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I found this at Firedoglake, and thought it was a great take on how the hundreds of millions spent by lobbyists trying to influence legislators in order to maintain the status quo could have been put to much better use:"In an article at CNN.com we learn how much money is being spent in an attempt to prevent real health care reform:"The health care sector has spent $263 million this year lobbying Congress for changes to...

Your humble blogger has always been a staunch advocate of the death penalty.  In my opinion, if you purposely take life, you forfeit your right to live.  Period.  Under our law, if you choose to kill, you choose to die.  I still believe that. Recently, there has been some controversy regarding Texas Governor Rick Perry and his sudden removal of four of his own appointees from a panel commissioned by the state legislature to report on the...

Ladies and gentlemen, may I present to you the 45th president of the United States. I'm not sure when the election took place (silly me, I thought the ballot read Obama/Biden, my bad) but this is now the most powerful person in Washington, D.C.:Don't believe it? Who was the person former President Obama singled out for praise the day the Senate Finance Committee passed its version of health care reform? Olympia Snowe: "I want to...

The Republican National Committee launched its new website, GOP.com, yesterday. It was an inauspicious beginning, to say the least, but typical of the modern-day GOP. Administrative passwords were exposed, the "Future Leaders" page was initially blank but later changed to "You," Michael Steele's blog originally titled "What Up" was amended to read "Change the Game," (I thought "change" was a bad word) and when the RNC hosted a kick-off conference call the website was down....

All you need to know about why the deck is stacked against us in the battle for health care reform. From Bill Moyers via Crooks and Liars:"Take a close look at that woman sitting behind Montana Senator Max Baucus. He's the Democrat who's the Chairman of the Finance Committee. Liz Fowler is her name. And now get this. She used to work for WellPoint, the largest health insurer in the country. She was Vice President...

There is spin on everything these days, so why not political correctness. As I come to find out, political correctness is not really about what we should call certain segments of the population, Political correctness is really about how we discuss politics in certain circles. Those trends change as those circles change. A large part of us moving forward as a nation is being able to move beyond socially accepted norms. One can determine this...

For some inexplicable reason, Sen. John McCain was a guest on one of the Sunday news shows again yesterday, this time CNN's State of the Union. As Steve Benen at Washington Monthly points out:"For those keeping score, this will be McCain's 14th Sunday morning appearance since President Obama's inauguration in January. That's 38 Sundays, for an average of a McCain appearance every 2.7 weeks...Not bad for a senator in the minority, who isn't in the...

From Balloon Juice:I know it's shooting moose in a barrel, but anyway:Copyright © 2009 Creators SyndicateCopyright © 2009 Creators SyndicateHappy rainy, dreary, non-golfing, football-watching, Sunday....

I hate to have to do this, but I have to come at an issue from the opponents point of view. As Desperado told you this morning, President Obama won the Nobel Peace prize. Don't get me wrong, I am generally behind Obama's efforts to use diplomacy more than the way of the gun. I think he has had some achievements in his short time, but most of them are on the level of promise...

Fasten your seat belts, my fellow Hurricaners. Expect to see the mother of all hissy fits unleashed today on talk radio and Fox News, President Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize: OSLO -- In a stunning surprise, the Nobel Committee announced Friday that it had awarded its annual peace prize to President Obama "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.""He has created a new international climate," the committee said...