Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 7:56:43 pm
Once again I find myself in agreement with Jonathan Chait: Rand Paul's Plan to Save Ukraine is Completely Nuts. But then, I've long considered Rand Paul to be the latest manifestation of a weird trend of bad craziness in US politics. The biggest victim of the Ukraine crisis - other ...

Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 4:42:42 pm
Getty Image Getty Images has always been one of the best spots to find quality photographs of all kinds of stuff, but they've also been very protective of their copyrights. I respect that, and have always refrained from using their images without licensing them -- but apparently, there were quite a ...

Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 5:13:13 pm
There's something of a mini-rebellion of news anchors (an anchor putsch) going on at Russia Today, the propaganda channel operated by the Kremlin. First 9/11 Truther Abby Martin made negative remarks about Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and now another anchor, Liz Wahl, has gone further and resigned on air. YouTube I'm cynical ...

Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 11:34:05 am
Today blogger Glenn Greenwald has posted what has to be one of his most dishonest articles yet, glorifying Russia Today host Abby Martin for criticizing Russia's invasion of Ukraine: RT Host Abby Martin Condemns Russian Incursion Into Crimea - on RT - the Intercept. American media elites awash in an ...

Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 10:13:30 am
Lawyers depart after Mark Steyn insults the judge in his defamation lawsuit on-air. Weisberg's order is just the latest in a string of setbacks, which have left the climate-change skeptics' case in disarray. Earlier this month, Steptoe & Johnson, the law firm representing the National Review and its writer, Mark ...

Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 5:55:33 pm
Minnesota Republican State Senator Sean R. Nienow calls himself a small-government fiscal conservative, yet for some reason he's reportedly in default on a six-figure loan from the Small Business Administration: Sen. Sean Nienow, R-Cambridge, Wife Sued in $613,000 Federal Loan Default. The Nienows borrowed the money for their company, the ...

Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 12:08:05 pm
The right wing narrative on the attacks against the American diplomatic mission in Benghazi is now well-established. It goes something like this: The Obama administration lied when they initially said the attack was provoked by an American-made anti-Islam video. Actually, it was a well-planned Al Qaeda terror attack that had ...

Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 12:32:59 pm
Republicans on the Texas State Board of Education have been fighting a desperate last ditch battle to shoehorn their superstitious creationism and climate change denial into public school science textbooks, but in the good news of the day, the board voted this morning to adopt the textbooks without compromising the ...

Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 12:08:25 pm
This article is several days old, but I just recently happened upon it. I am struck by the desperate and totally cynical tone. Andrew McCarthy is saying in effect; Republicans can not win national elections. It is impossible. They have no choice but to shutdown government and hold the ...

Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 5:37:23 pm
Texas blogger Allen Clifton lays it out in plain language: Bashing the media is an easy thing to do. Both political parties do it, though Republicans are far more aggressive with their accusation that the "liberal media" or "mainstream media" is out to get them. All while ignoring ...

Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 2:46:04 pm
Greg Sargent makes an interesting argument that this last minute cave-in by the House Tea Party cavemen may actually make it possible for John Boehner to marginalize the crazies enough that they won't be able to use the debt ceiling as an extortion tool any more: Did Barack Obama Do ...

Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 10:45:38 am
Didn't anyone tell these idiots that the government is already shut down? No major traffic delays were reported on the Beltway during Friday's morning commute, police authorities said, despite a protest by about 30 tractor-trailers and pickup trucks against what organize describe as excessive government intrusion. The trucks initially were traveling ...

Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 10:06:49 am
Let's go straight to the video tape. Video That's from This Week With George Stephanopoulos this past weekend (10/04/2013) - starting around the 3 minute mark. The transcript: STEPHANOPOULOS: But Mr. Speaker, he says -- and he said it publicly on many occasions, that you came to him back in July and offered ...

Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 8:13:32 am
Yesterday marked the beginning of the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) health exchange rollout. While some refer to this as Obamacare with derision (and there are polls that indicate that people have a much more favorable view of the term ACA than Obamacare even though they refer to the same program/law), ...

Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 1:41:22 pm
MP3 Audio NPR's Steve Inskeep interviewed President Obama on Monday about the looming government shutdown, the upcoming debt ceiling fight and more. A full transcript of the interview follows: STEVE INSKEEP: As you have watched what's happening in Congress, do you feel that House Republicans are coming any closer to anything ...

Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 10:05:54 am
This post originally appeared at NationalMemo.com. All signs continue to point to a House GOP crackup that will either lead to a government shutdown or -- even worse -- a default on America's debt. Republican leaders had hoped that the situation in Syria would give them cover, allowing them to somehow keep ...

Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 3:20:06 pm
(Cross-posted at The National Memo) We're about to hit what has been a solemn anniversary in America for a decade -- September 11. But this year, Republicans, led by Fox News, are set to focus on a more recent terrorist attack -- the one that claimed four American lives, including that of ...

Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 10:59:27 am
Remember the Guardian's first reports about the UK government detaining Glenn Greenwald's partner David Miranda, and how Greenwald said Miranda had been "denied a lawyer?" August 18th: Glenn Greenwald's Partner Detained at Heathrow Airport for Nine Hours. "This is a profound attack on press freedoms and the news gathering process," Greenwald ...

Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:44:28 am
Let me start off by saying that for the GOP to lose the House of Representatives would require a meltdown worse than we're seeing in the Arctic. "The number of competitive districts is at its lowest since Cook first started the partisanship rating in the 1998 election cycle," the Cook Political ...

Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 9:00:09 am
Once again, we see a naïve, deluded young person paying the price for the insane nihilistic libertarianism promoted by Julian Assange and Glenn Greenwald: Judge Sentences Bradley Manning to 35 Years. A military judge on Wednesday morning sentenced Army Pfc. Bradley Manning to 35 years in prison for leaking hundreds ...

Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 11:30:05 am
The military's removal of President Mohammad Morsi opened up a can of worms from which the Egyptian polity is not likely to recover anytime soon. Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood had been busy attempting to impose its socio-political will on a nation that was largely unwilling to go along with their agenda. The ...

Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 5:40:47 pm
YouTube When my mom died of cancer I was happy that we were able to get end of life counseling, hospice care, and other comforts for her during her last remaining days - without additional insurance that would not have been possible. On Sunday, CNN's State of the Union invited Republican ...

Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 11:48:38 am
The Al Qaeda terror plot that was disrupted this week, targeting cities and oil pipelines in Yemen, was apparently exposed when top Al Qaeda leaders participated in a conference call that was intercepted by US intelligence, according to The Daily Beast. The crucial intercept that prompted the U.S. government to ...

Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 7:51:58 pm
Greenwald cultists are already mocking this report, but American officials have told the New York Times that the terror alert issued today was prompted by the interception of electronic communications among top Al Qaeda leaders. WASHINGTON -- The United States intercepted electronic communications this week among senior operatives of Al ...

Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 4:35:41 pm
Oh Glenn. Any excuse to stroke your Obama Derangement Syndrome, right? The rabidly pro-war and anti-Muslim GOP former Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, Peter King, has repeatedly lavished Obama with all sorts of praise and support for his policies in those areas. The Obama White House frequently needs, ...