The Times, again, bending reality to fit their narrative of tax cuts adding to government debt: Republicans say cutting taxes would ease millions of families’ financial difficulties while encouraging the creation of jobs. But tax cuts mean higher government deficits, and Thursday’s report illustrated that clearly, estimating that extending the entire Bush tax cut package […]

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Is that all of the talking heads and those they bring on their respective shows are fucking scumbags. Reason’s hit & run: It’s all theater, you see. She’s just playing a part. It’s fine if she slanders some people, ruins some reputations, spouts flat falsehoods, and generally dumbs down the public discourse. Because it’s just […]

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WaPo: D.C. Council member Tommy Wells (D-Ward 6) said he thinks the answer is an earlier curfew. District residents 17 and younger have to be off the streets by midnight in the summer. Wells proposed an 11 p.m. curfew for people 15 and younger, but most of the council members opposed the move, with some […]

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Geoff Morrell, press secretary for the Pentagon, on Wikileaks: Public disclosure of additional Defense Department classified information can only make the damage worse [. . .] We are asking them to do the right thing. We hope they will honor our demands and comply with our demands. mad libertarian guy’s translation: Public disclosure of additional […]

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The terminally libertarded and their press hacks have a serious disconnect with reality. They see the lack of tax revenue as a great injustice, and write about the poor souls who are suffering due to our unwillingness to pay their way through life. The length of the downturn means that many places have used up […]

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How is it that you help write what amounts to partisanship horseshit, then turn around and write something of actual value on the exact same issue? This is the difference between “move along, nothing to see here” and a scathing account of just how allegedly corrupt Waters has been acting.

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Nice whitewash job, New York Times. Way to put partisan politics over doing actual journalism.

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I knew it wouldn’t take too long for a lefty greentard to be upset that the oil spill isn’t the ecological disaster the media hyperbole claimed it would be. Now that the oil on the surface appears to be dissipating, the notion of a recovery from the spill, repeated by politicians, strikes some here as […]

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The Wall Street Journal: White House aides said they didn’t try to talk the Times out of publishing the reports because they knew WikiLeaks would publish the information regardless. So your thinking is that if WikiLeaks wasn’t going “to publish the information regardless” you would have tried? How about not trying to talk the Times […]

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The War Logs: An archive of classified military documents offers an unvarnished view of the war in Afghanistan Americans fighting the war in Afghanistan have long harbored strong suspicions that Pakistan’s military spy service has guided the Afghan insurgency with a hidden hand, even as Pakistan receives more than $1 billion a year from Washington […]

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