How the Republicans plan to steal the election
And what we can do to stop them. In 2000 it was the Supreme Court. 2004--Diebold. 2006--voter caging. 2008--ACORN. The Republicans have been up to their same old tricks this year--purging voter...
View ArticleRick Santelli is still a jerk
Crosposted from My Left Wing. When Rick Santelli of CNBC unleashed his (in)famous rant last February, it became the catalyst for the "tea party" movement, and launched a thousand left-wing snarky...
View ArticleThe Greatest System in the World!
Crossposted from My Left Wing. Jonathan Alter wrote a piece in Newsweek this week entitled "What’s Not To Like?" about possible healthcare reform. He gives us a list of the many awesome features of...
View ArticleThe Stock Market is Falling--with one notable exception
The overseas markets were weaker overnight, and this has extended to the United States markets. Oil is weaker, as are gold, silver and the rest of the commodity complex. The broader markets are...
View ArticleTown Hall with the Teabaggers
Crossposted from My Left Wing. My husband called me yesterday afternoon to let me know he'd just heard on the radio that our Congressman (Alan Grayson, FL-08) was planning a town hall meeting to be...
View ArticleBlood out of a Turnip
Crossposted from My Left Wing. Only in America, where the healthcare system is less about making patients well than it is about maximizing profits for each link in the delivery chain: Modern...
View ArticleA Modest Proposal
H/t to Jonathan Swift—a truly great satirist. August has been a sad month. The death of Senator Ted Kennedy has been a great blow to all of us, but losing him just when we are poised to finally...
View ArticleThe Water's Edge
There used to be a code of conduct in America that no matter how acrimonious debate became within our borders, once a politician left our shores, he or she shed the cloak of partisanship and...
View ArticleDon't Ask, Don't Tell--If You're a Woman
Crossposted from My Left Wing Overlooked in the wake of President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize win was this tidbit in yesterday’s news: Women in the service are far more likely than men to be discharged...
View ArticleJohn Mackey--Global Warming Denier
Or why my household will be continuing the Whole Foods Market boycott for the foreseeable future. John Mackey, CEO and former Board Chairman of Whole Foods Market caused quite a stir in the lefty...
View ArticleFlorida Republican Party Chair says tough luck to malpractice victims
A tiny one-column item buried on page B-4 of Friday’s Orlando Sentinel reveals much about the Republicans' attitude toward health care reform, and shows their callous disregard for the rights of...
View ArticleCNBC Host Destroys Jones Act Meme
Mark Haynes, whose most recent claim to fame was his misogynistic comment to co-host Erin Burnett after the bad call that cost a pitcher his perfect game, "This is why women aren’t in charge of...
View ArticleSchadenfreude Friday
Samuel and Charles Wyly, billionaire Texas conservatives, and longtime supporters of Republican candidates and causes, were charged yesterday with a variety of SEC violations. Their schemes involved...
View ArticleAppeals Court favors unlimited campaign spending
Rick Scott, multi-millionaire gadfly teabagger executive, has decided that after running HCA so successfully they had to pay the government a fine of $1.7 billion for Medicare fraud, he’d bring his...
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Morning Feature: Elliott Wave Theory and Elections
One of the most interesting, if distracting, things about going through my dad’s stuff has been sorting through his books. He only attended one semester of college, but was a lifetime auto-didact, so...
View ArticlePresident Obama--soft on terror?
President Obama today pardoned two turkeys. It’s the day before Thanksgiving, and he’s apparently not interested in putting food on our families. Instead, he pardoned two California turkeys and sent...
View ArticleWater, Water, Everywhere?
With flooding and devastation occurring everywhere from the Pacific Northwest of the United States, to Brazil to Australia, it’s tempting to think so, but the headlines don’t tell the whole story. An...
View ArticleRick Scott axes Nursing Home Ombudsman
Florida Governor Rick Scott has been in office less than two months, but has wasted no time in trying to re-make the state to fit his idea of a teabagger, corporate-run paradise. From rejecting...
View ArticleHappy Birthday, Paul Krugman
Today is the birthday of Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman. I just finished reading his book The Great Unraveling, published in 2003, and was stunned to discover how presciently he described...
View ArticleFlorida Legislature--week one
The Florida legislative session is only a few days old, and the Republican-dominated House and Senate are wasting no time pushing through their radical agenda to benefit the rich at the expense of the...
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