"President Bush had strong nerves. President Clinton, who passed up a chance to eliminate Osama bin Laden, did not." —Fred Barnes Tora Bora, Mr. Barnes. Bin Laden is still at large.
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Morning Awesome
Letterman's Final "Great Moments in Presidential Speeches"
The Hero of 9/11
When I watch My Pet Goat in real time juxtaposed with the tragedy of that morning, I can't help but to think how quickly the president shown in this video would've been disgraced by the media and...
More Like This One, Please
The Republicans need more far-right talk radio hosts like Bill Cunningham speaking for them. More, more, more. Referring to working class Americans as "denegerates" who "sit around and fornicate...
Saturday Night Thread
Open thread for your Saturday night blogotubing.
Weekly YouTube Address
Inauguration Edition
Is There Anything They Can't Do?
Dylan Matthews reports that Krispy Kreme is having a "Freedom of Choice" free donut day to celebrate the inauguration on Tuesday. Naturally, this means they want to abort millions of fetuses. The...
Early Firsts In Photography
I'm a geek for lists like this. Top 10 Incredible Early Firsts In Photography - The first motion picture, filmed in 1888 by inventor Louis Le Prince, is totally surreal. It doesn't feel like it...
Afternoon Awesome
Keith Olbermann's "Eight Years in Eight Minutes"
One of the Funniest Things Ever Written
Matt Taibbi has turned ripping on Thomas Friedman into an art form. And this passage from his review of Friedman's Hot, Flat and Crowded, is one of the funniest things I've ever read: Friedman...
Heckuva Job
More from Yglesias.
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"[Bush] inherited the 9/11 attacks." —Wendell Goler, FOX News Channel
Morning Awesome
MST3K Saturday! "Speech"
White House Open to the Public
The president-elect is opening the White House to the public on Wednesday. Of course you have to apply here and hope your name is selected. I applied, but only because I have a Republican congressman...
Prime Time Thread
Open thread for mocking the cable news hackery. And open season on all trolls! Tonight! I tinkered with the blog design a little. Enjoy!
Your Tax Dollars At Work
Unless you're eating, check out this "Keeping America Safe" video at the White House website. While exploiting showing various photographs of 9/11 devastation, President Bush says that September 11...
Schweikart, Lincoln and Obama
A reader sent me an e-mail exchange he had with Larry Schweikart, the University of Dayton history prof who appeared on Hannity the other night and declared, among other things, that President-elect...
Inaugural Weirdness
Ted Widmer in the American Scholar observes some inaugural weirdness: Why did John Adams, sailing along smoothly, suddenly embark on an interminable single sentence that took up approximately a...
Everyone Gets A Prize
Steve Benen reminds us: Presidents don't have to give televised farewell addresses at the end of their term. Indeed, George H. W. Bush didn't bother, preferring to let his record speak for itself...
Brotherhood of Inspiration
Between the historical inauguration of Barack Obama and the miraculous heroism of pilot Chesley Sullenberger, here's to hoping for good things, good people and an inspired America in 2009.