Adam Serwer does a nice job of summarizing the National Defense Authorization Act without getting apoplectic about it. To summarize his summary: 1) The bill codifies indefinite detention. 2) The bill...
From Iraq: U.S. and Iraqi officials signed paperwork handing over Camp Adder, the last American military base in Iraq. The sign over marks one of the final acts in the U.S. departure from Iraq. Four...
The National Defense Authorization Act does, in fact, include indefinite detention in there. And, as we all complained about during the Bush years, the war against terrorism -- "hostilities" -- could...
Top marginal tax rates by president and year (via Sullivan). If you listen to right-wing talk radio at all, you'd think President Obama has already taken us back to Eisenhower-era taxation. By the...
MST3K Saturday - "Gorgo"
Here's some solid advice: If you're going to repurpose old propaganda imagery (like I did with the logo for this site) you better make sure it wasn't originally an anti-Jew cartoon from Nazi Germany...
Hitchens succumbed to esophageal cancer last night. Here's his final column for Vanity Fair in which he challenges Nietzsche's maxim: "What doesn't kill me makes me stronger." There's not much that...
Bob Mould theme week continues with Hüsker Dü and "Makes No Sense At All"
...and as illegal as ever, but that's not stopping collection agencies from having people arrested. Take, for example, what happened to Robin Sanders in Illinois. She was driving home when an officer...
As I'm sure you're aware by now, the National Defense Authorization Act was passed by the House last night and the president is expected to sign it into law. Activists on the left are accusing...
PPP shows 2008 margins over both Republican frontrunners: Obama leads both Mitt Romney (48-42) and Newt Gingrich (50-43) by margins comparable to his 6 point victory over John McCain in 2008. He...
Bob Mould theme week continues with Sugar and "Believe What You Saying".
I've been thinking a lot about the Kurt Andersen piece in Vanity Fair and my follow-up blog post about it. While I stand by my argument as a corollary to Andersen's, I will make one major concession...
The AP reports on another positive result of the president's healthcare reform law, specifically the provision that allows kids to stay on their parent's insurance until age 26 has guaranteed...
Tea party governor Tom Corbett cut 10 percent of the state police force. Imagine calling 911 for the Pennsylvania State Police and not seeing a trooper for hours, even days. It’s a scenario that...
The states will have to scramble to set up their health exchanges under the new healthcare reform law. Note the states that are lagging behind. Yeah, I wonder how predominantly Republican legislators...
The Tax Policy Center conducted a study of Gingrich's tax plan and determined that the top 1 percent would pay a lower tax rate than almost everyone else, minus the lowest earners. And, as Krugman...
Bob Mould theme week continues with Foo Fighters and Bob performing "Dear Rosemary" on Conan.
The Senate Republicans are responsible for the most filibusters ever. Most recently they filibustered job creation and an extension of the payroll tax cut. Yep. During a slow recovery from the...
With the following chart, Fox News Channel attempted to deceive its viewers by showing 8.6 percent unemployment as being higher than 8.9 percent and the same as 9.0 percent.Shameless.
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