Fun With Infographics (STILL Worst Preznit EVA)
by matttbastard Michael Tomasky: The Boston Globe ran a chart last Sunday that I’d buy billboard space to reproduce in every decent-size city in America, if I were running the…
by matttbastard Michael Tomasky: The Boston Globe ran a chart last Sunday that I’d buy billboard space to reproduce in every decent-size city in America, if I were running the…
A great read today on Barack Obama's presidency given the events of this week, "What Happened to Obama?" It's by Drew Westen, professor and author of the acclaimed book "The…
This New York Times poll is interesting. It shows that despite the media onslaught and the lies pumped out by the Republicans, nearly two-thirds of Americans believe that creating jobs…
by matttbastard The pullquote from one of David Frum’s latest eviscerations of contemporary USian conservative folly, a meditative riff on Susan Sontag’s infamous “Were our enemies right?” speech, was making…
It must have been pretty weak pixie dust, that debt ceiling agreement that was supposed to stave off imminent collapse, put America on a sound economic footing and bring sunshine…
Today's New York Times editorial isn't pulling any punches about Obama's debt ceiling deal, calling it precisely what it is - a capitulation....The deal would avert a catastrophic government default,…
...and I don't mean sodomy in the fun frolicky sense of the world. What I mean is that they've agree that the deficit will not be "fixed" by raising taxes…
I read this with sad recognition:In other words: it makes no difference to us how much we stomp on liberals' beliefs or how much they squawk, because we'll just wave…
When we listened to his stirring speeches on the campaign trail, Barack Obama sounded genuinely progressive. Then he won the presidency and got down to business - Wall Street business.In…
Ronald Reagan incurred more debt than all previous presidents combined, and was forced to raise the debt ceiling 17 times. No trumpets blared.George H.W. Bush, inherited this massive debt and…
Tea Party Republicans: ready to go all the way Republican House Speaker John Boehner must be wondering at this moment what to do with his rather large embarrassment of riches…
Remember how Obama said all that stuff about the importance of whistleblowers to keep government honest? Yeah, well, you might want to ask Bradley Manning the punchline to that particular…
Hate to say it folks but there's about a snowball's chance in hell that the world won't have returned to recession by the end of this year. There are many…
Well, I’m back from my vacation abroad, so let’s start up again with some short, but welcome news! New York officially started issuing same-sex marriage licenses yesterday, just days after…
Although the debt ceiling crisis playing out in Washington is an American concern, it is an issue with huge ramifications here in Canada and across the world. American historian Bernard…
The following cartoon says it all. What more will Repugs ask of him?
It's gone, surgically removed by specialists from the Republican congressional ranks. Now Obama has lost all chance of ever being able not to roll over on command.Elizabeth Warren is out.…
There's a fairly decent chance that the morons who run the American Empire will let the country slip into default at the beginning of August, causing a cascade of penalties…
When I posted on why Jack Layton should drop the "brothers and sisters" socialist talk if he hoped to survive the next four years, I received several comments and many…