Archive for December 27th, 2009
World News Roundup, 12/27
Here are the stories you probably aren’t seeing on TV tonight. 5 Ethiopian assassination plotters sentenced to death, 33 get life sentences UN Panel says Guinean junta leader should be tried for crimes against humanity Mortar attack on MPs in Somalia Feature: Eritreans fleeing into Sudan You know the situation is pretty bad when Sudan […]
Back to Where We Started
I am starting to think the teabaggers have peaked too soon. A new CNN/Opinion Research survey indicates that a majority of Americans believe that the Democratic party’s policy proposals are good for the country, 51% to 46%, while 53% think Republican policies will send the country in a wrong direction. So, after all the screaming, […]
Dredging Up History
Back in 2003, the Republican Congress passed legislation that expanded the goverment’s role in healthcare by adding the Medicare Part D Prescription Drug benefit. But they did not pay for it. Instead, they just added the cost of the benefit, several hundreds of billions of dollars, to the national debt. When pressed as to why […]
Unintentionally Revealing
A conservative writer for the National Review dislikes Star Trek because its messages are liberal. You know, the messages of peace, tolerance, due process and progress.
1.75%
According to Politifact, Obama made 513 campaign promises. 9 have been broken. On 18, a compromise has been reached. 75 promises have been kept. The rest, some 411, are still in the works. That is a 1.75% of his promises being broken.
I am confused.
In an earlier Nemski thread, Donviti and Anonone were critical of President Obama’s response to the attempted Flaming Crotch terrorist attack. I have to ask, do both want Obama to be more like George W. Bush in his response to terrorism? Now, both had been attacking Obama from the left as a result of the […]
Bulo Remembers 2009-The Year in Movies
A caveat. I am not an avid moviegoer. Give me a film noir on TCM, and I’m happy. With that out of the way, here is a representative sample of Best of 2009 movie lists (or ‘film’, for the academicians) that I enjoyed reading. The movie that clearly resonated most with critics (not necessarily as […]
Calculating Subsidies In Health Care
To see if you’d receive subsidies from HCR, check out this interesting little calculator from the Kaiser Family Foundation. This tool illustrates premiums and government assistance under the types of reform proposals being considered in Congress for people under age 65 who purchase coverage on their own in an Exchange and are not covered through […]
The Art of Being Presidential
Political Wire points us to Marc Ambinder’s Why The President Went Golfing Today which covers Obama’s Presidential non-response to the attempted terrorist attack. Let the authorities do their work. Don’t presume; don’t panic the country; don’t chest-thump, prejudge, interfere, politicize (in an international sense), don’t give Al Qaeda (or whomever) a symbolic victory; resist the […]
Republicans Get Their Stoopid On
Part One: Many of you probably heard about the attempted terrorist attack on an airplane landing in Detroit, but what you might not have heard about was Republican Congressman Pete Hoekstra’s recent inanity. (h/t Eschaton) “It’s not surprising,” U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra, a Holland Republican, said of the alleged terrorist attempt to blow up a […]
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