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A memo to Congress: want to know why you’re pulling abysmal 34 percent approval ratings? A front page story in today’s Washington Post lays out the problem: while “inflation and interest rates are rising, stock values have plunged, a tank of gas induces sticker shock, ? for nearly a year, wages have failed to keep up with the cost of living,” and politicians in Washington are consumed with Terri Schiavo, “judicial tyranny,” and Tom DeLay.
Read moreThis page right here is the one I go to to check the weather. It’s put out by the National Weather Service. It’s a lot like some commercial ones, only it has more information, costs nothing and contains no ads.
Read moreIn today’s op/ed column in the New York Times, David Books places blame for the dissolution of national discourse, for
Read moreOver on Scarborough Country, Joe and Pat Buchannan needed their little Holy War fix, so out pops, of all things, the Da Vinci Code.
Read moreI’m just surprised the CNN whores didn’t use the ol’ computer graphics package to doodle some devil horns on the head of the gay guy. And maybe give him a pitchfork to wave around.
Read moreI can’t think of truer words. But oh what a difference 10 years can make. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay is facing a major ethics investigation into his past lavish, lobbyist-paid trips. DeLay has so far refused to offer any details into his activities. Maybe DeLay should take his own advice from 1995 and follow his own standards in 2005:
Read moreAs the U.S. government’s budget deficit tops $2.2 TRILLION, Bush made the following statement at the signing ceremony for the credit industry relief bill (known in Congress at the Bankruptcy Reform Bill): “Bankruptcy should always be a last resort in our legal system. If someone does not pay his or her debts, the rest of society ends up paying them.”
Read moreSeems the Governor of California has a good excuse when he screws up. According to a story on MSNBC: Blaming
Read moreOK, so we know that Tom DeLay isn’t all that fond of crazy activist judges like, say, the seven Republican appointees to the U.S. Supreme Court who went along with the “murder” of Terri Schiavo.
Read moreRatzinger was essentially the right hand man to John Paul, who appointed most of the College of Cardinals. I thought this guy was the heir-apparent all along. Like Bush, John Paul wasn’t ready to go.
Read moreAccording to Josh Marshall, the Rev. James Dobson, DD (Doctor of Divinity, or Daffy Duck, or both) claims to smell the odor of a burning cross drifting from our nation’s highest court. James Dobson compares the “men in white robes, the Ku Klux Klan” to the “black-robed men” on the Supreme Court.
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