Among the materials seized from Osama Bin Laden’s compound after he was killed in Pakistan is evidence that Bin Laden was involved in the planning of future terrorist attacks against the United States. Specifically Al Qaeda was considering trying to derail a train on the 10th anniversary of 9/11 (this September 11th.) Information that Bin [...]

Main Street Americans will not stand for the Wall Street Republican budget that ends Medicare as we know it, cuts Medicaid, and gives even bigger tax cuts to the already filthy rich when most average Americans are struggling to make ends meet! Only 18% of Americans support the Republican plan to cut Medicare & Medicaid. [...]

According to Gwenda Blair’s book Donald Trump: Master Apprentice; Donald Trump got a medical deferment 1968 to avoid being drafted to serve in Vietnam. The question is: What was this medical deferment for? Trump was (according to this book) quite an athletic young man so on what basis would he get a medical deferment? ~~~ [...]

Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) says “Shut It Down” if the GOP doesn’t get every single of their demands met (despite the fact that they only control the House while the Democratic Party controls the Senate & the White House.) And he somehow thinks that people are somehow dumb enough to blame the Democrats for the [...]

BarackObama.com The importance of President Obama’s re-election is underscored by the extreme policies of the modern Republican Party without President Obama in the White House to block the GOP then Medicare & Social Security would both be at risk.

While Americans greatly overestimate how much money PBS costs (the average American guessed it takes up 5% of the federal budget when it really takes up about 0.01%) they do not want to cut its funding. According to this CNN poll only 16% of Americans want to eliminate PBS funding entirely, while 53% either want [...]

For all of the Republican talk one would think that the stock market would do better under GOP Presidents than under Democratic Presidents but in fact the reverse is true. This graphic over at the DaiyKos really tells the story quite well. As you can see; it’s not even close. While the stock market soared [...]

For the first time a reputable national poll shows majority support among Americans for equal marriage rights for gay couples. The new Washington Post/ABC News poll 53% of Americans support gay marriage. This is up significantly from the same poll five years ago when only 36% of Americans said they supported gay marriage. Meanwhile the [...]

As the new Republican majority in the House has done absolutely nothing positive for the economy thus far it’s not surprising that the public’s trust in the Republican Party is dropping, although I am a bit surprised (and heartened) that it’s dropping so quickly. Source.

The unemployment rate has dropped to 8.9% with 192K new jobs in February. This gain in jobs is best seasonally adjusted gain since March 2007. This is a good sign that the policies of President Obama and the Democratic controlled House & Senate of the past two years are working. Unfortunately the new GOP majority [...]