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What's Past Is Prologue . . .
> “We have not yet made a decision.” > Barack Obama > August 28, 2013 > “I've not made up our mind about military action.” > George W. Bush > March 6, ...
Help! Police!
> Two women, as shown in a Texas state trooper’s dash cam recording, > are probed in their vaginas and rectums by a glove-wearing female > officer after a routine tr...
Taking the Pledge
> Good morning. My name is and I'm from the extremely > beautiful state of South Carolina. I intern for Republican Senator > Tim Scott. I've had the pleasure of comi...
Heroes of the motherland: How the NSA won the war in Iraq (or wants you to think it did)
> “Under Andropov, the KGB grew noticeably in political power, in > personnel, and even in the number of buildings its occupied . . . > Andropov was probably not del...
Insider Threats: Desperately Seeking Winston Smith
> In an initiative aimed at rooting out future leakers and other > security violators, President Barack Obama has ordered federal > employees to report suspicious actions�...
Mea Culpa
Now that we’ve reached the 10th anniversary of the Iraq invasion, it seems only fit and proper that those of us who opposed the war from the very beginning explain how our errors in judgment l...
Jack Lew and the premature descent from heaven: A tale of the American nomenklatura
> “As a reward for a quarter-century of patiently fulfilling their > duties, career bureaucrats may expect a second career as . . . an > executive of a large firm o...
Obituary
Died, after long struggle with infectious reality , Hastert Rule: > For the second time this month, Boehner broke the Hastert Rule. The > issue was Hurricane Sandy relief, a ...
Of Blazing Saddles and platinum coins: Why minting a $1 trillion one is neither smart nor necessary
By now I'm sure you’ve probably heard more than you want to know about the platinum coin—although if you like learning fancy new words, you have to admit, “seignorage” is a pretty cool o...
Lives of the party: Looking past Obama for a progressive Democratic coalition
I think it’s fair to say that the outcome of the latest battle in America’s endless fiscal war hasn’t done anything to improve President Obama’s image with what Paul Wellstone used to ca...
House broken: How the GOP legislative machine turned into a doomsday device
If it wasn’t already obvious, the past few weeks surely have made it so: The House of Representatives has collapsed. Sure, the buildings are still there: The chamber in the right-hand wing o...
Guns of December: Have the Apologists For Slaughter Finally Gone Too Far?
> “It’s no secret that women are now engaging in hunting and the > shooting sports in record numbers. My wife Susan and I are > especially excited about the immedi...
Right-Wing Extremism and Obama’s Reelection: Will There Be Blood?
> Despite similarities to the climate of the 1990s, the threat posed > by lone wolves and small terrorist cells is more pronounced than in > past years. In addition,...
The GOP tax plan: Leave no billionaire behind
Amid the endless (and endlessly confusing) Beltway chatter about the deal that supposedly will keep the U.S. economy from gunning it over the fiscal cliff on New Year’s Day, one thing has alrea...
Mourning in America
By now, most of you have probably seen the Tumblr page entirely dedicated to pictures of white people mourning the Republican defeat last Tuesday. I realize how easy it is to make fun of those...
Can You Tell Me How to Get, How to Get to Glengarry Glen Ross Street?
Scene: The set of Sesame Street. Except instead of an urban neighborhood, we see it is now a smallish, dingy office: a typical boiler room sales operation with cheap fluorescent lights and no win...
Jack Welch, Dick Nixon and the Great BLS Jobs Conspiracy
> Unbelievable jobs numbers . . . these Chicago guys will do anything > . . .can't debate so change numbers. > > Jack Welch > Twitter > > October 5, 2012 > Para...
Skewed polls and the paranoid style
> Fourteen-year-old Eggert Stolten’s mother was an ardent Nazi. She > did not try to stop her son from listening to the BBC and Radio > Switzerland, but instead maint...
The Washington Post Lies About Its Own Poll
A few hours ago the Post put up a front page story reporting the results of the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll. And said story appears to be baldly misrepresenting -- and by misrepresentin...
The Elephants Grow Restless
Last night I came across an interesting column in a Florida paper by Matt Towery , the head of Insider Advantage, a GOP-affiliated polling firm. He sure doesn't sound very happy about the way th...
Gallup Signals Sizable Obama Bounce
Not by historical standards, maybe -- but then they don't make 'em like they used to. Frank Newport, Gallup's head of polling, has a post up talking about today's tracking results, which show a...
Dotty Harry
Scene: The 2012 Republican National Convention. There's chaos in the hall; delegates are fleeing in panic, the floor is littered with shot-up teleprompters and other debris. Off to one side a wat...
Dear Teabaggers
Your stupidity, fanaticism and all around mean spiritedness continue to astound, with your bizarre and – dare I say it – unpatriotic defense of British Petroleum only the latest example. Wh...
