Posts Tagged ‘keith-ellison’

That hopey changey thing, debt ceiling edition

January 18th, 2013 | No Comments

Once again, I can agree with President Obama on something: “The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from [...]

Prejudice in the name of human rights

June 7th, 2011 | No Comments

Every week opensecrets.org highlights some group.  This week, in honor of President Obama declaring this month “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month”, opensecrets targeted the Human Rights Campaign: Among them. the Human Rights Campaign, which was founded in 1980 and boasts more than 1 million grassroots supporters, has some of the deepest pockets. During [...]

Armenia: Sacrificing the future to dwell on the past

March 5th, 2010 | No Comments

“Two years ago, I criticized the Secretary of State for the firing of U.S. Ambassador to Armenia, John Evans, after he properly used the term ‘genocide’ to describe Turkey’s slaughter of thousands of Armenians starting in 1915. … as President I will recognize the Armenian Genocide.” Sounds simple enough.  Sounds nice enough.  Only problem is [...]

Congress goes where no Congress has gone before

September 15th, 2009 | 2 Comments

It’s reached an all-time low. The House of Representatives, on the heels of an impassioned and lively debate, voted Tuesday to formally admonish Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., for accusing the president of lying during a joint session of Congress a week ago. The vote was 240-179. Five lawmakers voted “present.” Here’s what they voted on: [...]

Fannie Mae is now an entitlement program

May 11th, 2009 | No Comments

A lot has been made over the collapse of Fannie Mae.  For a while, peeps kept insisting it was apparently a short term blip and that a huge infusion of cash would apparently make everything good.    Other peeps, like me and a few others, have argued that unless they change the rules and allow [...]

Eliot Spitzer, Hillary Clinton, a debate, and eight terrorists

November 2nd, 2007 | No Comments

Mark Finkelstein on Newsbusters asked a rather useless question: Eight 9-11 Hijackers Were Registered to Vote: Will MSM ‘Drive’ Story? As he points out immediately, this story’s not new.  In fact, it came out almost immediately after the 9/11 hijackers were identified.  Now, I’m going to make a rather mundane mathematical point here.  This is [...]

The contempt of the Out of Iraq Judiciary Committee

July 25th, 2007 | 1 Comment

In the news today is how the House Judiciary Committee issued contempt charges for Josh Bolten and Harriet Miers. Two former advisers to President Bush. I don’t really like “committee” actions. I like to know WHO that committee is. WHO it is doing it. Well, here’s the Democrat members of that committee since I will [...]