Share Reagan Implicitly Kicked Out of Republican Party They’re now so far right that even Ronald Reagan is too liberal.  Poor guy.  If he’s reincarnated, Democrats can run him against Lieberman. The Time for Choosing Sides I don’t subscribe to the idea that anyone has to vote any particular way on any particular bill to [...]

Share Bipartisanship Alive & Well Over 900 former government officials, including 70 former members of Congress are now united in their firm conviction that given last year’s financial meltdown after Wall Street firms recklessly over-extended themselves in the hopes of never-ending profits and after public tax money pulled their posteriors from the fire, Congress should [...]

Share This is an excellent side-by-side  breakdown of the Senate & House health care bills.

Share Conservative Women In her now infamous Larry King interview, Carrie Prejean recently alleged that people in the media are tougher on conservative women than they are on men (or, she implied, liberal women).  She specifically mentioned Rep. Michelle Bachman and ex-Gov. Sarah Palin as examples of “brilliant” women who have been treated unfairly based [...]

Share Doctors vs. Insurance Companies Now that threre is a legitimate difference of opinion within the medical community about whether women should get mammograms in their 40s, some doctors and patients are worried that insurance companies will start denying covereage for such tests.  I wonder how many Congressional Republicans will storm the House and Senate [...]

Share You knew this already, but The Huffington Post confirms that Glenn Beck has an extensive history of hosting white supremacists on his show (often supporting their arguments).  We all knew this about Beck, but it really shows that those holding racist signs we see turning up at Fox News inspired protests in aren’t the fringe [...]

Share OBAMA, EXCHANGE RATES & CHINA China isn’t a true ally of the US, but is dependent upon a strong US consumer base for its exports.  Paul Krugman explains what Obama should tell the Chinese behind closed doors.  The Fed’s commitment to keeping interest rates low is the right move. A stronger dollar would mean [...]

Share Vets Link Clean Energy to Security Tom Friedman has written about how the money we pay for oil finds its way to terrorists and Middle Eastern dictators.  Now, veterans are speaking out on the subject: Xe or is it eX? Here’sthe  latest in a long line of Blackwater (now Xe) humiliating the US, subverting [...]