Advice for Sen. Hillary Clinton: Don’t make promises you can’t (won’t? forgot to?) keep. Sen. Clinton, who now doubles as a presidential candidate, showed up four years ago in Buffalo, N.Y., in my back yard bringing with her a company that promised it might create up to 100 news jobs. New York state has “lost […]
Archive | September 22, 2007
Obama tsks-tsks Wall Street about guile and greed
Presidential candidate and senator Barack Obama said something earlier this week worth noting — and the audience he said it to as well. Sen. Obama stood before a sea of Wall Street executives at Nasdaq headquarters and told them to behave: Our free market was never meant to be a free license to take whatever […]
Life's tough: A billion dollars gets no respect
If I had a net worth of one billion dollars today, I’d be depressed. What’s the use of having all that moolah if I can’t lord it over mere mortals by adding fame to that forturne? But I only have one billion dollars. And folks, that’s no longer enough to get me on the Forbes […]
The latest from Jena – Bell to remain in jail….
The massive demonstration in Jena on Thursday against the unfair treatment of the black students known as the Jena 6 hasn’t had the effect that perhaps the protesters wanted. Mychal Bell, the sole member of the group still in custody, will remain so said Judge J.P. Mauffray, Jr. yesterday. Citing Bell’s prior criminal record (a […]
Saturday Video Roundup: smack my sad Peanuts up
In last week’s Saturday Video Roundup we looked at some of the greatest music vids ever. Today we’re paying tribute to some of history’s more wonderful videos, although these are memorable for … different reasons. Let’s begin with one of the more sublimely disturbing moments in vid history, shall we?
S&R Honors
Click here to learn more about past honorees...- IRS/Tea Party controversy: progressive groups “targeted,” too, and corporate media once again refuses to tell Americans the whole truth
- “Useful Enemies”: U.S. admitted not just Nazis after WWII, but their sadistic collaborators
- The time a source has to respond to request for comment? Virtually none.
- Profiling the Tea Party: In defense of the IRS. Sorta. Or not.
- Saturday Video Roundup: “Imagine the Band,” by John Lennon and Wings
- Mystery Unraveled: How a white, moderate, married, churchgoing, middle-class, middle-aged woman could vote for Obama
- An open letter to Burt Rutan, regarding his WSJ commentary on human-caused climate disruption
- Meet the men of Match.com: Really, guys, are you serious?
- Climate scientists still besieged
- Pelosi on Bush: “He’s not worth impeaching”
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Bret Higgins: Slightly confused - You say one third of the 471 g…
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