From a reader at Talking Points Memo: But here’s what’s really interesting. Obama’s proposals would raise his own taxes by hundreds of thousands of dollars, in order to cut the taxes of people who are less fortunate than he is. McCain would cut his own taxes even further than they’ve already been reduced. And that’s […]
Josh Marshall makes a great point about our elevation of the “Commander-in-Chief” role of the President: We need to re-familiarize ourselves with the fact that the point of the constitution’s explicitly giving the president the title of commander-in-chief was not to make him into a quasi-military figure. It was precisely the opposite — to create […]
John McCain recently weighed in on the Supreme Court Gitmo decision regarding Habeas Corpus saying: We are now going to have the courts flooded with so-called, quote, Habeas Corpus suits against the government, whether it be about the diet, whether it be about the reading material. And we are going to be bollixed up in […]
Writing an application for the Mac has been a longtime goal of mine. I’m happy to say that I can finally check that goal off of my list: Presenting DomainBrain 1.0. DomainBrain is a handy tool for Mac OS X that helps webmasters and web designers keep track of server and login information for websites […]
My webhost tells me that my blog has been causing some bogginess with my database as a result of some slow queries. I think the queries are ones dealing with comment spam, so I’ve closed the comments on a bunch of older posts to try to alleviate the problem a bit. Next, I need to […]
An article by Cliff Kincaid on the Global Poverty Act has been getting mentioned quite a bit lately. The bill was passed in the House and is currently sponsored in the Senate by Barack Obama. According to Kincaid, this legislation would plunge the U.S. into an era of unprecedented economic despair and destruction at the […]
The Pulpit Forum, a group of local, predominantly black ministers, is having a press conference today. Joe Guarino is attepting to paint it as a violation of the separation of Church and State, despite the fact that there has been no religious content to anything they’ve presented yet. The gist of Joe’s argument (but be […]
Republican lawmakers are having fits over the terrorist surveillance bill that the Democratic-led House allowed to expire. Will the evildoers run amok now, thanks to the bill’s expiration? Not exactly. Ed Brayton sums it up nicely: [T]he law now reverts to the old FISA statute and the Patriot Act amendments to that statute. … It […]
Rush Limbaugh dazzles us with his fifth level thinking: “If I really wanted to torpedo McCain, I would endorse him,” Limbaugh said on his radio show. “Because that would send the independents and liberals who are going to vote for him running away faster than anything.” “What people don’t realize is that I am doing […]
