I was always a fan of political cartoons and when Ferdinand Marcos was in the process of being overthrown the White House and the president made some intemperate statements in support of Marcos and suggesting that both sides in the Philippines were at fault in the People power revolution. I remember in particular a Pat [...]
Archive for January, 2011
I don’t think we will see the same cartoons as 1986
Posted: January 28, 2011 in internet/free speech, opinion/newsTags: egypt, egyptian protests, joe biden, nostalgia, wikileaks
Mike Pence is the talk of the CPAC crowd
Posted: January 28, 2011 in politics, primaries 2012Tags: cpac, cpac 2011, election 2012, Mike Pence
…yesterday with the reports that he will not run for president this year: Three sources close to Republican Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana tell CNN they are told he will announce he is not running for president in 2012 and will instead begin exploring a run for governor. These sources say he has been flattered [...]
I guess TPM doesn’t know their history
Posted: January 28, 2011 in opinion/newsTags: blogs, history, Palin derangement syndrome, space race, state of the union, tpm
TPM is making fun of Sarah Palin for noting that the Soviets won the space race. ‘WTF?’ Sarah Palin Thinks The USSR Won The Space Race? (VIDEO) Ah guys as an old fellow I hate to break it to you but They did. Sputnik was the first satellite that was the race to space. You [...]
A lot of people on the left are upset that the filibuster rules in the senate: They could have recently used the “Constitutional Option” at the start of this new Congress to rewrite the Senate rules to either eliminate the filibuster outright or at least make staging a filibuster more difficult. Yet, due to a [...]
