Last week on the evening of August 13, I received a phone call from a good friend with bad news. Marine Sgt. Bill Cahir was KIA during his third tour of duty in the Middle East theater. Bill had previously done two tours in Iraq and now this one was in Afghanistan with the [...]
I am sure I will take some heat from those who follow this blog for writing about something that deals with Pennsylvania, but it is my home state and I am proud of that. And yesterday I noticed that Patrick Dowd has officially jumped into the race for mayor of Pittsburgh.
As I [...]
I am an avid reader of the MSNBC First Read every morning. And today was no exception. This morning’s edition was all about Sen. Judd Gregg’s pullout from his nomination to become President Obama’s Commerce secretary. And while it laid out some great points to think about for the day, I think [...]
Upon hearing the news that President Obama would seek to limit annual income for executives whose firms accepted federal bailout money (TARP), I started to think about the outrage that some top brass in those companies were probably feeling. As we have also learned about the $18 billion in bonuses for these Wall Street [...]
It has been written about for weeks . . . the Republican Party is at odds with itself and this week was a good demonstration of their internal frustration.
First, we saw a unanimous dissent to President Obama’s economic recovery plan by House Republicans despite his traveling up to Capitol Hill to discuss it. Despite [...]
Are you sick of all the campaign ads yet? Probably a dumb question. And so many of them that you are seeing are probably those with photo-shopped images of candidates making them look spooky, goofy or both. Well there is nothing that moves people more so than when they hear testimony from [...]
I have been monitoring this issue for a few weeks now and it just keeps reaching new lows. Thanks to the folks at the Center for Independent Media for uncovering this story in Michigan where one of the GOP party leaders was quoted as say that come election day they were going to [...]