HAPPY LABOR DAY

This one's for you! The Rutgers labor scorecard offered other sobering findings: About 530,000 were subject to mass layoffs in the last year, growth of nearly 5 percent, but a…

Real Issue: Healthcare

Please review both candidates' plans and let me know what you think. Feel free to share your experiences (good and bad) with our current Healthcare System. John McCain's here. Barack…

QOD

On a day off like today, when you first wake up and plan on putzing around the house, what is your "go to" outfit?

UnAmerican Sarah

The Right Wing redefined the term “UnAmerican” during the last eight years as anyone who disagrees with the President of the United States.   I, and all of my colleagues, reject that definition.  But I wonder if that term does apply to someone who was a member of a party (The Alaska Independence Party) that once and still advocates the succession of Alaska from the United States.   Yes, the unvetted and horribly inexperienced Vice Presidential Candidate of the Republican Party wants to break up the United States of America.

See videos of her recent address to the AIP convention and of the party’s chairman concerning Palin’s former membership in the party below the fold:

Obama Overtakes McCain in Virginia

Check out the trend line. Pollster aggregates a couple of different polls (Zogby, Insider Advantage, Rassussen). As a point of reference, Bush never trailed Kerry in Virginia and won that…