Category Archives: Bad Deeds

Joe Barton Too Busy Tweeting to Pay Attention to President’s Speech; Blames It On a Staffer – During President Obama’s address to Congress, there was Rep. Joe Barton (R-Tex.), in whose name this text message was sent at about the … Continue reading →

Hero Pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger To Congress: My Pay Has Been Cut 40 Percent In Recent Years, Pension Terminated – Sullenberger, a 58-year-old who joined a US Airways predecessor in 1980, told the House aviation subcommittee that his pay has … Continue reading →

  Diebold ‘Offices’ Turn Out to Mostly be Wal-Marts – To convince Utah decision-makers that Diebold (voting machine company) was a big company with a substantial presence, a company representative told the decision-makers in 2006 that Diebold “has about 20 … Continue reading →

John Cornyn Introduces Bill That Would Require Home Owners To Retain Internet Access Logs – Republican politicians on Thursday called for a sweeping new federal law that would require all Internet providers and operators of millions of Wi-Fi access points, … Continue reading →

“There’s class warfare, all right but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning,” Warren Buffet, CEO Berkshire Hathaway and third richest man in the United States.    In 2006 Mr. Buffet compiled a spreadsheet on … Continue reading →

John Boehner Complains About Non-Existent Stimulus Bill Las Vegas High-Speed Rail Project – The madness continues on the right-wing’s crusade against a mythical high-speed rail to Las Vegas project that Harry Reid is alleged to have snuck into the stimulus … Continue reading →

Conservative Columnist Makes Stuff Up About Global Warming – Syndicated columnist George Will presents only one piece of evidence in his Sunday piece denying global warming — and he gets it wrong. Will writes: As global levels of sea ice … Continue reading →

  Creationists Besiege Texas State Board of Education with Calls to Dumb Down Science Education in Texas Public Schools – As we mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, the religious right has launched a new and … Continue reading →

Dirty Bomb Parts and Instructions for Assembly Found in U. S. – A man who police say was shot to death by his wife two months ago, allegedly had a cache of radioactive materials in his home suitable for building … Continue reading →

Conservative Group Circulates “No Stimulus” Petition – A conservative group called “Americans For Prosperity” has started a petition against the stimulus package that became so popular, it crashed their website in recent days. (The site has since gone back up.) … Continue reading →