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The Curious Case of Timothy Tebow

December 28, 2011

Nestled in a strange nexus between sports, pop culture, politics, and religion one finds a debate raging about Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow that, like all things regarding the quarterback, has been overhyped and blown out of proportion. It seems the issue at hand isn’t Tebow’s style of play – though that has assuredly been atrocious at […]

Politics and #OWS on Facebook

October 27, 2011

Yesterday I read a 60-comment debate on Facebook about the Occupy Wall Street protests. Actually calling it a debate would be rather generous – it was mostly “teabagger” this and “Fox News that.” The whole thing was started with a someone posting a panel of Captain America saying to stand your ground and captioning the […]

Snookered: Budget deal only really cuts $14.7B

April 12, 2011

Grumbling has grown over the tiny nature of cuts reached in the recent deal to avoid a government shutdown. It’s sure to gain even more intensity after analysis shows that a lot of the cuts were accounting tricks and on programs that the President wanted to cut anyway. The upsetting bottom line – if you’re […]

Tea Party signs lead to MI park ban

April 11, 2011

The city of Coldwater, MI finds itself the subject of a federal lawsuit after its city manager, Jeff Budd, found Tea Party signs “too political” and “too controversial” and banned all signs and banners as a result. The complaint (found here) was filed by the Thomas More Law Center on behalf of the Common Sense Patriots […]

Gov’t shutdown thwarted by last-minute deal

April 8, 2011

As the minutes ticked closer to a partial government shutdown at midnight on Friday, Congressional negotiators were continuing to work to get a deal. With little more than an hour to go, it appears that a compromise has been struck, resulting in $39 billion in cuts for FY 2011 and a deal to vote on […]

Left gets punked in WI judicial election

April 7, 2011

After all the spectacle and ugliness surrounding the Wisconsin collective bargaining battle, the left transferred their rage over being stymied by Gov. Scott Walker toward a judicial election over a spot on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Incumbent David Prosser, who leans conservative, was being challenged by JoAnne Kloppenburg, the Democrats’ choice. The stakes are control of […]

Ohio House passes Senate Bill 5

March 30, 2011

Another hurdle was surmounted in the saga of the controversial Ohio Senate Bill 5 as the Ohio House passed a modified version of the public employee union reform bill that passed the Ohio Senate a few weeks ago. The Senate now has to vote on the changes, and it’s widely expected to pass there without too […]

Former Rep. Tony Hall leading anti-budget cut fast

March 28, 2011

A former local Congressman is coming back into the spotlight with his method of protesting proposed Republican spending cuts. After representing Dayton and Ohio’s 3rd Congressional District for 22 years, former Rep. Tony Hall is leading several anti-hunger organizations in a fast that begins tomorrow to register his anger at budget cuts that target foreign […]

Dems benefit more from big donors of the last 20 years

March 27, 2011

Open Secrets, studying FEC data, has compiled a list of the top 140 donors since 1989, and the rundown should serve as a quick rejoinder to anyone who claims that money in politics unfairly helps the GOP. Of the top 25 biggest donors, sixteen of them contribute heavily to Democratic candidates, five contribute fairly equally to […]

VA federal judge rules Obamacare mandate unconstitutional

December 13, 2010

Opponents of the health care reform bill signed into law this past spring got a big boost from Virginia federal judge Henry Hudson today, who ruled that the mandate requiring individuals to buy health insurance is unconstitutional: U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson wrote that no court had expanded the Commerce Clause of the Constitution […]

DREAM Act tabled, Don’t Ask Don’t Tell defeated in Senate

December 9, 2010

The Senate saw some key votes today as Senate Democrats conceded they didn’t have the necessary votes to pass the DREAM Act, and tabled it until after the tax hike debate is completed. Harry Reid will try next week to push through the House version that narrowly passed yesterday, but finding 60 Senators will remain […]

Bloomberg preps 2012 run with speech on economy

December 8, 2010

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, coyly toying with the notion of mounting an independent bid for the White House in 2012, seemed to be making national policy statements in a speech today, offering a “middle way” out of our economic problems while repeating the pox-on-both-houses (can we stop using this cliché now anytime soon, […]

DREAM Act passes House

December 8, 2010

The lame duck session has seen Democrats attempt to bring as much of their agenda to vote before they lose their House majority in January. The DREAM Act, which purports to grant conditional legal status to illegal alien children, is a pet project of Senator Harry Reid, who recently brought four versions of it to […]

Obamacare waivers now up to 222

December 7, 2010

As further evidence of what a deeply flawed health care reform bill Congress passed in March, news comes today of a sharp increase in the number of waivers granted to companies looking to stave off having to implement some of its measures next year. Jamie Dupree of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that the number of […]

Smell the bipartisanship: Obama calls GOP “hostage-takers”

December 7, 2010

In a defensive press conference this afternoon, President Obama huffed and puffed about somehow being forced into compromising with Republicans on the expiration of the Bush tax cuts, trying to sell the deal to a liberal base that has exploded in rage over his flip-flop on vowing to raise the top tax rates. Trying to […]