China has now become the largest market for automobiles in the world.
This new book Game Change is full of juicy political rumors, like the one in which Bill Clinton told Ted Kennedy that "a few years ago, [Obama] would have been getting us coffee." There's also the one where Harry Reid said that Obama could be successful as a black candidate because he's light-skinned and doesn't have a "Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one." Republicans are calling for Reid to resign, just as Obama called on Trent Lott to step down in 2002. Rod Blagojevich joined in, saying that he is blacker than Obama. A black Georgetown professor, Michael Eric Dyson, says that Obama runs from race like a black man runs from a cop.
December 2009 was the 14th coldest December in 115 years. How's that global warming working? The Mini Ice Age is beginning, which could last 20 to 30 years.
The Senate race in Massachusetts is getting more interesting and now in a desperate push for Democrat Martha Coakley the insurance and drug companies are heading up to Massachusetts to help get her elected. Democrats already have a contingency plan to delay the swearing-in of Republican Scott Brown until after the ObamaCare vote if he wins.
Not that it really matters, but it appears that the government option is dead. In something that does matter, Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) says that the bill is "hanging by a thread."
Captain Underpants was "singing like a canary" before he was arrested and read his rights, and the biggest loss is the intelligence that was lost as a result. Meanwhile, a judge has thrown out most of the evidence that the government has against a Guantanamo detainee because his confession may have been coerced.
John Bolton says that bureaucracy needs to be taken out of intelligence.
No members have been punished under the Congressional ethics rules that were meant to "drain the swamp."
Just because voters don't like the Democrats doesn't mean that they do like the Republicans. Here are ten tips for the GOP this year.
The Associated Press now admits that road projects don't help unemployment. Despite that, Obama's top economic advisor is promising to "do more" to create jobs.
Sarah Palin has signed with Fox News as a contributor.
Federal ethanol subsidies are like "throwing taxpayer money out the window."
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has declared war on salt.
Hugo Chavez is going to seize any business that raises prices.
A woman in DC, San Francisco, or New York City who carries more than two condoms in her purse can be arrested for prostitution.
The Macon Telegraph has a long story about how important it is for the midstate that the Census counts everybody. They're mostly worried about the parasite-targeting grant money.
Yet again, Houston County School Superintendent David Carpenter asked the state to raise taxes.
WR-ALC Commander Maj. Gen. Polly Peyer is enthusiastic about G-RAMP, even though she still can't point to any definite benefit to spending the money.
Why is it that Snellville can fire their City Attorney for making a math mistake, but Warner Robins can't fire theirs for shredding documents?
Last night was the annual Wild Hog dinner that informally kicks off the legislative session. Here's what Travis Fain gleaned from the dinner in terms of a legislative preview. Fortunately, state leaders continue to say that there will be no tax increases.
Most of the campaign finance disclosures are in, and the big winners are John Oxendine and Roy Barnes. You can view the Republican disclosures and Democrat disclosures at Georgia Legislative Watch.
The AJC has a big write-up about the coziness between lawmakers and lobbyists.
Bonaire Rep. Larry O'Neal, who just lost a bid for House Speaker, nominated Speaker David Ralston for the post earlier today.
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