Published: mic (May 21, 2013)
Update: Since this article was written, Senator Coburn announced that he would be insistent that any aid to the Oklahoma tornado victims must be offset by additional spending cuts elsewhere — predictably putting partisan politics ahead of helping his constituents. Read more here.
It’s always immensely satisfying to read an article that makes its point simply by listing facts.
Published: mic (May 18, 2013), The Morning Call (May 20, 2013)
From a strictly political standpoint, the past month has been pretty good for Sen. Ted Cruz. First the Tea Party darling further endeared himself to grassroots rightists by claiming that he had privately told the Republican senators who supported the gun-buyer background check bill to “not be a bunch of squishes.”
Published: mic (May 1, 2013)
If you thought NBC’s inept mishandling of the Tonight Show franchise was the mother of all network debacles, take a look at this recent story about ABC from the Los Angeles Times:
On Thursday, production company Prospect Park Networks filed a $25-million breach of contract lawsuit against the Walt Disney Co-owned broadcast network.
Published: mic (April 20, 2013)
Now that the world knows that the Boston Marathon bombers were Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, let’s take a moment to reflect on who was NOT responsible.
It wasn’t that Saudi Arabian guy who was blamed on the first day. It wasn’t the tall skinny guy in the blue shirt whose picture was plastered all over the New York Post, nor was it his friend.
Published: mic (April 15, 2013)
Here are eight words that I doubt have ever come from the pen of a liberal columnist:
“Where is Rick Santorum when we need him?”
This thought comes to mind as soon as one looks at PA HB683, a new bill introduced in Santorum’s home state of Pennsylvania that would outlaw whistleblowing on factory farm cruelty.
Published: mic (April 15, 2013)
Let me get three things off my chest before I start this article:
1. I have absolutely no opinion whatsoever on Justin Bieber.
2. I find it a tad creepy that so many people above the age of sixteen actually DO have an opinion on Justin Bieber.