Talk about a dilemma. When the left and the hard left get in a cat fight, for whom do I root?
A Democrat whose name was invoked by President Barack Obama's spokesman in an attack on the party's liberal wing says the White House doesn't understand deep public frustration over the troubled economy.
Rep. Dennis Kucinich tells ABC's "Good Morning America" that press secretary Robert Gibbs shouldn't have attacked the "professional left."
Well, the Census Bureau reports that it will spend about $1.6 billion less than was budgetd to count us all this year. Woo hoo. How grateful are the starving supposed to be for this little crumb?
This works out to about 11 percent less than the $14.7 billion appropriated over 12 years for the 2010 count, and 22 percent less than budgeted for this year.
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San Francisco is now added with Oklahoma City to my Downtowns of Infamy list. O.C. is where the parking meter was introduced back in 1935. And S.F. has come up with the latest innovation for that evil contraption:
I give you, direct from the pages of their high school yearbooks (via gawker.com), the most hottest, dynamic political couple since Marty Matalin and James Carville -- Rachel Maddow and Rush Limbaugh! Scary.
Another school system that doesn't know when to leave well enough alone:
MOUNT OLIVE, N.J. -- Who wants to pay for "D"-quality plumbing? Fly the skies with a "D"-rated pilot? Settle for a "D" restaurant?
This one's going to bug me all weekend:
MADISON, Wis. — With the district in a financial crisis and hundreds of its members facing layoffs, the Milwaukee teachers union is taking a peculiar stand: fighting to get their taxpayer-funded Viagra back.
The union has asked a judge to order the school board to again include Pfizer Inc.'s erectile-dysfunction drug and similar pills in its health insurance plans.
Sinking ship. Rats:
Christina Romer, chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, has resigned her post to return to her old job as an economics professor at the University of California at Berkeley, the White House said Thursday. Her resignation is effective Sept. 3.
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More power to them:
SEATTLE — Forty wealthy families and individuals have joined Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates and billionaire investor Warren Buffett in a pledge to give at least half their wealth to charity.
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Our government at work: When the Kindle DX -- the larger one about the size of a legal pad -- came out, one of its envisioned uses was for textbooks. College students could save hundreds of dollars in fees and not have to lug all those books around. So Amazon decided to try that idea out, creating a polot program to give Kindles to students at a few universities. Enter the Department of Justice:
Lots of people are commenting on Judge Vaughn Walker's tossing of California's Prop. 8, thereby invalidating the actions of Californians who voted to define marriage in one man-one woman terms, but the American Family Association was one of only a few groups to send me a press release on it. The AFA says one thing I agree with and one I disagree with:
This is where AFA gets it right:
