Todd Stroger Applies For Unemployment Benefits
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on March 6th, 2011 5:40 am by HL
Todd Stroger Applies For Unemployment Benefits
Like thousands of Illinoisans who have lost their jobs, former Cook County Board President Todd Stroger has applied for unemployment benefits.But newly minted Board President…
Paul Stoller: Politics in a Culture of Ignorance
Palin, Bachmann and Huckabee unflaggingly demonstrate wholesale ignorance of American history and world affairs. Is there no political price to pay for incompetence?
Arianna Huffington: Sunday Roundup
This week saw the ongoing implosion of a once-likable figure who gave a crazy interview, refused to apologize, and made it worse the more he kept talking. I’m referring, of course, to Mike Huckabee (sorry, Charlie) — who, in an interview with a birther radio host, repeatedly claimed that Obama’s worldview, particularly “his view of the Brits,” was shaped by “having grown up in Kenya.” When it was pointed out that Obama never even visited Kenya until 1987, Huckabee claimed he’d misspoken and meant to say Indonesia — even though it was a Dutch, not a British, colony. This pandering to the worst elements of the Obama-hating fringe is especially disappointing because Huckabee has previously dared to speak eloquently against immigrant bashing and in favor of poverty fighting. Now he’d rather channel his inner Dan Quayle and criticize unwed-but-pregnant Natalie Portman. Maybe he misspoke and meant to slam Bristol Palin.
Lea Lane: Huckabee’s Moment
Politicians lose favor for many reasons. Sometimes it’s a buildup of things so overwhelming that even the under-informed get it: Sarah Palin’s increasing perception as…
