A few days ago, President Obama told a story about an OFA supporter in
St. Louis who had volunteered during the campaign and organized her
community for health reform, but recently succumbed to breast cancer.




She didn't have quality insurance, so she put off crucial exams and
didn't catch it early enough. And while she… Continue

TPM Editors Blog
Game On?
Josh Marshall | February 4, 2010, 9:55AM

House Republicans don't have an official budget yet. But they have what amounts to a first draft. The official budget will be released in March or April and will be authored by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), the ranking member of the House Budget Committee in consultation with the other Republicans on the Committee. But Ryan has released a budget he'd like. And it's actually fairly detailed. And if you read it, which we have, you start… Continue

Obama Is Done Taking Questions

A group of bloggers, commentators, and political junkies who once thought they would never agree on anything but "John Edwards' future in politics" has united to wage an online campaign for an American "question time." The coalition, which includes Grover Norquist, Mark McKinnon, Nate Silver, and a dozen others, says it was inspired by President Obama's back-and-forth with House Republicans on Friday, which was followed up by a similar exchange with Senate Democra… Continue

Cart before the horse
Saturday, January 30, 2010



A recent community forum on growth and livability in Charleston took up a number of residents' concerns, including increased cruise ship operations, new zoning for east Calhoun Street, the renovation of Gaillard Auditorium, an expanded City Market, the redevelopment of Concord Park and the proposed African-American Museum.

All of those changes are within or adjacent the east Calhoun Street area for which City Council unanimously approved a com… Continue

The rich and powerful in DC are just like the na'vi
by kos

Fri Jan 29, 2010 at 09:56:08 AM PST

Did you hear how the poor villagers in DC are just like the innocent na'vi, and they have been bombed into oblivion by the Obama Administration because they are working too hard and won't party with Sally Quinn? It's true. She just told us.

When Obama was elected, people began singing "Happy Days Are Here Again." Expectations were over the top. It would be only hours before we would all be dancing o… Continue

Fast Facts on the S.C. Employment Security Commission …

Written by SCPC
Thursday, 28 January 2010 20:27

Who is to Blame for the Unemployment Insurance Shortfall?

As reported on The Nerve, the S.C. Employment Security Commission (ESC) has mismanaged millions in payroll taxes, likely leaving South Carolina employers and employees on the hook for an estimated $2 billion-plus bailout of the Unemployment Insurance (UI) Trust Fund. While legislators claim the commission is to blame, the real proble… Continue

Commentary
Bauer should drop out of gubernatorial race

By Andy Brack, Publisher
JAN. 29, 2010 – Let’s give a big hand to gubernatorial candidate Andre Bauer: He’s wrapped up the intolerant, racist, elderly vote with recent comments linking stray animals to people on government aid. Maybe all the lieutenant governor now has to do to garner the GOP nod is expand his base by speeding more cars, crashing more planes and punching more walls.

What he really should do is save the state from four year… Continue

I am an African-Caribbean (Bahamas) but I have some family members that are Haitian and the resent comments by Pat Robertson are lies. Requesting favors from the forces of evil is not something we do. It is or was not part of any of our traditional ancient African religions or has it been since we have converted to Islam or Christianity. When the quake happened the Haitian people was shouting in the streets that the earthquake was a signal that the second coming of Jesus was at hand. Whatever mo… Continue

The link between Mind and Social / Environmental-Issues.

The fast-paced, consumerist lifestyle of Industrial Society is causing exponential rise in psychological problems besides destroying the environment. All issues are interlinked. Our Minds cannot be peaceful when attention-spans are down to nanoseconds, microseconds and milliseconds. Our Minds cannot be peaceful if we destroy Nature.

Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment.

Subject : In a fast society slow emotions… Continue

Speech writing is in lots of ways similar writing a paper, apart from that there is no penalty for spelling and punctuation mistakes. You should not try to write words in your speech that you are not relaxed pronouncing or don't know the meaning of because it can lead to a less fluently delivered speech.

To be able to write a high-quality speech is a lot like making a good cake. Having the right elements is key for it's success. Every… Continue