Faced with a budget crisis in New Jersey that’s impacting services across the board, including education, Republican Gov. Chris Christie pushed through a bill that would cap the salaries of school administrators based on the number of students in a district. The bill would also cut the salaries of administrators who make more than the […]
Jonathan Weil, with Bloomberg News, seems to think so, or at least that Bank of America is near slipping back into the financial graveyard after reaping accolades for repaying its its first round of TARP loot. Weil, in fact, isn’t ruling out another bailout ask looming on the horizon, given BAC’s shrinking stock price and […]
Pentagon dismisses India armada claim as “absolutely absurd” and “comical.” White House mouthpiece Robert Gibbs shoots down $200M per day price tag. Oh that whacky Indian media. This from ABC News: Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell did not shy away from dismissing reports that appeared in Indian media outlets, such as the Press Trust of […]
Obama’s trip to India will cost $200 million a day: The story has been making the rounds, and even landed Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., in hot water with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, but really – $200 million a day? So reports New Delhi TV: Mumbai: The US would be spending a whopping $200 million (Rs.900 crore […]
Sweet:
Today, many of the incumbents and political elite who were mystified by the public uprising of the Tea Party are leaving office just as bewildered. After nearly two years of rallies, activist, and electioneering the Tea Party Movement has done what many on the left and in the media thought impossible. They united together on […]
From the Randslide in Kentucky to impressive wins in key battleground states across the electoral map, the GOP’s takeover of the US House was bolstered by the sway of an insurgent tea party movement and heralded a resounding repudiation of the policies and politics of President Barack Obama and soon-to-be former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. […]
This one is particularly sweet. It wasn’t so long ago that I had the pleasure of editing the random musings of Mick Mulvaney, back when he was a regular contributing columnist for The Rhino Times in Charlotte. He was an anti-big government, pro-free market renegade then and he still is today, only now he’s got […]
Tea Partiers have waited nearly two years for this Election Day. We’ve dreamed about it, worked toward it and suffered unsubstantiated slanders for our efforts. Our opponents, who live for the Washington establishment, call us racists, xenophobes, homophobes, Islamophobes and the sexually derisive “tea-baggers.” We’re Limbaugh’s, Beck’s and Hannity’s puppets, intellectually vapid and thoroughly Neanderthal. […]
That’s a lot of acronyms and none of them bode well for the Obama Administration. A draft report from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, which charged that the Department of Justice tried to cover-up the extensive involvement of high-level political officials in the dismissal of voter-intimidation lawsuit brought against the New Black Panther Party, […]
