Matt Taibbi has an excellent article in the latest issue of Rolling Stone, that is a must read. Taibbi continues to expose the heart of the financial matter and why, during the past year, nothing has changed for the everyday folks, and, in fact, is getting worse.
Barack Obama ran for [...]
My, oh my. Water treatment plants have been violating the Safe Driking Water Act over the last 5 years, according to an investigation by the New York Times.
More than 20 percent of the nation’s water treatment systems have violated key provisions of the Safe Drinking Water Act over the last [...]
Number of comments: 1 I’d really like to see some of our congresscritters start calling health insurance what it really is: Legalized Extortion against the people. Let’s face it, when an insurance company is purposefully raising premiums to expand their profit base, and in the course of increasing their profits expect nearly 650,000 people [...]
Yesterday (11/24/09) Chris Bowers posted that Blue Dog leader Jim Matheson is complaining whining that it isn’t nice to question Blue Dogs Democratic credentials. So Bowers digs into Blue Dogs campaign sites, and, barring a campaign site, the Congressional website, of the Blue Dog leadership.
Very interestingly, Bowers finds a lack [...]
In my local paper today, Rebecca Ferrar profiles a local doctor who is helping the uninsured homeless in the area via her position as a County Health Department public health officer. The following quibble is not with the work of Dr. Buchanan, but with the choice of words Rebecca uses [...]
At the beginning of the week, the United States Preventative Task Force issued a set of new guidelines for use of mammography. And the storm hit — OMG, the government will be rationing health care; OMG! the gubmint wants women to die!
“I do believe that women will die” if they’re [...]
64 Democrats voted for the Stupak amendment — you know, the one that says woman’s uteri are not their own, especially poor women’s uteri.
64 Democrats have completely disregarded one of the core tenets of the Democratic party – guaranteeing personal liberties for all. Women deciding with their doctors whether a [...]
The reason for the rise in STD’s in women between 2002 – 2007 is “difficult to pinpoint.” I guess it’s too hard for Dr. Katherine Hartmann to look at the other speed humps in this state regarding women’s reproductive health.
It’s not difficult to extrapolate that the problem lies in abstinence [...]
One might have thought so, when the legislative session ended earlier this year. The republican-controlled legislature focused on numerous gun laws, at least one of which is showing a backlash the NRA and TN legislators did not expect. That would be the Guns in Parks bill. Interestingly, it is the [...]
On Tuesday, Pres. Obama is going to address school children nationwide, urging them to stay in school and get an education. But, as Media Matters has documented, there is a fringe element on the right that feels this is un-amurrukin, starting with the talking heads that are whipping up this [...]
Sen. Ted Kennedy has passed on.
Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, a son of one of the most storied families in American politics, a man who knew triumph and tragedy in near-equal measure and who will be remembered as one of the most effective lawmakers in the history of the [...]
If you are one of the folks that honestly thinks that health insurance companies DO NOT ration health care, you are sadly mistaken. If you are one of the folks that believes that the “free market” will correct itself in the health care industry, you are sadly mistaken. Take a [...]
This really sucks.
Skype might have to shut down because of a dispute over the core technology used to make the internet telephone system work.
EBay, which paid $2.6 billion (£1.6 billion) for the voice-over-the-internet system in 2005, is facing a court battle with the original founders of the company who retained [...]
The good ole southern strategy worked once, and the GOP and southern lawmakers are hoping to make it work again, as their inane stances are being dismissed by the people. This time, the racist Birthers are leading the southern strategy. Why am I lumping the Birther movement in with the [...]
Via Blue Virginia, we find that racist Audra Shay won the race to become the Young Republican’s leader.
Audra Shay, the Young Republican leader who became the subject of a national controversy after The Daily Beast uncovered racist comments she wrote on Facebook and other social networking sites, won the race [...]
OMG! Yet another politician had an affair, and that is burning up the media waves. Okay, I over simplified the situation…a lot.
What makes the Sanford affair newsworthy is not that he had the affair, but that he left SC without notifying the Lt. Governor and transferring power, literally leaving the [...]
Demand at the gas pump is still down, yet prices continue to rise. According to Jim Hightower, Foreclosure Phil has everything to do with pick-pocketing your wallet at the pumps. (note, abiding by fair use is going to be very difficult in this instance, with apologies to Jim Hightower)
But hold [...]
