Day: November 4, 2011

In a stunning development today GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain appeared to announce that he is a half brother to Charles and David Koch.  The increasingly unpredictable and laughably sophomoric Cain told the crowd at an Americans for Prosperity Event that ” I am the Koch brothers’ brother from another mother.” Charles and David…

Just yesterday I posted an item about how Kevin ” Leni ” bin Versey didn’t have much of a talent for telling jokes. I stand corrected. Leni’s Lament is now reporting that Americans for Prosperity is opening an investigation into the activities of  Mark Block. AFP investigating Mark Block?  Now that’s hilarious!

The Republicans who lead the Wisconsin Assembly have been arresting anyone in the gallery of the Assembly who demonstrates anything like free speech.  They arrest people with cameras, and they arrest people with signs, and they are even arresting people with small sheets of paper.  According to the Republicans of the…

At least not according to Citizens for Tax Justice and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy who surveyed 280 multi-billion-dollar companies and found the effective tax rate averaged 18.5%, not the 35% statutory rate the TeaOP are so fond of quoting.  Sorry, Paul.  Wrong again.

100,000 or more Occupy Oakland marchers on the move!

The latest “special jobs session” where the Governor promised a “laser focus on jobs” which ended last night produced a total of 0.0 bills pertaining to jobs. Instead they took up such important bills as these: * Students Test Scores can now be used to fire and discipline teachers. *…