There was a time when everyone took it for granted that unemployment insurance, which normally terminates after 26 weeks, would be extended in times of persistent joblessness. It was, most people agreed, the decent thing to do. But that was then. Today, American workers face the worst job market since the Great Depression, with […]

Part-Time Perry takes 15 long weekends Another reminder that Rick Perry’s in it for himself HOUSTON — As Texans prepare to celebrate the 4th of July and many anticipate a special long weekend, for Part-Time Perry it’s just business as usual. According to state schedules for 2010, the incumbent has taken 15 long weekends despite […]

It is ludicrous that many want us to cut spending now while still in a recession. It is imperative that those who want to be less stimulative educate themselves on  economics and the history of fiscal actions. When I was young and naïve, I believed that important people took positions based on careful consideration of […]

  Mark Zandi, chief economist with Moody’s Economy.com and a former adviser to Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), said Friday that Congress needs to hurry up and reauthorize expired jobless aid or risk derailing the nascent economic recovery. "The odds that the economy will slip back into the recession are still well below even," Zandi said […]

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  Under the Obama administration, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has spent much of his time playing the role of the go-to yet mercurial Republican negotiator. It’s a function previously carried out by his mentor, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), and one that can exact a taxing political cost (see McCain’s inability to rally conservatives in 2008 […]

  GOP Sen. Bob Bennett Says His Own Party Is Short On Policy Ideas (VIDEO) The Huffington Post  Elyse Siegel First Posted: 06-30-10 Sen. Bob Bennett (R-Utah) took aim at his own party’s policy ideas when he took to the podium to speak before a group of moderate Republicans on Wednesday. "As I look out […]

  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Cali.) said last Friday that she fully expects to hold on to her gavel even as Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) finishes every campaign-related speech by predicting he will be the next Speaker. "Of course that’s what he says," said Pelosi, in an exclusive interview with the Huffington Post. "Of […]

Both Maureen Dawd and Kathleen Parker with those editorials as opposed to showing liberated women display their "ageness" by wanting a man who just bullies his way because he is a man. It seems that they would be just fine with that. The whole idea behind the women liberation movement is that women and men […]

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