July 2010 Archives

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) made headlines recently by declaring that Reagan wouldn't be electable in today's Republican Party. He's right. Senator Graham points out that that the Tea Party wishes to take their country back, but when asked what they'll do with it when they get it, have no ideas. No solutions. Nothing but blank stares and silence. This contradicts the image of Saint Ronald Reagan, the Messiah of the Republican Party. Even those...

What a difference 5 years (and a Democratic president) makes when it comes to Supreme Court nominees. Orrin Hatch today: "Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) announced Friday that he will vote against the confirmation of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. The Utah Republican voted to confirm Kagan as solicitor general, but suggested in a statement that she would put her personal views ahead of the law if confirmed to the court. "The law must control the...

Yesterday, Bob Dudley, BP director and new CEO of BP's new Gulf Coast Restoration Organization, sat for a live online interview with Ray Suarez of PBS.  He didn't give much new information, and, even though he is a much better public face than Tony Hayward, based on his answers, it is brutally apparent that BP was totally unprepared for a disaster of this scale and remains completely overwhelmed.  Throughout the interview, Dudley continued to say...

Authors Note: It has been more than three weeks since I have posted. On the positive side, this means I finished the rough draft of my manuscript. Of course, anyone familiar with the writing process knows this is just the beginning. I took a break to clear my head and to allow tempers to die down from my last post. I have said so privately to some, but I say so publicly to everyone else...

We are all in oil spill overload as this catastrophe drags into its 73rd day with thousands of barrels of oil roaring into the Gulf as the relief wells inch towards stopping this monster and BP limps along with its woefully inadequate containment and surface cleanup efforts.  After 2 months of Tony Hayward's bumbling public appearances, capped off by his taking the Fifth without taking the Fifth on Capitol Hill, BP finally woke up and...

In an interview with Nevada journalist Jon Ralston, Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, Sharron Angle, was asked to defend a 1995 statement in which she said, "the tenet of the separation of church and state is an unconstitutional doctrine." Angle's response was that "Thomas Jefferson has been misquoted...out of context." Watch:<br />OK, here's Thomas Jefferson in context, from his often-quoted letter to the Danbury Baptists:"Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies...