News The House health care bill passes over the weekend, 220-215!! Meet Anh “Joseph” Cao, the lone Republican Congressperson to vote for the bill. Here’s a statement from his official website. As reasons go, standing up for the poor and uninsured in your district is a pretty good reason for it. And the fact that …
News Five British soldiers are killed in Afghanistan. Election results: Republicans Chris Christie and Bob McDonnell win the governorships of New Jersey and Virginia respectively, but Democrat Bill Owens pulls off an upset in NY-23. A slim majority in Maine rejects gay marriage. Green Some new photos illustrate the impact our dependency on plastic (and …
News It’s Election Day 2009, with a number of races of note going on, including in Virginia, New Jersey, and New York. James Dobson steps down from Focus on the Family. Politics While Republicans are focused on stopping the Democrats’ larger legislative plans–health-care reform, finance reform, climate change–the latter are pushing through a lot of …
Turns out, I just needed a couple days to get back in the driver’s seat. 🙂 News The U.S. economy grew! Which apparently means the recession is officially over. The President signs the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act into law. Andre Agassi admits taking crystal meth back in 1997 and …
Go buy this t-shirt: Or just follow the advice found thereupon. News A nuclear fuel agreement is reached in Iran. Human Rights Watch says dozens of ethnic Uighurs have disappeared since being detained after riots in China. The really, really smart people at Apple release a brand new iMac, complete with the really, really pretty …