38 days ago by mad madrasi

With all the reports coming in about destruction by the Tropical Cyclone Thane (crass to mention my post earlier on probable havoc, but - Hey! This is what Life and Blogging is all about - not to mention the monkeyshine nutworks ‘byline’, which is “now why didn’t you think of it?”) I decided to take ...

40 days ago by Leslie Robinson

Rick Perry jumpedinto the Republican presidential race in August, and a spate of verbal blundersfollowed. The Texas governor is ongaffe-ing gas. He flubbed thevoting age, the date of the 2012 election, the number of justices on theSupreme Court and the name of Justice Sotomayor. Perry infamously blu ...

42 days ago by PAXALLES

GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann used an iPad to deliver a statement in Iowa - even though she has excoriated President Obama's constant use of a teleprompter for delivering speeches and statements. Bachmann was responding to a critical ad by Governor Rick Perry - but given the propensity ...

45 days ago by Ryan Mink

The Cincinnati Bengals are one of the AFC’s surprise teams, launching themselves into a win-and-in playoff scenario on Sunday after going 4-12 last year. But Head Coach Marvin Lewis has some concerns that the Ravens capitalized on in their last meeting, and may be able to do again. The Bengals have ...

47 days ago by Tonight's Forecast: Dark

I think not intended to be a factual statement has to top the list, even over Rick Perry and Herman Cain. ( HuffingtonPost)

49 days ago by Matteo

* Des voyages candidat de l’opposition en public * Sondage montre gaffes ont blessé sa position * Peña Nieto mène espoirs du Mexique à long dominante PRI Par David Alire Garcia MEXICO (Reuters) – Pour plus de deux ans Enrique Peña Nieto a régné sur ses rivaux aussi chaud favori pour devenir le proch ...

49 days ago by Matteo

Pour plus de deux ans Enrique Peña Nieto a régné sur rivaux comme favori pour devenir le prochain président du Mexique. Mais quelques semaines après, il a lancé sa campagne, ce vernis d’invincibilité a commencé à se fissurer. Le prétendant impeccablement entretenues par l’opposition Parti Révolution ...

51 days ago by Ken Homa

Someone just said in a press conference that the proposed 2-month 2% payroll tax holiday would save an average family earning $50,000 per year about $1,000. Hmmm. Annualizing a 2 month program. Clever arithmetic. Perhaps, sensing that’s misleading, he went on to clarify: that works out to about $40 ...

51 days ago by Cain Is Able

From Huffington Post: NEW YORK – He’s no longer running for president, but Herman Cain will finish 2011 having racked up more national media coverage than any other Republican candidate, according to a report released Wednesday by the Pew’s Project for Excellence in Journalism. Cain’s unorthodox can ...

53 days ago by jackhudson

“The issue here is not going be a list of accomplishments. As you said yourself, Steve, you know, I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president — with the possible exceptions of Johnson, F.D.R., and Lincoln — just in terms of what we’ve g ...