Tag archive for ‘Rush Limbaugh’

Scotus Ruling: Why You Need My Book

The US Supreme Court has overturned the core of McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform laws.  That means corporations and unions will be unfettered in their attempts to persuade, distort, and lie to people during campaigns.
The worst part: it will begin a new surge of fundraising by special interest groups that will cause even more economic chaos [...]

Pick One Already!

This is a posting about the non-sense from the media and both political parties about the economy and jobs. It’s best seen through a funny beer commercial.
LAS VEGAS, NV (December 3, 2009) – You’ve seen the Miller Lite commercial where the couple is at a restaurant and she asks, something to this effect, “If your [...]

Economic Timing Of Politicians Way Off

Paul Solman, the economics reporter for PBS’ The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, had a great story tonight on The Paradox of Thrift.  It’s worth watching.  The gist of the story: the more we save, the worse the economy gets.  What we need, it seems today, is George Bush’s advice after 9/11: Go out and shop.  Ironically, the [...]

Media Bias on My RSS???

I had to chuckle as I sped through my RSS Feed.  There were two stories in the Washington Times that together seemed to show how silly some of the right-wingers are.
LAS VEGAS, NV (April 15, 2009) — As I recommend in my book, you should use an RSS feed to get as many different points [...]

Baseball, Cuckoo’s Nest, Casablanca: Explain Today’s New World

This is a posting about understanding the changes we Americans face. If we knew that history – as told by our films and games — was repeating itself, then we might not be as uptight. At least we wouldn’t take the right-wing extremists so seriously.
LAS VEGAS, NV (April 14, 2009) – There is a recurring [...]

Memo to Press Secy. Gibbs; Stop Rush Baiting

This is a posting about the childishness of the Democrats and the Obama Administration when it comes to Rush Limbaugh.
LAS VEGAS, NV (March 16, 2009) – White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs and President Obama need to get on the same page. Stop mentioning Rush Limbaugh.
Today Gibbs was answering a question about remarks made by [...]