by James Heflin | Jun 2, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Turns out courting certain elements of the tea party movement comes back to bite you. It’s going to be very interesting to see how this kind of struggle, which will almost certainly become more common as tea party-supported candidates push out standard GOP...
by James Heflin | Jun 4, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal
It’s hard to know what’s crazier–India’s pigeon spy suspect detention policy (how’s the pigeon going to testify?), or Obama’s policy of “we can’t prove they’re a threat, so we won’t try them” Kafka...
by James Heflin | Jun 8, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal
This NOAA map of Gulf hurricane paths near the BP disaster is the most terrifying graphic I’ve seen lately. The site of the oil leak (not spill, by gum–this is a leaking oil deposit) is marked by a red star, and the hurricane paths are from the last 100...
by James Heflin | Jun 10, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal
It’s a bad run for BP these days. Besides the leaking undersea oil field, things haven’t been going so well at the Texas City refinery where an explosion killed 15 people in 2005: TEXAS CITY — At BP’s Texas City refinery, more than 400 pounds a...
by James Heflin | Jun 11, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Republican bigwig John Boehner (that’s “Baner” to you) floats an idea that can’t be helped by any amount of PR carefulness. How will tea partiers respond?: In response to a question from TPMDC, House Minority Leader John Boehner backed Tom...
