Former President Bush warned to keep book tour domestic

In an op-ed piece in The Telegraph, Boris Johnson, the mayor of London, warned former U.S. President George W. Bush, who has openly admitted to authorizing torture, to keep his book tour on this side of the Atlantic: It is not yet clear whether George W Bush is planning to cross the Atlantic to flog [...]

Wanna cut the federal budget deficit? Start with ethanol subsidies!

Here’s a good way to cut $7.7 billion from the federal budget : Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore said support for corn-based ethanol in the United States was “not a good policy”, weeks before tax credits are up for renewal.

U.S. blending tax breaks for ethanol make it profitable for refiners to use the fuel [...]

He was for it, before he was against it, before he was for it, before he was against it….to infinity and beyond

Orrin Hatch was on on Fox News last week, with this stern and no holds barred take on health insurance reform:

“The individual mandate, in our eyes, is clearly unconstitutional,” explained Hatch to FNC anchor Greta Van Susteren. “If Congress can do that to us, then there’s nothing that the government can’t do to us.”

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Dark Days are ahead…

if you believe the New York Times. The nations paper of record, the NY Times, has had some doom and gloom articles lately. I know many will dismiss it as a “liberal rag” and others (like me) consider it a corporatist diatribe, but the op-ed pages have not had much good to say lately about [...]

Scott Walker: Open for Business

Yeah, I’m sure the $128,859 Scott Walker received from road builders has absolutely nothing to do with Walker’s support for diverting money allocated to high speed rail to building roads: Scores of road builders opened their wallets for the Republican candidate in the recent election.

More than 150 employees of highway construction firms wrote checks [...]

Thank you Republican Party!

Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson of Florida’s 8th Congressional District took the floor of the House last week Wednesday to give a few suggestions on how the top one percent of income earners in the U.S. – folks who make an average of $1.4 million a year – can spend the extra $83,347 a year they’ll [...]

Will Ron Johnson reject his government-run health care?

Remember when Republican Senator-elect Ron Johnson said health care reform was “the greatest assault to freedom” in his lifetime” and cited it as a reason why he decided to run for the Senate? I remember, and so I can’t help but wonder if Ron Johnson will at least be consistent and reject the government-run health [...]