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More Comparisons Earlier today I posted a list of the bills and amendments sponsored by either John McCain or Barack Obama that were enacted into law. In this installment, I list the bills and amendments that they co-sponsored that were passed in the 110th Congress. (The 109th is coming later.) Co-sponsorship is tricky. On the […]

Compare And Contrast During the primary, I compared the legislation Clinton and Obama had managed to get enacted (1, 2, 3); and it occurred to me that it would be useful to do the same thing for Obama and McCain. I compare the legislation each person has sponsored (later I’ll do co-sponsored legislation) that actually […]

More Important Than Lipstick, Take 3 From the NYT: “Tracey Minda needed cash to buy clothes and school supplies for her 6-year-old son before the 2006 school year. A preschool teacher and single mother, she was broke after making her mortgage and car payments. The quick and easy answer was a $400 loan from a […]

Sigh … Two things that are worth commenting on, but not worth their own posts. First, yet another lie from the McCain campaign: “The campaign Friday launched a 30-second Spanish-language television ad charging that Democrat Barack Obama and his Senate colleagues torpedoed meaningful changes in immigration laws. “The press reports that their efforts were ‘poison […]

Watch Very Closely… As Steve pointed out earlier, even the AP has started criticizing McCain’s dishonesty. I want to highlight one quote from their piece that particularly annoyed me: “Dan Schnur, a former McCain aide who now teaches politics at the University of Southern California, said McCain and Obama learned they must stretch the truth […]

Ike I recall the moment when I first realized that Hurricane Katrina could be a major disaster: someone, possibly Atrios, had posted the National Hurricane Center’s advisory, and it was flat-out terrifying. I thought of that when I read their most recent advisory for the Galveston area: “NEIGHBORHOODS THAT ARE AFFECTED BY THE STORM SURGE…AND […]

Rape Exams As Steve noted earlier, when Sarah Palin was mayor, Wasilla used to charge rape victims for their forensic exams. It’s abhorrent, especially when you note that as mayor of Wasilla, Sarah Palin had no problem raising money to build a sports center, but drew the line at paying for rape exams. But there […]

More Things That Matter More Than Lipstick From the New York Review of Books the story of a man named Drew Pooters, who served in the Air Force for 14 years, got out, and eventually ended up as a department mananger at a Toys ‘R’ Us: “He liked the job but it didn’t take long […]

Palin And The Bush Doctrine I watched the first clip of Sarah Palin’s interview with Charlie Gibson, and to me, the most striking part was her complete inability to answer the question: “Do you agree with the Bush Doctrine?” Here’s what she said: “Do you agree with the Bush Doctrine?” “In what respect, Charlie?” “The […]

Things That Matter More Than Lipstick The WSJ: “Workers with professional degrees, such as doctors and lawyers, were the only educational group to see their inflation-adjusted earnings increase over the most recent economic expansion, adding to the concern that the economy has benefited higher-earning Americans at the expense of others. Workers in every other educational […]