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…
So, apparently there was a hurricane last week that hit just about the entire east coast. Hopefully it didn’t affect any of you all that much, but if it did or if you know someone who was affected, I hope everything’s alright and that you’ve recovered from Irene’s effects with few problems. Because if Virginia…
Well, it appears that the government shutdown has been averted, at least for the moment. That’s hardly cause for celebration, though, as not only is the final deal still being written up and passed, but we’re also never truly out of the water on funding the government these days either. Put aside deficits, debts, and…
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…
A brief note before jumping into this week’s post: I love writing the longer posts, though they take so much time to do the way I would like to do them that one or two of them a week is about all I could do with the longer ones. Therefore, I will be putting more…
It’s been a crazy week in politics, particularly in Texas; the “silly season of politics”, as various people have called it, is in full swing. Unfortunately, as much as I’d love to repost that video, I have no activists in chicken suits, nor do I have anything connecting certain politicians to chickens at all. As…
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…
Today, we saw a repeat of what happened the last few months with regard to the special extensions to unemployment benefits; on Tuesday, millions of Americans will, once again, see an interruption in their unemployment checks thanks to Congress balking at extending the measures that were intended to only be temporary. At least this time,…
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