In the wake of the Shirley Sherrod story, Andrew Keen, Kyra Phillips, and John Roberts are all in a lather about anonymous bloggers “(saying) rotten things about people.” (The former is an author; the latter two are CNN employees.) Story here. For example, if I were to call Andrew Keen, Kyra Phillips, and John Roberts … Read more
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has offered Shirley Sherrod an apology and a promotion after his department forced her to resign over a video clip, first released by Andrew Breitbart’s biggovernment.com, that appeared to show her telling about not giving a white farmer her “full” help in terms of aid distribution. Problem is, the incident she … Read more
“For us to say that you’ve got to take a responsibility to get health insurance is absolutely not a tax increase.” – Barack Obama, September 2009 It can’t be a tax increase, see. Barack Obama repeatedly promised that there would be no tax increases on the middle class during his presidency. So it may be … Read more