Law suit! SAN DIEGO — Ousted Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod said Thursday she will sue a conservative blogger who posted a video edited in a way that made her appear racist...
Author - Bob Cesca
The Bob and Elvis Show – July 29, 2010
This week! Somehow, 92 million gallons of oil has vanished like magic. Plus, the tea party crusade against non-Christians and brown people simply because they're, you know, non-Christian and brown...
Prohibition of Brown Babies
Lindsay Graham -- one of the "reasonable" Republicans -- wants to amend the Constitution so he can round up and deport babies. “I may introduce a constitutional amendment that changes the rules if...
Sarah Palin's New Book Cover
There are four American flags on this cover, and she's wearing all of them. In fact, it looks like she's deliberately and awkwardly posed to show off the flags on her arm. Via
Beck Thinks Freedom of Religion is Dying
Appropriate to what Elvis and I were talking about on the podcast today, Glenn Beck thinks freedom of religion is going to be rescinded somehow. Again, Beck's tea party followers are protesting at...
Bush Tax Cuts Won't Create Jobs
Christina Romer explains: First, extending the high-income tax cuts would provide very little job creation in 2011. There is widespread agreement that the short-run economic benefits of high-income...
GOP to Block Healthcare for 9/11 Workers
Remember, this is the party that's attempted to brand 9/11 as an exclusively Republican thing. Via Steve Benen: House Republican leadership is advising its members to vote against a bipartisan bill...
Morning Awesome
R.E.M. - "What's the Frequency Kenneth?"
The Oil Is Still There!
Mac McClelland debunks this government and media myth that all of the Gulf oil has vanished like magical choco-rabbits. I sent one text message to Bloomberg's Lizzie O'Leary, who's standing on Grand...
New Huffington Post Column
The GOP Plot to Screw the Economy and the Middle Class Tweet and Digg often. It's an epic.
Judge Blocks Arizona Law, Hates America
In case you haven't heard by now, U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton blocked some of the most controversial aspects of the Arizona immigration law, including the "papers, please" section. Naturally...
Coal Industry to Buy Candidates
Thanks to the Citizens United decision... “With the recent Supreme Court ruling, we are in a position to be able to take corporate positions that were not previously available in allowing our voices...
Yes, There's Another Oil Spill
And it's the largest oil spill ever in the mid-West. A state of emergency has been declared in southwest Michigan's Kalamazoo County as more than 800,000 gallons of oil released into a creek began...
No Voting Rights for Low Income Americans
Here we see Fox News implying that perhaps Americans who didn't earn enough to pay federal income taxes last year should -- yes -- lose their voting rights. Yes, once again, the far-right is bitching...
Morning Awesome
The Peter Serafinowicz Show - "The Butterfield Diet Plan"
Just Thinking Out Loud Here
I wonder if the House Republicans and conservadems made sure the war funding bill was deficit neutral. Likewise, I wonder if Kent Conrad and Tom Coburn will demand a CBO scoring before they take up...
Paul Ryan Wants to Raise Your Taxes
Yesterday on Hardball, Congressman Paul Ryan -- you know, one of the smart Republicans -- was outlining for Chris Matthews the specific areas the Republicans would like to cut in order to pay for the...
Republican Filibuster of the Day
Today they filibustered the DISCLOSE Act... The DISCLOSE Act would require corporations and interest groups to identify themselves when they sponsor political ads and, in the case of smaller...
Quote of the Day
"The Sherrod story is a reminder — much like the 2004 assault on John Kerry by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth — that the old media are often swayed by controversies pushed by the conservative new...
Another Gulf Oil Leak
Just in: Adding insult to the Gulf's injury, a wellhead hit by a tug boat is now spewing oil near a Louisiana marsh area, officials said Tuesday. The oil is shooting up 20 feet into the air, the...