Newt Gingrich locking in his position as a leader of the White Wingnut Party. Gingrich warns that all of American civilization is at stake here. "If Civil War, suffrage, and Civil Rights are to mean...
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Morning Awesome
"Total Eclipse of the Heart" - Literal Video Version
Saturday Night Thread
Saturday night open thread.
Jay's Goodbye
Last night was Jay Leno's last Tonight Show. It wasn't the most touching TV goodbye ever, but it was nice. Video here. Meanwhile, NBC still hasn't acknowledged on their Tonight Show Experience...
Quote of the Day
"When we have taken steps that have violated the Geneva Convention, we rightly have been criticized." —General David Petraeus admitting that the U.S. has violated the Geneva Convention
Atrios Turf
I know this is Duncan Black's beat, but it's worth noting that my adopted hometown of Reading, PA -- the home of the famous Reading Railroad -- no longer has any sort of commuter or passenger rail...
'Walking Back' Nothing
Watching MSNBC last night, you'd think President Obama publicly flogged Judge Sotomayor. Of course he did nothing of the sort, but leave it to NBC News to constantly stoke drama -- especially when it...
Morning Awesome
MST3K Saturday! "A Date with Your Family" Light blogging today. I'll be in New York at the Book Expo signing my, you know, book.
I'm Gonna Hurl
Hardball just made me shout loud obscenities at the television. Howard Fineman -- with a straight face -- said that inside-Washington conventional wisdom about Judge Sotomayor has been shaped by...
Prime Time Thread
As the sun goes down on the western shore, it's your Friday night open thread.
Lanny Davis
It's quite possible that I despise Lanny Davis's brand of weak-spoken, capitulating Democratic politics more than the lying insanity of the wingnut right.
Excellent Strategy, Boys
The Republicans continue to dig their own political graves. Yglesias informs us: Michael Goldfarb of The Weekly Standard and Stuart Taylor of National Journal are genuinely engaged in an Ahab-like...
Quote of the Day
"Translating our name as “the race” is not only inaccurate, it is factually incorrect. “Hispanic” is an ethnicity, not a race. As anyone who has ever met a Dominican American, Mexican American, or...
Quite Possibly The Worst Thing Ever
G. Gordon Liddy on Judge Sotomayor: Let’s hope that the key conferences aren’t when she’s menstruating or something, or just before she’s going to menstruate. That would really be bad. Lord knows...
Glad-Handery
On a bookish note, I'll be at the BEA in New York (Javits Center) tomorrow afternoon signing my book. 1-1:30 p.m. at the Sterling & Ross booth, #4411. If you want to make with the talking and...
The Cheney Files
Senator Levin has seen the Cheney Family files that allegedly "prove" torture saved lives. The files don't prove any such thing, of course. Senator Levin: Mr. Cheney has also claimed that the release...
Give 'Em Hell, 54th
Kos diarist JekyllnHyde covers an historic anniversary: the deployment of the 54th Massachusetts, the legendary African American regiment during the Civil War. As JekyllnHyde points out, it only...
Mine, Too
Barnicle's head is going to explode unless guys like Scarborough and Buchanan put Judge Sotomayor's "Latina woman" comments in context: Buchanan's new column, for example, doesn't: Like Obama...
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The Police - "Don't Stand So Close to Me '86" From the Every Breath You Take reunion best of album
Go Tom Tancredo!
Eric Boehlert and Rick Sanchez entirely debunk and embarrass Tom Tancredo. Keep going, Republicans! More Tancredo! More everything!