Joe posted this clip of Bob Enyart, “taking a stand” against Starbucks by buying coffee from them and then pouring it into a storm sewer. Enyart is one of those weird protesters who pickets abortion clinics and the like, but the most interesting part, if you look at his Wikipedia page, is that this “moral [...]Similar News >>

TIME FOR SELF-STYLED “REAGAN REPUBLICANS” TO WALK THE WALK Earlier this week S.C. Treasurer Curtis Loftis reiterated his support for expanded school choice in the Palmetto Sate. A Tea Party favorite, Loftis received the most votes of any candidate on the ballot in 2010 and along with U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint is viewed as one [...]Similar News >>

She was 63. Here's my favorite Donna Summer video: "A new kind of love and we call it agape/Don't take too long to find/True love transcends all time..."Similar News >>

New Romney web ad jumps on Biden’s Delphi gaffe. The Romney team has demonstrated they have a ton of video at the ready to attack and counter-attack anything the Obama camp throws at them.Similar News >>

#prdummies The public relations industry features a low bar for entry and an even lower bar for performance. Were the bars to get any lower, it would be an underground prison, rather than a hell on earth. This is PR Dummies. Hella dumb, every week. More » Similar News >>

(Thanks to C. Jerry Kutner Jr. on Bright Lights After Dark film-comment blog)One of the characters in the classic 1939 film "Stagecoach" is a banker named Gatewood who lectures his captive audience on the evils of big government, especially bank regulation -- "As if we bankers don't know how to run our own banks!" he exclaims. As the film progresses, we learn that Gatewood is in fact skipping town with a satchel full of embezzled cash.As far as we know, Jamie Dimon, the chairman and C.E.O. of JPMorgan Chase, isn't planning anything similar. He has, however, been fond of giving Gatewood-like sp... Similar News >>

Hmmm, could it be true that the leak about that underwear bomber revealed last week was really a British-Saudi operation that the CIA hadn't even known about until recently? And what about those allegations that the leak came frohttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifmhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif the Obama administration and that the Brits are furious about how the leak endangered the asset and the investigation? http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifHere is more evidence of how worthless the United Nations is. Instead of investigating truly devastating conditions of hunger around the w... Similar News >>

Good morning! Let us start this morning’s post with a bit of cheer from Kansas, of course that was a snarky comment. Honestly, I don’t know what to say about the latest news out of Kansas, particularly out of Gov. Brownback’s little sack of horrors. Brownback Signs Law Allowing Expansive Refusal of Medication Based on [...]Similar News >>

Washington is abuzz with speculation about a possible interim deal that might help defuse the brewing crisis over Iran's nuclear program. Color me skeptical. That said, one thing seems clear. Iran's increased interest in negotiations has been driven almost entirely by its search for relief from harsh Western sanctions imposed in the last six months.   A top official from the Obama administration recently told me that "from what we are seeing, the threat of an Israeli strike hardly figures right now in Iranian calculations. On the contrary, everything indicates that what really worrie... Similar News >>

shutterstock_15465343.jpg When does a study on the unconventional shale gas industry become a "shill gas study"? The quick answer: when nearly everyone writing and peer reviewing it has close ties to the industry they're purportedly doing an "objective" study on. The newest kid on the block: a recent study published by SUNY Buffalo's Shale Resources and Society Institute, titled, "Environmental Impacts During Shale Gas Drilling: Causes, Impacts and Remedies." The four co-authors of the &q... Similar News >>