The Real Motive Behind the Cheney Family Torture Tour Enjoy and Digg often. Adding... I think it's odd that the same people in the establishment press who cheerlead the invasion of Iraq are more...
New Huffington Post Column
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Author - Bob Cesca
The Fire Eaters
All of this from the people who supported the anti-government tea parties. In other words, the people who want government out of our wallets seem to be demanding that it be jammed into our bedrooms...
Super Stupid
Via Oliver Willis: A RNC member tells Roger Simon that when committee members meet in an extraordinary special session next week, they will approve a resolution rebranding Democrats as the "Democrat...
Crazy Quote of the Day
"There are 245 hard-core terrorists that would be turned loose in the United States and one of the locations where they would be putting them is Fort Sill... You turn these people loose and they...
Can We Shitcan Harry Reid Yet?
As Benen details here, our ineffectual majority leader is allowing the unpopular and marginalized Republicans to obstruct the confirmations of extraordinarily qualified nominees for important cabinet...
Morning Joe
Remember when Joe Scarborough accused me of name calling and not engaging in civilized discourse? So instead of talking about the philosophical tension that has defined our Republic since Jefferson...
Morning Awesome
The Crystal Method - "Drown in the Now" From Divided by Night
WWII: Behind Closed Doors
The producers of WWII Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West were awesome enough to send me screener DVDs of this PBS documentary miniseries. If you're at all interested in World War II...
Prime Time Thread
Open thread for your Tuesday night blogotubing. And day two of our Spring fundraising drive! Advertising revenue on the tubes has always been a "beer money only" proposition, but, due to the current...
'Hey, Can I Vomit Right Now?'
Go, Shuster! This actually made up for the fact that MSNBC aired the stupid horseshit Trump event in its entirety.
Crazy Quote of the Day
"You would let everybody get married who want to get married. You want to marry a turtle, you can." —Bill O'Reilly telling us that same-sex marriage will lead to turtle marriage
Limbaugh's Black Conspiracy
The leader of the Republican Party thinks the president is orchestrating a conspiracy to finance -- get this -- reparations for African Americans. "The [economic] deterioration reflects lower tax...
What They Did To Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi
Andrew Sullivan: And so Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi was first captured by the US and tortured by CIA surrogates in an Egyptian cell. Apparently, they beat him and put him in a coffin for 17 hours as a mock...
Failing Up
The secret to success in print journalism: Legally justify torture -- get your own column. The Philadelphia Inquirer is giving John Yoo his own column. No really. They are. Maybe they're looking for...
For the Record
BarbinMD reminds us: Cheney's approval numbers: 18% Limbaugh's approval numbers: 26% Powell's approval numbers: 80% (Rasmussen), or, 54% (CBS/NY Times). Go, Republicans! You're smart!
The Torture 'Debate'
Digby on the cable news treatment of "the torture debate": We are in big trouble when torture becomes just another political football. It's the kind of thing that turns powerful empires into pariah...
Stupid Pundit Tricks
Pat Buchanan repeats the tired old line that record cold temperatures in several cities means there isn't any such thing as global warming. Uh-huh. You know what else, Pat? A terminal cancer patient...
Morning Torture
Joe Scarborough and Liz Cheney are on Morning Joe right now presenting two red herring arguments in support of torture and no one appears to be challenging either of them. (Actually, Joe isn't "on"...
Morning Awesome
The Princess and the Frog - Official Trailer Huge round of applause for the return of hand-drawn animation! Hopefully this will send a signal to Hollywood that it's not about cutting edge CG or...
Crazy Quote of the Day
"I felt as though Satan was trying to tempt me in asking me this question. And then God was in my head and in my heart saying, 'Do not compromise this. You need to stand up for me and you need to...