Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
Politics and current events.
Texas Congressmen Joe Barton & Michael Burgess should go!
Self-interest and politics in Texas suckle one another like a parasite with its host; the demise of the host of no consequence to the parasite until it is too late. There could not be more evidence to that reality than Congressman Joe Barton’s apology fiasco combined with fellow Texas Congressman and energy committee member Michael [...]
Team of assassins’ stalking of victim caught on tape
Regardless of where you stand as to political, moral, or ethical justification of such action; this is a facinating story. Sophisticated video surveillance systems are making a clean get away tougher on the spooks. Warrants out for Hamas commander’s killers The police video, combining CCTV footage from the Dubai airport, a number of hotels and shopping [...]
Excessive partisianship tipping point for Bayh
Could a systemic collapse become a self-fulfilling prophecy as cautioned by Job? For the thing that I fear comes upon me, and what I dread befalls me. At a time when compromise is more necessary than ever to reform a broken political system; the panic and fear of a drowning citizenry may bring down those who jump in to [...]
GOP to Wall Street: We've blocked reform, now pay us!
The GOP has been aggressive and upfront lately concerning financial contributions they believe are due them from Wall Street. Their message is essentially this - We are blocking the Obama Administration financial reform agenda and curbs on executive pay, fighting efforts to repeal the Bush tax cuts to the rich, contaminating public discourse by feigning outrage at the state of the situation…now pay us! The Wall Street Journal [...]
Hersarling's Texas-size Whopper
A Texas-size Whopper Texas Rep. Jeb Hensarling, at a nationally televised meeting of House Republicans in Baltimore, accused President Obama to his face of running up deficits a dozen times greater than the GOP’s. The president said, “That’s factually just not true, and you know it’s not true,” and he invited “any independent fact-checker out [...]
Why do people often vote against their own interests?
Reprinted from The BBC The Republicans’ shock victory in the election for the US Senate seat in Massachusetts meant the Democrats lost their supermajority in the Senate. This makes it even harder for the Obama administration to get healthcare reform passed in the US. Political scientist Dr David Runciman looks at why is there often [...]
Tone deaf: the revised GOP "purity test" resolution
The GOP loyalty pledge demonstrates how tone deaf the Republican caucus is to the situation our country is in. In a time when serious reform is needed to fix our broken financial and heathcare systems; which have pushed our economy to the brink of collapse, all the while stimulate the economy just enough to create jobs at home and fight wars abroad yet get control of [...]
Politics: The panic of 2010
Fear is in the air. Democrats in office are more nervous than a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs. The sky is falling on their watch. It may not be their fault but it is their problem. What do they do? Freeze. Nothing. Squat. Capitulate. Conspire. Digress. Lose. America is in the doldrums [...]
Maddow strikes back at Dick Armey’s nonsensical attack
On her show Tuesday evening, Rachel Maddow responded to derogatory jibes made about her earlier in the day by former House majority leader Dick Armey during the AFP-sponsored ‘Code Red’ anti-health reform rally on Capitol Hill.
Khap Panchayat: India’s Taliban
Tehelka of India reports: A Taliban Of Our Very Own Murder, rape and exile are routine punishments for these parallel ‘Parliaments’. NEHA DIXIT tracks Khap panchayats across north India. Photo by TARUN SEHRAWAT