If there was any doubt left in your mind that our country is run by and for the corporations, SCOTUS’s ruling yesterday in Coeur Alaska Inc. v. Southeast Alaska Conservation Council, should clear that remaining doubt.
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that the Clean Water Act does not prevent the Army [...]
While regular folks that have been unemployed so long they are no longer on the unemployment rolls and newly unemployed are searching for jobs, you should rest easy that former Bush administration officials are cashing in, big time.
In May, the U.S. economy lost 345,000 nonfarm jobs, pushing the unemployment rate [...]
As bad as the health care situation in the US is, republicans are still thinking it’s 1993. But, there are a few dems that are stuck in the last century as well, as Krugman notes. And this is a severe problem, for the people most impacted by the lack or [...]
Number of comments: 3 Apparently, nothing much.
Let’s back up, a moment. Health insurers have been regularly cutting policy holders from their rolls that have been diagnosed with such diseases as breast cancer, lymphoma, and a multitude of other ailments. This act of cutting the sick from coverage rolls is called, in the industry, recission. [...]
It appears that my US Rep, John Duncan (R-TN) has never opened his eyes to the gorging private companies have done at the government trough, since he feels that private companies are generally not as wasteful as the government.
It’s a complaint that U.S. Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. has heard [...]
Sad to say, an old family friend has departed this world, at the ripe young age of 105. There is a lovely write-up in the New York Times.
Frank Davis and his Louisiana Jazz Band were booked to play at the Rice Hotel in Houston in 1925. The banjo player never [...]
Number of comments: 1 So, the AMA (American Medical Association) is taking the schoking position against a public option in the health care reform debate, using the favored tactic of fear-mongering as their reasoning.
But in comments submitted to the Senate Finance Committee, the American Medical Association said: “The A.M.A. does not believe that creating [...]
Not so fast!
Is the discussion and proposals on health care reform truly “centrist”? Mike Lux makes a few points, that no matter what the media and think tanks tell you, what is happening on the Hill is hardly new. But, we (progressives, liberals, and dems) must also take note that [...]
For the past few months Obama has flip-floped on several of his campaign promises. I had no illusions that this would happen, as I explained to several blogging friends that I just did not trust him, based on the word of a very good friend. Her take was simply, he [...]
Number of comments: 1 The loss of Dr. Tiller from this senseless assassination at his church will be felt by many women. Dr. Tiller put women’s lives ahead of their wombs, and he will be greatly missed.
Is it surprising that the assassin posted on (and may have been a part of) Operation Rescue? Not [...]
Probable nesting material.
A brazen parrot, which spotted a Scottish man’s passport in a colored bag in the luggage compartment under a tour bus, nabbed the document and made off into dense bush with it, the Southland Times newspaper reported Friday.
The bird — a parrot of the Kea variety — made [...]
Number of comments: 2 I’ve waited to post anything on Sotomayor’s nomination, mostly because I’ve wanted to see what the reaction of my “neighbors” would be. Reading the racist comments on the online version of the local paper is like touching a bruise to make sure it still hurts, on this article that specifically [...]
Number of comments: 1 Bill Moyers lays out exactly why the health industry does not deserve a place at the table when discussing health care reform, and Obama has caved to industry over the people.
Could it be, as some critics suggest, a Trojan horse, getting the health industry a place at the table so [...]
And neither are the democrats.
I’ve read two interesting articles, showing where the divide is in the GOP. I feel that for the progressives and liberals in the southern states to change voters views on some really regressive policies put forth by the southern arm of the GOP, we should really [...]
Number of comments: 2 SJR0127, the proposed amendment to change the Tennessee Constitution has, as of last night, passed another hurdle and taking another step towards becoming a truly sytopian state.
A proposal to change the Tennessee Constitution to allow the state to impose stricter limits on abortion has passed both chambers of the General [...]
One of the issues that has truly boggled my mind is the extremist-right and capitalistic denizens view that corporations should not be the subject of a law suit when their product is harmful to the people that are using said product. But, in this post I want to keep that [...]
This is your TN GOP sheeple in overdrive:
Under current Tennessee law, some criminals are getting away with murder because of overly technical search and seizure restrictions, according to state Sen. Randy McNally.
But critics contend that the Oak Ridge Republican is trying to legislate issues best left to the courts and [...]
