Constitutional Conservative Hypocrites
As the conserverati gather in Washington DC for this week’s CPAC conference, a document is floating around that encourages conservatives to return to the constitutional […]
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ABC Poll: 80% Oppose Supreme Court’s Citizen’s United Decision
Yesterday, ABC News Director of Polling Gary Langer wrote about their latest poll regarding the Supreme Court ruling in the Citizen’s United case. In short, […]
Orange County Ranked Among Top 10 Healthiest Counties in California
(Santa Ana) – A new national study by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ranked Orange County among the ten healthiest counties in the state. The […]
Olbermann: Beware fear’s racist temptation
The rationalizations of the racist are too many and too contradictory for the rest of us to keep them straight. The whole of the anger at government movement is predicated on this. Times are tough. The future is confusing. The threat from those who would dismantle our way of life is real, as if we weren‘t, to some extent, doing it for them now.
California Community Colleges need to improve transfer rates to universities
“When courses do not transfer from a community college to a four-year institution, students lose valuable time and taxpayers waste a lot of money,†said Chancellor Jack Scott. “Improving how colleges and universities prepare students for transfer is a cost effective strategy for increasing graduation rates. My advice to cash strapped states is to invest a small amount of resources into developing common transfer agreements.
Obama Weekly Address: Pay as you go
The President, having just signed the “Pay As You Go” law, discusses the importance of this fundamental rule to getting budget deficits in check. Ensuring that new spending and tax cuts are offset was a important factor in creating the budget surplus of the late 1990’s.
Bill Clinton Hospitalized for Chest Pains in NYC
CNN is reporting that former President Bill Clinton is in the hospital in New York Citry suffering from chest pains. From the story: The sources […]
Rachel Maddow on GOP Hypocrisy on Stimulus
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E3vDO5eYRw[/youtube] It’s easy to trigger multiple comments on my Facebook page and my friends list; simply post something positive about President Obama and the Stimulus […]
Ezra Klein points out that GOP’s health-care policy ideas are in Health Care Reform Bill
At this point, I don’t think it’s well understood how many of the GOP’s central health-care policy ideas have already been included as compromises in the health-care bill. But the GOP’s “Solutions for America” homepage lays out four planks. All of them — are in the Senate health-care bill.