Political Equinox

You can now become a member of the club. I’m not talking about the A/V Club, Club Med or even the Club for Growth. I’m talking about the most exclusive club on the planet - one the 54th Governor of New York knows all to well.
That’s right – It’s the Emerpor’s Club.

This new shirt that appeared today on Busted Tees, a website dedicated to apparel of the humorous and satirical nature. You can purchase this particular T-shirt for $14.99 and it will be shipped to you starting March 21.

Tags: web

Indiana hasn’t gone to a Democrat since Johnson in 1964. It hasn’t mattered in candidate selection in past presidential years because of the date of its primary. But we all know 2008 is unlike any past presidential election year in modern times.
Last night’s results in the Democratic contest in Mississippi only reemphasize the sentiments that have been discussed since the Texas/Ohio behemoth of a political contest–
Congrats Indiana - you matter!

Since Senator Obama did not give a knock out blow to Senator Clinton’s campaign on March 4 and since Obama bounced back from the Clinton victory in the Ohio and Texas primaries with …

Tags: candidate, Congress, Democrats, evan bayh, hoosier, obama, president, tution

According to literally every national news organization in America, the Governor of New York Eliot Spitzer has been implicated in a prostitution ring. There has been speculation all day that he would resign at any minute. The NY Times reported that the state was at a standstill, not really knowing if the governor would resign. Lt. Governor David Paterson (whom I saw campaigning for Hillary Clinton at an Iowa rally back in January. He’s pictured here between Cheers actor Ted Danson and Clinton National Chair Terry McAuliffe ) even told reporters he didn’t know what the Governor’s plans were, saying that he hadn’t heard from the governor since Monday.
Many …

Tags: America, economy, Hillary Clinton, ny times, tution

Over the past few months I’ve noticed a few corner ads in the front section of the Journal Gazette. Usually in 3A or 4A.

My question is this: Why is American Electric Power running advertising?

You can’t just call up another power company and switch. Maybe they think it generates community goodwill, but I think dumping the marketing budget and cutting rates would generate an awful lot more community goodwill.

Tags: America, journal gazette

Normally, when a business is having internal issues they either have their own Internal Affairs Department come in to fix the problem or the company hires an outside consultant to study the problem.

In the case of Major League Baseball, they were provided with a third option. A free option at that! Congress.

A congressional committiee has been investigating steroids in baseball over the past few weeks. In response to the Mitchell Report, which actually turned out to be quite useless the Congress decided to use its valuble time to work on an issue so unimportant to their constituents.

If Major League Baseball has a steroid problem, let them pay for the solution. When there …

Tags: Congress, economy, healthcare, IRS, spending