Exercising a procedural maneuver to derail a constitutional loophole, Senate Democrats have been calling a series of pro forma sessions that ensures the President doesn't slide in any recess appointments while Congress is away on holiday break. The latest was...
Sports Illustrated has a photo montage of Barack Obama on the court and also this walk down memory lane on the candidate's induction into phi slamma jamma: Asked how it felt the first time he dunked on a 10-foot...
For politics junkies, this is the fucking March Madness of presidential campaigns. This is the playoffs, baby. And this year is proving to provide a hell of a match-up. On both sides of the political divide we have dead heat...
Barack Obama seems to be locking up the aging hipster vote with this key endorsement from one of America's most influential music sites. Go Obama Go!...
More bad news out of Pakistan. Benazir Bhutto is dead. Killed along with at least 20 others at a rally. A tragic turn of events in Pakistan, and not a good sign for stability in the country....
Barron Hilton, grandfather of Paris Hilton, said this week that he plans to donate 97% of his fortune to charity when he dies. 97% of $2.8 billion dollars. That would leave about $84 million after the charitable donations. Which is...
J. Edgar Hoover would have fit in splendidly with the Bush team. From a New York Times piece - Hoover Planned Mass Jailing in 1950 - by Tim Weiner: A newly declassified document shows that J. Edgar Hoover, the longtime...
I wasn't planning on showing up at Paul's press conference with a bordello owner and two hookers, but unexpected things happen on the road. This New Republic piece is probably the most engaging article I've read about Ron Paul....
There are lots of reasons to hate the blogoshpere. There's a lot of weirdo bullshit out there, especially when it comes to politics. But there's also a lot of really funny one-liners floating about, and that's what I love about...
Quote of the Day: "If A Tape Is Not Safe In The CIA, We're In Trouble" --Former CIA Assistant General Counsel John Radsan The guy makes an excellent point in refuting the nonsense that the CIA had to destroy interrogation...
The GOP has lost one of the nuttier candidates that has made watching their primary race so fun. Rep. Tom Tancredo, a five-term congressman from Colorado, has announced he is now out of the running for the Big Dance and...
Shame on the 21 Democratic senators who voted for continuing to fund the Iraq war. Senate approves $70 billion for wars: After falling short on two attempts to force a change in war tactics, 21 Democrats joined one independent and...
A new Research 2000 poll has some interesting numbers coming from New Hampshire. The poll has Obama edging Hillary now with 32% to her 31%, which is a statistically meaningless number except when you look at two things: Hillary had...
Quote of the day: "While the Republicans are passing a resolution celebrating Christmas, the president was vetoing health care for children. There's a little bit of irony going on around here." --Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA), explaining why he voted against...
The Senate voted 88 to 5 yesterday to pass the Temporary Tax Relief Act of 2007. While it will protect millions of middle class Americans from being unfairly hit by the Alternative Minimum Tax this year, it doesn't provide for...
We wouldn't normally copy and paste someone else's post wholesale, but Andrew Sullivan is opening a can of worms here and his post says it all: Scott Horton puts it simply: Let's first focus on this question: Why is this...
From the Wired Campus blog at the Chronicle of Higher Education: With winter breaks bearing down, the Recording Industry Association of America has sent out its monthly batch of pre-litigation notices a bit early this December. (The letters typically reach...
Here's your Friday video fun. A new documentary by Morgan Spurlock - of Supersize Me fame - chronicles the efforts of Reverend Billy of the Church of Stop Shopping to bring American consumers to their senses in a new documentary,...
I don't even know where to begin with this article so I guess I'll start from the top of the page and work my way down...to the bottom. The CIA videotaped its interrogations of two top terror suspects in 2002...
Remember when Dick Cheney was just a multimillionaire, oil and gas CEO? Bill Clinton was president, and we were still in the midst of the longest economic expansion in American history? In 1999, Halliburton fired 9,000 employees, because of the...
