Lux Americana

The Obama administration released some interesting news on Friday.  Normally, Friday is the day of choice for the White House to announce policies and decisions which it doesn’t want to garner much media coverage.  By the time everyone is back to work on Monday and reading the news, the story has been effectively buried over [...]

When it was written in 1977, the musical “Annie” contained a song called “We’d Like to Thank You (Mr. Hoover),” but those who’ve been in the theatre in the last 8 years or so probably haven’t heard it.  Much like you probably haven’t heard much about the Boulder Dam, but you probably know about the [...]

According to a report today from Fox News, on the morning of September 11, 2001 just minutes before the news came of a terrorist attack, the Ragin’ Cajun said of then-president George W. Bush, “I certainly hope he doesn’t succeed.”
Carville was joined by Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg, who seemed [...]

Republican pollster Whit Ayres has described the GOP as having “just entered the wilderness,” according to Politico.
“We’re going to wander around there for a little while before coming back stronger than ever,” Ayres continues.
For my part, I’m not so sure about that “stronger than ever” bit.  Apparently, neither is anyone else.  A reader poll attached [...]

President Barack Obama signed the new SCHIP bill into law on February 4, creating a massive new tax on all tobacco products.
RYO Revolution has a handy table, showing the rate of increase.  Cigarette smokers will be paying an extra $0.62/pack, an increase of over 150% of the existing tax.  Roll-your-own and cigarillo smokers will see [...]

It was reported on Tuesday that former White House Counsel (and rejected Supreme Court nominee) Harriet Miers and former White House Adviser Karl Rove have finally “agreed” to testify before Congress, regarding the firings of U.S. attorneys under the Bush administration.
The question is, to someone who couldn’t care less about being cited for contempt of Congress, [...]