Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul said Thursday evening that Bush administration officials were gleeful after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks because it gave them a pretext to invade Iraq. "Just think of what happened after 9/11.
the lytro light field camera has been announcedsee image here lytro is the focus / matrix camera that has a number of different focusing "fields" so after you take a picture you c …
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Canon introduced this tuesday 10/18 a new flagship / top of the line camera -- the 1D X (a full frame which replaces both the 1D APS-H sensor camera and the 1D-S full frame camera.This camera has a full frame sensor with expanded / larger pixels for better low light / dynamic ran …
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The boasts of Congressional Republicans about their cost-cutting victories are ringing hollow to some well-known economists, financial analysts and corporate leaders, including some Republicans, who are expressing increasing alarm over Washington’s new austerity and an …
This phony debt crisis has now passed through the looking glass into the realm where madness reigns.
<blockquote> "Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself." ~ Mark Twain ~
If you had only paid a 6% tax rate over a 4-year period, accumulated $7 billion in offshore profits not subject to US taxes, had over 150 accounts in tax-haven countries like the Cayman Islands and Bermuda, and used the money from your tax dodging to buy another company, you'd be …
<blockquote>If the debt-limit debate had anything to do with reality, every story about it would include a few basic facts.
Reality - what the corporate right does not want you to understand from the Article: Businesses do not create jobs. In fact, the way our economy is structured the incentive is for businesses to get rid of as many jobs as they can. Demand Creates Jobs
I go into this lengthy explanation not so much to justify my intolerance, but to explain why I have problems suffering the pseudo-patriotism of people in places like Arizona where stupidity has suffocated rational thought.
To All I have basically left newsvine but have stuck around to keep the groups going. This one, The Patriotic People I have the most problems with
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I recently took over this dormant group and would like some help on which way to go with it.
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The White House is suggesting GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney should release his tax returns, saying it's "established tradition" for presidential candidates to do so.
A little bit of sanity in an ocean of the absurd. One of our wonderful Comedy Channel hosts, aka. the GOP Presidential Candidates, has realized that History makes a difference.
If I hear another person in their fifties with a ponytail tell me that they're not going to vote this year because they couldn't get a public option, I will scream. -- Andrew Sullivan
The U.S. Supreme Court has passed up a set of cases for the online age — whether schools may censor students who are off-campus when they create online attacks against school officials and other students.
There is one party today talking about socialism and Europe and that is the GOP. Every time you turn on a debate or listen to the latest GOP primary candidates talking point inevitability the talk of socialism and Europe comes up. The GOP seems obsessed and preoccupi …
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