By Mark | November 22, 2011
Remember when, not too long ago, Michele Bachmann said, “If we took away the minimum wage—if conceivably it was gone—we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely“? Well, not one to be outdone, Newt Gingrich came out today, declaring that America’s child labor laws are, “truly stupid.” You know… those meddlesome laws that keep people […]
By Mark | September 17, 2011
A little while ago, someone in the comments section suggested that I watch Rachel Maddow’s interview with former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. I’m watching it now, and finding it incredibly interesting. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
Posted in energy, Media, Politics | Also tagged Billy Graham, budget deficit, Camp David Accord, campaign finance reform, Jimmy Carter, lobbying, Middle East peace, moral majority, New Deal, Obama, Palestinian rights, Palestinian statehood, partisan politics, Rachel Maddow, religious right, Ronald Reagan, separation of church and state, social security |
By Mark | September 8, 2011
If Obama really wanted people to get behind him and this new jobs initiative of his, he would have announced this evening that he was planning to top Rick Perry by taking the lives of 250 American citizens. (Just think of all the executioners and grave diggers we could put to work if he said […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged American Jobs Act, asshole Republicans of Texas, blood thirsty, Cameron Todd Willingham, death penalty, deregulation, EPA, executions, FEMA, Global Warming, hypocrisy, hypocrisy watch, pollution, putting innocent men to death, smog, Texas justice, things to lose sleep over |
By Mark | August 21, 2011
The Republicans are up in arms over the fact that Obama is taking a ten day vacation with his family. One of my favorite quotes on the matter comes from former Presidential candidate Donald Trump, who has courageously resurfaced after making such an ass of himself earlier this summer, when he said that he believed […]
Posted in History, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 9/11, American history, anti-science, Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US, Bush, Christine O'Donnell, Dana Perino, demonic idols, Donald Trump, evolution, global climate change, hypocrisy, Jeremiah Wright, Jon Huntsman, misunderestimate, misunderstanding American history, Mitt Romney, Obama, reality deficient, rewriting history, Statue of Liberty, terrorism, vacations |
Our Governor tells us that, if we want to compete, we need to keep taxes low. That, he assures us, is the only way that we’ll be able to attract new businesses, and keep the ones that we’ve still got. While our Republican leadership in Lansing has taken some steps in that direction, I question […]
Posted in Education | Also tagged Ayn Rand, Barbara Bush, budget cuts, education reform, education spending, Paul Krugman, public education, Rick Snyder, satire, Texas, Texas Miracle, theology of tax cuts, threats to the middle class |
