On Friday, the United States stood alone and vetoed an Arab resolution at the United Nations Security Council. The resolution strongly condemned Israeli illegal settlements in the Palestinian occupied territories of the West Bank and East Jerusalem as a “major obstacle to peace”. All 14 other members of the UN Security Council voted in favor [...]
With crowd estimates ranging from 40,000 to 70,000 at competing protests in Madison, Wisconsin on Saturday, there is sure to be some confusion about who was who at the rally. Reports indicate that the crowds were kept highly segregated, with the Tea Party crowd getting the main capitol grounds and the pro-worker demonstrators surrounding them on the streets. Below find a series of screencaps from various angles consisting of the naked eye view followed by a segmented one to demonstrate the different locations and crowd sizes for a comparison.
The Tea Party groups that are coming to counter protest at the Wisconsin state capitol Saturday have been given an strict set of talking points to stick to from their controllers at the Koch Brothers front group Americans for Prosperity. When they arrive on their camels, scratch that, their astroturfing buses from both in and out of state, the following is what you can expect to hear over and over, along with my analysis debunking each point.
Showing their Fair and Balanced patriotism, the bloviators on Fox News have hammered the Wisconsin protests over Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to eliminate public employees’ collective bargaining rights. Almost every host and show has featured repeated attacks on the protesters. By contrast, Fox has relentlessly promoted– and even encouraged– viewers to participate in Tea Party [...]
The Weeper of the House John Boehner’s playing a baffling game of political flip flop. On Tuesday during a press conference he shrugged off the prospect of massive federal employee layoffs with a dismissive “So be it” “Since President Obama has taken office the federal government has added 200,000 new federal jobs,” Boehner said. “If [...]
