This is informative. From Sunday's "This Week" on ABC: For the record, the guy suggesting that it's an open question whether the Commerce Clause gives the government the power to force you to purchase a product from a private company wrote the cover story for a recent Time magazine article on the Constitution. That article […]
First, the facts. Here’s a chart showing the employment picture since the start of the recession for the last 4 recessions. Here’s Mitt Romney: "It's been a failure in the last several years to get America back on track again. It's taken longer to get Americans back to work than it took during the Great […]
Politifact takes on Rep. Allen West and gives him a “mostly true.” West has been critical of the U.S. military actions in Libya launched in March. In a Miami Herald/St. Petersburg Times article on June 23, West was quoted as saying "We can't keep committing U.S. military to 'protect innocent civilians'; they're exhausted." He went […]
I’ve used that label to describe The New York Times editorial page for the better part of a decade. The filibuster is either a great evil or an honorable tool depending on who it is being wielded against. And then we get this: Thankfully, some Senate Republicans also seem to understand the importance of the […]
You know that tea partiers are racist and any “people of color” that do happen to attend those rallies don’t count. For comparison (via Ace) I give you the staff of “Countdown with Keith Olbermann” on CurrentTV. Of course, this would only be evidence of systemic racism if the host were conservative. Why is it […]
“The Daily Show’s” John Stewart appeared on Fox News Sunday. In that interview (you can watch the whole thing after the jump), Stewart charged that Fox News was a biased, agenda-driven outlet in a way that the rest of the mainstream media—CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, The Washington Post, The New York Times—are not. Stewart apparently […]
Earlier this week a Nevada judge took aim at Righthaven, a shakedown outfit law firm that has contracted with various newspapers to sue bloggers who do nothing more than quote articles under the doctrine of “fair use.” U.S. District Judge Roger Hunt of Nevada ordered Righthaven to explain why Hunt should not sanction it for […]
Last week the local radio station, which actually has a locally hosted show during drive time, was discussing the Rolling Stone article on Fox News chief Roger Ailes. I hadn’t read the article at the time, but now I have and I must say that one word comes to mind: predictable. I called into the […]
Color me extremely skeptical that anything of substance will come out of today's e-mail dump of Palin's time as Alaska governor. The way the media is handling this is another story altogether. In a best-case scenario, Palin's e-mails affect nothing more than her future as a political candidate. With there being this little issue of […]
Last week, Politifact rated a claim by the Texas Public Policy Foundation that Texas had created more jobs over the last five years than the other 49 (or 56) states combined. In Politifact’s “analysis” this completely accurate statement was listed as “half-true.” The mental gymnastics required to come to this conclusion were summed up by […]