I love this: Attorney General Eric Holder said during a speech on Tuesday night at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library that it’s time to consider setting national standards for how elections...
You probably heard about this awkward moment between Christie and interviewer Barbara Walters: "There are people who say that you couldn't be president because you're so heavy. What do you say to...
It sounds like Michigan is trying to join South Carolina and Arizona as totally effing insane. It looks like they're about to pass one of the most heinous anti-choice laws since transvaginal...
The president isn't giving an inch on the debt ceiling, evidently: Whatever House Republicans might think, the White House is all steel when it comes to the debt ceiling. Their position is simple...
The McRib is back on the McDonald's menu again. And it's soooo good for you: These components are in small enough quantities to be innocuous. But it’s still a little disconcerting to know that, for...
My Thursday column: I don't care how much fun it was to read the harrowing tales of various Sarah Palin meltdowns in Mark Halperin's Game Change, there's just something intellectually violent about...
Eric Clapton - "Layla" Live at Royal Albert Hall, 1988 Featuring Elton John and Mark Knopfler Adding... Holy hell, how have I not posted this before?
Via Andrew Sullivan: Technically, as some of Sullivan's readers have pointed out, the power comes from the human who lifts the bag of sand and hangs it from the light. Also, a spring-loaded wind-up...
The title of the new Halperin book about the election contains the most annoying, hackish and over-used political colloquialism of 2012. Total shocker coming from a hackish and over-used nothing like...
Hundreds of thousands of seniors would lose their healthcare. Obviously. Greg Sargent: The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office recently concluded that a rise in the eligibility age could mean as...
Eric Boehlert posted a comprehensive look at the money-making scheme that's being orchestrated by the conservative entertainment complex. For example: Remember when Glenn Beck charged fans $125 to...
My Wednesday column: Here's precisely why raising the Medicare eligibility age appears to be the only solution to keeping the program solvent: the Republican Party, which hates Medicare and always...
The Kills - "Satellite"
Confirming what we already knew, here's Republican consultant Scott Tranter (warning -- link contains auto-play video): "A lot of us are campaign officials -- or campaign professionals -- and we want...
Gaaaahhhhh! Why???!!
Their priorities are totally in order. GRETCHEN CARLSON: It’s all pray and no play. The controversial Ground Zero Mosque was supposed to be a cultural center, but it turns out it’s now an empty space...
Tennessee joins the ranks of red states that are literally demanding a government takeover of healthcare by refusing to set up a state-based insurance exchange. Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam (R)...
He kind of slipped up yesterday during a Skype interview: "When I go out and campaign next year... for myself as a gubernatorial candidate or for another gubernatorial candidate should I decide not...
I missed this yesterday, but holy hell. Here's Joe Scarborough: "[Zero Dark Thirty] presents a narrative that is going to make a lot of people in the mainstream media, in the Democratic party and in...
Froomkin's new article about false equivalences in the press is outstanding. The centerpiece: "If voters are going to be able to hold accountable political figures, they've got to know what's going...
