Category Archives: Politics

The Protester -Person of the Year 2011- Printout – TIME.

Warren is … a pyromaniac in a field of straw men: She refutes propositions no one asserts. Everyone knows that all striving occurs in a social context, so all attainments are conditioned by their context. This does not, however, entail … Continue reading →

… everything Bloomberg wrote about Koch Industries could just as easily have been written about G.E. G.E.’s foreign subsidiaries have done business in Iran, and G.E., like Koch, has publicly noted that its subsidiaries’ dealings with Iran were legal. Likewise, … Continue reading →

Clearly, the woman is an idiot. I mean, who could possibly believe this stuff? She made three interlocking points. First, that the United States is now governed by a “permanent political class,” drawn from both parties, that is increasingly cut … Continue reading →

Gary Johnson’s philosophy is easily summarized. He thinks the state is far too big. He wants to balance the federal budget – not 20 years from now, but immediately – and has identified the requisite spending cuts. He understands that an … Continue reading →

<snark>Obama keeps saying he inherited the war in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan, the bad economic situation, etc., the implication being there’s not much he can do about those things. You know what else he inherited? A triple-A credit rating … Continue reading →

"We’re going to read this document," Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, said Monday, referring to the debt ceiling agreement reached Sunday night. "We’re going to understand it before we vote for it." Lee, who helped rush the 2,000-page Affordable Care … Continue reading →