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“Drop-as-you-go” Health Care Plan? »

By LisaB on May 7, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments

H/T to Linda Anselmi for links to Roll Call and Washington Examiner. Money/CNN and Fortune reports that some large companies (AT&T, Verizon and others) are looking to drop their employee health care plans because it will be cheaper to pay the penalties under the new health care “plan.” Internal documents recently reviewed by Fortune, originally [...]

13 Bankers and an American Oligarchy »

By LisaB on May 4, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments

The Weekly Standard has a very interesting article about reform in the banking industry. And despite the common perception that Republicans are the party of big money, the author, Christopher Caldwell, argues otherwise in a discussion of the new book 13 Bankers, by Simon Johnson and James Kwak. So every time the president accuses Republicans [...]

Where is the N-word Video? »

By LisaB on May 3, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments

Remember those US representatives who claimed the “n-word” was hurled at them by nasty, racist tea partiers while those representatives were innocently walking from the Capitol? You may also remember that Andrew Breitbart has offered $10,000 to anyone with digital evidence of this. So far, nothing has been found. But up at biggovernment.com is another [...]

In Space, Also-Ran Status for US »

By LisaB on May 3, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments

. . . the first man on Mars will probably be Chinese or Indian, not American. — Gwynne Dyer Obama’s defunding of NASA hasn’t gone unnoticed around the world. Japan Times has an interesting article about the likely outcome of Obama’s budget knife. Gwynne Dywer wrote the article. In the movies, all the spacemen are [...]

Why Doctors are Uneasy about US Health Care »

By LisaB on May 1, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments

Daniel Palestrant, MD, writing at Forbes, has a good piece on the health care bill. I’ve personally talked to five doctors, all in different specialties, and none like what they feel is likely to happen to them under the healthcare plan by BO. Well, in a nutshell, this is it: . . . How could [...]

Iran on UN Commission on the Status of Women. I. Kid. You. Not. »

By LisaB on Apr 30, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments

Iran has a seat on the UN Commission on the Status of Women. I. Kid. You. Not. From FoxNews: NEW YORK — Without fanfare, the United Nations this week elected Iran to its Commission on the Status of Women, handing a four-year seat on the influential human rights body to a theocratic state in which [...]

Tea Parties and South Park – Who Is Trying to Shut Them Up? »

By LisaB on Apr 26, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments

What do Tea Parties and the Comedy Central animated show “South Park” have in common? Enemies who’d like to shut them up. First, Mark Steyn has a great piece about tea parties. His latest is about all the hand-wringing and polls devoted to who tea partiers are and just how racist, classist, redneck or just [...]

AZ Needs Help, Not Bashing »

By LisaB on Apr 26, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments

Fifty three percent of likely Arizona voters are concerned that the state’s tough new law targeting illegal immigrants will also be used to violate the civil rights of United States citizens. The majority of them support it anyway. — Laurie Roberts If you are following the story from Arizona about its new immigration law, you [...]

96% of Political Class Views Tea Party Movement Unfavorably (Surprise) »

By LisaB on Apr 14, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments

Rasmussen has a new poll about the Tea Party. The findings suggest why democratic party hacks are fighting the movement tooth and nail. Twenty-four percent (24%) of U.S. voters now say they consider themselves a part of the Tea Party movement, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. That’s an eight-point increase from [...]

Dog Loses an Eye for Being “Racist” »

By LisaB on Apr 13, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments

I heard about this and had to look it up. A dog was slashed for being “racist.” YONKERS — A prejudiced pooch that reportedly disliked minorities was slashed last night by a black man who had grown tired of the dog’s incessant barking at him, police said.

That Terrorist in Your Family Tree, Southerners »

By LisaB on Apr 12, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments

Roland Martin at CNN has upped the ante on traditional US North / South divisions. He calls all Confederates terrorists. Apparently he didn’t like the email he got after his denunciation of Virginia governor McDonnell. First Martin goes through a long comparison of Muslim terrorists and Southern Confederates during the civil war.

Thwarted a Shoe-bomber and Now a Citizen »

By LisaB on Apr 12, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments

Remember the shoe bomber? Not the just-a-smoker from last week but the dude who really truly wanted to explode from the feet out? Richard Reid. If you don’t remember the story (ancient history and all that), passengers on the aircraft helped subdue Reid. One of them was a tourist named Kwame James. Well, James just [...]

Why is Dawn Johnson Out? »

By LisaB on Apr 11, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments

Salon’s Glenn Greenwald has an interesting piece on the now-scuttled nomination of Dawn Johnson to head WH office of legal counsel. Greenwald begins by saying Johnson was a good candidate, had Democratic support and could have been a recess appointment. Her withdrawal was a bit murky. Then Greenwald makes a guess. I don’t know the [...]

“Racist” Jumps the Shark »

By LisaB on Apr 7, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments

The issue of race in politics may have jumped the shark. Or at least is moving rapidly in that direction. Three articles caught my eye. In Commentary, Michael C. Moynihan revisits Frank Rich’s “tea-partiers-as-racist-scum” theme. But today, Moynihan notes the purity of anti-racists isn’t assured as some begin to “eat their own.” Yesterday [Rich] revisited [...]

When Tennessee = Nazi »

By LisaB on Mar 31, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments

As a native Tennessean, I learned early on, while attending a summer camp in the Midwest, that ignorant folks considered me a racist, white trash, and ignorant hick just because I was from a southern state and spoke different. This same prejudice resurfaced during the 2008 Presidential campaign, only this time you were a racist [...]

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