The Washington Post has a fascinating article today about an 18 year-old young woman trapped between wanting, desperately, to serve the United States in the military and her inability to do so because she was brought here as an undocumented citizen when she was 11. When Noheli Carrasco takes charge of her teenage battalion at South Lakes High School – […]

Republican Congressman Darrell Issa has put a form online where business owners can submit their ideas for how the GOP can reduce regulations that protect Americans in order to improve their corporate bottom line. While that’s all well and good, perhaps it would be good for him to know that regulations can HELP businesses as well by leveling the playing […]

During his speech to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce this week, President Obama said this: Now is the time to invest in America. Today, American companies have nearly $2 trillion sitting on their balance sheets. I know that many of you have told me that you are waiting for demand to rise before you get off the sidelines and expand, […]

If you haven’t seen the new ad Chrysler ran during the Superbowl last night, you should really have a look: VOICE OVER: I got a question for ya. What does this city know about luxury, huh? What does a town that’s been to Hell and back know about the finer things in life? Well I’ll tell ya: More than most. […]

Just sitting here watching the Fox interview with President Obama during the Superbowl pregame. I’ve never seen such an unprofessional, disrespectful interview of any President ever. He constantly cut-off the President. He constantly interjected his own opinions. Un-effing-believable. President Obama was poised and answered O’Reilly’s questions intelligently and thoughtfully. I don’t know how he was able to do it given […]

I can’t even begin to express how absolutely full of awesome this is. There’s an online comic I read regularly called Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal that’s drawn by Zach Weiner. It’s a rather bizarro comic, lots of science fictiony type stuff, generally hysterical. Not long ago, he ran this comic: The odious homophobic, anti-gay, anti-same sex marriage group, National Organization […]

You may have noticed that I have been playing around with ads on Eclectablog lately. I was banned from Google Adsense for some unknown reason so I tried out Chitika and Adbrite. After a month, I’ve earned a grand sum total of $3.45. Woo hoo. So, I’ve pulled them. There’s no point in inflicting useless visual garbage on Eclectablog readers […]

I just wanted to thank everyone again for their support that earned me the Daily Kos “Diarist of the Year” award. For those that missed the show, here’s a rare shot of me receiving my award: Hee, hee! I’m just sayin’…

If there’s one government program folks on both the left and the right love to hate it’s the Toxic Asset Relief Program (TARP). Started under George W. Bush and continued under Barack Obama, it seems everyone from the farthest-right tea party to farthest-left liberals hate it. It’s about to turn a profit. The program under the $700-billion financial bailout package […]

Um … me. Seriously, I have no idea how this happened but I actually won Diarist of the Year at Daily Kos (basically “Blogger of the Year” for non-Kossacks. Results HERE.) I would like to thank all of you who took the time to vote for me. I’m sitting here enjoying a celebratory martini letting this soak in. Wow. P.S. […]

Our friend Leanne at Blue Water News reports the following: Blue Wave News has experienced a critical failure. It appears that someone hacked into the site and deleted all our content sometime early yesterday morning. Fortunately, we have access to our entire history of posts, but the full restoration will be tedious and time-consuming. In the meantime, we hope to […]