Quick, what do the People’s Republic of China, Soviet Russia (along with the rest of the Warsaw Pact states), Iran, and Britain in Orwell’s 1984 all have in common? They all censor ideas that they don’t want their citizens to hear about. Soon, if the US Congress gets its way, the United States could join…
For those of you who are keeping track, Congress is now 0 for 2 on helping the people who really need it this week, mostly thanks to the Republicans. Of course, this statistic changes over the course of this past year, but then again, I didn’t have much hope for this lame duck session of…
[picapp align="none" wrap="false" link="term=unemployment+benefits&iid=9380600" src="http://view4.picapp.com/pictures.photo/image/9380600/president-obama-speaks/president-obama-speaks.jpg?size=500&imageId=9380600" width="380" height="273" /] Update is below Ladies and gentlemen, the wait is finally over. Today, unemployment benefits are on the verge of finally being reauthorized after nearly two months of the nation’s unemployed having nothing to rely on other than whatever savings they might have had left. Technically, the benefits…
Ah, another Congressional recess without addressing the unemployment benefits crisis. According to the Huffington Post’s count, it’s now been 37 days since the impending specter of that final benefit check was hung over the collective heads of the millions of unemployed Americans. I hate to say it, but it doesn’t look like it will be…
Welcome back folks, to another look into my mind on politics. I intended these ‘Brief Thoughts’ posts to be a daily, or near-daily, thing, and now that I’m all settled into my internship for the summer, I’ll make a shot at meeting that schedule. Of course, an interesting article from the Huffington Post the other…
[tweetmeme source="bassitone" only_single=false] By now, most of you have probably heard: on Thursday night the Senate passed Wall Street Reform after a debate that had proceeded remarkably smoothly up until the last week or so. In fact, throughout the whole process, not much out of the ordinary for what the people should expect of the…
[picapp align="center" wrap="false" link="term=News&iid=8600751" src="5/b/1/6/Senate_Democratic_Leaders_afb7.jpg?adImageId=12639988&imageId=8600751" width="500" height="349" /] [tweetmeme source="bassitone" only_single=false] Well folks, there is still about another week or so at a minimum before I can resume something resembling a normal post frequency, but I found snippets of time here and there to draft up a condensed version of this for my regular column…
[picapp align="center" wrap="false" link="term=*&iid=8377424" src="5/9/0/1/Obama_Signs_Health_28c7.jpg?adImageId=11889420&imageId=8377424" width="500" height="328" /] [tweetmeme source="bassitone" only_single=false] Well, I know you probably don’t like the lack of posts as much as I hate the lack of time I’ve had to write them recently. Well, I still have very little time on my hands, but I’m making time to write this; sure,…
[picapp align="none" wrap="false" link="term=News&iid=8312835" src="b/8/c/f/House_Votes_On_2059.jpg?adImageId=11539481&imageId=8312835" width="500" height="333" /] [tweetmeme source="bassitone" only_single=false] Well here we are folks, the moment we have all been waiting for (or dreading) has happened. The House of Representatives passed the Senate health care bill by a vote of 219-212 tonight following a full day of debate, the last six hours of…
[tweetmeme source="bassitone" only_single=false] If there were ever an unfortunate name to have in politics, it would be the situation that Representative Louise Slaughter (D-NY) currently faces. As head of the House Rules Committee, she is being given the dubious honor of having a dubious idea to pass health care reform in the House of Representatives…
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