This is outstanding news, and quite a relief. WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus says he doesn't think Congress will address Social Security as part of an effort to reduce...
Fleet Foxes - "Montezuma" From the new album Helplessness Blues
Thank you so much for your support so far in our big quarterly fundraiser. I know times are tight, but your participation on this blog -- through readership, comments or otherwise -- is what keeps it...
David Shuster broke this news early this morning: Bush family encouraging Jeb to run for President in 2012. Family/surrogates also taking steps to muddy GOP field for possible Bush entry. The caliber...
“I never thought I’d live in a country where we would debate whether we should endorse torture as an official policy. Was some information obtained through torture? Probably yeah. Could it have been...
And the president continues to pummel Trumpie the Clown. The Sunday night ratings: A supersized edition of Donald Trump’s competition series Celebrity Apprentice spanned three hours, going head-to...
Over the weekend, Dick Cheney and other Bush apologists resurrected their exhaustively debunked claim that their policies -- including and specifically torture -- kept us safe since 9/11. Of course...
The White Stripes - "The Hardest Button to Button"
It's day one of our Spring fundraiser. We do this every several months in order to keep the blog and the podcast filled with free-flowing outrage and wonky,graph-based analysis. So if you have a few...
Rick Santorum for telling a lesbian that she doesn't deserve the "privilege" of adoption. A lesbian woman came up to me and said, ‘why are you denying me my right?’ I said, ‘well, because it’s not a...
"One last note: the Rude Pundit finds it sadly funny that, after a trillion plus dollars spent on the wars, after thousands of soldiers killed, that what it took to get Osama bin Laden was a criminal...
This is rich. President Obama has ‘pounded his chest’ too much and taken too much pride in the success of the mission to take out Osama bin Laden, according to, of all people, George W. Bush’s former...
The Pentagon released a strategic array of Bin Laden home videos seized at the terrorist's compound in Abbottabad. I say "strategic" because I'm fairly certain they were chosen to portray Bin Laden...
MANIAC - "Thank Each Mistake"
Via Andrew Sullivan: The syntactic category rule means that when two words are confused for one another the "target" (the word replaced) and the substituting word are almost always of the same...
"Ronald Reagan would have a very difficult, if not impossible, time being nominated in this atmosphere of the Republican Party. [...] Because he raises taxes as governor, he made deals with...
I don't usually resort to the Fox News Channel practice of singling out noncombatants like teachers, but come on. A Texas high school teacher has been placed on administrative leave following an...
Disgusting. A teenage girl who was dropped from her high school's cheerleading squad after refusing to chant the name of a basketball player who had sexually assaulted her must pay compensation of...
Stevie Wonder - "You Are the Sunshine of My Life"
Jon Stewart, the other night, making a case for releasing the Bin Laden death photos. What do you think?
