US Politics
Junk food even has negative impact on cockroaches
Posted on 03 July 2009
Attorneys for the junk food industry have suggested that the tests were unfair and a distortion of the true nutritional value they provide to humans and cockroaches alike. Not really, but it wouldn’t surprise anyone if they did. LiveScience: To find out, Moore and her colleagues picked young female cockroach nymphs and divided them [...] Continue Reading
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Friday Morning Open Thread
Posted on 03 July 2009
Good morning. Happy 3rd of July. Today is the federal and state holiday. (But, banks are open today, even though many are practically federal agencies.) It should be a slowish news day and weekend. Obama is at Camp David. Biden is in Iraq. Congress is in recess. The stock market is closed. But, North Korea does like [...] Continue Reading
US Politics
Interview with the leader of the Pirate Party in Sweden
Posted on 03 July 2009
Jane Hamsher and I got a chance to meet and interview Rickard Falkvinge, the head of the Swedish Pirate Party. The party is devoted to patent and copyright reform (they’re not big fans of either), and they also focus on eavesdropping laws (that they don’t like either). The party is loosely affiliated with [...] Continue Reading
US Politics
Public option: $1 trillion. Bush tax cut: $1.8 trillion.
Posted on 03 July 2009
Krugman makes a good point re: the relative cost of fixing our health care system versus George Bush’s tax cuts. Go to Source Continue Reading
US Politics
The Michael Jackson conundrum
Posted on 03 July 2009
Is it just me, or does anyone else feel oddly conflicted about why we continue to praise Michael Jackson as a great entertainer, and mourn his death, when many of us (most of us?) suspect that he was in fact guilty of molesting children? Shouldn’t the latter outweigh the former? Go to [...] Continue Reading
US Politics
Who do you believe?
Posted on 03 July 2009
I’ll go out on a limb and say this former executive is on to something but who knows? Maybe the insurance industry really is like a big cuddly bear that only wants to pass along hugs and would never dream of purging customers. It’s a big mistake and we need to hear their [...] Continue Reading
US Politics
Breaking: Palin to quit as governor of Alaska
Posted on 03 July 2009
What better way to celebrate the 4th of July than to announce that you are quitting. Strange story and there has to be much more to it. Gov. Sarah Palin announced today that she will resign in a few weeks. Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell will take over at the Governor’s Picnic in Fairbanks on July [...] Continue Reading
US Politics
"She has told her supporters she is out of politics, period."
Posted on 03 July 2009
Jed caught this clip on MSNBC: I don’t care what Andrea Mitchel has been told, I’m still waiting for the other shoe to drop. Go to Source Continue Reading
US Politics
More hot dogs, fewer steaks this 4th
Posted on 03 July 2009
With fat bonuses and pay increases, it may still be steaks for Wall Street but elsewhere in America it’s all about the budget cuts. Americans will be throwing more hot dogs and hamburgers on their backyard grills rather than higher-priced meat like steaks this July 4 U.S. Independence Day holiday as the recession and high unemployment [...] Continue Reading
US Politics
Banker accepting souls as collateral
Posted on 03 July 2009
He might be out of luck trying to find a soul on Wall Street but fortunately he’s doing micro-loans in Latvia. (Wall Street gladly takes handouts from average Americans to maintain their posh lifestyle, so clearly they are as soulless as they are selfish.) I’d love to hear the rate of faults later [...] Continue Reading
Democrats
Obama calls Dems to talk health care (Politico)
Posted on 03 July 2009
Yahoo! News: Democratic Party Politico - President Barack Obama told top congressional Democrats Thursday that he was putting his political capital behind health care reform and reminded them that it was crucial for both chambers to pass legislation this month, according to three sources familiar with the conversation. Go to Source Continue Reading
Democrats
Under Senate health care plan, either way you pay (AP)
Posted on 03 July 2009
Yahoo! News: Democratic Party AP - First you paid to insure your car. Soon you may have to add health insurance premiums to that stack of monthly bills as well. Go to Source Continue Reading
US Politics
Born to Be in Congress
Posted on 03 July 2009
The Washington Post reviews The Waxman Report by Rep. Henry Waxman and Joshua Green. “Henry Waxman is to Congress what Ted Williams was to baseball — a natural. As you read this nicely proportioned, fast- paced book, you realize that Waxman was born to be a member of the House, ideally the chairman of an important [...] Continue Reading
US Politics
Strickland Now Vulnerable
Posted on 03 July 2009
A new Quinnipiac poll in Ohio shows Gov. Ted Strickland’s (D) approval rate continuing to fall. In a re-election match up against former Sen. Ted DeWine (R-OH), Strickland barely wins, 41% to 40%. Against former Rep. John Kasich (R-OH), Strickland leads, 43% to 38%. Said pollster Peter Brown: “Strickland’s extremely sharp drop-off in so short a time [...] Continue Reading
US Politics
Sanford Will Now Disclose Schedule
Posted on 03 July 2009
In the wake of reports that South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford (R) regularly shed his security detail, he “will begin making his schedule available to the public and the media… a marked departure from the way the office has operated the past 6 1/2 years,” according to The State. Go to Source Continue Reading
US Politics
Palin to Resign as Governor
Posted on 03 July 2009
Alaska Gov,. Sarah Palin (R) announced she will step down as Alaska governor, reports the Anchorage Daily News. CQ Politics: “In a rambling press conference, Palin alluded to a future in national politics even if she abdicated the one office she has held that is above mayor of Wasilla, Alaska.” The timing — coming in the late afternoon on [...] Continue Reading
US Politics
Friday Night Trivia
Posted on 03 July 2009
From the forthcoming CQ’s Politics in America: In the 1960s, Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA), as a top aide to the Warren Commission, helped devise the “single bullet” theory that a lone gunman was responsible for the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA) is recognized by the American Humanist Association as the highest-ranking [...] Continue Reading
US Politics
Quote of the Day
Posted on 03 July 2009
“Only dead fish go with the flow.” – Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R), explaining her decision to step down as governor. Go to Source Continue Reading
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