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Misinformation about health care reform from Senator Hutchison?

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I just read the Senator’s health care column from yesterday. The 4th and 5th paragraphs The Administration’s proposal contains tax penalties and fees on small businesses that are not able offer health insurance. To pay these added costs, many small businesses could be forced to decrease workers wages, hire fewer employees, implement layoffs, or cut …

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Congress needs to hold Cheney accountable

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From MoveOn.org: Did you see the news? President Bush let Scooter Libby, the one man who was convicted for the lies around the Iraq war, go free. Paris Hilton served more jail time than he will. And the obstruction of justice doesn’t stop there. The Senate recently subpoenaed documents from the Vice President’s office around …

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Save NPR and PBS (again)

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Everyone expected House Republicans to give up efforts to kill NPR and PBS after a massive public outcry stopped them last year. But they’ve just voted to eliminate funding for NPR and PBS—unbelievably, starting with programs like “Sesame Street.” Public broadcasting would lose nearly a quarter of its federal funding this year. Even worse, all …

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The Security Threat of Unchecked Presidential Power

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While I initially found the alleged illegal wiretapping authorized President Bush very troubling, it seems much more so after reading Bruce Schneier‘s blog on The Security Threat of Unchecked Presidential Power: … the president’s wartime powers, with its armies, battles, victories, and congressional declarations, now extend to the rhetorical “War on Terror”: a war with …

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Europeans Of The Year

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Unless you’re totally xenophobic, you should consider voting for the Europeans of the Year, organized by the European Voice magazine, which “casts a spotlight on 50 individuals who have most influenced the European legislative and political agenda during the preceding year”. (They have to be European, but you don’t.) I took interest in this poll …

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Klan Rally To Support Gay Marriage Amendment

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A TV news station site in Houston has a story about the KKK coming to Austin to rally for the Gay Marriage Amendment. (Apparently sites like the Austin American-Statesman don’t find it newsworthy…) My favorite part of the story is the protest of a Baptist Pastor they interviewed: Rush said that a group that would …

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Are Corporations Gay?

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We were discussing Texas Proposed Constitutional Amendment 2 (of 9) at lunch today. “The constitutional amendment providing that marriage in this state consists only of the union of one man and one woman and prohibiting this state or a political subdivision of this state from creating or recognizing any legal status identical or similar to …

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Savor the Santorum

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Thanks, Julian, for making sure I didn’t miss National Santorum Awareness Week! Evil, liberal Austin must have blinded me with a blissfully ignorant veil of unawareness! [Hmmmm… E-V-I-L. V-E-I-L. Coincidence or liberal conspiracy? We know what you’re up to!] And thank you, Conservatives for American Values, for declaring this Holy week of Observance, and for …

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