and while they're all doosies, it was the story they ranked #5 that blew me away. The ones before it may well deserve their rankings, but they weren't surprises to me. (Although they would be to a majority of Americans, unfortunately -- thus the name, "Project Censored.") This one, thought, did surprise -- and sicken -- me. # 5 Seizing War Protesters Assets (Excerpts:) President Bush signed two executive orders that would allow the US Treasury... Read Full Story
Extremely important stuff! Please read this article and forward it to everyone you know! How the GOP Wired Ohio's 2004 Vote Count for Bush to Win By Steven Rosenfeld A Republican computer data security expert tells how cyber-partisans could have stolen the 2004 election. Read more...Love political humor? Then you'll love the Humor Times! www.humortimes.com Read Full Story
Simply purchasing bad debt, cash for trash and not receiving anything of value or giving $700 billion and not having a commensurate equity interest in Wall Street firms is unacceptable, Dennis Kucinich said in a news release Monday. No cash for trash. The former Democratic presidential candidate said he would be introducing a bill this week to create a United States Mutual Trust Fund to convert assets purchased by the government into shares that would be distributed to every man, woman... Read Full Story
I received this in an email recently, I thought it was pretty pertinent. What do you think? If You were The Boss... Which team would you hire? With America facing historic debt, multiple war fronts, stumbling health care, a weakened dollar, all-time high prison population, skyrocketing Federal spending, mortgage crisis, bank foreclosures, etc. etc., this is an unusually critical election year. Let's look at the educational background of the candidates and see what they bring to the job... Read Full Story
Conservatives got their wish: over the years since the Reagan administration -- admittedly helped along by Clinton -- they managed to squeeze government down small enough to "drown in a bathtub," as conservative Grover Norquist put it. The financial regulatory function of the government has been moribund for some time now. Well, staring us in the face is the awesome and terrible result. And now we're supposed to take John McCain's word for it that, after 26 years of complete and utter... Read Full Story
OK, I didn't actually meet them both. Or either one of them. But I did get to within 20-30 feet of them. And no, they weren't together. I don't think they're best buds. Well, here's how it happened... Through the local email grapevine, I learned that the infamous Karl Rove, aka "Bush's Brain" aka "Fear-mongering, truth-twisting, congressional subpoena-avoiding, sewer-residing dirty-trickster," would be speaking at the Sacramento Convention Center in downtown Sacramento for the Sacramento... Read Full Story
This is a really GREAT interview with Drew Westen, the author of The Political Brain, on what Democrats need to do in their campaign to connect with the emotional side of voters. It also should be taken in by everyone who wants to be able to convince those on the fence, and maybe even open-minded Republicans, that Bush, McCain, Palin & Co don't own a patent on "American values." It's only 9 minutes long, and you can watch it on your computer.Obama in Danger? NOW: "Are tactical mistakes by... Read Full Story
"Show me where I have ever said that there's absolute proof that nothing that man has ever conducted or engaged in has had any effect or no effect on climate change," Palin told ABC News in an interview broadcast Thursday and Friday. "I have not said that." Show you? Since you can't remember anything you've said, and are always contradicting yourself (like on the 'bridge to nowhere' thing), I'm here to help: "When a species' habitat (in this case, sea ice) is declining due to climate change... Read Full Story
