Space Battleship Yamato: The Movie Oh hell yeah!
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Stimulus Saved Millions from Poverty
A study by the Center on Budget Policy Priorities on the stimulus: The Center’s analysis, which covers 36 states and the District of Columbia, examines the effect on poverty of seven [American...
Glenn Reynolds is an Idiot
Somehow the president's choice of golf shirt has wingnut Glenn Reynolds suggesting that President Obama can't hack issues of national security. His shirt! Then again, Glenn Reynolds' idea of adequate...
Mike Allen Redeems Himself For Now
Mike Allen takes a break from RT-ing Cheney press releases and rightfully debunks this ridiculous Newsweek piece about the president being informed about a possible attack from Yemen before it...
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
I can't imagine what could possibly go wrong with government officials profiling and strip searching anyone who looks like this: Obviously we know his affiliations now, but by the looks of him this...
McInerney Wants to Strip Search Muslims (Blacks)
Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney U.S. Air Force (Retired) thinks that we should strip search all 18-28 year old Muslim males at the airport. Shameful. And how does he intend to discover who's Muslim and...
Krauthammer is an Idiot
And to think this guy is one of the "intellectual" wingnuts. [J]ust to make sure even the dimmest understand, Obama banishes the term "war on terror." It's over -- that is, if it ever existed. Obama...
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30 Seconds To Mars - "Kings And Queens" Jared Leto certainly isn't a "less is more" kinda songwriter, and I'm not sure if I'll look back and hate myself for liking this song, but good golly...
Intoxination Predicts Prog Backlash
This is just eerie. Jamie predicted the progressive backlash against the president. As the year progresses and we start seeing exactly how soon to be President Obama governs, some of the groups and...
The Bush Republican Record on Jobs
Via Sullivan, maybe tax cuts for the rich and deregulation doesn't create as many jobs as conservatives thought: And yet people are still interested in what the Republicans have to say about the...
Enough Already
Emptywheel posted another piece insisting that President Obama has failed to live up to his campaign pledges. Once again, I've got no problem with robust accountability -- but unfair and nearsighted...
Scarborough Dreams of Another 1994
Joe Scarborough laments the current and future debt and wishes for another group of leaders like 1994's Republicans. The truth is that no recent Congress--other than those brought in by the...
Underpants Bomber and 9/11
Cheney PR man Mike Allen tries and fails to be fair: PUNDIT PREP 2 – The GOP is blaming Obama for the attack. But Republican lawmakers, candidates, pundits and commentators -- and the Bush...
Just Like Bush! Just Like Bush!
He's got your change right here: WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Tuesday ordered the federal government to rethink how it protects the nation's secrets, in a move that was expected to...
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MST3K Saturday - "The Leech Woman" (Replaced previous video which was inexplicably removed. Weird.)
'Shirt Off' Chertoff
Benen discovered a fascinating pair of stories in the Washington Post today about former DHS secretary Michael Chertoff. Apparently, Mr. Chertoff is a huge fan of airport full-body imagers and so he...
Very Serious Question
Why hasn't President Obama fixed 2010 yet? Why can't he close the deal?
Bring On The Flying Cars!
Now that it's 2010, we deserve a practical flying car. But we're not there yet -- and it's not for a lack of trying. Here's the 1937 Arrowbile by Studebaker. That's not a typo. It was called the...
Decade in Review
Here's GMA's decade in three minutes. Strange what rises to the top. I love the jive network news delivery. HEY! Haha! How about zany Roy Horn! Roy Horn! Roy Horn! Hehe! WHOOPS! ROOOWR! And... the...
Prediction
As long as cooler heads prevail, and after some near term hiccups, I think we're very likely headed for steady, stable economic growth and relative prosperity in this decade. But if politicians and...