Proving once again the irresistible allure of Barack Obama, Twitter has announced they will scrap the 140-character tweet limit for the President’s upcoming Twitter town hall. Now let’s see if he can use that mojo to raise a more important limit: the debt ceiling. Props: Death + Taxes
The Truth About Taxes in America
Taxes are a contentious thing in America, seemingly more so than in any other western country. Despite the advice of Oliver Wendell Holmes, who famously described them as the cost of civilization, Americans detest all forms of taxation – especially on income. And the idea that President Obama has raised income taxes seems to be […]
Lin-Man at the White House
This isn’t the first or the last time we’ve posted about Lin-Man (a.k.a. Lin-Manuel Miranda). This guy is both a disgustingly talented freestyler and a Tony-award winning actor. Hell, this guy was even on House. He was invited to perform at the first-ever White House Poetry Jam and absolutely killed the spot. You can see […]
The House passed a health care bill. Now what?
On November 8, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, by a razor-thin 220-215 margin. It sounds good, but what does it actually mean? Has free, universal health-care finally arrived in the States? Have Obama and his cabal of socialist advisers pulled the wool over the eyes of […]
Officials foil ‘plot’ to kill Obama
In what is basically breaking news, law enforcement officials in the US have “broken” a plot to kill Barack Obama. The plot itself does lack some credibility, but I’m happy that the security officials took it so seriously. In essence, this is what transpired: Two neonazi skinhead douchebags (one of them pictured on the left) […]
Powell backs Obama
Colin Powell gave a resounding endorsement to Barack Obama recently, and this is a pretty huge development. He is one of the mot eloquent statesmen to come out of the Republican party in the last few years, and one of the few from the Bush administration that is still looked on with serious amounts of […]
Alfred E Smith dinner was a Presidential roast
This was a refreshing change from the increasingly dark and mean presidential campaign. John McCain and Barack Obama managed to sit down together at the 63rd annual Alfred E. Smith foundation dinner. It’s become somewhat of a tradition for the presidential contenders to appear at this white-tie event to raise money for the charitable foundation, […]
Presidential Debate #2 overview
The “town hall” style meeting held instead of an actual debate was more of an annoyance than anything else. Just now, when both candidates are sharpening their attacks and all that, we’re forced to settle for no real discusson or debate. Instead, Tom Brokaw asks them questions he’s selected from submissions (and the audience gets […]
Hip hop and Politics at the DNC
Those of you following the Democratic National Convention in Denver may have noticed a couple of interesting guests lately. Kanye’s probably the biggest name to grace the stage, at least in terms of commercial success. But Wyclef and Pharrell are expected to make appearances as well. It should prove to be interesting, to have hip […]
Obama picked Biden
Despite our earlier conjecture, Obama went ahead and announced his choice for his running mate as Sen. Joe Biden (D-Delaware). Not a bad choice, I guess, especially when you look at him on paper. He’s got extremely strong foreign policy experience and is well recognized for it. He chairs the Senate foreign relations committee and […]