Another Texas miracle: The number of Texas jobs lost to China   One point not popping up in Republican debates so far is that the state of Texas ranks #2 in jobs lost to China over the past ten years. Gov. Rick Perry himself does not seem too unhappy about this, judging from his rapport [...]

After the Tea Party deluge: new GOP African-American reps flying high, financially   Following up on the posts of the past two days on debt, the debt ceiling, and campaign debt     Here in alphabetical order is a quick list of the new African-American members of Congress among the Republican majority in the House [...]

After the Tea Party deluge: new GOP Latino reps in a bind Following up yesterday’s post On debt, the debt ceiling, and debt closer to home, including campaign debt   All of the new Republican Latino members of the House except Raul Labrador of Idaho, whose name was omitted by error earlier, voted finally to [...]

Debt, more debt, and Tea Party representatives debt Freshmen members of Congress most in debt include the following, all elected in 2010. Names in alphabetical order; dollar amounts as of now (Sept. 2011), heading toward the end of the third quarter; totals rounded downward to nearest thousand. Filings at the October deadline, after Q3 ends, [...]

Re-post:          Rumsfeld and Cheney pressured CIA to mislead Congress in the 1970s The Iraq war, shades of Vietnam The first time Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld pressured the Central Intelligence Agency to mislead Congress was in 1975 and 1976, when Cheney was chief of staff to President Gerald Ford and Rumsfeld was Ford’s secretary of [...]

Obama address this evening Still ahead, at 7:00 Eastern— Every thinking person knows the president is carrying a heavy load, with virtually the entire GOP in office refusing to do anything that would help the nation. There are very few exceptions, partial at that, mainly Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and Rep. Ron Paul, and the [...]

There is no such thing as ‘Obamacare’ Just switched on the GOP so-called ‘debate’, on MSNBC, during commercial breaks for The Mentalist. For anyone who really wants to learn something about the state of the nation, the latter is a better call btw. Admittedly the GOP line-up is a luminous example of the depths to [...]