08 Oct, 2008
Posted by: James In: Economy
The 85 Billion Dollar Bailout that our taxes just bought AIG has already been put to good use. Apparently, AIG executives invested the first $440,000 of it on a week-long, luxury stay at the Saint Regis Resort in Monarch Beach.
Among the expenses the AIG executives incurred were the standard $1,000+ a night room fee, [...]
08 Oct, 2008
Posted by: James In: Debates| Foreign Policy| Health Care
Last night’s presidential debate went poorly John McCain, due to the visible stress that Obama’s rhetorical upper edge caused him.
This stress was already getting to John McCain when, in an apparent moment of fervor, he sloppily referred to Barack Obama as “that one”. The debate continued to spiral downward for John McCain when, in discussing [...]
The Republican Party is actively trying to deprive hundreds of thousands of Americans of their right to vote by illegally purging them from voter rolls, according to a reports by New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice and the Public Interest Group USPIRG (their reports are available here and here, respectively).
This disenfranchisement campaign, which is [...]
According to the Los Angelas Times, Sarah Palin has seduced another proselyte, this time Shelly Mandell, president of the Los Angelas chapter of the National Organization for Women.
In introducing Sarah Palin, Mandelll, a theoretical lifelong Democrat, suggested that Sarah Palin is “what a feminist looks like”.
If I were asked what a Feminist looks like, I [...]
