It’s probably too soon to call the Obama presidency a failure, but if he doesn’t stand up to Congress and show some leadership soon, you’ll be seeing more articles like this. It also doesn’t help that he can’t find anyone to work for him who doesn’t have a background of tax evasion, conf...

UPDATE : Daphne Eviatar has an excellent long article on this topic. Please read. Daphne Eviatar in the Washington Independent : Thomas Frank has a terrific op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today, praising President Obama’s recent presidential memorandum declaring the end of an era of unrestrained...

A majority of Florida’s Cuban-Americans, including many former hard-liners, have come to oppose a U.S. embargo strategy that has proved futile over the decades. READ THE WHOLE ITEM Related Entries March 11, 2009 Bill Puts Brakes on Mexican Trucks March 11, 2009 Sanford and ‘Some’ M...

At least I hope so: it seems to happen too often that Obama takes a conservative position. Mike Lillis of the Washington Independent has the latest: Official negotiations among United Nations members begin today in Vienna over a U.N. declaration to guide global drug policy for the next decade. As we...

Below is a video we’ve all seen: Speaker Pelosi, in February 2007, denying that she or anybody in her office demanded the DOD provide her with a larger plane than the ones already provided to meet her personal-use demands. “I have never asked for any larger plane….We’ve never ask...

For example: … It’s hard to imagine just how much corn is required to make a usable amount of ethanol. Lester Brown of the Earth Policy Institute has a great quote that sums it up: “The grain required to fill a 25-gallon SUV gas tank with ethanol will feed one person for a year.â€� A year ...

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We are losing the war -Jack Murtha-The War is lost Harry Reid-Can't defeat the Taliban-The Silver Tongue Devil (Obama). The Big sellout--HOODWINKING THE AMERICAN PUBLIC--how easy was that--too easy Obama generating and cashing in on fear tactics-right out of the KGB handbook-Stalin would be proud Co...

Gwen Moore talked crap on FOX News this morning. She appeared to address this "Earmark of the Day" -- $500,000 to Marquette University for research to turn human waste into electricity. Transcript GWEN MOORE: Listen, this is extremely important. In the stimulus bill, we have 16 and a half billion do...

Firedoglak points out an inconvenient truth: [Denise Prosser] is dying because she lost her job and she can’t pay her medical bills. She didn’t steal anything so she could get taxpayer money so she can pay lobbyists to get her more taxpayer money–that’s AIG. Nobody will tell ...