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La vie éternelle est pour après demain
Le développement humain est un phénomène sublime, s’enthousiasme Jonathan Weiner dans Long for the World: The Strange Science of Immortality. La rencontre d’un spermatozoïde et d’un ovule donne lieu à des divisions et à une évolution parfaitement orchestrées, débouchant sur un être prévisible et pourtant unique. Le vieillissement humain, en revanche, offre le spectacle d’une...
C’est un peu comme rater une mayonnaise. En pire. Quelque chose comme un drame gustatif, un crime sans coupable, la quintessence d’une injustice liquide. Résumons. Vous avez réuni quelques amis autour d’une table et de quelques sujets culturels ou politiques; autour d’un ou plusieurs flacons aussi. C’est un déjeuner ou un dîner: les soupers...
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Fréderic Lefebvre n’est pas stupide!
«Pour la délinquance, chacun sait qu'il y a des liens avec l'immigration, c'est souvent pas correct de le dire, mais chacun le sait». Cette phrase de Frédéric Lefebvre, prononcée le 5 août sur Europe 1, n’est pas scandaleuse… elle est tout simplement débile en tant que telle! Frédéric Lefebvre l’a...
Séries: peut-on devenir marraine de la drogue aussi facilement que dans Weeds?
Attention, cet article dévoile des moments-clés des saisons 1 et 2 de Weeds et de la saison 1 de Breaking Bad. (On aurait pu approfondir, mais on a préféré limiter les dégâts pour ceux qui n'ont jamais vu ces séries) S'improviser dealeuse d'herbe ou meth cook pour nourrir sa famille ou soigner son cancer, ça a...
La recherche médicale néglige les femmes
Avec tout le bruit fait autour de la médecine personnalisée –un jour, les docteurs mettront au point des traitement sur mesure à partir du génome de leurs patients –, on serait en droit d'espérer que la communauté médicale saisisse d'ores et déjà convenablement les différences entre les sexes. Après tout, pour Teresa Woodruff, professeur d'obstétrique...
TalkLeft
Sunday Night TV and Open Thread
Only eight days to go until Season 6 of Weeds starts. Weeds returns for a smoking sixth season. Picking up after the untimely death of Mexican crime boss, Pilar Zuazo, Nancy Botwin’s youngest son Shane becomes a murderer and sends the Botwin family on...
Omar Khadr Trial: Window View or Shades Pulled Down?
Bumped from Saturday: There are a several excellent journalists and writers now on the ground at Guantanamo, ready to report on the military commissions trial of child soldier Omar Khadr, now 23, which is set to begin Tuesday (Hearings on motions will be held Monday. Here...
The Internet: Are You Ready to Disconnect?
The LA Times has an interesting article today on coffee shops in high-tech areas like San Francisco that have stopped offering wi-fi and/or ban laptop computing. The shops say, aside from the drain on revenue, the internet has become too much of a distraction. Customers seem...
Banks Deny Accounts to Marijuana Dispensary Owners
In Colorado, it has been really hard for dispensary owners to get and keep a bank account. They don't want the business, fearing the tension between between state and federal law with federal law declaring all marijuana is illegal. Wells Fargo was about the only one to...
Open Thread. ...
I'm headed out for dinner, the TL kid is cooking tonight...here's an open thread for those of you online, all topics welcome. ...
The Washington Independent
- The ACLU and other civil rights groups filed a class-action lawsuit against federal authorities demanding they reform the immigration detention system to help mentally ill detainees. A Human Rights Watch report from July detailed problems for the mentally ill in immigration custody, who often spend years in detention because...
What Does the Border Security Bill Mean for Comprehensive Immigration Reform?
Last night, the Senate, by unanimous consent, passed a bill approving $600 million in emergency funding to increase security along the U.S.-Mexico border. After passing the bill, Democrats hinted they hope to see more cooperation with other reform efforts. “I’m for comprehensive immigration reform,” Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), who introduced...
Senate Leaves for Break, Plans to Take Up Small Business Bill After Recess
Today, President Obama pushed for the Senate to pass the Small Business Jobs and Credit Act — a modestly sized bill that might unlock as much as $300 billion in credit for small companies, which have created two-thirds of jobs in the past decade. The bill is considered the Democrats’ last...
Oil Industry Throws Support Behind Begich Spill Liability Proposal
The American Petroleum Institute, the powerful oil industry trade group, is throwing its support behind an oil spill liability compromise proposal unveiled today by Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska). Begich is currently working on the compromise language with Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) and other oil-state Democrats who have raised questions about a...
RNC Overhauls 2012 Presidential Primary Calendar
Under the new system, the traditional lead states -- Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada -- will hold contests in February, but not in January....
The “Shadow GOP,” Hiding in Plain Sight
Holly Bailey writes about how, to little fanfare, the 12th floor of a nondescript New York Ave. office complex in Washington D.C . has become “ground zero for what many are referring to as the ’shadow GOP.’” It’s here that four new groups – American Crossroads, Crossroads GPS, American Action Network and the...
msnbc.com: Politics
3 women on Supreme Court: How big a difference?
At least once a term for 13 years, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg recalled, some lawyer arguing before the Supreme Court would mistake her for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, or vice versa....
Kagan sworn in as Supreme Court justice
Elena Kagan was sworn in as 112th justice and fourth woman ever to serve on the Supreme Court. She is the successor to retired Justice John Paul Stevens....
Obama touts benefits to Medicare from health law
President Barack Obama says Medicare will exist for many more years, thanks to new legislation that helped put the health care program for America's seniors on stronger financial footing....
