They're not irrelevant, and they're not going away. Limbaugh and Hannity have coined the phrase "the Obama recession" and now it's all over the cable news. Our response has to be the phrase "the Bush...
Free Market Intellectual Violence
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Author - Bob Cesca
Prime Time Thread
Open thread for commenting on the nightly hackery found upon the cable also. Tonight! I can't even look at the stock market anymore. And Sarah Palin keeps on making with the talking.
44 Can Draw, Too
I'm seriously impressed by this doodle -- drawn by our next president: Without reading the article, can you identify who the senators are? I got all of them except the one on the left with the big...
New Huffington Post Column
What Doesn't Kill The Far-right Only Makes Them Crazier Enjoy!
Never Again
I agree with Sullivan about continuing to keep an eye on Sarah Palin's hijinks. This deluded and delusional woman still doesn't understand what happened to her; still has no self-awareness; and has...
Callie Shell's Obama Photo Journal
The complete set here. It was primary morning in New Hampshire. Barack and Michelle Obama had been campaigning separately all week. In the first few months of 2008 their private time seemed to...
Babysitting the Big Three
It looks as if the president-elect is going to appoint a regulator to oversee the auto industry -- ensuring that they won't take our bailout cash and spend it on upgrading Escalades with jacuzzis and...
The Pickens Scam
Romulan swift-boater T. Boone Pickens has suspended his plans for wind power. So that whole ad campaign? A trojan horse for natural gas.
Awesome
My book is available to purchase at actual book stores now. You can't miss it -- it's yellow-ish.
Faith. Doubt. Individuality. Humanity.
by Lee Stranahan HuffPo is highlighting a 2004 interview with Barack Obama about religion and it reveals (shock) an intelligent, actualized human being's approach to faith. This quote spoke to me...
The Okey Doke
by Lee Stranahan So now Treasury Secretary Paulson is saying they won't be buying those bad mortgage assets. But one of the arguments made about the bailout was that by buying those assets, the value...
Look! A Cabinet Flowchart! I'm A Geek!
US News has a super-secret leaked flowchart of Obama administration cabinet contenders (pdf). Digby isn't sure how real it is, but the shortlists don't contain a lot of senators, which made me smile...
Searching for the Republican Netroots
Boehlert is following the hilarity. Here's my theory... New media is all about interactivity and instant feedback. This dynamic -- the very nature of new media -- doesn't help the far-right...
Center-Wrong
Oh noes! In a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Tuesday, 59 percent of those questioned think that Democratic control of both the executive and legislative branches will be good for...
Ew.
Actual MSNBC First Read headline: HRC Urges Stimulus With Bush Posted without comment.
Matthews for Senate?
When Chris Matthews said, "I want to do everything I can to make this thing work, this new presidency work," it was all about a potential senate run. In fact, we'll find very few anti-Obama remarks...
Morning Awesome
U2 - City of Blinding Lights Live at the Brooklyn Bridge
My Great-Great Grandfather on Veterans Day
My great-great grandfather, Richard B. Davis, was a volunteer soldier in the 155th Pennsylvania Regiment, out of Pittsburgh, during the Civil War. The 155th eventually became a "zouave" unit ...
Very Serious Question
"How can blacks be 13 percent of the population, but 100 percent of the problem?" (Asked by Frances Callier (of Frangela) on the Stephanie Miller Show.)
Prime Time Thread
Open thread for documenting the constant variety of cable news hackery and also. Tonight! Sarah Palin hates bloggers in pajamas.