A British musician wants the US military to pay him royalties for using his music to torture detainees. A “playlist” of songs used to induce sleep deprivation and to drown out screams of the detainees was leaked to the press a while back, and now at least one musician wants the US government to pay [...]
Speaking at a meeting of House Democrats yesterday about his recent overseas trip and the meaning of it, Obama said that “this is the moment, as Nancy [Pelosi] noted, that the world is waiting for. . .I have become the symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions.” How pathetic—Obama believes his [...]
GOP ready to link Obama to Reid, Pelosi. Jeez, since when has Obama been a working member of the US Senate? From the minute he won his seat he began running for POTUS. On all controversial votes he was either hiding in the restroom or voted “present”. I can’t think of another US Senator who [...]
Alaska Senator Ted Stevens was indicted today in Washington, the result of a years-long investigation into corruption in Alaska politics.
In yet another “world ends, women and minorities hit hardest” story in The New York Times called Blogging’s Glass Ceiling, about the BlogHer convention in San Francisco, which is a bunch of wymyn bloggers getting together to kvetch and whine, which they have been doing since the first convention in ’05. At the beginning of [...]
Q: Who do we hate most? A.The people elected by the people to do the people’s business. Q: Why does Phil Hare hate the poor and minorities? A: Because he backs the increase in the federal minimum wage. Q: Dick Durbin voted against the Senate resolution to go to war with Iraq on October 11, [...]
Our specially selected congressman is the primary sponsor for H.R. 6439 which would extend V. A. mental health benefits to family members of veterans receiving non-service connected treatment. So if Examiner Jr. joins the military and thankfully returns from war without injury, but breaks his leg in a motorcycle accident, he can go to the [...]
Just before he was executed for murder yesterday, Dale Leo Bishop apologized to his victim’s family, thanked America, and delivered this rousing endorsement: “For those who oppose the death penalty and want to see it end, our best bet is to vote for Barack Obama because his supporters have been working behind the scenes to [...]
You could have knocked me over with a hash pipe when I read in The Galesburg Register-Mail that our specially selected congressman was going to vote in favor of legalizing medical marijuana—again! This time he has a posse of seven religious leaders in the 17th district to back him up. Considering all the wacky preachers [...]
In a press release issued by our specially selected congressman, who helpfully informs us that he was “a former clothing factory worker and union steward”, Hare trumpets the increase today of the minimum wage: “At $6.55 an hour, the new federal minimum wage is still too low. I am pleased that next summer it will [...]
