While the use of waterboarding has figured prominently in the debate over Bush Administration approved interrogation methods, there were a number of other techniques that were approved by those Office of Legal Counsel memos written by Jay Bybee, John Yoo and Steven Bradbury.  Those other methods included sleep deprivation, heat/cold exposure and stress positions.
Not to [...]

Ouch.  The GOP lost ground in 25 or 26 demographics polled in a new Gallup poll on political party identification.  Tracing party ID from 2001 to 2009 (i.e., the Bush years), the GOP managed to stay even in only one category; weekly church goers.  Here’s the data

Yessiree, this strategy of having Dick Cheney, Karl Rove [...]

I’ve written several times about tax policy and middle class wage stagnation.  There’s plenty of evidence that as middle class wages languished for the last 25 years, those individuals chose to use overinflated home equity and easy credit to become more and more leveraged in order to live a lifestyle that had moved out of [...]

This ought to be a safe statement; there are folks who shouldn’t be allowed to purchase a gun.  Perhaps they have a history of violent crime or they’re mentally ill – but reasonable people would agree those individuals should be somehow screened out and prohibited from buying guns.
But, in fact, it’s easy to get a [...]

Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK) was interviewed on FOX News today for his reaction to ex-Republican Senator Arlen Specter’s decision to bolt to the Democratic Party.  Watch the interview:
Maybe I’m missing something here, but Sen. Inhofe’s points make absolutely no sense.  First, he claims there’s “people already starting to rebel against (the Obama agenda)”.  Huh?  Let’s [...]