Late Night Video: Get Motivated!
George W. Bush gets Stewart and Colbert motivated.
A Casuality of the War on Drugs
Sens. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.). are my new heroes. Kohl and Whitehouse are asking the Drug Enforcement Agency to scale back their enforcement of the Controlled Substance Act as it is "producing a troubling side effect by denying some hospice and elderly patients needed pain medication" reports The Washington Post.
President Obama Signs Hate Crimes Act Today
The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act was signed by President Obama in a White House ceremony today. This new law is an amendment to the Defense Appropriations Bill, which will be signed in a separate event to day. This long needed law (and one promised by the Obama campaign):
US Chamber of Horrors
Delaware Liberal like facts and we like pretty pictures, consequently we love graphs. Daniel Gross at Slate did a fine piece on the failings of the US Chamber of Commerce:…
One Is The Loneliest Number
A very interesting thing happened at a Senate hearing this week that hasn't gotten much attention, but should. Several Republican senators disagreed with climate science denier-conspiracist Jim Inhofe on the…
Wednesday Open Thread
It's time for your open thread of the day. Can I ask a question? Are the open threads working for you? We're about 2 months into this experiment and it…
Stay Classy Governator!
Yes, this a real letter from the Governor of California to the General Assembly of his state, telling the Assembly that he is vetoing a bill financing the Port of San Francisco. As you can see, it spells out "Fuck You" from the first letters of each sentence on the left margin.
The Non-Partisan Garrett Wozniak to Address Sussex GOP
The featured speaker at the next meeting of the Sussex County Republicans will be the supposedly nonpartisan Caesar Rodney Institute Policy Director Garrett Wozniak. I guess they finally gave up…
EBay to Abortion Rights Activists: No Auction For You!
EBay has stopped an auction to raise money for the legal defense fund Scott Roeder, the coward who alledgedly shot George Tiller in his church reports The Associated Press. An…
Let’s Go Phillies
How could I let today pass without acknowledging tonight's game? For the second year in a row, we are lucky enough to watch our hometown baseball team play in the…
Jones-Potter to Run For State Treasurer
State Treasurer Velda Jones-Potter, appointed by Gov. Jack Markell, has thrown her hat into the race for State Treasurer reports The Dover Post.
Lieberman Literally In Bed With Drug/Insurance Lobby
Geez, you'd think that the Main Stream Media might have discovered that Pious Joe's equally-pious wife has returned to her roots--as a lobbyist for the pharmaceutical and health care industries…
Are You A Good White Person?
Fox "News" commissioned Zogby run a poll for them regarding free speech reports FAIR Blog. Here's one of the questions: Federal Communications Commission Chief Diversity Czar Mark Lloyd wants the…