So, I have discovered something awesome - the North Carolina General Assembly has a live audio feed of their sessions. Asheville has it too, though they tend to have technical difficulties. It's pretty amazing though, that kind of access. I was able to sit here and mill about while getting excited about amendments and then cursing when they failed ( Read more... )

Congressional Reform Act of 2011 ( Read more... )

In the Name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful ( Read more... )

Osama bin Laden was, despite his many successes, a bit of a failure in the end. Not because he died from the bullets of American soldiers, but because the entire point of Al Qaeda was to try to change America's relationship with Israel. He constantly tried to communicate with Americans, he wrote long, intelligent and thoughtful letters to us. He ( Read more... )

The Kochs’ subsidization of a pro-corporate movement fulfills, in many ways, the vision laid out in a secret 1971 memo that Lewis Powell, then a Virginia attorney, wrote two months before he was nominated to the Supreme Court. The antiwar movement had turned its anger on defense contractors, such as Dow Chemical, and Ralph Nader was leading a ( Read more... )

Thanks to peristaltor for the link - it is long, and well worth reading.

Covert Operations
The billionaire brothers who are waging a war against Obama.
by Jane Mayer August 30, 2010


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"If you needed one example of what's wrong with this town, it might be that one senator can hold up 70 qualified individuals to make government better because he didn't get his earmarks."


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NO bailout. NO car czar. Frecking morons.

Political rage tea time!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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