Usually media bias in straight news stories is a rather subtle affair. This example, from The New York Times Monday paper isn't so subtle. (via Timeswatch) The Republican plan includes a shrinking of Medicare and Medicaid and trillions of dollars in tax cuts, while sparing defense spending. Mr. Obama, by contrast, envisions a more comprehensive […]
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Government (CREW) is a non-partisan organization—that just happens to be pro-Democrat. I say that for two reasons: First, is the complete failure of CREW to say anything about the biggest ethical scandal in Washington, D.C., over the past couple weeks Sen. Claire McCaskill’s failure to pay approximately $300,000 in […]
Refresh and scroll down for updates. (All times Pacific) 6:10 p.m.: This would go faster if they didn’t stand up and clap so much. Here’s the remarks as prepared. Obama’s not out of touch. He remembered that we just had an election. 6:21 p.m.: I don’t really buy this: China became home to the world’s […]
The sun didn’t set yesterday before the professional left had pinned blame for the murders of six people and the wounding of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords on Sarah Palin, the tea party, Glenn Beck, et. al. William Jacobson over at Legal Insurrection has screenshots of the accusations (and especially the hypocrisy) of the usual suspects on […]
Another name for the prospective Hoy presidency: NASA administrator: Homer Hickam.
President Obama announced earlier this evening that he’d come to a deal on extending much of the current tax structure for two years. The deal reportedly includes: The current tax rates for all income levels are extended for two years. The payroll tax is cut by 2 percent for 2011. Unemployment insurance benefits will continue […]
A few quick things that may interest you from the past week: MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer likens Don’t Ask-Don’t Tell to Jim Crow laws. There’s certainly a case to be made for repeal (though I think the current system works well), but Brewer doesn’t make it. If she really thinks repeal will cause no problems, then […]
Holding those in power accountable is no longer the exclusive domain of the media, whistleblowers or inspectors general. Via The Atlantic magazine’s saner blogger, comes this surveillance video of a woman apparently getting some passive-aggressive harassment at the hands of some TSA officials in Phoenix. If the video is what it purports to be, there […]
Right-wing hatchet man turned left-wing hatchet man David Brock is defending for his own organization that which he has condemned other organizations for. Today's New York Times reports that part of the new effort David Brock is setting up to counter the right's massive spending in advance of 2012 will depend on...undisclosed donors. Media Matters, […]
There’s only one perfect candidate for President when 2012 comes around. He’s right on every issue. He’s brilliant, but humble. And there’s no way he’ll run. He’s me. But one of the things that I do like doing from time to time is to ponder who I’d choose for various posts in a Hoy administration […]