Far be it from me to tell FIFA how soccer games should be played, but ending a world championship with a series of penalty kicks is like ending the World Series with a home run derby. Oh well. Congratulations to Japan’s team and condolences to the US one.
Here’s one of the House Republicans vowing he’ll vote against raising the debt ceiling: “Re-election is the farthest thing from my mind,” said Representative Tom Reed, a freshman Republican from upstate New York. “Like many of my colleagues in the freshman class, I came down here to get our fiscal house in order and take …
Kevin Drum: Incandescent bulbs not banned. Repeat: Not Banned Made more efficient, yes. Made by GE, Sylvania and Philips, yes. Still readily available, yes. Above facts ignored by Limbaugh, the Tea Party buffoons in the House and Stephen Moore of the WSJ, yes. Your modern Republican party, where empirical data need not apply.
In today’s Murdoch empire news, Les Hinton, the guy who was CEO of News International at the time of the phone hacking resigned today, as did Rebekah Brooks, current CEO of the newspaper operations in the UK. Hinton was until today chairman of Dow Jones, one of the American colonies in that empire and publisher …
I just wanted to write that. For nearly my entire adult life I’ve been seeing that noun attached to Democrats; it’s fun to see it pasted on the other side. Republican leaders use a telling phrase when they reject Democratic proposals: any deal that includes taxes “can’t pass the House.” Junior lawmakers have not been …
According to National Review Online (not an impeccable source, but one which talks to Republicans a lot more than most of the ones I read) there are 59 or 60 House Republicans who will vote “No” to any raise of the debt ceiling unless they get their way. House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) said …
I don’t think it will happen, nor do I necessarily think it’s a smart political move, but I’d love to hear a few Democrats stand up and say publicly: “Who elected Grover Norquist to set national tax policy for the United States?”
Today Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) decided he’d try to break the debt ceiling deadlock by giving up all the hostages he’s thought he’s held and proposing Obama take ownership of the debt limit and raise it on his own. Here’s how he explained it: The way it would work is the legislation would …
you’re the only child of a family of superheroes? What if you have no superpowers of your own? What if you’ve been estranged from your family because of that lack? What if you’ve become a CPA specializing in forensic accounting? And what if, in the course of your work, you find out the origin story …
Now the pool pump is making horrific noises.