Talk about grasping at straws.
In order to justify their homophobia, Steele and his GOP intolerant sheeple are now trying to claim that gay marriage will hurt small businesses that are still providing health care for their employees.
“Now all of a sudden I’ve got someone who wasn’t a spouse before, that [...]
Is there any way to defend the heinous actions Obama has taken, specifically the continuation of a number of Bush’s policies? I honestly don’t think there is, but Glenn lays it out much better than I could.
Nobody who spent the last many years devoting themselves to opposing Bush/Cheney abuses of [...]
Well that didn’t even take a week to see that the health industry’s so-called promise was bogus.
Hospitals and insurance companies said Thursday that President Obama had substantially overstated their promise earlier this week to reduce the growth of health spending.
Mr. Obama invited health industry leaders to the White House on [...]
In the past I have ranted about the lack of regulation in the processed food industry as well as how Bush cut the number of inspectors of foods coming into the country. In recent years we have been bombarded by salmonella outbreaks and Ecoli outbreaks, which sickened thousands of people [...]
So, budget time is crunch time, and in this recession cuts will have to be made. In Tennessee, it is sad to say, that the mentally ill are getting the boot.
Under Gov. Phil Bredesen’s proposed budget cuts, mentally ill Tennesseans experiencing psychotic episodes may wind up in local jails because [...]
Number of comments: 1 Update below
I have been floored at the response by dems, progressive, liberal and moderates alike, to Prez Obama’s announced “watershed moment” that the health industry was willing to reduce the rate of future growth by 1.5% over the next 10 years. From the WH to progressive groups, all are announcing [...]
So, a while ago Obama took single-payer health care off the table. No mention of single-payer in the upcoming discussions on health care reform, which is CONTRARY to what the people want. Seriously, you have to sit up and take notice when doctors and nurses are advocating for a single-payer [...]
So, a while ago Obama took single-payer health care off the table. No mention of single-payer in the upcoming discussions on health care reform, which is CONTRARY to what the people want. Seriously, you have to sit up and take notice when doctors and nurses are advocating for a single-payer [...]
When a Beatles song from 1968 should re-emerge as a Progressive Populist’s theme song against the disaster known as capitalism.
And, statewide, anyone driving in Tennessee that gets pulled over by the police might have a constitutionality issue on their hands, if not unconstitutional, it is certainly quite Orwellian. (Would you [...]
Making a list
Checking it twice,
Gonna find out
Who’s a socialist or not.
Spenser Bachus knows who you are. (but won’t tell)
This, folks, is your GOP — crazy nuts stuck in the Cold War. [...]
SJR127 — the constitutional amendment to make abortion illegal, should Roe v Wade be overturned, has, for the first time, passed the House Health and Human Resources committee by a vote of 20-7.
Now, this heinous bill, which puts a woman’s womb above her life, may possibly be running into trouble [...]
Those lovely evangelical Christians that have been trying to push their convoluted morals on the rest of the nation has a(nother) star fall from grace.
A Colorado Springs man who narrates the Bible in Spanish on CDs and works in the Spanish broadcasting department of Focus on the Family appeared in [...]
Number of comments: 1 Every once in a while, I actually agree with Kristof’s premise, even if I’m not happy with the tone of his writing. Such is the case in his column today.
For all the American and international efforts to fight global poverty, one thing is clear: Those efforts won’t get far as [...]
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A very disturbing video of a 17 year-old woman being publicly flogged in Pakistan is making the rounds of the intertubes. the back story (pun intended) is that Pakistan’s government “entered into a deal with the Taliban” that Swat would be under Shariah law to bring “peace” to the [...]
I had no doubt that Obama was not the progressive the GOP has tried to make him out to be. Obama has stated as much in his votes during his time in the Senate, and by some of the things he’s said during the 2-year long marathon campaign. Those continued [...]
Here is the accompanying article
The New York Times has this nifty video on finding a job in Morristown, TN, that really should be watched.
With TN’s unemployment rate at a whopping 9.1% only some of the unemployed are being helped. This video also looks at a white man, Donnie, and a [...]
Is the US destined to repeat history?
World War I left Germany utterly devastated. The landed aristocrats, industrial magnates, wealthy financiers, weapons makers, and the officer corps of the military that formed the locus of right wing power were completely discredited. Their failure in provoking and prosecuting the War was catastrophic, [...]
