The good news is Congress passed the $1.15 trillion spending bill that will keep the government from shutting down next week. How they did it is the bad news. First of all, it includes $620 billion in tax breaks, which will make our deficit worse. The really bad news is that new Speaker of the […]
More bad news from Conservative Utopia. And in an ironic way it is too bad that Wisconsin governor Scott Walker quit his run for the presidency, or else this story would be getting more attention. Part of why Walker never got any traction in his presidential bid is that his state’s economy has gone into […]
Price of life-saving drug Daraprim before Martin Shkreli’s company bought the rights to it: $18. Price to which he raised it: $750 per pill. Image of Shkreli being led off in handcuffs after being arrested for securities and wire fraud: Priceless.
© Tom Tomorrow Transgendered liberal activist? Video of a living fetus being debrained? Pyramids are really grain silos? Unfortunately, I think Republicans have gone way beyond quantum mechanics and into quantum fantasy, where Republicans can believe multiple contradictory things at the same time, and people are losers just because someone said they are.
Here’s an interesting website. You type in the name of a town (any town in the US, like your hometown) and they will tell you (based on political donations made by people who live there), how liberal or conservative it is. The scale goes from +10L for liberal, to zero, to +10C for conservative. Can […]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel was just named Person of the Year by both Time magazine and the Financial Times newspaper. The refugee policy she put in place has received praise from all over the world. So it surprised me when Merkel gave a speech on Monday calling multiculturalism a sham and a failure. I live […]
On Saturday night in Paris, the nations of the world, rich and poor alike, signed a historic agreement to fight climate change. It may not be perfect, but it is better than almost anyone expected. Many parts of it are legally binding. What a change from the Copenhagen talks in 2009, which collapsed in chaos.
© Nick Anderson The artist known as Banksy just unveiled a painting in the refugee camp in Calais, France, depicting Steve Jobs as a Syrian refugee. The elusive artist released a rare statement to go along with the mural: We’re often led to believe migration is a drain on the country’s resources but Steve Jobs […]
Conservatives say that because owning a gun is a protected right we should not restrict their sale in any way, no matter how much that restriction makes sense. Keep loopholes in background tests so that terrorists and the criminally insane can easily buy guns? Of course! On the other hand, even though the Supreme Court […]
Republicans like to think of themselves as the party of Reagan, but it is interesting to consider how if Reagan were a politician today he would almost certainly be branded a RINO, and voted out by the Tea Party know nothings. After all, Reagan passed strong gun control legislation, raised taxes, and gave amnesty to […]
Yet another benefit from Obamacare. One of the lesser known features of the ACA was new guidelines and rules to try to reduce “hospital acquired conditions” – things like patients receiving the wrong medication, or improper sterilization leading to infections. The new law has helped. According to a new report from the Agency for Healthcare […]
But if I can’t scare the shit out of you, I might not get elected… copy; Keith Knight
I’ve posted in the past about how efforts to create the conservative Republican utopia have failed miserably – first in Kansas under governor Sam Brownback and then in Wisconsin under Scott Walker. I’ve also posted about how when progressive Democrats took over in California under Jerry Brown and the economy improved dramatically. Could that have […]
© Tom Tomorrow How can anyone, no matter how right-wing nutty, who witnesses the winter season of every year, believe for a second that there is any kind of war on Christmas here? Personally, I don’t like what the Christmas holiday has become in this country. And yet, my wife somehow got me to dress […]
Last week, the New York Times ran an opinion piece headlined “Anyone but Ted Cruz“. It is widely known that Cruz is utterly despised in Congress. Maybe it is because of things he has done, like when “He likened Senate Republicans who recognized the impossibility of defunding Obamacare to Nazi appeasers.” Cruz tries to spin […]
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