An article today in the WSJ says Wall Street investment banks are on track to give out record bonuses this year...

Major U.S. banks and securities firms are on pace to pay their employees about $140 billion this year — a record high that shows compensation is rebounding despite regulatory scruti… Read full post »

So both the Senate and the House voted on legislation yesteday or rather amendments to legislation that would block ACORN from receiving Federal funding because a couple of ACORN employees got caught in a sting giving advice to a faux pimp on how to set up a hooker ring tax free.… Read full post »

“I’ll be danged if I am going to give up my Social Security because of socialism."

 http://www.rollcall.com/news/38015-1.html

LeRoy Schaffer, a St. Francis city council member, at a Representative Michelle Bachmann town hall meeting.

I'm not expecting everyone to realize that gover… Read full post »

Tom Ridge, in his soon-to-be released book claims that he was pressured to raise the terror threat alert weeks before the 2004 elections. Prior to the election there were video tapes released by bin Laden and Azzam the American (Adam Gadahn) making unspecificed threats against the US and US interest.… Read full post »

Gallup as released it's state of the states poll, here and it shows that the further you move from the center and Southern portions of the country the healthier a life style people live on average.

The chart below shows political affiliations throughout the country, the darker the… Read full post »

So let me see if I got this right...a contingent of the far right is encouraging people to go to town hall meetings on health care reform and not debate the issue but basically be disruptive and shout down the politician in question so that no point of view can be… Read full post »

Opens:

 Obama: Bud Light. An obvious White House communication office decision and a poor one. Obvious pandering to Joe Six Pack. 

 Gates: Red Stripe. Nice opening, unconventional and relatively unknown unless you've been drunk in Florida during Spring break. A solidarity move since i… Read full post »

The AP has basically layed down the gauntlet to bloggers and news aggregators, claiming that any use of any part of its articles is a violation of its copyright and does not fall under the "Fair Use" doctrine.

 It seems that instead of using the openess and connectivity of the… Read full post »