News & Politics

News and opinion from around US-opolis for Wednesday, May 18, 2011

The spin of yesterday's election that is all over the MSM today is, "It's the year of the woman". Some would beg to differ. On the surface it is true, several winners of primaries yesterday were women. But the case...

I had the misfortune of watching Faux News yesterday in order to ascertain how the conservatives plan to defend the indefensible: The Killing of Freddie Gray. Many vicious, hateful accusations and talking points were spewed to justify the use of excessive force by police to "subdue" African-American males.

I just read this, and can’t believe I’ve never heard of it. Has anyone else? I am posting the article in its entirety. Am I missing something here, or is this as bad as the Citizen’s United SCOTUS decision?...

Just off of proving themselves to be unreliable and misguided fear peddlers who got just about every prediction about the election wrong, the media dashes ahead today with a new set of false memes, brimming with the same unjustified confidence.

We all know that organizations infiltrate our blogs, our message boards and our forums to pimp their viewpoints and sell their products.  At some point, however, these corporate entities go too far. Here's a brief run down on what has...

OK, let's just get a few things straight. The Teabaggers called themselves teabaggers until someone told them about the Gay meaning of the term.   That was rich! The Teabaggers want to draw a parallel to the Boston Tea Party.    In order...

The New York Times article on Trump's financial dealings was impressively documented, taken from 100,000 pages of public legal and tax documents. "Balance" was hardly to be found. The investigation showed, simply and, "straight from the record," that the Trump family were professional swindlers and tax cheats, to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars; in sum equal to the GDP of many nations. The "Enemy of the People" stood in Trump's way. They had to be widely discredited. Then ruined financially.

Apologies to my new POV friends if this is a little thin to be a post.   I don't have the time to research this further right away but wow, I am hopping mad having just learned that Senator...

"We have not as yet ascertained if the ham sandwich in Mr. Weiner's refrigerator is significant in any of our investigations but following our protocol, we have opened a secret investigation of it that we won't tell anyone about to protect its integrity."