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Commemorative resolutions are passed by Congress all the time. They express a non-controversial way to express support for various people or ideas. The House worked to pass one in support of Mother’s Day. Only the Republicans voted against it. The full story is here and the best part is below: It was [...]

This whole primary debacle has really made me nostalgic for the slightly larger debacle that was Bush vs. Gore in 2000 (perhaps you recall?). Well, thanks to the geniuses at HBO, and Kevin Spacey, I get to relive it: dramatized! Directed by man who brought us Austin Powers (Jay Roach) and Danny Strong (”best-known as [...]

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One of Sun Tzu’s most famous quotes is “Know thy enemy”. What this means is simple. I support Barack Obama. However, it is necessary to understand the psyche and driving motivations of Republicans and conservative thinkers in order to beat them around election time. The same is true during primary season [...]

This is an amazing new website to help show the real cost of the War in Iraq. It cost 3 trillion dollars. That’s a lot of money. It lets you shop for things ranging from Universal Health Care in America to a Secret Island Fortress (A bargain at only 15 million!). [...]

(Courtesy of Jason Reed/Reuters) Tonight I saw one of the most moving displays of earnestness I’ve ever seen from a politician. Barack Obama has weathered a political baptism in fire during the past few weeks, weathering blow after blow from Hillary Clinton, Reverend Wright, the media, and Republicans gleefully following the lead of all of the [...]

Quite frankly, this shocked me, although it was not hard to see coming. From Bloomberg.com … The number of suicides among veterans of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan may exceed the combat death toll because of inadequate mental health care, the U.S. government’s top psychiatric researcher said. Community mental health centers, hobbled by financial limits, haven’t provided enough [...]

First of all read this article here. It is one of the best articles I have read about politics in Michigan from a national blog. The article talks about the Arab-American community in Michigan. The big stat that people like to pull out is that the Detroit area has the largest concentration [...]

Reviving this old series now that school is out, it’s time for the skipped Michigan 14th Congressional District. The fighting 14th is the other Detroit district, along with the 13th. The district is the other part of Wayne County that is not taken by the 13th or the 15th. It is based around the northwest portion [...]

One of the latest controversies to hit the internet was the photos of Matt Leinart, former USC quarterback and current starting quarterback of the Arizona Cardinals. One of them is below: Matt Leinart is 24 years old and rich. What he does on his own personal time is frankly his own business. We [...]