Separated at Birth?
Many politicians remind me of animals -- Tom DeLay was a snapping turtle; Joe Biden a badger; Bill Clinton the B'rer Rabbit (for several reasons, not just his skills as an escape artist), and so ...
The "Epistemic Closing" of the Conservative Mind
> One of the more striking features of the contemporary conservative > movement is the extent to which it has been moving toward epistemic > closure. Reality is defined�...
New York Times: "Race" Means "Class"
Proving once again that no power on earth can force the "newspaper of record" to recognize what it is determined to ignore, the New York Times tonight released the results of a major survey of th...
The Conservative Hippocratic Oath
> A doctor who considers the national health-care overhaul to be bad > medicine for the country posted a sign on his office door telling > patients who voted for Presi...
What a Friend We Have in Lesbian Bondage
> The Republican National Committee gave nearly $2,000 to a Southern > California GOP contributor for meal expenses at Voyeur West > Hollywood, a lesbian-themed California�...
Spock with a Beard: The Sequel
For some years now, I’ve been morbidly fascinated by the political dark arts -- especially the very dark art of disinformation: the systematic creation and dissemination of false narratives des...
The Bosses of the Senate
Via Meteor Blades
Godwin Takes the Day Off
> Liberal bias has become the single biggest distortion in modern > Bible translations . . . The committee in charge of updating the > bestselling version, the NIV, is�...
Tells You Everything You Need to Know
> CLARIFICATION: An early version of this story referred to town hall > protesters waving photographs of Barack Obama adorned with a Hitler > moustache. While Republicans�...
The , the Whole and Nothing But the
> The Inspector General’s review was launched by complaints coming > from valued senior employees who felt that the Bush Program (as John > Yoo has dubbed it) was wro...
Fool's Goldman
This takes the Stockholm Syndrome to a whole new level: > WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats and Republicans alike lauded > Goldman Sachs on Tuesday after the company, which rec...
A Tortured Excuse
> SEN. McCAIN: We all know that bad things were done. We all know > that the operatives who did it most likely were under orders to do > so. For us to continu...
I guess I should have called it the "Addington Administration"
> A report released on Friday by the inspectors general of five > agencies about the National Security Agency’s domestic > surveillance program makes clear that Mr. Che...
Blunt Instrument
> MIKE FERGUSON: What is the proper role of government, and what are > the potential impacts of the direction that we're going right now? > > BLUNT: Well, you co...
The Chair Recognizes the Grand Dragon . . .
> According to Capitol Hill sources, it appears that Alabama Sen. Jeff > Sessions will become the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary > Committee -- after former rank...
Second Thoughts, or Rebellion Reconsidered
> Texas Gov. Rick Perry fired up an anti-tax "tea party" Wednesday > with his stance against the federal government and for states' > rights as some in his U.S. flag-w...
Scalia's Nightmare
(From the diaries -- kos) > Our consideration is limited to the present circumstances, for the > problem of equal protection in election processes generally presents > many�...
Modern Times
> In the wake of the biggest financial shock since 1929, economists > say the odds of a depression are less than 50-50 -- though still > uncomfortably high. But even ...
Chocolate Covered Cotton: An Update
From the Financial Times, via the shrill one : Insight: Time to expose those CDOs
Citi to Uncle Sam: For You We Make Special Deal
> The government's larger stake in Citibank does not constitute a > nationalization of banks, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) > argued Monday. > > "I think ...
A Mad Tea Party
> THE "AMERICAN TEA PARTY" MOVEMENT SEEMS TO BE GROWING, with plans > for taxpayer protests in Dallas, Chicago, Fayetteville, NC, San > Diego, Omaha, and elsewhere. (Plus...
Generational Theft? Sorry, That Money's Already Been Stolen
> I think this can only be described as generational theft . . . > we’re going to amass the largest debt in the history of this > country by any measurement. And ...
Chocolate Covered Cotton
> By providing the financing the private markets cannot now provide, > this will help start a market for the real estate-related assets > that are at the center of thi...
Same Day; Different Nations
> Congressional efforts to impose stringent restrictions on executive > compensation appeared to be > evaporating yesterday as House and Senate negotiators worked to > fin...
Obama at the Plate
> Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and > begin again the work of remaking America. > > Barack Obama > Inaugural Address > January 20,...
Worth It
> Q But Mr. Vice President, getting from there to here, 4,500 > Americans have died, at least 100,000 Iraqis have died. Has it been > worth that? > > CHENEY: I thi...
Flushing the Cheney Administration Down the Memory Hole
> The drive to create reality transformed Soviet life into a > masquerade. What became important was not what was true but what > could be made to appear to be true ...