Midnight of the golpistas
South Florida Republican Congressmen Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (C), Lincoln (Back) and Mario Diaz-Balart (L) speak during a press conference 02 August, 2006. AFP PHOTO/Roberto Schmidt, Getty Images Miami’s...
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Who's the boss? President Barack Obama and Maine Senator Olympia Snowe. As the healthcare reform debate drags on and on and on, well past its freshness date, and long past the time Congress and the...
View ArticleObama administration, Barney Frank target ‘too big to fail’
Perhaps realizing that the right is going to accuse him of being an anti-capitalist ogre anyway, President Obama appears finally to be prepared to take on the wizards of Wall Street (with a member of...
View ArticleThe White House cannot walk away from Shirley Sherrod
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View ArticleFox’s Shep Smith on Breitbart: ‘we do not trust the source’
A blunt, stunning commentary on the Shirley Sherrod fiasco from the only sensible person at Fox News. Shep Smith explains why Andrew Breitbart’s material won’t be shown on his show. Smith calls...
View ArticleNot for nothing, but the media bought Breitbart’s snake oil, too
The huckster: Andrew Breitbart The Shirley Sherrod fiasco has made the White House and the NAACP look foolish, and forced the Obama administration to waste two whole news days when they should have...
View ArticleThe Wikileaks Afghan document dump: blessing or disaster?
On the one hand, to be honest and non-hypocritical, I would have cheered a release like the Wikileaks War Diary (site may be down, it was overnight Sunday), regarding the invasion of Iraq if George W....
View ArticleThe new American victimhood
Who will come to the aid of the oppressed, huddled masses of Wall Street? America needs a new civil rights movement. Apparently, white conservatives and Wall Street are being horribly oppressed, by...
View ArticleWashington: the budget battle begins
President Obama offered his opening salvo in what’s sure to be an ugly budget fight with Republicans, who are under pressure from their tea party base to slash federal spending, but also to leave...
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