This article appeared on the Black Entertainment Television (BET) website on Wednesday night. The piece is so lame I don’t know how it passes as news. The topic is interesting and engaging, so I am not sure how the writer managed to make it so boring.
There’s one thing I want to point out, and that [...]

This morning I reported that the government’s ‘Cash for Clunkers’ program ran out of cash, meaning that people had to keep their clunkers and give up the cash. Congress just voted to refill the ‘Cash for Clunkers’ trough. The Wall Street Journal just reported:
The House voted 316-109 to approve the transfer of $2 billion in [...]

“Texting while driving should be illegal on every road, every railway, in every state,” said Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) in a press release. “Anything we can do at every level of government to raise awareness and stop texting while driving will save lives.”
The ALERT (Avoiding Life-Endangering and Reckless Texting) Drivers Act is another one of those urgent [...]

It seems we are getting close to seeing anti-DWI locks/control systems become federal law for “convicted drunk drivers.” Remember the kind of people who are convicted of this crime: people who have never harmed anyone, and people who fall asleep in their car, while parked, because they see that as the better option as opposed [...]

The revolving doors between government and its most powerful allies continue to lead an active life. The most sprightly revolving doors are those between government and Big Pharma, government and Wall Street, and government and the defense industry. But don’t forget the media. Remember that Rahm Emanuel, who has not been elected to any office by [...]

Welcome to Federal Government Micromanagement of the Economy 101. NoThe government’s joke-of-a-program, the “Cash for Clunkers” scam, is over already. Why? The tank ran dry.
The so-called “Cash for Clunkers” program will be suspended because the funds set aside for the effort are on the verge of running out, Capitol Hill sources told CNBC.
Transportation Secretary Ray [...]

Since Wal-Mart executives don’t want to fall out of favor with big government, it has offered up its ‘bigness’ to assist with the government’s vaccination plan. I think I smell a merging of the powers here.
“We are in discussions with CDC (U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) and others in local and state departments to [...]

The first piece that crossed my Mac 13″ laptop this morning was this piece in the Wall Street Journal by Donald Luskin, “Can the Fed Identify Bubbles Before They Happen?” Luskin, a guy who denied that there was a housing bubble right up to the end, writes about William C. Dudley, the ex-Goldman Sachs economist just [...]

An MSNBC story likens the birther movement to a conspiratorial, whacko movement to discredit Obama and the Democratic Party. The author, Bill Pascoe, says that birthers should be excommunicated from the church of the “real conservative party,” not unlike the Birchers being purged from the ranks of the conservative movement. He states:
Reasonable and responsible conservatives, thus, are stuck. [...]

As an addendum to my recent blog post about the clinging, hapless populace lining up for a chance to be a swine flu vaccine guinea pig (as well as offering up their children), this MSNBC story doesn’t disappoint.
It’s been just a week since Monica Hankins first heard scientists were looking for volunteers to test an experimental [...]