The Susan G. Komen Foundation has announced it will no longer fund Planned Parenthood. Why? Because of a new policy it’s adopted which says it won’t fund any organization which is currently under Congressional investigation. I don’t know what that sounds like to you, but to me it sounds like a targeted guideline meant specifically …
Class warfare! Whitehouse boiled down the proposal into one line: “If your income is over 1 million, multiply it by 0.3, and if that number is bigger than you’d otherwise be paying, pay that.” That’s how he describes the bill he’s introducing in the Senate this week. It has the advantage of being simple, doesn’t …
If you turn on NBC right now you’ll see the NFL Pro Bowl live from Aloha Stadium, about 2 miles down the road from my house. Any of you suffering under several feet of snow, I apologize for our gorgeous weather.
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It’s not enough ESPN schedules two days of live coverage of the NFL draft every year (and gets a good audience!). No, now its college network ESPNU has scheduled 10 hours of live coverage of national signing day, so alumni can see what high school kids have signed to play football at the old alma …
California Supreme Court denies challenge of Senate maps So reads a headline from the Sacramento Bee today. The story explains that despite Republican complaints, the Court finds nothing wrong with using redistricting maps drawn up by an independent commission, an entity created by passage of Proposition 11 on the November 2008 ballot in the state. …
When Bob Dole was running for Vice President in 1976 he sneered bitterly about “Democrat wars” during a debate with Walter Mondale. Dole, today: If Gingrich is the nominee it will have an adverse impact on Republican candidates running for county, state, and federal offices. Hardly anyone who served with Newt in Congress has endorsed …
Mitt Romney on President Obama’s State of the Union speech last night: “The detachment between reality and what he says is so extraordinary, I was just shaking my head at the TV last night,” Romney told about 150 supporters gathered on the concrete floor of a metal fabrication factory here as he campaigned ahead of …
The Republican party really thinks Mitch Daniels is one of their rising stars? They really hoped he’d run for President this year? Man. The guy looks like Ross Perot, he’s as morose as Eeyore, and he reeks of Bush effluvia. This was the guy who signed off on both of the big Bush tax cuts …
TPM has excerpts from the pre-released text of President Obama’s State of the Union address, which will kick off in about an hour. I like this part the best: “As long as I’m President, I will work with anyone in this chamber to build on this momentum. But I intend to fight obstruction with action, …