Politics

Well, not really.  Twitter is filling up with #Gmail posts though and there’s been quite a few postings on Facebook about it as well.  What does that mean?  It probably means that we’ll be seeing a story on this on CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC within the next hour or so.  What this event, and [...]

I downloaded the latest build of the Chrome browser for OS X tonight and gave it a quick once over to see how it compared to other browsers on the Macintosh.  The first thing you notice, and I’m sure they will fix this before the final release, is the massive font they use for the [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

Typically, a candidate who has little or nothing to lose and everything to gain has the power to speak their mind and to tell how they really feel without having to remain political and trying not to offend anyone.  When a dark horse candidate has an impact, that will usually get the front runners to [...]

No.  There, I said it and there is no going back.  A lobbyist’s main job is to remain a lobbyist, and by that I mean they have to convince the people that give them money to lobby on their behalf are actually getting something for their money - if they can do that then they [...]