NRA Telephone Survey (Oct 2009)

This Sunday afternoon I received a phone call  from a woman asking if I would answer a one-question survey about the Second Amendment. I said, “yes”. The caller asked me to listen to a recorded comment by  Wayne LaPierre from the NRA.

(I may not have this exactly right and if any of you have [...]

Mac VS PC= Dems VS GOP

Rush got punked

Clearly, Rush Limbaugh needs to do a little basic research before he posts any wild accusations about President Obama that he might happen to come across on the intertubes:

An obscure blogger unearths some pages of President Obama’s college thesis. The report supposedly comes from big-time journalist Joe Klein of Time magazine. And the thesis [...]

Guess the number of medical bankruptcies in Germany

Listen and watch as Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) educates Diana Furchtgott-Roth of the Hudson Institute on the issue of health care-related bankruptcies during a Senate Judiciary sub-committee hearing on bankruptcies driven by catastrophic medical expenses:

Why didn’t Wall mention his dad’s money?

Terrence Wall is officially a candidate for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Sen. Russ Feingold, and if you read the press release Wall’s campaign issued announcing his candidacy, you’d think Terrence Wall was a regular rags-to-riches story (emphasis mine):

Wall got his start during the real estate recession of 1989 when there were [...]