Posted on February 6th, 2010 by Scott Nance
Two decades ago, he played a funny character named Stuart Smalley on NBC’s Saturday Night Live. Today, he’s a U.S. senator and Al Franken sees nothing to laugh about his former employer’s plan to merge with Comcast.
The Senate Judiciary Committee this week began looking into the announced plan of cable titan Comcast’s plan to merge with [...]
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Filed under: In The News
Posted on February 4th, 2009 by Stuart O'Neill
As Pamela’s post below predicted, President Obama made a detailed statement today. Unlike any effort made previously, the President outlines some of his new package and make a direct effort to limit executive pay, perks and golden parachutes. He says, “We’re taking the air out of golden parachutes.”
It is a dramatic moment in [...]
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Filed under: Bush Admin, Congress, Consumers, Credit Crisis, Economy, MSNBC, Small Business, Stuart O'Neill, Wall Street
Posted on October 10th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
It’s official…. “A legislative investigation” in Alaska “has concluded that Gov. Sarah Palin abused her power in pushing for the firing of an Alaska state trooper who was once married to her sister, or by failing to prevent her husband Todd from doing so.”
The report by investigator Steve Branchflower was made public late this afternoon [...]
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Filed under: Conservatives, Corruption, DNC, Democrats, Election '08, Gov. Sarah Palin, In The News, John McCain '08, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Political Parties, Politics, Presidential Election, Republicans
Posted on August 16th, 2008 by Darrell Prows
Paraguay just had an election. The “leftist” won.
The whole problem with allowing poor countries to have real elections is that it’s guaranteed that there will be a candidate to run the country who talks about using national resources to benefit the national population. Well, if you let people vote for things that are in their [...]
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Filed under: Bush Admin, Darrell Prows, In The News, International, Political News, Politics, World News
Posted on October 2nd, 2007 by Stuart O'Neill
So if they understand the importance of the Blogsphere and The Social Networking Sphere why aren’t they supporting, in return, the very medium that gives them, essentially, a free unlimited forum?
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Filed under: Bloggers, Congress, Election '08, House of Reps, News Media, Politics, Senate
Posted on May 29th, 2007 by Robert Stein
After a humiliating retreat on Iraq funding and with abysmal approval ratings, Congressional Democrats go back to work for a war of attrition with the White House this summer.
Whatever else they do, Democrats should press Sen. Byrd’s effort to overturn the 2002 resolution that sanctioned the invasion of Iraq–for more reasons than one.
Strategically, if they [...]
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Filed under: Congress, Election '08, Iraq, Republicans
Posted on May 2nd, 2006 by Nick
Let’s face it folks, no matter how much we care for our neighbors if we’re gonna vote for a candidate, there’s gotta be at least something in it for us. I’ve written before how folks making less than $50,000 a year voted for Kerry 55%-44%-and how Kerry won the under 50K crowd in as [...]
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Filed under: Economy, Politics
