Shep Smith sums up in remarkable clarity what I sometimes use too many words to say. Thank God he’s there. This is America. And for Americans to be discussing if torture worked – if it worked – is staggering. The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan When that guy said I’m not saying if torture… Continue reading The F Bomb on FOX
Twitters From Texas
Have you ever noticed that the states where anti-tax sentiment is strongest are frequently the same states that get way more back from the federal government than they send in? Alaska gets $1.84 for every tax dollar it sends to Washington, which is a rate of return even Bernard Madoff never pretended to achieve. Yet… Continue reading Twitters From Texas
just like it sounds
Post Teabag Thoughts
Suspending habeas corpus, torturing people and running a propaganda operation from the White House doesn’t make you a fascist. Raising the top tax rate from 36% to 39% does. Anyone else notice the irony that these tax protests were taking place on public land paid for by taxes? I hope the next wave of GOP… Continue reading Post Teabag Thoughts
A Short Citizen’s Guide to Kooks, Demagogues, and Right-Wingers On Tax Day
No one likes to pay taxes, so tax day typically attracts a range of right-wing Republicans, kooks, and demagogues, all of whom tell us how awful we have it. Herewith a short citizen’s guide (that is, a citizen’s guide that’s short rather than a guide for short citizens) responding to the predictable charges: From A… Continue reading A Short Citizen’s Guide to Kooks, Demagogues, and Right-Wingers On Tax Day
Obama the Pirate Killer, in graph form
From jamiemottram by way of andrewsullivan
Putting the Hip in Hypocrisy
If you ever compared Bush to Hitler and are now offended by people comparing Obama to Hitler; you’re a hypocrite.
Newt. Again.
My first though on The Return of Newt Gingrich is that if you’re trying to prove that your party does have fresh new ideas, and you decide to demonstrate that by digging up the party leader from 1994 then you are getting dangerously close to verifying the morbidity of the party via Proof by Contradiction.… Continue reading Newt. Again.
Ron Paul’s Pork-Barrel
Rep. Ron Paul vehemently denounced the $410 billion catch-all spending bill approved last week by the House of Representatives. But although the libertarian-leaning Republican from Lake Jackson cast a vote against the massive spending measure, his fingerprints were on some of the earmarks that helped inflate its cost. Paul played a role in obtaining 22… Continue reading Ron Paul’s Pork-Barrel
Banking on the Brink
Lately the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has been seizing banks it deems insolvent at the rate of about two a week. When the F.D.I.C. seizes a bank, it takes over the bank’s bad assets, pays off some of its debt, and resells the cleaned-up institution to private investors. And that’s exactly what advocates of temporary… Continue reading Banking on the Brink