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I think this week’s opening for Saturday Night Live (hosted by Joseph Gordon-Levitt) was almost as funny as when Tina Fey does Sarah Palin. The sketch asked some very interesting political questions. The sketch featured comic Fred Armisen playing Obama at a news conference with Chinese President Hu Jintao, played by Will Forte, who spoke [...]

Barack Obama appointed a new drug czar. He’s from Seattle and the talk is generally about what he might do about the Mexican Drug Wars I posted about a couple of days ago. Apparently 60% of the money that is going to the Mexican Drug Gangs is from the production of marijuana. If we stopped that [...]

Elizabeth Warren, TARP congressional oversight panel chair, was a guest on Rachel Maddow today and was asked an interesting question. Should we limit the size of banks so that one bank failing will not have such a giant effect on the economy? She replied, I think it not only makes sense, it’s… it’s… it’s absolutely essential. [...]

Of course, Barack Obama is the Commander in Chief of the military. But from the things I’m hearing I get the sense that he’s actually getting along better as leader of the military than George W. Bush did. I’m sure the military leaders respect someone who wants to face the truth about our military situations. There’s [...]

Barack Obama has lifted the ban George W. Bush placed on embryonic stem cell research. Basically this means people who are doing this are able to ask for money from the government. Haven’t they come up with ways of doing this without embryos since the ban? If so, this isn’t a very big deal.

In case you aren’t aware yet, Barack Obama will not have the same problems with the republicans that he had with the stimulus bill. There is some way they can do the budget that is filibuster proof and then they only need a majority instead of 60 votes.