by David Safie r ( TASL ) Our accidental Gov said she's considering a billion dollars worth of tax hikes. A few other Republicans are actually nodding their heads in reluctant agreement. So far as I know, angry mobs have not stormed the Capitol with torches and pitchforks demanding the Governor's he...

    First Michael Steele, GOP Chairman , thought he was a bad a#@ by calling Rush Limbaugh ’ugly’ and an entertainer . Then Limbaugh called him out  and instead of holding firm as a good leader should or is expected to do particularly when he’s right he ran to Limbaugh with...

I like Dominic Grieve - he’s a nice guy. In fact I’ve seen him at so many Asian events that you almost forget he’s a Tory MP. In a speech today he will say: Mr Grieve will refer to “a decade of courting self-appointed heads of minority groups and pandering to special interest...

There was a time in this country when a snow storm didn’t throw airline travel into a tailspin for 2 - 3 days.  The Atlanta airport was just crazy.  More on this later. Rick Santelli’s rant that got so much publicity may have been planned.  Right wing billionaires were probably behind...

by David Safier Tedski has written an excellent post at R-Cubed about the Arizona State Democratic Party hiring a head hunter to help find a new Executive Director to replace Maria Weeg. I'm going to approach the topic from a somewhat different angle than his. He mainly discussed whether it was a g...

Tuesday Morning News Roundup It appears that Karl Rove will be testifying on Capitol Hill about the nine fired US attorneys. Executive privilege will not cover Mr. Rove anymore. Rove’s lawyer, Robert Luskin, has suggested that Karl Rove will not take the fifth when testifying before Congress, ...

Today the Senate should vote on the economic stimulus package.  The bill isn’t close to everything that we need but it is something.  I wrote the following for a local journal. ———- As I was growing up, in Texas, I began taking tennis lessons that a local tennis court.  I ...

Andrew Sullivan has a powerful piece on the state of American conservatism, especially its alliance with the Republican Party.  Two key excerpts from a very long piece: In contemporary America, the right is now in an almost parodic state of ideology. There isn’t just a rigid set of beliefs, i...

Over at the American magazine The Atlantic, blogger Ta-Nehisi Coates (who has become a must-read) offers an intriguing argument in favour of tokenism. Reflecting on the win of Steele as the first black chair of the Republican party, he says: But I maintain that you have to begin somewhere. Conservat...

The news that Barclays is about to unravel and may even have to ask to be partly nationalised made me chuckle a bit. I remember my friend Riz telling me while he used to work there that the reports he used to produce for the Forex markets were absolute shite, and yet people paid big money to read st...