I was reading Reddit’s politics page this morning when I came across this Self Reddit: Thank you unemployment benefits. Because of you I was able to pay my rent wash my clothes, eat, and today was offered a job for over 100k. I’ve been unemployed for almost 2 years. I will happily pay my taxes, and not cry about it […]

President Obama is in the far northern reaches of Michigan today to kick off his drive to extend high-speed internet to 98% of the country. President Barack Obama’s visit to Marquette today is intended to highlight the benefits of widespread access to broadband service and promote his plan for a National Wireless Initiative to make high-speed wireless Internet services available […]

If you’re looking for a little comic relief on your glide path to Friday, bop over and read Ted Nugent’s latest drivel at the Washington Times, “Mourning in America”. Honestly, who gave this guy a megaphone? What he knows about politics and history wouldn’t fill a thimble. President Obama has been trying to saddle up next to former President Ronald […]

Congressman Steve King, Republican conservative from Iowa, has spent an enormous amount of time casting doubt on President Obama’s religion. Tonight, on Lawrence O’Donnell’s Last Word, O’Donnell played a clip where Representative King said that the President doesn’t have an “American experience”. Then, during the interview, King dropped this unbelievable bit of insulting idiocy: “The President stood in Cairo and […]

As I blogged about before, the pragmati website Blue Wave News was hacked and taken down. Leanne from BWN has this update: No, the site isn’t dead – it’s resting. ;) Seriously, though, we are indeed working on getting back up and running, which should happen very soon. We may not have all the bells and whistles functioning at first, […]

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 […]