I give you George W. Bush describing his time as the leader of the free world: "Eight years was awesome, and I was famous and I was powerful." And that's precisely why he ran for president in the...
I've always thought it was corrupt and unfair that three unaccountable companies could each control our financial futures. So this is a step in the right direction: The Consumer Financial Protection...
"Romney types, of course, are the ones who sign the front of the paycheck, and the Obama types are the one who have spent their entire lives signing the back of them." Michelle Malkin on Fox &...
One of the most fascinating aspects of astronomy is learning exactly when the light from stars that you might have seen last night actually left the source. For example, light that departed from...
Yes. Really. Screencap via Grist:As Grist pointed out, nitrogen in pollution helps trees initially -- then the pollution kills them.
My column yesterday attempted to examine the importance of the Bain Capital Mitt Romney story. Taking a look at the Mitt Romney Bain Capital fiasco from the air, it's really illustrating a major flaw...
By request, it's a Jack White theme week (again) and this is the brand new video for "Freedom at 21".
The size of the universe is beyond what any of us can fully grasp. But this helps: The Universe made possible by Number Sleuth
Nebraska officially ended the pipe dream of a Ron Paul nomination: The Nebraska Republican Party gathered over the weekend to decide how many states delegates would be apportioned to the Republican...
Josh Marshall has a fantastic point on the Bain assault: The Obama team’s goal here is to make the entirety of Romney’s professional life toxic and off-limits before Romney even gets the chance to...
Kristol on Romney's tax returns in the context of the Bain fiasco: Here’s what he should do. He should release the tax returns tomorrow. This is crazy… you’ve got to release 6, 8, 10 years of back...
White Stripes - "Seven Nation Army"
In all of the increasingly entertaining news about Romney's involved non-involvement with Bain after early 1999, this has been somewhat lost in the shuffle: In January, the Huffington Post reported...
I'm flying today, so this piece about confiscated liquids at airport security gates caught my attention: For starters, liquids surrendered at airports are assumed to be potentially hazardous, and...
Rush - "The Camera Eye" Live
The latest round of Qs and As from Chez, Ben and me. First the Qs: 1. After seeing this graph showing the dozens of votes the 112th Congress has held on repealing the ACA, while the President's Jobs...
MST3K Saturday - "The Pod People"
President Obama yesterday on his biggest first term mistake: When I think about what we’ve done well and what we haven’t done well. The mistake of my first term – couple of years – was thinking that...
I forgot to drop in a note about this yesterday, but yes, the site was down for a solid three hours or so Thursday morning. Whenever we get bursts of traffic, and viewers start hitting the main page...
It's the New Jim Crow law, and the Republicans are responsible for it. But then there's this in Mississippi: State officials are running into problems with the new voter-identification law even...
