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"To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman." — Mark Twain This week, the Senate gave the public a fresh and powerful reason to view Twain as correct in his assessment. Whatever your views on ObamaCare, the simple fact is that the GOP Senate voted to repeal ObamaCare in December 2015, knowing full well that President Obama would veto the bill. That vote was conveniently timed to give Republican lawmakers the ability to go back to their states and proclaim that they had tried to repeal ObamaCare, but were thwarted by a Democratic president. "Elect...

Transportation commission proposes levying 10 cents a gallon on fuel to help curb greenhouse gases - In a proposal that fell on deaf ears in Sacramento last year, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission's staff is recommending legislation that would make a gas tax a "fee," and thus make it easier to prevail at the ballot box. Only this year, transportation officials say, the idea could be more palatable as but one arrow in a quiver aimed at reducing the Bay Area's contribution to global warming. Under legislation that went into effect in 1997, the MTC has the authority to put a...

Eason Jordan Reported Saddam's Birthday, Instead April 11, 2003 Our analysis of the Eason Jordan piece in the New York Times did not stop merely with his column. The reality is that as time passes now, there will be more stories of unimaginable atrocities. And the question will be why did the world wait so long while so many were being brutalized? Why did the world wait so long when so many knew that so many were being brutalized? It's a darn good question. As time passes, and as the truth emerges as it always does, there will be more...

Calling the conservative bluff By John Mark Eberhart, Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT) What Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias and the News By Eric Alterman Coulter, Limbaugh, O’Reilly; oh my. Goldberg and Goldberg, Buchanan and Drudge. There they are: Ann and Rush and Bill, Bernard and Jonah and Patrick and Matt. Seven of the most popular political pundits in America, their views on display in newspapers, voices crackling across the airwaves, opinions flying through cyberspace. And nary a liberal among them. But now Eric has come forward to call their bluff. That’s Eric as in Eric Alterman, author of What...