http://blog.lib.umn.edu/onye0004/politics/ Now with two brain cells to rub together en-us onye0004@tc.umn.edu 2009-01-31T20:27:35-06:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/onye0004/politics/164168.html Globalization, HELL YEAH!!! India to be spared of Boeing job cuts NAGPUR: Aircraft manufacturing major Boeing, which has announced plans to cut 10,000 jobs worldwide this year in view of the global economic crisis, would not lay-off employees in India,... 164168@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/onye0004/politics/ Corporatism 2009-01-31T20:27:35-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/onye0004/politics/160408.html Republican family values once again rears its head: Levi Johnston's mother hit with drug charges WASILLA -- A 42-year-old Wasilla woman was arrested Thursday at her home by Alaska State Troopers with a search warrant in an undercover drug investigation.... 160408@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/onye0004/politics/ Conservatism 2008-12-19T15:05:39-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/onye0004/politics/160059.html It simply pays to be a corporate criminal: Goldman Sachs’s Tax Rate Drops to 1%, or $14 Million Dec. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc., which got $10 billion and debt guarantees from the U.S. government in October, expects... 160059@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/onye0004/politics/ Corporatism 2008-12-16T23:34:41-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/onye0004/politics/159789.html From an Iraqi journalist greeting our liberator-in-chief with all the gratitude he deserves: Too bad he missed. They don't call him a lame "duck" for nothing* *Nominated for Worst Pun Award of 2008.... 159789@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/onye0004/politics/ Bush 2008-12-14T22:33:42-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/onye0004/politics/148330.html Dumbya at 23% per ABC News/Washington Post... 148330@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/onye0004/politics/ Bush 2008-10-13T05:20:41-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/onye0004/politics/145601.html Who'da thunk that it would be Republicans that would save us from this $700 billion tax giveaway to greedy Wall Street crooks. I know, I know, we need it to avoid an economic catastrophe, but come on. No more band-aids.... 145601@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/onye0004/politics/ Corporatism 2008-09-29T16:19:09-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/onye0004/politics/142715.html Holy kites. Kevin Drum, (apparently now at Mother Jones) highlights research by two political scientists that shows that political conservatives are actually more likely to believe a lie if shown actual evidence that repudiates the lie: Political scientists Brendan Nyhan... 142715@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/onye0004/politics/ Conservatism 2008-09-16T09:07:16-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/onye0004/politics/133444.html If a staff at The Onion tried to submit this as a fake story, they'd be reprimanded for being far too implausible: Two United States Senators implicated in extramarital sexual activity have named themselves as co-sponsors of S. J. RES.... 133444@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/onye0004/politics/ Conservative Politics 2008-06-27T16:02:41-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/onye0004/politics/125481.html Didn't ya read John 6. . .uh. . .fifteen where he said "make an enemy and smite them" or something along those lines? Anyhoo, the reichwing Christian nutcases certainly loved the fact that a Jesus sign for peace was destroyed:... 125481@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/onye0004/politics/ Eye-Rack 2008-04-29T14:35:56-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/onye0004/politics/125365.html Thank Gawd we don't have commie welfare like those Old Yewrope countries: Cash Before Chemo: Hospitals Get Tough By BARBARA MARTINEZ April 28, 2008; Page A1 LAKE JACKSON, Texas -- When Lisa Kelly learned she had leukemia in late 2006,... 125365@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/onye0004/politics/ Health Care 2008-04-28T21:04:03-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/onye0004/politics/124754.html A new high of sixty-three percent of Americans either have buyers remorse or are objectively pro-Saddam, according to Gallup. Too bad that they are all just part of a focus group. (via Atrios)... 124754@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/onye0004/politics/ Eye-Rack 2008-04-25T10:20:29-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/onye0004/politics/124596.html They don't even try to hide their lies anymore: (CBS) People who believe the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision giving the 2000 presidential election to George W. Bush was politically motivated should just get over it, says Justice Antonin Scalia. Scalia... 124596@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/onye0004/politics/ Crooks And Liars 2008-04-24T14:58:32-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/onye0004/politics/119029.html More progress, I'm sure.... 119029@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/onye0004/politics/ Eye-Rack 2008-03-24T02:13:49-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/onye0004/politics/118639.html Abu Ghraib cover girl Lynndie England tells a German magazine that it's the media, not her actions, that inflamed the insurgency: Lynndie England, the public face of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, told a German news magazine that she was... 118639@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/onye0004/politics/ Eye-Rack 2008-03-18T17:35:34-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/onye0004/politics/117533.html New headline in Shit We Already New In 2002 Weekly: Exhaustive review finds no link between Saddam and al Qaida By Warren P. Strobel WASHINGTON — An exhaustive review of more than 600,000 Iraqi documents that were captured after the... 117533@http://blog.lib.umn.edu/onye0004/politics/ Eye-Rack 2008-03-11T03:34:40-06:00