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...
Author - Bob Cesca
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...
Morning Awesome
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...
Morning Awesome
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...
Morning Awesome
Death Cab for Cutie - "The New Year"
Last Open Thread of 2009
New Year's Eve open thread for you. Topic (if you choose): Which politician or celebrity most embodied the awfulness of this decade?
Crazy Quote of the Week
"And I think we have got to get serious about catching terrorists, not just catching weapons. I‘m waiting for the terrorist who knows kung fu or something that gets on an airplane without a weapon...
Polling Torture
Ben Smith reports: Polling torture depends, like so many policy polls, on how the question is asked, and it's an area where both sides claim majority support. Rasmussen's latest finds 58% saying...