WASHINGTON (AP) -- Wholesale inflation shot up in 2007 by the largest amount in 26 years even though falling gasoline costs allowed price pressures to moderate in December. The Labor Department...
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Happy Birthday to Martin Luther King, Jr.
Remember The War?
Experience shmerience: (h/t Crooks & Liars) And here are Senator Obama's remarks at the same time -- 2002: I know that Saddam poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States, or to his...
Caucus Blockus
TPM Election Central: The Nevada State Education Association has filed suit against the state Democratic Party, on the grounds that the nine at-large caucus locations set up on the Las Vegas Strip...
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Awesome prog rock by my friend Billy Sherwood.
2007: The Second Hottest Year On Record
The NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies: Data collected from around the globe indicate that 2007 ranks as the second-warmest year on record... Oh it gets worse. The National Oceanic and...
Clinton-Clinton '08
With regards to Senator Clinton's surprise win in New Hampshire as well as her prospects moving forward into the next four weeks of contests, no-one in the punditocracy has mentioned that Senator...
They Won't Stop
President Bush yesterday: "Iran's actions threaten the security of nations everywhere," Bush said. "So the United States is strengthening our long-standing security commitments with our friends in...
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The Gulf of Prankin' Incident
Navy Times says the Hormuz incident might have been an hilarious Iranian prank: The threatening radio transmission heard at the end of a video showing harassing maneuvers by Iranian patrol boats in...
Did I Miss Something?
This past week, the president has been in the Middle East fucking up addressing Israeli-Palestinian peace. But remember late last year when the Bush administration hosted peace talks between Olmo and...
Our Hip Black Friend
Anonymous Clinton Adviser: "If you have a social need, you're with Hillary," the aide said. "If you want Obama to be your imaginary hip black friend and you're young and you have no social needs...
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One of my cartoons. Marc Evan Jackson as Boo Boo Cheney, Colin Mahan as Yogi Bush, and I'm Ranger Gore.
The War On Christians
You'll get a kick out of this. In Connecticut, a devout Christian voter was so insanely worried that a Democratic president will declare a war on Christianity and -- get this -- destroy all Bibles...
Lawrence?
Lawrence O'Donnell is having a really, really bad day: A loser like Edwards has no status or dignity to lose. Campaigning and losing is his life. So, he will continue his simple-minded, losing...
"You're Making Fun Of Me."
The Republican debate last night underlined everything I don't like about the GOP candidates. Naturally there was the warmongering, fearmongering and stupidmongering. Lots of mongering. But what...
40,000 Pounds Of Surge
Glenn Greenwald notes: Also yesterday, we dropped 40,000 more pounds of bombs on Iraq in a ten-minute time-frame. I thought the war was over and we won. Maybe the bombs were filled with Lieberman...
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I'll cool it with Rush songs for a while -- after this one.
"The Surge Worked"
That's literally the title of a Wall Street Journal op/ed signed by Senators McCain and Lieberman. This struck me as revealing: As the surge should have taught us by now, troop numbers matter in Iraq...
What's This You Say?
No, no, NO! "Clinton fought back, but she needs a radio-controlled shock collar so that aides can zap her when she starts to get screechy." -Joel Achenbach, Washington Post So the "screechy" thing...