Around 1939 Germany’s leader, Adolph Hitler installed an officer, a political appointee, in every agency of the German government to make sure that Hitler’s government was advised and was able to provide “guidance” on all policy and regulations. These fine political appointees became to be known as the Gestapo. This President gets more dangerous to our country everyday. I have […]

On being partisan
BY PAUL KRUGMAN NEW YORK TIMES
American politics is ugly these days, and many people wish things were different. For example, Barack Obama recently lamented the fact that “politics has become so bitter and partisan” —which it certainly has. But he then went on to say that partisanship is why “we can’t tackle the […]

So there I was, lying in bed early
Sunday morning, with none other than Mike Huckabee staring me right in the eye. Safe to say, it wasn’t a pretty way to start the day. I’m sure that if someone had told me a decade ago that it would come to this — that Mike Huckabee would […]

Food tax cut sails through committee
Gov. Mike Beebe’s proposal to cut the state’s 6 percent sales tax on groceries to 3 percent sailed through the Senate Revenue and Tax Committee on Monday and was scheduled for a full Senate vote today.
The measure’s fast track could slow in the House, where opposition is forming.
Reducing the […]

Eugene Robinson at the WAPO makes some interesting parallels to Tony Soprano’s gang and Dick Cheney’s gang. Amazing, can you imagine anyone in the mainstream media a year ago comparing the inter-workings of the White House to a mob crime family? If things and testimony gets any uglier for Cheney, we can expect rumblings of […]