In a move that surprised no political pundits who had been paying attention, Mitt Romney picked Rep. Paul Ryan to be his running mate in the upcoming election. Ryan, currently representing Wisconsin's First district, has been serving since 1999 and has long been a leader on fiscal responsibility and budgetary issues. Paul Ryan, long seen as a ( Read more... )

Earlier this year, President Obama pushed for, and actually got, Congress to pass stricter rules about members of Congress using special knowledge to make moves on investments. For just about everyone else, this was already illegal under insider trader regulations, but now there are stricter regulations that apply just to Congresscritters. The bill ( Read more... )

A little over a week ago, President Obama, in remarks in Roanoake, Virginia, had a soundbite that said "If you’ve got a business -- you didn’t build that." Romney, and the rest of the Republican field, immediately pounced on this as Obama being out of touch with the role of government in business and misunderstanding how businesses work in America ( Read more... )

This week, former FBI Louis Freeh concluded his investigation of Penn State complicity in possibly covering up repeated pedophilia by Assistant Coach Jerry Sandusky, who was recently convicted of multiple acts of pedophilia. The results, unlike many other reports, were given to the media and Board of Trustees at the same time, preventing from ( Read more... )

Yesterday marked the one year anniversary of Casey Anthony found not guilty in the death of her daughter. People were very upset that such a clear case of right and wrong was decided "wrongly" by a jury who heard things the average person did not and were given explicit instructions that the average person was not. People could plainly see from ( Read more... )

While most of the media are focused on the Supreme Court rulings about the Affordable Care Act tomorrow, there is another fight in another branch of government that is almost as contentious. In the wake of the Fast and Furious Hearings, Representative Darrell Issa (R-CA), the chair of the committee, determined that Attorney General Eric holder may ( Read more... )

Last week, News of the World, a popular British tabloid, closed their doors days after it was revealed they had reporters and others hack into people's voicemails and other privacy invading measures. In this specific case, agents of News of the World had broken into the voicemail of a girl who had disappeared and was killed. Her parents held out ( Read more... )

I had been doing international stuff for too long, so here comes some random, domestic crap. As anyone within ear or eyeshot of a television, computer or phone knows Casey Anthony was found not guilty of murdering her daughter, but found guilty of lying to police on four separate occasions. For a very brief summary, Caylee Anthony was reported ( Read more... )

Here we are loyal fans, and possibly new, the State of the Union. As keeping in with annual tradition, I'm gonna analyze every bit of this speech, god help me. It was over an hour long and there were fewer interruptions for applause than usual, so it's more words. Luckily, this was Barack Obama and the man knows how to give a speech. More ( Read more... )

Ye, dear readers, I am attempting a comeback run. This is titled one year later, but that's only because it was about a year ago when I "quit" writing this blog. In practical terms, I had quit long before that. I've written maybe a dozen blog posts since Obama was elected and only one since he was inaugurated. I had my reasons for quitting then, ( Read more... )