Author: Jay Tea

I skipped the debt speeches last night (SyFy’s Monday night lineup is just too damned good to pass — Eureka, Warehouse 13, and Alphas), but I did catch the …

As we draw nearer and nearer to ArmaDebton (I think I stole that from The Daily Show), there’s a lot of pressure on the Republicans to take the blame. …

The atrocity in Norway has shocked many people. Apparently a single man managed to plant several bombs in and around a major government building, then — dressed as a …

Two interesting Op-Eds from recent days, theoretically from opposite ends of the political spectrum:   David Brooks, alleged conservative, New York Times: There was a Democratic president eager to …

Well, the House passed the “cut, cap, and balance” budget bill, largely on partisan lines, and now it’s in the hands of the Senate, where it is almost guaranteed …

The scandal that took down the British Tabloid News Of The World is still raging on, and a lot of people who hate Rupert Murdoch and his media empire …

Recently, the Justice Department issued a report in the infamous Philadelphia New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case. It looked at its own behavior in that case, where the …

A little over a week ago, President Obama’s Energy Secretary, Steven Chu (who holds a Nobel Prize in Physics), was speaking on a conference call about the banning of …

Hey, remember that article in the Boston Globe, of all places, about New Hampshire having an official, state-employed “pirate” go and raid Massachusetts for businesses? Well, the Glob’s editorial …

The latest talking point out of the Republicans over the debt ceiling has done the impossible: it’s out-dumbed Obama’s “don’t call my bluff” and everything else the Democrats have …