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Tea Party, thy name is petty. Saying Lincoln was not a founding member of the Republican party is like saying Palin is not a founding member of the Tea Party; both technically correct but meaningless. It looked like PBS corrected their transcription error...

Wow, the guy has been in the US since 1963 and still can't get a permanent residence? That's "favoritism" for you. "Onyango Obama came to America in 1963 to attend a prestigious preparatory school in Cambridge but dropped out and was initially ordered to leave the country in 1989. He...

No longer are there any moderate Republicans left - all gone or retired. No Republicans in 2011 would be caught dead any where near supporting something like the MLK holiday. Nov. 2, 1983 President Ronald Reagan signs the bill making Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday a national holiday...

Twenty-five of the 100 highest paid U.S. CEOs earned more last year than their companies paid in federal income tax, a pay study by a Washington think tank said on Wednesday. See who some of them are, in order of their compensation.

"Taiwan was ceded to the Empire of Japan by the Qing Empire in the Treaty of Shimonoseki after the First Sino-Japanese War in 1895. In 1945 Taiwan was freed from Japan as a result of World War II. " If you want to follow that line of logic, may be you want to get it from the Japanese...

Bill Gross, the manager of the world's largest bond fund, feels like "crying in his beer" for having bet so heavily against U.S. PIMCO says betting against debt was a mistake: report NEW YORK | Mon Aug 29, 2011 6:26pm EDT (Reuters) - Bill Gross, the manager of the world's largest bond...

Mystery LLC is chartered, donates $1M to Romney, then dissolves Mystery firm’s $1M donation to pro-Romney PAC raises concern over transparency. Fred Wertheimer, president of Democracy 21, said the contribution “may well be a violation of the campaign finance laws.” By Dan Eggen...

This may be "news" 17 months ago in North Carolina. Soles pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge and paid a $1000 court cost fine in Feb, 2010. This is what GRNC, a gun rights group in North Carolina wrote about Soles: "As much fun as it is to catch anti-gun politicians in their own...

Yes, it is a confusing world if you don't keep up or have a short memory. Here is the clip from News Corps' million dollar contribution in August, 2010, to a Republican PAC which dwarfs all the contribution to individual candidates.

Enough blather, let's dance.

FOX News Accused of 'Deliberately Avoiding Covering the Hacking Scandal' - NOTW Phone Hacking "What she (Judy Miller) said about won't touch it (hacking scandal) with a '10 foot Durbin' is referring to Senator. Richard 'Dick' Durbin, who again was mentioned when they were chatting in...

Overwhelmingly to incumbents who happened to be mostly Democrats in the 2010 cycle.

A picture is worth ...

Murdoch, like Napoleon, is a great bad man By Conrad Black Rupert Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator in history. There is no possible argument about his boldness, vision and skill of execution in conquering the British tabloid market, leading vertical media...

American climate skeptic Soon funded by oil, coal firms A Tea Party favorite as well: Dr. Willie Soon Speaks at the Milwaukee Tea Party 9-19-09 http://youtu.be/YZjs6IxFxxU By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON | Tue Jun 28, 2011 9:49am EDT (Reuters) - Willie Soon, a U.S. climate change...

Here is the edge you were always wondering about with WS traders. Three NY ex-traders convicted on insider trading charges By Grant McCool NEW YORK | Mon Jun 13, 2011 11:55am EDT (Reuters) - Three former securities traders were convicted on Monday on all counts of fraud and...

In 2008, a college student named David Kernell hacked into Palin’s Yahoo account and posted some of her communications on WikiLeaks.org. He argued that the e-mails were part of the public record and thus he did not commit a crime; he was sentenced to serve one year in a prison camp in...

Palin emails to be released in free archive at msnbc.com Alaska will hand out 24,199 sheets of paper at 1 p.m. ET That free, public, searchable archive will go online, sometime later on Friday, at http://palinemail.msnbc.msn.com. Watch that space and the Twitter feed @openchannelblog for...

The claim was Armstrong promised and later paid $120k "contribution" to the governing body and they met with the blood testing laboratory director who then made the failed EPO test disappeared.

The short answer is that it is a whole lot cheaper than fighting another trillion dollar war in the middle east, in this case it will likely to cost tens of trillions because of the nuclear capability of Pakistan.