The Southern GOP have fought and will continue to fight tooth and nail to keep their constituients dumb and poor. The average worker wouldn’t continue to allow the ruling class to exploit them, if they weren’t dumb and poor.
Cheap labor. Even more than race, it’s the thread that connects all [...]
So, I am in the midst of a remodeling project — interesting, that as the economy has taken a nose-dive, regular folk are fixin up around their places. Note, I said regular folk, because the executives at AIG must think we are stupider than a bag of hair, as they [...]
Well, Glory Be! The powers that be over at the IRS have had some smelling salts waved under their noses, and have let the contract with private debt collectors expire.
If there’s one thing you’d expect Uncle Sam to do for himself, it’s collecting the money needed to run the government.
That’s [...]
Number of comments: 1 Perhaps “illegal” is a stretch, but what banks and credit card companies are doing in order to collect debt of the dead from family members is extremely deceiving.
Your mom has two credit cards. She dies. And the bill collectors swarm trying to prey on your goodness, even though you have [...]
Fair Use excerpting has always been rather contentious issue. How much quoting of someone else’s work is acceptable? There doesn’t really seem to be a standard, but, when you think about how excerpting is applied in various ways, it’s sort of easy to understand the lack of specificity in copyright [...]
Obama is preparing to release his first budget, and hopes to slash the deficit. This should be encouraging:
The president will propose to tax the investment income of hedge fund and private equity partners at ordinary income tax rates, which are now as high as 35 percent and could return to [...]
You can’t make this shit up.
For hundreds of thousands of workers losing their jobs during the recession, there’s a new twist to their financial pain: Even as they’re collecting unemployment benefits, they’re paying bank fees just to get access to their money.
Thirty states have struck such deals with banks that [...]
I couldn’t pass this up — MahaBarb has one of the best posts I’ve read in recent times, on just how conservatism is destroying America.
As the stimulus bill becomes law today, we learn that a number of Republican governors are lining up to support it. It may be too little, [...]
The first odious women and children hating bill to be heard at the first meeting of the Domestic Relations Subcommittee of the House Children and Family Affairs Committee, is termed the Equal and Fair Parenting Act, which
As introduced, enacts the “Equal and Fair Parenting Act” to create a rebuttable presumption [...]
Number of comments: 2 Four TN GOP state legislators completely divorced from reality, sign onto a lawsuit challenging Obama’s citizenship.
Several Tennessee lawmakers have signed on to a legal action intended to force President Barack Obama to turn over his birth certificate and other documents to prove his citizenship, an effort rejected by the U.S. [...]
Number of comments: 5 Two years ago (Feb. 2007) at the beginning of TN’s legislative session, the infamous State Rep, Stacey Campfield, filed a slew of bills, including the odious bill requiring a death certificate for aborted fetuses. The bill, thankfully died, but not before receiving international attention.
Two years later, after the dems had [...]
If nothing else has motivated you to realize that centrism, a la Southern Democrats, is killing the people off, the economic recovery debates cuts should. Krugman lays it out for us:
What do you call someone who eliminates hundreds of thousands of American jobs, deprives millions of adequate health care and [...]
Number of comments: 1 After yesterday’s dismal unemployment numbers, the senate finally got a tentative agreement, but not after gutting funding for some important programs that would BENEFIT various groups of people.
The fine print was not immediately available, and the numbers were shifting. But in essence, the Democratic leadership and two centrist Republicans announced [...]
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Back on January 16, Rep. Jim Cooper (D-TN), a leading Blue-Dog dem was front and center for an op-ed interview piece published in the Wall Street Journal, basically boasting that he and his Blue Dog brothers and sisters were going to hold the democrates hostage to get [...]
Number of comments: 1 Brilliant Jill waxes poetic in this opener to Krugman column in today’s NY Times. Jill is on the money — as is Krugman — on the fears of socialism,right down to the garlic and crosses.
When the Soviet Union collapsed and the Berlin Wall came down, conventional wisdom called it a [...]
Obama has been moving quickly to reverse some of the more harmful pieces of legislation the Bush administration and the US Supreme Court have imposed on the regular people. During the first week, we saw the repeal of the Global Gag Rule. This week, Congress passed and Obama signed the [...]
Number of comments: 3 You gotta read it to believe it.
