Retired Brig. Gen. James Cullen, a former chief judge of the Army's Court of Criminal Appeals: It's up to all of us to say these arguments advanced by Cheney and his acolytes are nonsense and that really what they're doing...
This is awesome. The Washington Independent » Al Franken Reads the 4th Amendment to Justice Department Official: Franken, who opened by acknowledging that unlike most of his colleagues in the Senate, he's not a lawyer, but according to his research...
Nobody can say he's inconsistent. Barack Obama's amazingly consistent smile from Eric Spiegelman on Vimeo. Via Andrew Sullivan...
Right now, there's apparently a poll floating around Facebook that asks "Should Obama be killed?" Potential responses include Yes, Maybe, No, and my favorite, "If he cuts my healthcare." I can only imagine the high quality American citizen who posted...
The feel good story of the week: In August, UBS AG agreed to disclose the names of 4,450 American holders of secret accounts at the bank, ending a related lawsuit that has begun to show cracks in Switzerland's prized banking...
Hitler finds out about the Glenn Beck 1990 Rumors Via the Glenn Beck 1990 Project...
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev, President Obama, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, Qaddafi and Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos on the last working day of the G8 Summit in L'Aquila,...
I am confused by a recent post by John Batchelor on The Daily Beast. Batchelor derides White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel for describing the President's very vocal detractors as descendants of Father Coughlin, John Birch Society members, and...
"I had a great meeting with Joe Perry and his wife Billie - and will never forget their support during the campaign! " Via TwitPic...
In case you don't have a Facebook account, here's the video everyone's sharing. Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell...
We wouldn't normally re-post something verbatim from another site but I simply have to share this sane, reasonable conservative argument posted on Andrew Sullivan's blog: "We are not moving from pure capitalism to pure socialism, we are moving from an...
Politics and money are both dirty business and when you look to high finance and high office, it gets mighty messy mighty quick. Enter: Hassan Nemazee, one of the biggest Democratic fundraisers in modern times. You may not know his...
From the Even a Stopped Clock is Right Twice a Day files... Glenn Beck and I actually agree on something! Apparently, we both feel that a President McCain would have been worse for America than either a (second) President Clinton...
THIS is why we need healthcare reform (among other things...): According to an article by David S. Hilzenrath in yesterday's Washington Post, health insurance companies have sought to deny coverage to people for a host of reasons. Health insurers have...
That, and other sentiments were on proud display at last Saturday's teabagger protest in Washington, DC. Watch as 1.7 million (???) of the modern conservative movement's most fervent explain what, exactly, it is that they are so upset about. (Or,...
One of Andrew Sullivan's readers ponders an interesting point I've been struggling with: There's another point that ought to be made about this craziness. There have always been a lot of people with crazy political opinions in our country. It's...
In a horrific display of civility in the healthcare debate, Senatorial newbie Al Franken holds court with some constituents (including an obvious tea-bagger). The clip is a bit long, but hey, it's like a big issue or something... (via Wonkette)...
President Obama is planning to address America's schoolchildren next week in a speech that will stress the importance of setting educational goals and assuming personal responsibility for taking steps to achieve those goals. That sounds fairly inoccuous to me, but...
Oh HELL yes: Auto-Tune the News #8: dragons. geese. Michael Vick. (ft. T-Pain)...
The birther movement confounds me. Not that there are people out there dopey enough to believe and support the idea that the President of the United States is a foreign born agent who has usurped the Constitution and duped...
