"The Government should not keep information confidential merely because public officials might be embarrassed by disclosure, because errors and failures might be revealed, or because of speculative or abstract fears." President Barack Obama January 21, 2009 Sunday afternoon, Professor David Cole from Georgetown Law School hosted a book salon on FDL on his collection of […]
From Fox News Sunday: CHRIS WALLACE: Do you agree with the widespread analysis that the Nobel Committee was sending a repudiation of the Bush-Cheney policies? LIZ CHENEY: Well, I think what the committee believes is they’d like to live in a world in which America is not dominant. And I think if you look at […]
I want to be able to "spin" this data, turn it into something other than what it is. I want to divide the total numbers by the number of television watching adults in America and prove that only a small number of people watch television news programs at these times. Everyone else has more sense, […]
In Today’s Viral World, Who Keeps a Civil Tongue? Washington Post By Ann Gerhart October 11, 2009 Late last month, Charisse Carney-Nunes fired up the computer at her home in Northeast Washington to check her e-mail. Her brain already was on morning drive time: breakfast for the kids, her day’s work at a government agency. […]
If the health care reform debate were about health care or the crisis in the delivery of heath care in America, it might be interesting, something to keep up with in the news. Americans might sit down at the diner and talk about the choices available and their relative merits. The guy across the table […]
Health-Care Bill May Not Get Single GOP Vote in the House Washington Post By Ben Pershing October 10, 2009 The House is inching closer to voting on a comprehensive health-care bill, even as the chamber appears so divided that the measure may not attract a single Republican supporter. The final vote, likely in late October, […]
It pours out in a steady stream, every day. And we are used to it. But, if you think about it for a moment, it’s a travesty that this man has a public place to blather. And the Republicans? Last week the cheered when Chicago didn’t get the Olympics. Today they made affirmative action jokes […]
Watching the Presidents cycle through various income tax schemes, sometimes it looks like we’re evolving – iterating towards some rational tax brackets. At other times, it looks something like a war between factions [see taxing thoughts… and more taxing thoughts…]. I think we’ve established that the extreme tax rates of FDR were a bit much, […]
Barack Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize New York Times By WALTER GIBBS and ALAN COWELL 10/09/2009 In a surprise move, the Nobel Committee honored President Obama less than a year after his election “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples”… Obama will say it’s a prize given to the American […]