News & Politics

A late update from the 2011 Irish Presidential Elections.

News and opinion from around US-opolis for Tuesday April 26, 2011.

News and opinion from around US-opolis for Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Thought "The Death Panel" was a right wing hoax? Nope. The SCOTUS became a real death panel, allowing states to refuse expanding Medicaid to let the uninsured working poor die from medical neglect. The ongoing deaths of thousands of Americans will now be a dark legacy of The Roberts Court.

This man, Tom Steyer is a very wealthy man who will back Democrats against the Keystone XLPipeline. So who will benefit from the Keystone Pipeline? Who will be hurt? First, the rich oil corporations and the very wealthy will benefit. Second, the middle class, working poor, and poor will be hurt. Farmers, ranchers, homeowners, and small businesses will also be hurt.

I AM DEMORALIZED As a Progressive Democrat I am demoralized. Not so demoralized that I won’t vote, but still, pretty demoralized. It’s been about a nine month process, but I want to abort this lack of enthusiasm before it gives...

The House presented its health care reform bill today. So naturally, the top story at HuffPo this evening, at this moment, written by Damn...I mean Dame Arianna herself  is "Huffington Post Game Changers! Vote!". You may criticize Arianna for her...

Every week, there's something new which some 24/7 cable big mouth has to use as a stick with which to beat this President about something else.

Trump stated, "Not only am I twice as committed to getting the billions from American taxpayers needed to build a massive border wall that Mexico will pay for, thanks to new building materials by this company, Emperor Technology, this Emperor's New Wall will be the most magnificent, powerful wall ever built in the history of civilization, you won't believe your eyes when you see it, believe me!

It's 10:15 on a Saturday night and I ventured over yonder to make a decidedly unscientific survey on the commenters. I went to two stories (headlines below) and for each one, categorized the comments. I counted two pages of...