Daily Archives: December 13, 2010

The President as Charlie Brown: Worthless and Weak

Guest Column by Michael Douglass I gotta tell ya, I feel for this guy. The President of the United States. He gets his ass kicked by friends and enemies from the time the alarm goes off in the morning to a never so gentle goodnight every damn day. On the surface his legislative accomplishments are…

Activist Conservative Judge Strikes Down Health Care Law Mandate

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy As it turns out, here’s a fact not reported by any of the mainstream media today when reporting that Obama’s national health care law was ruled unconstitutional. Henry E. Hudson, the federal judge in Virginia who ruled only the mandate part of the…

U.S. Senate Takes Up Tax Cut Deal Again Monday

The Senate convenes again today where they plan to resume consideration of The Middle Class Tax Relief Act of 2010 (H.R. 4853). Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has scheduled a procedural vote for 3 p.m. today to move forward on the measure, which includes an extension of unemployment benefits for the next 13 months…

E-Mails Show Fox News Drives Radical Right Agenda

Reports that a Fox News editor directed his staff to use a politically charged phrase recommended by a Republican pollster to misrepresent the Democrats’ health care reform plan is proof that Fox is driving a radical right-wing political agenda, says Ethan Rome, executive director of Health Care for America Now, a grassroots coalition that includes…

The Delusion of God and the Virus of Religion

Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins explains why God is a delusion, religion is a virus, and America has slipped back into the Dark Ages. Guest Column by Gordy Slack Richard Dawkins is the world’s most famous out-of-the-closet living atheist. He is also the world’s most controversial evolutionary biologist. Publication of his 1976 book, The Selfish Gene,…