Who’d a thunk the Houston Texans, in their first playoff game ever, would defeat the Cincinnati Bengals fairly handily, 31-10? Certainly not me. The Texans are playing with a third-string quarterback (the first two guys went down with injuries mid-season), while the Bengals new QB has been praised all year for his seemingly instant development. …
Fred Clark is puzzled. He doesn’t understand why Gingrich’s opponents in the Republican presidential contest aren’t hammering him to bits after he made this outrageous remark the other day: If the NAACP invites me, I’ll go to their convention to talk about why the African-American community should demand pay checks and not be satisfied with …
If Republicans control government, it loses all ability to regulate, and the country goes back to looking like this. How can this be? Republicans have introduced the REINS Act (Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny). This law would require that every “economically significant” federal regulation (one that has an annual impact of $100 …
President Obama has finally given up on getting the Republican minority to allow an “upper-down” vote on his nominee for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and put Richard Cordray on the job via recess appointment. Good. As Mike Konczal argues here, the Senate Republicans were effectively practicing nullification. They don’t like the Bureau and the …
Nehemiah Scudder, please call the white courtesy phone. Santorum: States Should Have The Right To Outlaw Birth Control Of course they should. However, if they tried, they’d make Wisconsin’s pro-public employee demonstrations last spring look like the crowds attending high school basketball games in 200-seat gyms, but what the heck. What I really don’t understand …
With all due respect to my friends and readers who live in Iowa, I’m really really tired of hearing about your stupid caucuses and the chase for voters there by a bunch of Republican candidates, none of whom should be allowed out without adult supervision. Has it come down to this group of people, really? …
Longs Drugs has an oldies disk playing over the PA system. Yesterday I heard “Kicks” by Paul Revere and the Raiders, and today it was this piece of history. I must have danced to this song a few hundred times while at the U of Arizona. It seems appropriate for the first day of a …
Hau’oli Makahiki Hou, everybody! I hope 2012 is better than 2011 and that you all remain healthy, hale and hearty throughout the new year.