Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is proposing a law that would give Obama the authority to raise the debt limit for the remainder of his first term. Under current law only Congress has the ability to raise the debt limit so the country can continue to borrow money to pay off any debt already [...]
States with higher percentages of people without degrees tend to be more conservatives. It makes sense why conservatives don’t value education – it would eliminate them. View the interactive map with degree statistics here.
New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg expressed outrage over a federal loophole that allows people on the FBI terrorist watch list to legally purchase guns and explosives. Being “known or reasonably suspected of being involved in terrorist activity” is currently not a reason for someone to be denied purchasing weapons or chemicals that could make [...]
The Tea Party is definitely not the party of intellectuals, but the crazy conspiracy theories just never end. Apparently, one of the new cooky ones is that Obama is going to ban all fishing in America. Where do these people come up with this stuff? They claim that taxes for the middle class have gone [...]
Republican Gov. Jan Brewer is expected to sign a new immigration law passed by the state House of Representatives. It will now be a misdemeanor to not have the proper immigration paperwork in Arizona. It will also require police to determine a person’s immigration status, if they feel they may be an illegal immigrant. Currently, [...]
Obama has been criticized by Republicans for attempting to renew a new nuclear arms treaty with Russia. The new START treaty would limit the number of nuclear warheads to 1,550, a two-thirds reduction from the original START treaty. The number of nuclear missile launchers will be reduced by half. It’s seen by the international community as a break through to stop [...]
Today is “Tax Freedom Day.” It’s the conservative day to remind all Americans exactly how much they pay in taxes. They say if you work from January 1st until today all of that money goes to the government in taxes and from this day forward for the rest of the year you can keep your [...]
People often talk about how our country is attempting to redistribute wealth, but people seem to ignore that the wealthiest individuals are being taxed substantially less now than during most of this country’s recent history. From 1917 until now we have had tax rates for the highest incomes groups up to 92% of their income. That rate [...]
A CBS poll shows that a large portion of Americans do not have a favorable view of Sarah Palin and a large percentage of Americans do not want her to run for President in the next election. The poll shows that 71% of Americans do not want Sarah Palin to run for President and 41% [...]
In an interview with George Stephanopoulos Rudy Giuliani attacked the Obama administration claiming that “we had no domestic attacks under Bush. We’ve had one under Obama.” Rudy Giuliani was the mayor of New York on 9/11. You would think that would be hard to forget for someone like that. Republicans also often forget who was [...]
