“Pondering the Pundits” is an Open Thread. It is a selection of editorials and opinions from around the news medium and the internet blogs. The intent is to provide a forum for your reactions and opinions, not just to the opinions presented, but to what ever you find important. Thanks to ek hornbeck, click on …
March 2017 archive
Mar 16 2017
The Breakfast Club (The Thaw)
Welcome to The Breakfast Club! We’re a disorganized group of rebel lefties who hang out and chat if and when we’re not too hungover we’ve been bailed out we’re not too exhausted from last night’s (CENSORED) the caffeine kicks in. Join us every weekday morning at 9am (ET) and weekend morning at 10:00am (ET) (or …
Mar 15 2017
Another Attempt At A Muslim Ban On Hold
Before it even started, Trump’s second executive order than would ban Muslims from six countries has been put on hold nationwide by a federal judge. Federal judge in Hawaii blocks revised Trump travel ban nationwide Oliver Laughland and Ed Pilkington New York, and Liz Barney in Honolulu, Hawaii, The Guardian A federal judge in Hawaii …
Mar 15 2017
March Madness: 2017 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament Play In- Day 2
Ugh. This is such a slog. Were I not thoroughly snowed in and did I not have a very early meeting tomorrow I’d be headed for the border and you’d never hear from me again (a relief to many I’m sure). As it is I’ll not be paying much attention tonight. Once done it’s much …
Mar 15 2017
Exposing The Lies About Health Care
First, Let’s make something perfectly clear about the American Health Care Act, it is NOT a health care bill. It’s a tax cut. From Charlie Peirce: 1) This isn’t a healthcare bill. It’s really a tax cut. Anything else you hear from the White House, the Republicans and the media is a lie. 2) This …
Mar 15 2017
Pondering the Pundits
“Pondering the Pundits” is an Open Thread. It is a selection of editorials and opinions from around the news medium and the internet blogs. The intent is to provide a forum for your reactions and opinions, not just to the opinions presented, but to what ever you find important. Thanks to ek hornbeck, click on …
Mar 15 2017
The Breakfast Club (Digging Out)
Welcome to The Breakfast Club! We’re a disorganized group of rebel lefties who hang out and chat if and when we’re not too hungover we’ve been bailed out we’re not too exhausted from last night’s (CENSORED) the caffeine kicks in. Join us every weekday morning at 9am (ET) and weekend morning at 10:00am (ET) (or …
Mar 14 2017
March Madness: 2017 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament Play In- Day 1
Ok, we’re going to try and do this as we have in recent years, publishing results from the previous round and listing the upcoming games. Each team is linked to its home site and record from there so you can see how they’ve performed this season (which is not an indicator of how they’ll do …
Mar 14 2017
It’s Always Been About The Money
When Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions fired 46 US Attorneys, he was exercising a tradition that is the prerogative of an new administration, only it was rarely done like it was last Friday. In the past it was done gradually, so as not to disrupt important cases and wait until their replacement was approved by …
Mar 14 2017
Happy π Day
Today is Pi (π) Day, how could we live without it. So let’s celebrate π on it’s day 3.14. This year it’s even more special because today’s date is 3.14.15 matching the first five digits of the mathematical constant. The next Super Pie Day won’t happen for another 100 years. As you remember from grammar …
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