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Gun Laws Getting Looser Under Obama
Seems like I heard somewhere that that durned Obama was coming to take our guns.Reality check:A nationwide review by The Associated Press found that over the last two years, 24 states, mostly in the South and West, have passed 47 new laws loosening g...
Cause for Thanks: Spock Replaces Riley in White House
Dithering? No, John, that's called thinking.Dr. Newquist hit a similar theme at the beginning of the month. Now Ned Hodgman reads Joel Achenbach's Washington Post assessment of President Barack Obama's Spock-like decision-making and leadership and of...
Thank Family Farmers Michelle and Barack for Vegetarian State Dinner
As the Thank a Farmer® marketing campaign gets play on the usual industrial ag propaganda sites, I notice no grateful mention of the efforts of new urban farmers Michelle and Barack Obama, who've been returning land to productivity in a tough Washin...
3 Independent Analyses Agree: Stimulus Working
Conservatives like Sibby take predictable pleasure in citing increased unemployment as evidence that the stimulus package has failed. They further their schadenfreude by pointing out actual unemployment numbers have exceeded the overly optimistic pre...
Liberal Stimulus Working; More to Come
The New York Times reports on the consensus among economists that the stimulus passed last February is working.What's that I hear? Liberal spin from that elitist New York paper? Actually, reporters Jackie Calmes and Michael Cooper give White House a ...
Sell Stuff! Skip School!
WARNING: The Blogger General Has Determined That Capitalism, Not President Obama, Is Dangerous to Your Children's Moral HealthSome professed patriots would bar the President of the United States from speaking directly to our children and encouraging ...
A Really Smart Grid Supports Local Energy Production over Long-Distance Transmission
I'm all about President Obama's plan to pump $3.4 billion into the smart grid, technology that will lower your electric bill, make our energy distribution system more resilient, and take a big chunk out of the $150 billion annual negative impact of p...
Thune: Working to Stop the Bailouts... Well, Not All of Them
I learn from Amanda Nolz that President Obama just signed into law more stimulus... for farmers! HR 2997 is actually the appropriations act for agriculture, rural development, the Food and Drug Administration, and other federal programs. It includes ...
White House Undermines Capitalism by Choosing Socialist Open-Source Software?
Expect the wingnuts to start spinning conspiracy theories about how the swine flu "national emergency" declaration is the first step toward suspension of the Constitution and hauling Bob Ellis to the death camps. Bob Ellis is taking a blog break—co...
Love to Sibby: President Obama Protects Gang Rapists, Just Like Thune
No problem, Sibby...President Barack Hussein Obama is as guilty as Senator John Thune of protecting gang rapists. The Pentagon supported the position of 30 Republican Senators in opposing the Franken amendment to the defense appropriations bill that ...
Obama Justice: Prosecuting Medical Marijuana "Not a Good Use" of Feds' Time
Change Bob Newland can believe in: medical marijuana lives!Federal drug agents won't pursue pot-smoking patients or their sanctioned suppliers in states that allow medical marijuana, under new legal guidelines to be issued Monday by the Obama adminis...
Public Option That Still Works: Rural Electric Cooperatives
Hat tip to Rebecca Blood, who points us toward a pointed essay by freelance writer Bob Simmons from Bellingham, Washington, on the public option... for electricity:Electrical service had not yet penetrated the hills of rural Southern Iowa. Everyone w...
