Thomas Kubica's undeniable Huey Long connections (updated)
The choice of first diaries for a site is always a difficult one. However, given the situation with Thomas Kubica and the legendary (amongst my family members) Google skills I have, I figured that this...
View ArticleWho is "Team Christine"? (From Maddowblog)
Maddowblog tweeted this morning:Your help needed. Our search of Team Christine found mostly out-of-staters. You? http://bit.ly/... #O'Donnell There's the minor typo (Twitter hash tags can't have...
View Article12 Weeks of "YouCut!", the crowdsourcing budget balancer
YouCut is Eric Cantor's pet crowdsourcing project to choose what programs the GOP would target, in an attempt to prove that they're fiscal conservatives. (caution: videos autoplay on every page)It was...
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Fun with the budget (w/charts!)
Yesterday, I posted a diary on the futility of the GOP's YouCut program, which allows people to vote on which program to cut. I think this image summarizes it nicely:Quite simply, I found that the cuts...
View ArticleMy TSA mini-diary
Since I'm flying tomorrow (leaving O'Hare, of all places), I've been anxious, terrified, nervous, panicked, relaxed and then manic about the new TSA security. My ride drops me off a little after 4.30,...
View ArticleThe rich will get their tax cut.
There's been a lot of debate about will Obama, can Obama get just the middle class tax cut through without also giving up the additional tax cut on income above $250k.Politically, the idea's a winner...
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