Since Ronald Reagan’s election in 1980, conservatives of various sorts, and conservatisms of various stripes, have generally been in the ascendancy. And a good thing, too! Conservatives have been right more often than not — and more often than liberals — about most of [...]
Number of comments: 4 So, a Vatican official believe Obama is being “arrogant” for lifting the Global Gag Rule.
One Vatican official warned against the “arrogance” of those in power who think they can decide between life and death.
Yet, the Vatican doesn’t see their own arrogance of supporting the GGR that has killed hundreds of [...]
Number of comments: 1 So, Tuesday was a whirlwind day for many, even though there were plenty that couldn’t get into the Inaguration when they had tickets. And even though Chief Justice Roberts flubbed the oath (although some think it was Obama that jumped in too soon, forget that when the swearer pauses, that’s [...]
Will Obama listen?
But my real problem with the speech, on matters economic, was its conventionality. In response to an unprecedented economic crisis — or, more accurately, a crisis whose only real precedent is the Great Depression — Mr. Obama did what people in Washington do when they want to sound [...]
Back in November, the nation moved forward, rejecting, soundly, the regressive/republican guard. Except Tennessee, which got redder, the General Assembly now being controlled by regressives for the first time since reconstruction. While Obama was speaking of moving forward, dealing with the failing economy, and “worn-out dogmas,” Tennessee regressives were putting [...]
As far as I’m concerned, the banks need to return the bailout money to taxpayers, immediately.
At the Palm Beach Ritz-Carlton last November, John C. Hope III, the chairman of Whitney National Bank in New Orleans, stood before a ballroom full of Wall Street analysts and explained how his bank intended [...]
According to Holder, PE Obama’s administration will defend teleco immunity.
The incoming Obama administration will vigorously defend congressional legislation immunizing U.S. telecommunication companies from lawsuits about their participation in the Bush administration’s domestic spy program.
That was the assessment Thursday by Eric Holder, President-elect Barack Obama’s choice for attorney general, who made [...]
Number of comments: 2 I’m speaking for myself only, but I have to say that even considering Dr. Gupta for the position of Surgeon General has got to be one of the most irresponsible decisions coming from Obama.
The Obama transition team approached Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN’s chief medical correspondent, about becoming U.S. surgeon general, [...]
Number of comments: 4 As you may have noticed, I have been on hiatus, mostly because I have overloaded on outrage fatigue and simply just needed a break. The Gaza situation, though, has been weighing heavily on my mind, a little more than it usually would, because I know a woman that lives near [...]
This is what happens when there is deregulation on Wall Street.
The former chairman of the Nasdaq Stock Market is best known as the founder of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, the closely-held market-making firm he launched in 1960. But he also ran a hedge fund that U.S. prosecutors said racked [...]
Number of comments: 1 Shortly before Thanksgiving, I asked, Where have all the progressives gone, in response to some of the first picks of Obama’s cabinet. as I recall, there were several “A-list” bloggers that were wondering the same thing. Shortly after that, there was an article in one of the national papers (NY [...]
Number of comments: 3 I wanted to address this yesterday, but time got away from me, what with all the food preparations for the oneday of the year that we gorge ourselves on obscene amounts of food. (Okay, okay, I’m not that bad about tons of food, as we have a standing guest whose [...]
The history of “free markets” and “capitalization” and “deregulation” shows us that it is the growing numbers of poor that are left behind. And, to make matters worse, it is this growing number of people that are being left out of all bailout talks.
As the roster of corporations and financial [...]
Someone has a soft spot for drug offenders.
Among those receiving commutations was rap singer John Forte, who was charged with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine. He was sentenced to 168 months in prison and five years supervised release. His prison term will now end on Dec. [...]
Number of comments: 2 Oh, good god! Can it get any worse? Tennessee was a bellwether state, and during this election season was one of only a very few states that went redder, McCain getting more votes than Bush did in 2004, and the GOP taking over both state houses for the first time [...]
Remember that old Mad Max flick with Mel Gibson, when Tina Turner “runs” Barter Town (but really wants to own it)? I’ve been reminded about this movie a number of times recently, on a variety of different things. Like hubby’s boss, who scours craigslist on a daily bases, and sends [...]
