Amanpour Corrects Bachmann on Iran

Michele Bachmann’s grasp or understanding of international politics has at times been rather puzzling, and perhaps also, archaic. The Republican presidential candidate appeared last Sunday on ABC’s This Week with Christiane Amanpour. During the interview, Bachmann discussed Middle East issues, and she said this on Iran: “Iran has also stated they would be willing to [...]

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Happy Milestone Birthday, Mr President

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Midterm Election Results: LOL

 

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Musings in October: The Millionaire Senator

It’s millionaires galore in the US Senate. A new Roll Call analysis found that more than half of the chamber’s membership, 54 Senators, reported a minimum net worth of more than $1 million. Another four Senators fell short of that mark by less than $100,000. Hmm…one wonders if they can really understand the daily journey [...]

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Hypocrisy, Thy Name is Politics

One can’t be blamed for having this thought after reading about some of the candidates in the coming midterm elections. Joe Miller, the Republican US Senate candidate from Alaska is a conservative who runs on a platform of slashing federal government handouts. He also wants to phase out Medicare and Social Security. But it has [...]

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The Sherrod Case: Where Were the Communications Professionals?

Much has been written and said about the Shirley Sherrod saga where this Agriculture Department official was forced to resign based on a heavily edited and misleading video by a conservative blogger. The video purported to show racist remarks by Sherrod. One of the questions raised in the media was: why was the National Association [...]

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Name Calling the President

Senator Jake Knotts seems to enjoy labeling people in a most distasteful way. The  South Carolina state senator called a Republican gubernatorial candidate of Indian descent a “raghead”, on a political talk show. Then he went on to refer to Obama: “We’ve already got a raghead in the White House, we don’t need another raghead [...]

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Obama’s State of the Union: Best Quotes

President Obama delivered his State of the Union address Wednesday night. Here are among the words that stood out for me: “And if the Republican leadership is going to insist that sixty votes in the Senate are required to do any business at all in this town, then the responsibility to govern is now yours [...]

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Best Halloween Cartoon

This is brilliant. It’s hilarious, current and spot-on. Happy Halloween. At least candy is still an affordable treat.

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