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Myth Busting: “In Search Of…” 1970’s “Global Cooling” hype.

While Washington D.C. and the surrounding area attempts to dig itself out from under “The Snow-pocolypse”, Global Warming deniers are back at it again, pointing to it and the unusually blizzardly (pardon the new word) Winter we’ve been having… mixed in with last Falls “leaked Climate-Gate emails” as PROOF that “Global Warming” is actually a [...]

Argh! When even a Super-Majority isn’t enough.

Dear Gawd! Didn’t you think that when a fed-up country flipped control of BOTH houses of Congress in 2006 that we would FINALLY see a change in the disastrous Conservative policies of the past 26 years? And when voters, with their eyes slowly opening like 2-week old puppies, began to realize that Republicans were responsible [...]

Bi-Partisanship is Hurting Democrats

(Special bonus op/ed)
After the passing of Senator Ted Kennedy last week, a parade of Republicans lined up to bemoan how his departure could spell the end of bi-partisanship in the Senate with regards to the healthcare bill. Because, as we all know, “bi-partisanship is a one-way street in Republicanland”. Kennedy is gone. Ipso-facto, these guys [...]

Is this country literally too stupid to live? Will Public Option be defeated by those who need it most?

During Sunday’s political talkshows, the consensus appeared to be that “the Public Option is dead.” If so, I can guarantee you the healthcare lobbyists and special interests are dancing in their offices this morning, smelling victory in the air as a $173 million dollar effort to defeat healthcare reform pays off. Through a well-concerted effort of [...]

Standing up to Town Hall stupidity.

I was all prepared to talk about Rightwing lunacy in general this week following a parade of morons hitting the headlines day after day, but (as is so often the case), I got distracted. This week, we saw the Stock Market close above 9,300… it’s highest point since before Bush left office (Election Day to [...]

A Special Place in Hell for Healthcare Reform Opponents.

I learned just minutes ago that a member of my extended family died of throat cancer (my step-brothers’ father). As bad as it is to lose any family member to cancer, it is made doubly awful by the fact it happened so quickly. Around February or March of this year, he was finally hospitalized after [...]

How to fund healthcare and create jobs by closing foreign tax loopholes.

A story on the BBC caught my attention last week:
 
China’s economy soars thanks to MASSIVE government spending on infrastructure

 
In a perfect example of “the tail wagging the dog”, the Republican minority… the very same group whose policies got us into this economic nightmare… are controlling the debate on how to revive the economy, convincing the [...]

Petition: Censure Senator Inhofe (UPDATED)

I‘m sure you’ve noticed that Republican hate-speech has become more and more strident in recent weeks. Here is a sampling of just the past few weeks:
 
o Former Vice President Dick Cheney claimed “Obama policies make U.S. less safe“.
o Newt Gingrich: “I think people should be afraid” (regarding Obama’s policies and the closure of Gitmo).
o Gov. [...]

Republicans don’t understand how torture and abuse radicalizes our enemies. (UPDATED)

Sometimes I just have to ask: “Do they REALLY not understand something so simple or are they being deliberately obtuse just to gin up support from their base?” Such was my thinking last week as former Vice President Dick Cheney went on his “Please don’t prosecute me” Tour to accuse President Obama of making the [...]

Soldier kills five troops. Why was he still there? (plus note on Cheney)

While this is NOT a story decrying the continuing sin of “Stop-Loss”, it very well could be as Sgt. John Russell, who shot and killed five of his fellow soldiers Monday while serving at Camp Liberty in Baghdad was on his THIRD tour of duty at the time. But this isn’t a story about Stop-Loss.
No, [...]

If A=B and B=C, why doesn’t A=C? Condi Admits Bush Authorized Torture.

What should of been a major news event last week, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice actually argued that their use of “torture” was not “illegal” because things authorized by the President are, by definition, “not illegal”. (eerily reminiscent of Nixon’s, “When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.“) No surprise [...]

April 15th: Give the “Tea Partiers” What they Want. Revoke their tax cut. (UPDATED)

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