Moonage Political Webdream

Here’s the story:
A week after the SEC enacted a temporary ban on naked short selling, Commissioner Paul Atkins joined FOX Business to talk about its effectiveness.
“I think the jury is still out,” Atkins said of the ban that expires tomorrow. He also said the SEC would report its findings on the ban later today.
It has been [...]

That’s the teaser on CNN.  Here’s some of the meat:
A Democratic point man on the budget, Sen. Kent Conrad of North Dakota, blasted the administration for its “reckless fiscal policies,” blaming the president’s tax cuts for driving the government into deficit and saying Bush “will be remembered as the most fiscally irresponsible president in our [...]

Scott Ott has been one of my favorite authors for quite some time.  Here is yet another reason why:
…..Sen. Obama, a man who aspires to be our commander in chief, tells us that a nation called Afghanistan is where this threat dwells. Yet, he says, it does not dwell in Iraq. He tells us we [...]

An interesting case is developing in Iowa. Seems the local sheriff’s niece decided to get naked at an art facility. Problem is she was 17 at the time. So, the director got into a lot of trouble. His defense is that dancing naked in Iowa is not legal. Nevertheless a minor doing it. So, they [...]

Apparently the 20% or so that haven’t decided on either McCain or Obama are getting desperate.  A friend just filled me in on a big secret:

Ya know, I might just ride along for this one and see what happens!

It’s one thing to go around shouting about how Nancy and Harry and the Democrat leadership are failing this country in a time of economic crisis.  Now, I’ll show you exactly how it works:
House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey abruptly shut down his committee indefinitely rather than allow Republicans to offer an amendment to open [...]

MSNBC did a fluff piece on a missing Obama “thesis” from 1984.  Although Jim Popkin does a decent job presenting several sides to the “controversy”, he does the unthinkable and lets an Obama critic get the last word in.
Now, up until the last word, this story, as with a lot of Obama stories, gets muddled [...]

That’s the headline on CNN.  The headline NOT on CNN is:
Unable to pay bills, London, Ky. YMCA closes
And, the reason they decided to give up?
Director Don Burgin said the London-Laurel County “Y” struggled with $6,000 monthly utility bills and its budget was further stretched by an increase in the minimum wage.
And of course, who do [...]

Congressman Peter King is kinda upset.
A month-long advertising campaign, to be run in New York on the subway cars, aimed at promoting Islam has generated controversy with an angry lawmaker sending a letter to the authorities asking them to stop the drive….
“I have no problem with the ad itself, but I have a very, very [...]

Apparently smarting from polls that put his Senate leadership in the single digits, Harry Reid decided to fight back starting with this letter to The Hill Blog:
When our country is in crisis, Congress must be ready to take immediate action. Democrats in Congress have tried to take action again and again. We have proposed both [...]