Archive for the ‘Politics’Category

Oh Harry

To quote the current Senate majority leader, “Barack Obama could become the first African-American president because he was ‘light-skinned’ and because he did not speak with a ‘Negro’ dialect, unless he wanted to have one.” Obviously, the GOP is calling for him to resign;...

January 11th, 2010 | Politics | Read More

Top 10 of 2009

What a year it has been! A new President, increases in Afghanistan, recession, healthcare, climate summits, swine flu, Sarah Palin, Balloon Boy, Tiger Woods, and others. For New Year’s, let us share our top 10 political mishaps, blunders, stories, scandals, and personalities of 2009. Here are...

December 30th, 2009 | Politics | Read More

Iowa is more progressive than CA & NY?

In what amounts to the most ridiculous social and cultural conflict of my life (so far), marriage for gay men and women has been struck down yet again. The New York State Senate voted 38-24 to formerly discriminate against gay couples and not extend to them the same privilege heterosexual couples take...

December 18th, 2009 | Politics | Read More

$12,126,565,367,430

The number above is the national debt of the United States (at 11:30am on 12/16). You hear this number all the time on the news, but how often do you think about the magnitude of $12 trillion. The number becomes extremely daunting if you put things in perspective: The estimated population of the United...

December 16th, 2009 | Politics | Read More

Unemployment – Only A Little Over 10,000 People

On Friday, President Obama announced that the latest jobs report has been the best since December 2007 and only an additional 11,000 people were sent to the unemployment line. Did I miss something? First of all maybe it is only 11,000 people because there are hardly any people left to send to the...

December 5th, 2009 | Politics | Read More

The Surge 2.0

30,000 troops + 5,000 NATO forces = the “this better work or we’re screwed” strategy. I fail to see how Afghanistan’s security is more pertinent than the security of a nuclear armed Pakistan. Just look at the flag symbol of Hezbollah; which is a nuclear mushroom cloud. I...

December 2nd, 2009 | Politics | Read More

“Going Rogue” In 2012?

Sarah Palin’s newly released memoir, Going Rogue sold over 475,000 copies in it’s first week making it number 1 on the book selling charts. This bypassed Hillary Clinton’s book Living History sold 440,000 copies in its first week, but fell short of Bill Clinton’s book My Life selling over 600,000...

December 1st, 2009 | Politics, Spotlight | Read More

A First Wedding

On Monday it was announced that Chelsea Clinton, the 29-year-old daughter of former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, is engaged to her longtime boyfriend, Marc Mezvinsky. Chelsea and Marc sent a mass e-mail message to family and friends wishing them a belated Thanksgiving...

December 1st, 2009 | Politics | Read More

Wouldn’t It Be Nice: FDR’s Second Bill of Rights

The Second Bill of Rights was a proposal made by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt during his State of the Union Address on January 11, 1944 to suggest that the nation had come to recognize, and should now implement, a second bill of rights. Roosevelt’s stated justification was that...

November 19th, 2009 | Politics, Spotlight | Read More

Blackwater Bribed Iraqi Officials (supposedly)

According to former company officials, executives at the private security company Blackwater, currently called ‘Xe’, authorized bribes of about $1 million for officials at Iraq’s Interior Ministry. These were supposedly to hush critiques of the company and garner support to allow...

November 12th, 2009 | Politics, Spotlight | Read More