I found this over at Power Line and I’m reprinting it in full… I’m delighted to be collaborating with Joe Trippi, one of my favorite liberals, on a bipartisan project to support America’s veterans. The project is called the Eleven Eleven campaign; the objective is to get 11 million Americans to contribute $11 apiece to [...]

Found this little nugget in a piece about Huck in the Politico today. Apparently he’s leading the pack with GOPers… Gallup’s survey of Republicans found that 71 percent would consider voting for him, more than for Palin, Romney or others. The same survey found that he’s the only Republican whom even 50 percent of Americans [...]

The New York Times uncovers a rather disturbing oversight that economists are just now focusing on. Actually, disturbing isn’t the right word. Terrifying is much more of an accurate descriptor. In any event… The fundamental shortcoming is in the way imports are accounted for. A carburetor bought for $50 in China as a component of [...]

In the annals of Supreme Court history, there are perhaps only a handful of cases that go down in history as more egregious than what happened in Suzette Kelo v. City of New London. In that case, the Supreme Court approved an eminent domain taking by the City of New London, Connecticut that involved taking [...]

You can view the recently passed HR 3962, the “Affordable Health Care for America” act, at http://docs.house.gov/rules/health/111_ahcaa.pdf (PDF file). While there is still quite a bit of change anticipated before this bill is consolidated with the upcoming Senate effort, we can at least see the text of the current proposal. The bill has several “immediate [...]

Hello all. A recent move and career change means I’ve not been the most prolific of bloggers lately, but hopefully I’ll have more time, now that I’m settled, to pop in now and again. For those that don’t remember me, I run a right-of-centre trans-Atlantic group blog called The Crossed Pond. I’m a RiNO, for [...]

This article has multiple issues. No kidding. Let’s start at the beginning: Is corporatocracy a far-left conspiracy theory or is it that government of the people, for the people and by the people perishing from the earth? It’s hard to say – literally, corporatocracy is a hard word to write and say. It occurs to [...]

We’ve crossed the psychological barrier and this spells bad news for Dems unless they can turn it around in the next couple months. Because this is the highest rate since 1983 and you’ll be hearing that time and time again in the next month. Here’s more about those numbers: Among the major worker groups, the [...]

Donklephant has been nominated for ‘Best Political Blog’ in the 2009 Weblog Awards. You can vote for the nomination here. Also, do check out some of the other categories, as there are many great blogs (and bloggers) that are nominated every year.

It bugs me when either party peddles a false meme before a certain event, as was the case last night with the “GOP is making a comeback if we win anything” talking points. And yet today the media is grabbing it hook, line and sinker. But why? Let’s look at the facts… Republicans won the [...]

142,817 VOTES FOR BLOOMBERG ON COLUMN C DELIVERS MARGIN TO CITY’S FIRST INDEPENDENT MAYOR New York, NY-The Independence Party vote for Mike Bloomberg yesterday broke numerous records and re-enforced its ongoing mandate for independent governance and non-partisan reform. Unofficial returns released by the Board of Elections put the IP total on Column “C” at 142,817 [...]

The Wash Post’s Ezra Klein interviewed the CEO of Kaiser Permanente and found massive differences when looking at health care costs in the US and other countries. Yes, it’s not even close. Gee, I wonder why we’re going bankrupt… And those are just 3 graphs! Want to see the other 19? Click here to download [...]

Ahh, I “love” the political critters in the House. Why? Just watch… Here’s the thing, the reason these folks can get away with nonsense like this is because congressional districts have been so gerrymandered as to be almost completely red or blue. And given that Rep. Foxx is from North Carolina’s 5th district (very safely [...]

As I’ve said numerous times before, voters aren’t stupid. They know who piloted our economic collapse last year and it’s going to be extremely hard for Republicans to convince them otherwise. Still, it is kind of telling that Republicans blame Obama more for the economy than Bush, even though it’s by a very small 6 [...]

Slowly, but surely, we’ll be getting health care reform in a matter of months. That is, if Democrats don’t overplay their hand. From NY Times: The Senate Finance Committee chairman, Max Baucus of Montana, described “a sense of inevitability, the sense that, yes, we’re going to pass health reform.” In interviews, senior advisers to the [...]