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There were 77 cases argued before the US Supreme Court in the 2012 October Term. The Court announced the decisions in the last 3 cases on June 26th. Continue reading
Today marks the anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street. One year ago, activist descended into Lower Manhattan in an effort to confront the banks and businesses that were largely responsible for the financial crash. The idea caught on. Occupy camps went up across America and around the world.
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Good Lord, this is only the second one of these things. Can someone get me a ticket out of the country until this is all over? No? OK, well then let’s get to this. Continue reading
Pity the poor American media. Forced to still cover six different ‘contenders’ for the Republican Presidential nomination, when they could be working to sharpen the alleged differences between a moderate-Republican-turned-frothing conservative-who-will-tack-back-to-the-middle as soon as he gets the nomination and an allegedly liberal-but-not-on-pretty-much-every-issue President, it was only a matter of time before the media would run out of patience for this whole exercise of ‘democracy’ and ‘primaries’.
Apparently the 16 term Congressman (Christ, that is a long time) will announce today that he is not going to seek re-election. Did Frank get tired of helping out Frannie and Freddie or is something else up? I would have thought that Frank would have died in his boots and not retired from public service.
Let the speculation begin, at least until the 1pm announcement by Frank today.
Yes, there are still more of these damn things. As American greatness slides into the dustbin of history, the GOP is here to fiddle us out with the crazy. Frost your beer glasses, kids, it is the only medicine you will be getting after they repeal Obama Care. Occupy Wall Street? Fuck it, let’s just cut to the chase and all try to occupy Canada before they build a Freedom Fence of their own to keep us out. Continue reading
Say what you want about Chris Christie. Whether you like his politics, his governing style, his personality or not — he was kind of a class act today:
Welcome to another Republican Debate live blog! Tonight we are in Tampa, FL an appropriately crazy place for some crazy candidates. Tonight’s debate is cosponsored by CNN and The Tea Party Express. I guess the Tea Party is not as averse to The Lamestream Media as they pretend to be. Maybe they just wanted a little attention. Continue reading
There’s been a lot of talk in the news regarding the current Debt Ceiling negotiations going on, at least here in the United States. I understand that there are a number of people that don’t understand exactly what this is or what it means, so I thought I would explain it.
Like all entities, the United States Government needs money to work. It has to pay people and buy things. Unfortunately, the United States Government usually can’t afford to buy all the things it wants, so it usually must take on some amount of debt. Continue reading