This was from yesterday, but it's never too late to call out Joe Scarborough for spreading false information: I can tell you, I've got numerous contacts within the CIA from my days on the Hill that...
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Phil Collins - "Take Me Home" From No Jacket Required (I've never been much of a Genesis or Phil Collins fan, but I love this track.)
But He's Just Like Bush!
No he's effing not. This for example: “For the first time in history, we have set in motion a national policy aimed at both increasing gas mileage and decreasing greenhouse gas pollution for all new...
Evolution Framing
I was just watching Hardball and the question came up: Do you believe in evolution? Evolution is verifiable science. It isn't a matter of "belief." That is unless it's acceptable to go around asking:...
Prime Time Thread
Tuesday night open thread.
The Expectations Gamble
The main topic for the radio show tomorrow night will be a discussion about liberal expectations for the Obama administration and whether they're too high, too low or just right. It's more or less...
Afternoon Awesome
The Internets, as envisioned in 1969. Source
Quote of the Day
"You know it’s real. You can see it, and you can feel it. This change, my friends, is being delivered in a teabag. And that’s a wonderful thing." —Michael Steele I'm not making this up.
Wimpy Wimps Wimply Wimping
Can we oust Harry Reid yet? President Barack Obama's allies in the Senate will not provide funds to close the Guantanamo Bay prison next January, a top Democratic official said Tuesday. With debate...
Civilized Discourse
[Video updates below...] This is unbelievable. Joe Scarborough, who publicly lectured/tattled on me for not engaging in civilized debate, talking about Jesse Ventura: "Perhaps Jesse should stop...
Morning Joe
It's day 346 of Nancy Pelosi coverage on Morning Joe. Wow. Hat's off for some balls out coverage. They're really blowing the lid off this thing especially considering how Speaker Pelosi had...
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A.C. Newman with Nicole Atkins - "Like a Hitman, Like a Dancer" Live on Letterman from April, 2009 From Newman's second album Get Guilty
New Emission Standards
Via Politico: The national emissions policy for autos, which will ramp up to a new standard of about 35 miles per gallon in 2016, will harmonize the corporate average fuel economy, or CAFE, standard...
The Press, Pelosi and Torture
The most striking aspect of the establishment media coverage (mainly cable news) of the Pelosi situation is that it mirrors the ridiculous coverage we saw during the run-up to the invasion of Iraq...
Prime Time Thread
Open thread for your Monday night blogotubing. Drive safely!
Whoa.
Gallup: The decline in Republican Party affiliation among Americans in recent years is well documented, but a Gallup analysis now shows that this movement away from the GOP has occurred among nearly...
Doof Quote of the Day
"Put pictures of Pelosi in every cheap motel room in America today. That will keep birthrates down because that picture will keep a lot of things down." —Rush Limbaugh back in January Hmm. Should a...
Bunker Gate, Part 2
For what it's worth, the secret bunker Cheney used after 9/11 was located near Camp David at Raven Rock Mountain in Pennsylvania. How do we know this? The following Knight-Ridder report about James...
Afternoon Awesome
From the season finale: Will Ferrell, Darrel Hammond, Tom Hanks and Kristen Wiig. (I haven't laughed this much at an SNL sketch since the previous time they did Jeopardy. Just classic.)
Reframing the Torture Question
Joe Sudbay: Do the American people support torture purely for political reasons? That is the operative question. I'm eager to see polling on that one. Torture clearly wasn't a factor in keeping us...