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Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -4.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.64


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Yesterday it came out that Fox News aired a segment on Joe Biden. In it, Joe is shown saying "The fundamentals of the economy are strong" and viewers were informed that this was filmed over the weekend. A few hours later, Media Matters declared that the video in question wasn't from this weekend, it was from September during the campaign. And Joe ( Read more... )

Americans have long been waiting for this day, and it is finally here. Whether or not Obama succeeds on every talking point doesn't matter. What does matter is that for the first time in nearly eight years, I have hope. For the first time in nearly eight years, I'm not embarrassed by who my nation voted into the presidency ( Read more... )

Am I the only one who's sick of John McCain's constant reminder that he was a POW for five and a half years? The man uses it as his universal answer to every tough question he fields.

We've all heard the flap about how he doesn't know how many homes he owns. McCain went on Leno recently and Leno asked him flat out, "How many houses do you have".

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That's really scary.

Why?

Because China can, and is considering, crashing the dollar. They are considering this because Congress is putting pressure on China to revalue the yuan to help the US trade deficit. Undoubtedly, we are getting hosed by the disparity in the dollar:yuan ratio.

What I want to know is, how did we allow China to buy so much of ( Read more... )

This is pretty old news. In fact, this news story was published in April 2006 and has won a Pulitzer. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

Don't feel bad. It's not in the news a whole lot. In a nutshell, as of April, 2006, President Bush has "reserved the right" to ignore laws passed by Congress over 750 different times. Read the lengthy (7 pages) ( Read more... )