Headline: Vast Majority Of Secret Money In Presidential Race Spreads Misinformation: Report Dan Froomkin calls our attention to a report from the Annenberg Public Policy Center which finds that of the $29.3M the top four big-money PACs spent from December 2011 through May 2012, some $25M was spent on ads that fact-checkers said included at …
So says Garry Wills, putting into print what any sentient voter understands instinctively. The etherialists who are too good to stoop toward the “lesser evil” of politics—as if there were ever anything better than the lesser evil there—naively assume that if they just bring down the current system, or one part of it that has …
The Egyptian Army Saturday decided unilaterally that it would limit the rights of the new President, whoever he might be, and that it would control the budget as well. Under the generals’ decree, Egypt’s president will have no control over the military’s budget or leadership and will not be authorized to declare war without the …
This was probably the summer of 1955. I was five, Dad was thirty. I’m not sure Dad appreciated the Navy’s designation of shorts as uniform-of-the-day, but he could have. After all, Puerto Rico in the summer is hot! From Events
From the documentary. Note Clapton on guitar, Joni Mitchell and Neil Young harmonizing, Ringo drumming, and The Band banding.
It’s not the full-blown DREAM Act the President and the Democrats tried to pass in 2010, but it’s a big step forward. Today the President announced a policy change which will allow people under 30 who came to the US as children and have no criminal background to remain in the US. More specifically, According …
Today was the first occasion we had to use the new wheelchair on an excursion to the dentist. It fits into the back of the car just fine. When we got to the dentist’s office, however, I couldn’t make the wireless remote key unlock the hatchback. I eventually got the chair out and got Mom …
But air for your car tires? When the hell did this start happening? The Air-Serv company says it’s been in business since 1981, but today’s the first day I’ve run into their machines at a gas station. Actually, I ran into two gas stations which have them. I drove across the street from the second …
Romney thinks there should be fewer cops, firefighters and teachers, he said. Then he tried to rebut the charge that he was opposed to hiring more of those workers, saying: The former Massachusetts governor, appearing on Fox and Friends Tuesday morning, was asked to respond to charges made by the Obama campaign that he would …
Why is it that neither the European nor the American central bankers feel any urgency to alleviate the pain of all the unemployed people on both continents, but they’re quite ready to bail out banks? Put all of this together and you get a picture of a European policy elite always ready to spring into …