Thursday Morning News and Views

Joltin’ Joe “Bite-Me” Biden got off his leash over the weekend, and he has been talking nonstop to the press. Politico has all the gossipy details. According to VP Joe, all the speculation about Democrats doing poorly at the polls in November is nonsense. I’ll tell you right up front, I couldn’t always make sense [...]

Monday Morning News and Views

Good Morning Conflucians!!! Talk about a slow news day. It’s the day after the Fourth of July, Congress is in recess for a week, and everyone else has today off. Congress is taking this long break after after the Senate refused to extend unemployment benefits for millions of Americans during the worst economic crisis since [...]

Independence Day News

Happy Independence Day Conflucians!! On this day in 1776 the second continental congress of the 13 colonies officially accepted a document to be used to sever ties with Great Britain. The Declaration of Independence was signed and published soon thereafter. And of course not long after was a war for that independence, a revolutionary war. [...]

Transparency?

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Lazy Saturday News and Views

Good Morning Conflucians!!! Today is day 74 of the BP oil gusher rolling disaster. Yesterday, Mother Jones reported the passing of another milestone–the Gulf gusher has most likely passed the Ixtoc spill in 1979-80. That one lasted 9 months. How much longer before the BP gusher can be stopped? The highest estimate from the government [...]

Friday TGIF News and Views

Good Morning Conflucians!!! TGIF!! I overslept again, so I’m just going to pull together a grab back of news stories and let you have at it. From my point of view, the big news this morning is the new and decisive evidence that the Democrats plan to finish the job of dismantling the New Deal. [...]

Thursday: Blogospheric Uproar

Good Morning Conflucians!!! I hope you’ll forgive me if I spend some time today wallowing in a bit of media gossip. The past week hasn’t been all that great for the “progressive” blogger boyz. Poor Markos found out he got cheated by Research 2000, the polling firm he’s been paying for the past year. So [...]