Sunlight Foundation sheds light on Pharma big money lobbying

The Sunlight Foundation whose stated purpose is to increase governmental transparency at all levels teamed up with the Center for Responsive Politics to determine how much and who received lobbying monies in the form of contributions to various Senators and House members.
Congressional members made out big time during the health care debate, especially [...]

NASA | A Tour of the Cryosphere 2009

NASA debuted a new video last week, gathered from several satellites and put together. The completed video features the polar ice caps and what is happening to them. It’s a spectacular video.
Here it is:

Read this Iranian Twitterer

As of right now, most Iranians appear to be off-line. It’s the middle of the night in Iran, and after the constant twittering and reporting of the last two days, these people must be exhausted. However, there are still a few reporting. Here is one of them.

GOP hates Republican moderates

For the life of me, I cannot understand why the GOP wants to lose the support of middle Americans by shooting their own feet. According to reports, the GOP plans to oppose the re-election of the three moderate Republicans who voted for the Stimulus package. The GOP will support any Republican opponent who [...]

Activist Norman Lear….

Producer Norman Lear is lending his support towards changing America with his new web site, Born Again America and the song by the same name.

Keith Carradine wrote the song, but

it took the efforts of Director Mark Johnson of Playing for Change, Producer Brent Miller, and 16 performers and two choruses [...]

Can we negotiate a reduction in Congressional salaries?

Since Republican Senators think it is acceptable to demand the reduction of UAW salaries and benefits, can we demand a reduction in Congressional salaries and benefits?
Currently, Congressional salaries are over a $100K/yr plus benefits that most of us only dream about, including a very lucrative lifetime retirement plan that covers all former [...]

Bush Legal Counsel speaks about Obama

Bradford Berenson, Harvard Law, class of ‘91, associate White House counsel, 2001-’03, Conservative

He made an extraordinary decision. He turned his back on what would normally be the standard route for any president of the Harvard Law Review, which is to take very prestigious judicial clerkships, probably including a clerkship at the Supreme Court of the [...]

Bailout/Rescue Pkg: WHAT IT MEANS TO YOU!

If you’re still on the fence as to why some kind of bailout-rescue package is necessary for the U.S. economy, look at the following excerpts from today’s business columns and reports.
While everyone is wringing their hands and decrying the excess of Investment Banks (and excess there most definitely was!), it behooves everyone to [...]

Making America Stupid

Tom Friedman weighs in on the election and ET in his Sept 13 column.
McCain is rapidly losing whatever media support he ever had.

McCain’s lies exposed