Number of comments: 3 Progressive, some disillusioned by the remaining candidates, came out in droves on election day and pushed the button casting their vote for Obama, the lesser of the two evils. For myself, I had no illusions that I would be writing this post, asking the Obama administration where are the progressives, [...]
Number of comments: 2 Update below
I’m not surprised that Obama would throw Hilary a decent slot in his administration, and personally, I feel it should have been as VP. But, that episode is over and there’s not much that can be said anymore. And, I really do not want Obama to coopt Hilary just [...]
Number of comments: 1 Socialized health care? Single-payer health care? I will probably never see that in my life-time, although our country really needs to put the kibash on the health insurance industry. That industry has grown so strong, and has muscled it’s way into determining healthcare policy for decades. That isn’t stopping.
Pear notes [...]
Number of comments: 1 A very interesting survey was conducted, doctors want to leave the medical industry because of insurers red tape.
Nearly half the respondents in a survey of U.S. primary care physicians said that they would seriously consider getting out of the medical business within the next three years if they had an [...]
Number of comments: 2 Hatred in the US. It’s all the rage.
We have elementary-aged school children chanting assassinate Obama on a school bus; to chasing and beating black men.The rage from biased white folk has gotten me so sick, that I am embarrassed of this nation.
To wit, the idiots arrested in Tennessee for plotting [...]
As gas prices have been plunging, I’m sure you are surprised to see a post titled price gouging, as price gouging and gas prices at the pump has been fiarly common companions. But, as we will learn, price gouging is not limited to gas prices. This time, price gouging is [...]
Or, you could say, businesses coming to the Treasury hat in hand, although that would signify the business was failing. Unfortuantely, businesses that are recording profits are kneeling at the alter of Treasury. It’s not just the banks and insurance companies that are kneeling, lobbyists are making their way to [...]
Number of comments: 3 For those of us progressives and liberals living in red states that happened to get redder last Tuesday, times will be tough. On a national level, the Southern Strategy has lost it’s punch.
Fear of the politician with the unusual name and look did not end with last Tuesday’s vote in [...]
Number of comments: 1 Is Tennessee set to FINALLY pass a no-cell-phone-use-while-driving law? I doubt it.
“There’s absolutely more people talking on cell phones while driving,” said Robert Schmutzler, a patrol officer for Kingsport’s traffic division.
Meanwhile, forces are assembling to pressure the Tennessee Legislature to act. In a first for the organization, AAA East Tennessee [...]
Number of comments: 1 As times are tough for the majority of Americans, we need to take a close look at who gets our money. That $700 Billion Wall Street bailout, which was not supposed to go for CEO and other Executive bonuses, is instead earmarked exactly for bonuses.
It turns out that the nine [...]
As health care costs continue to rise, under the so-called free market system, Bush has pared back health-care services to the poor.
In the first of an expected avalanche of post-election regulations, the Bush administration on Friday narrowed the scope of services that can be provided to poor people under Medicaid’s [...]
Geeze louise! The right cannot get over the fact that a majority of people will no longer be dictated by fear. I see from Cernig, that the personal attacks are reaching unbelievable heights in double-quick time. Now, FoF (James Dobson’s Focus on the Family) Action is comparing an Obma administration [...]
As I noted below, Tennessee was one of the states that went redder. NYTimes has a good interactive map on their front page, that shows county voting shifts, which is quite interesting, because according to that, Knox County actually got less red by 2%. By state, it appears only three [...]
Number of comments: 2 It really is a shame that Tennesseans have continued their political hard-right turn. Tennessee was one of those “bellwether” states, at least for the last 13 or so presidential elections, until last night that is. Nope, TN, and a few other confederate states are still in denial
It’s at the local [...]
At 11:00pm as I am writing this, and realizing there are several states yet too close to call, the electoral college count is 297 -139
As polls closed on the West coast, the Illinois senator was projected to receive enough electoral votes to pass the 270-vote threshold.
Obama is projected to win [...]
Today is THE day. As pundits wring their hands, the voters say their piece. Yup, unless you’ve been living in a bubble, today is election day. And the results for tiny Dixville Notch, NH are in.
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama emerged victorious in the first election returns of the 2008 [...]
Making a list
Checking it twice,
Gonna find out
Who’s a socialist or not.
Spenser Bachus knows who you are. (but won’t tell)
This, folks, is your GOP — crazy nuts stuck in the Cold War. [...] 
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