There are a bunch of quizzes out there that let you know where you fall in the political spectrum and this is one of them.  Like all of these quizzes some of the questions are clearly leading but I thought it was pretty good never the less (thank you LaterSkater for ...

This post might be a little late for some people to actually be able to act on it....but September 30th is Obama Blue Day.  Basically the idea is where blue and register two voters.  I will be hondling people on Facebook tomorrow to get them to register...you have been warned. More info: ...

In case you haven't seen them yet, below are Sarah Palin's interviews with Katie Couric.  The last video is one that didn't air until Saturday night, right before Saturday Night Live, weird. While you are watching these,  please realize that this woman could be one run-away melanoma from being President of ...

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Update:  Here is a link that breaks down how everybody voted: http://www.nytimes.com/ref/washington/ROLLCALL.html?currentChamber=house&currentSession=2&currentCongress=110&currentRoll=674 (thank you LaterSkater) Pulling a page from the Democrats playbook circa 2000-2006 , Republicans seem unorganized, lacking leadership and generally inept when it comes to trying to get something passed to help the economy.  In doing so it led ...

Note: I have started a thread in the forum to discuss this topic here: http://anotherdamnblog.com/index.php/forum/presidential-politics/first-presidential-debate/page-1/post-4/#p4 with some of the gems from the Fark discussion posted there as well. Early polls of the debates rate the candidate performance like this: CBS/ Knowledge Network Obama - 39% McCain - 24% Draw - 37%Insider Advantage Obama - ...

Update 3/15: I just added this video to the top of the post which I feel does a good job giving an overview of the Credit Crisis. ...

He makes many great points. 1) I don't have a problem with CEOs making millions and millions of dollars because they deal with billions. I do have a problem that their salary is not tied to stock performance. Either have performance based salary or cap your salary at say $700K. I'm ...

Today I am going to see my financial advisor, he will inform me I will not be able to retire until I'm in my 70's and that my kids are going to go to public school. In other news the good folks at Lehman Brothers will be dispensing over $2.5bln in ...

The Republican and Democratic parties each have a brand that helps to define what people believe they represent.  One of the strong Republican brand attributes is the notion that ...