Archive for the ‘General Politics’ Category

Fox News: Fair and Loathing

August 23rd, 2010 by Jason Lightner
By now it's no secret that Fox News parent News Corporation had donated $1 million to the Republican Governor's Association in June. You wouldn't know it by reading the Fox wikipedia entry, however, as the blurb about it has allegedly been removed by Fox's "scrubbers."

According to Daily KOS:
"On the Fox News main page, someone put this inocuous little statement, heavily referenced, under the controversy section:

'In June 2010, News Corporation donated $1 million to the Republican Governors Association'

... Two FNC scrubbers were on the case and according to the history page

Primary Season 2010

August 16th, 2010 by Ronald A. Rowe
The 2010 Primaries are under way in some states and rapidly approaching in many others. There has been a lot of talk about the mid-term elections and what they mean for President Obama’s administration. But the mid-terms are still a few months off. First, each party has to select their candidates for that election. What can we learn from this mid-term primary season, half way through the first term of the Obama Administration?

• The anti-incumbency movement isn’t as mighty as once thought. There’s a huge theoretical groundswell against incumbents. There’s no doubt about it.

All Better Now?

August 9th, 2010 by Ronald A. Rowe
According to the Federal Government, whose official motto will soon be changed to "Trust Us, We Know Better Than You Do", the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is now just a fading memory.  An astounding 75% of the gazillions of gallons of oil that leaked into the Gulf has now been "collected, dispersed, or evaporated".  A full three-quarters of the messy, toxic goo has been taken care of already.  That amazing turnaround is just unbelievable.  And I mean that in the literal sense that I don't believe it.

Where are my skeptics?  Where are the conspiracy buffs

The Great Recession

June 28th, 2010 by Ronald A. Rowe
Max Baucus, a Democratic Senator from Montana, referred to our current economic climate as “the Great Recession” this week. To be fair to Baucus, he isn’t the first to use the term. But referring to our times as The Great Recession obviously and intentionally invokes the Great Depression. That got me to thinking: just how bad are things out there? Is it fair to start comparing our situation to the Great Depression?

Right now, unemployment is hovering around 10% nationwide. The worst of the worst are the states of Nevada and Michigan, coming in at

Helen Thomas

June 8th, 2010 by Ronald A. Rowe
Helen Thomas may finally be getting her comeuppance. The 274-year-old reporter who has covered every president since John Adams is as nasty and shrew-like as they get. Last week she told a rabbi – A RABBI – that the Jews should just “get the Hell out of Palestine”. Thomas picked the Jewish Heritage Month celebration at the White House as the appropriate venue to express her hateful and intolerant views to a religious leader.

I guess she’s gotten away with it for so long that she thinks she can just do whatever she wants with no consequences. She was allowed
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