Archive for November, 2011
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Greed is Good
Congressional Republicans are getting more audacious as each day goes by: Republicans proposed cutting the U.S. deficit with a tax overhaul to yield about $300 billion and by raising the Medicare eligibility age to 67, said aides familiar with a congressional supercommittee’s talks. Republicans, who until now opposed new tax revenue in any deficit plan, [...]
Things That Herman Cain Dosn’t Know
I will try to make this one of the last posts I make on Herman Cain for a while. He is an easy target, but as more news breaks about allegations of sexual harassment he is unquestionably the epicenter of politics right now. The very fact he is being taken serious in this campaign is [...]
Cain v. The Media
In a recent interview with Fox News Herman Cain’s Chief of Staff, Mark Block, stated that Herman Cain’s campaign was considering suing Politico.com. On the scandal, Block said, “we have ran a different kind of campaign and we are not going to play by the rules that the media has established. The fact of the matter [...]
Cain-Gingirch
I’ll be pseudo-live blogging this debate and in the down time I’ll be penning a post about the most recent developments in Herman Cain’s the sexual harassment scandal. You can watch it too via CSPAN. -Live Blog- 11:54 – Cain & Gingrich ask each other a question. Cain tells about his surprise at the “nit-pitckiness” [...]
The Problem With Non-Problems
Fox News has a knack for reporting on non-problems by making problems out of them. Such is the case of an article on their website today titled “Wind Farms Blow U.S. Off the Radar,” which at first made me fall to the ground in laughter because it resembled an Onion News Network satire piece from [...]
The Disappearance of the Filibuster
I chose this false statement as the title of my post because, while the usage of the Filibuster in Congress has reached historic levels never seen before, the reporting of its usage by the media has dramatically dwindled. To give you an example from today, James Fallows at the Atlantic explains how even “leading” political publications have [...]
Distinguishing Fact From Fiction
As the hours passed by today, I just couldn’t stop thinking about the madness that must exist in the Washington Times newsroom that would compel them to publish a whacko conspiracy by an anonymous source “who is friends with the Cain campaign” asserting that Mayor Rahm Emanuel of Chicago – of all people – was [...]
The Economist: “The Missing Middle”
The top story of this week’s The Economist is about the complete absence of moderates or respect for moderatism in politics – aptly named “The Missing Middle.” The story is interestingly connected to some recent posts I penned that drummed up some controversy. The article remarks that extremism has largely taken over american politics. We know the cliches [...]
Crack Journalism
Not exactly sure what a “Washington Times” is, but they seem to be great at getting to the bottom of things with access to reliable sources conspiracy theorists: According to a source who is friends with the Cain campaign, not only is the Rick Perry campaign involved but also the Mayor of Chicago and former Obama White House Chief [...]