September 27, 2010
Bryan to Run For President As a Tea-Party Republican
(Dayton, Tennessee) William Jennings Bryan, who last ran for President in the 1908 election, announced that he was going to run for President as a Tea-Party Republican in 2012. Bryan promises to run against the TARP bailout, New York industrialists,...
September 24, 2010
Bring Back Hammurabi
When you enter the Chamber of the House of Representatives, if you look up near the ceiling, ringing around the room, you see bas-relief sculptures of 23 great lawgivers in history. One of them is Hammurabi, the famous Babylonian ruler...
September 23, 2010
No Compromise
A new poll came out yesterday from Pew Research and National Journal that showed where the Republican base is when it comes to compromise: They are against it. In fact, when asked the question, “do you admire political leaders who...
September 22, 2010
Obama and Ahmadinejad
I wonder if Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has an early copy of Bob Woodward’s new book. The bearded one has been on a successful public relations tour before his United Nations speech tomorrow. Before leaving for the Big Apple, he...
September 21, 2010
Poverty Numbers
I was listening to NPR’s great show, “To the Point with Warren Olney”, last night and the subject was the new poverty numbers. Olney interviewed representatives from various food banks from around the country and then interviewed policy experts from...