Politics

I received a letter today from the National Republican Committee which contained an official “GOP census document” which was “assigned and prepared especially for you as a representative of all Republicans living in your voting district.”  The letter claims to be working to build a grassroots consensus on what they should be doing as a [...]

The Republican party seems to have no clue as to what it is doing anymore.  I just read some posts on the GOP Facebook page that were full of anger and hatred towards a popular President and  towards anyone that even gave the appearance of disagreeing with them.  I also finished watching a new ad [...]

With the move of Arlen Specter from the GOP to the Democratic party the GOP moves further down the road towards a regional and powerless party.  Al Franken will win in Minnesota and that will give the Democrats their 60th senator and thus a filibuster proof  majority.  The 60 seats however is not the story, [...]

The GOP and the conservative media have seemingly imploded in the past few weeks, culminating with the disastrous Tea Parties that did little more than highlight the most fearful and angry aspects of the Republican base.
With conservative media giants going equally off the deep  end, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and Neil Cavuto [...]

The pirates that have been terrorizing shipping and fishing areas along the coast of Africa have become quite a nuisance as of late.  Pirate activity has cost companies millions of dollars in ransom fees and lost time.
The United States Navy and other navies from around the world have descended upon the area in an [...]

The Congress recently voted to tax the AIG bonuses at 90 percent, effectively eliminating them.  Republicans had a plan to tax the bonuses at 100 percent but after state and local taxes take their slice of the bonuses, the Democratic 90 percent plan effective taxes the bonuses at 100 percent once all is said and [...]

Defense Secretary Robert Gates, the last holdover from the Bush administration, is looking to cut down on American military expenditures according to an article from Boston.com  http://tinyurl.com/cwvc9a).  The reasoning behind the cuts is because the U.S. can not afford to buy every weapon system that the war planners might want.  What is coming, according to the article, [...]

There is one thing I have learned over the past few years and that is that trying to argue politics is a complete waste of time.  I know this from experience having debated different people on issues ranging from health care to the war in Iraq to torture and in just about every case the [...]

Traditionally, a new President gets a grace period where his appointments are voted on and passed, the major legislation that he ran on is allowed to come up for a vote and generally is supported by both parties, and everything stays pretty civil.  This time however, the Republican base is already looking to butt heads [...]

A lot will be written about what happened to the Republican party once they took power in the 1990s and how they fell from their position of power in spectacular fashion. It is clear that once they were in office they abandoned their campaign pledges to reduce government spending and to manage the American [...]