Talking Points Memo has just put out this sobering article: Fragile Health Care Agreement Fraying? Whispers, But Not Yet Some Democrats are popping champagne and already writing campaign talking points for how to champion a health care bill they believe President...
From Talking Points Memo: Senate Votes Again And Just One Vote Left On Health Care The Senate just cleared its next-to-last procedural hurdle before passing its version of the health care bill. In a predictable 60-39 vote, senators invoked cloture on final...
Congresswoman Louise Slaughter of New York's 28th congressional district wrote an op-ed for CNN on Wednesday that outlines why she feels it's time to kill the current health care reform bill. Representative Slaughter says it's time to start over. Slaughter...
The idea that a man could con the CIA, the DOD and the DHS into believing there were hidden codes being transmitted via broadcasts on Al Jazeera in order to coordinate terrorist attacks on the United States is not only laughable, but...
The American people still support the president's decision to send more troops to Afghanistan even if they do not support the war.  My take is that Americans want a "strong" president like Hobbes' Leviathan. In a recent CNN poll the...
From Think Progress: After Coburn Asked Americans To Pray ‘Somebody’ Misses Health Care Vote, Inhofe Skips Today’s Roll Call Just before the Senate vote on the first of three procedural motions to move its health care reform bill toward final passage,...
Wichita, KS -- On Tuesday Sedgwick County Judge Warren Wilbert ruled that Scott Roeder cannot use a necessity defense in his trial, which is set to begin at 9:00am CST on January 11, 2010 (Case No. 09CR1462). However, the...
  It would seem that while railing about "Socialism", "Marxism", or just plain old "Obamanism", some of our hypocritical Senators and Representatives have themselves been feeding from the trough of national welfare.  Blanche Lincoln D(AR), Max Baucas D(MT), Chuck Grassely...
Blue Dog Democrat Parker Griffith, M.D. of Alabama's 5th congressional district plans to announce that he will leave the Democrats to become a Republican on Tuesday according to a congressional aide. The announcement will be made later today during...
30 Azar 1388 - December 21, 2009. The epicenter of the clerical establishment of Iran, the city of Qom, about a hundred miles southwest of the capital, was shaken by demonstrators mourning for the recently deceased Grand Ayatollah Hossein...