By Mr. Fish Related Entries October 29, 2010 Pack Your Trunk October 27, 2010 Everyone Looks a Little Bit Asian
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By Mike Luckovich Related Entries October 29, 2010 Pack Your Trunk October 27, 2010 Everyone Looks a Little Bit Asian
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By Eugene Robinson The first African-American president takes office, and almost immediately we see the birth of an overwhelmingly white national movement that tries its best to delegitimize that president. Coincidence? [Above, an anti-Obama poster.] Related Entries October 29, 2010 Pack Your Trunk October 27, 2010 Everyone Looks a Little Bit Asian
Continue reading …For newly empowered congressional Republicans, priority one must be an extension of the Bush tax cuts. There should be enough votes not only from a new Republican majority, but also from some of the decimated and dispirited (and even newly elected) Democrats. If President Obama is smart, he won't veto the bill. If the tax cuts are allowed to expire, everyone who gets a paycheck and has taxes withheld is going to see less money in the “net” column starting January 1. Bloomberg.com has published some calculations. It reports that, according to the Tax Institute at H&R Block, “for a married couple earning $80,000 a year, increased taxes would drain $221.48 in withholding from a semi-monthly paycheck. Married individuals earning $240,000 a year” (just under the $250,000 standard President Obama defines as “rich”) “would lose $557.78 to withholding in a single semi-monthly paycheck.” Double these figures for a month and multiply by 12 and you quickly see the additional drain on the economy at a time of anemic 2 percent growth. read more
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Catholic groups are less than thrilled at the prospect that Uncle Sam might get into the contraception business. Nonetheless, a panel set to convene this month could decide that preventing unwanted pregnancies qualifies as the kind of complementary preventative care for women required by Obamacare. AP via SFGate: Fifty years after the pill, another birth control revolution may be on the horizon: free contraception for women in the United States, thanks to the new health care law. A panel of experts advising the government meets this month to begin considering what kind of preventive care for women should be covered at no cost to the patient, as required under President Obama’s overhaul. Sen. Barbara Mikulski, the Democrat who is author of the women’s health amendment, says the clear intent was to include family planning. Read more Related Entries November 1, 2010 The World Is Safer Without a Republican House October 31, 2010 The Phantom Left
Continue reading …A Week Late, NBC Nightly News Reports Obama’s ‘Punish Our Enemies’ Crack
November 2, 2010 No Comment
After a week of silence, NBC Nightly News finally mentioned that President Obama, in an interview with Univision Radio last Monday, October 25, encouraged Hispanic voters to not sit out the election, but say “we’re gonna punish our enemies and we’re gonna reward our friends who stand with us.” But correspondent Savannah Guthrie failed to see that as a divisive and unpresidential statement that had been burning up conservative talk radio for the past week, but merely as a “potential attack” that Obama was trying to “head off” by now “saying he should have used a different word.” read more
Continue reading …Keith Olbermann Falsely Claims He Never Called ‘Cocky’ a Racist ‘Code Word’
November 2, 2010 No Comment
Sometimes Keith Olbermann struggles with reality. But he's apparently found a solution: insist that 2+2=5 and hammer with insults anyone who says otherwise. That was his strategy today when he flatly denied he had ever claimed that “cocky” was a “code word” for various racist attacks against President Barack Obama. Shown video of him saying just that, he denied it some more, and then started in with the attacks. In awarding six conservative pundits the coveted “Worst Person in the World” title in January, Olbermann said the following: read more
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As the final hours run out for two big races in California, some sleuthy types over at The Wrap have discovered that the rare species known as the Hollywood conservative is apparently not doling out the big bucks to help either Carly Fiorina or Meg Whitman win at the polls. Related Entries November 1, 2010 The World Is Safer Without a Republican House October 31, 2010 GOP Ideas
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By Juan Cole A Republican victory has the potential to keep the U.S. in Iraq and Afghanistan, derail the beleaguered peace process and worsen U.S. security. Related Entries November 1, 2010 The World Is Safer Without a Republican House October 31, 2010 GOP Ideas
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One of the more egregious results of the Democrat-controlled Congress skipping town without passing a budget, thus failing to address the issue of whether scheduled income tax increases will really go into effect for everyone, the highest income-earners, or no one at all, is that the Internal Revenue Service and employers have been left in the lurch with no idea of how to prepare for next year. As I understand it, at a minimum this is the first time in a very long time that something like this has occurred, and it may be unprecedented. The issue is getting a half-decent amount of play in the business press , but as a general news item, it's going almost nowhere, even though some employers are already telling employees they will have to withhold more starting on January 1, 2011 if no action is taken in Washington. At the Associated Press's main web site, the one story about the withholding issue written by Andrew Taylor that went up early this morning plays a shady game of “Y'know, it really won't be all that bad if the increases are only in effect during the early part of next year.” See if you can detect what I'm referring to in the following excerpt: read more
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