US-Vietnam nuke deal will likely allow enrichment
The Obama administration has told U.S. lawmakers that a nuclear cooperation deal with Vietnam is unlikely to include a coveted promise by the Hanoi government not to enrich uranium, congressional aides say....
Gitmo trial a key test for Obama administration
The Obama administration faces the first big road test of its new military commission system when the Pentagon early next week convenes the long-delayed trial of Omar Khadr, a Canadian citizen accused of lobbing a hand grenade that killed a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan eight years ago....
More homeowners who got federal mortgage aid fall behind
The Obama administration acknowledges it underestimated the number of homeowners who fell seriously behind on their mortgage payments even after getting government help....
Talking Points Memo
It's not just the mutton barbecue (okay, it's mostly the mutton barbecue) that has me envying Evan McMorris-Santoro's assignment this weekend. The Fancy Farm Picnic is a vestige of a romanticized politics of days gone by, but those days aren't... Barbecue - Fancy Farm Kentucky - Evan McMorris-Santoro -...
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Kentucky's Democrat Attorney General Jack Conway came out swinging against his U.S. Senate opponent Rand Paul at the Fancy Farm Picnic, where old-style stump speeches and mutton barbecue supplant 24-hour cable news at least for one day. Almost. Conway belittled... Jack Conway - Rand Paul - United States Senate -...
Rand Paul, on his Dem opponent: "There are six words you won't hear Jack Conway say: President Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid." Evan McMorris-Santoro has more on Paul's speech at the Fancy Farm Picnic.... Jack Conway - Harry Reid - Rand Paul - Nancy Pelosi - Barack Obama...
In Evan McMorris-Santoro's latest dispatch from Fancy Farm, Ky., Senate candidate Jack Conway (D) calls the GOP's 14th Amendment birthright citizenship crusade nothing but "pandering" to the conservative base.... Jack Conway - United States - Republican - United States Senate - Government...
Republicans from across the state of Kentucky were treated to a healthy portion of political red meat this morning by Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul and Eric Cantor. At a pre-Fancy Farm Picnic breakfast event, the GOP trio offered some dire... Kentucky - Mitch McConnell - Eric Cantor - United States...
Firedoglake
Late, Late Night FDL: Cows With Guns
Dana Lyons-Cows With Guns...
Sunday Late Night: “Conjecture, speculation and fears are not enough.”
And if your religion can't stop Satan or the Devil or El Diablo or whatever magical evil force you've conjured to frighten the rubes -- well, neither can Mr Law. Listen up, unenlightened ones: YOUR FEARS ARE NOT ENOUGH....
President Flies on Marine One Chopper; in Other News, Water is Wet
No, Abby Phillip, an American president using Marine One helicopter in the completion of his duties as the head of the Executive Branch is not news....
In Gaza and the West Bank, as in Afghanistan, the daily toll on children of American policies is devastating....
It has become fashionable on the Left to feign a world-weary cynicism. The "Audacity of Hope" is often considered a utopian conceit, and a New Fatalism has descended upon the Left. We must not be afraid of the inspiration that we got from the Audacity of Hope, even if our...
My New Senator on Elizabeth Warren at the CFPB
Jeff Merkley is a new Senator for me, although I was proud to be a supporter-from-afar when he ran for the Senate from Oregon in 2008. I like his taking-questions-from-constituents YouTubes and was happy to see Atrios featured one of them on today's Eschaton front page....
Think Progress
Liz Cheney, Whose Dad Dismissed Public Opinion On Iraq, Now Outraged That Obama Is Ignoring Prop. C
Seventy-one percent of Missourians voting in the state’s primary election last week supported a ballot initiative saying the state cannot require its citizens pay a fine to the federal government if they do not purchase health insurance. While Republican voters represented much of the 23 percent of the state’s eligible...
Deficit Frauds Boehner And Pence Can’t Answer How Tax Cuts For Wealthy Will Be Paid For
Today on NBC’s Meet the Press, House Republican leaders John Boehner (R-OH) and Mike Pence (R-IN) had a tough time answering host David Gregory’s questions about how they would pay for extending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy. Gregory asked Boehner to respond to former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan,...
Boehner open to repealing parts of the 14th amendment: ‘I think it’s worth considering.’
Although the Republican National Committee touts the 14th amendment as one of the GOP’s brightest “accomplishments,” many high-profile Republicans are now trying to appeal to their far-right base by calling for repealing parts of it. Sens. Lindsey Graham (SC), John Cornyn (TX), Jon Kyl (AZ), John McCain (AZ), Tom Coburn...
This morning, Ted Olson — the conservative lawyer who represented President Bush in Bush v. Gore — appeared on Fox News Sunday to discuss his recent victory in overturning Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriages in California. Throughout the interview, host Chris Wallace attempted to trip up his guest with...
Study: Contemporary Mosques Are A Deterrent To The Spread Of Terrorism
In recent weeks, conservatives who have been arguing against the construction of an Islamic community center near Ground Zero have been claiming that such a building would be “offensive” to the memory of the 9/11 victims. They have also tried to imply that this mosque would embolden terrorists, with...
Dodd: It’s Not Worth A Fight To Get Elizabeth Warren Confirmed As CFPB Director
When it first looked like Harvard Law professor Elizabeth Warren might stand a serious chance of getting appointed at the first director of the newly-created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — a regulatory agency which she was the first to suggest — Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-CT) poo-pooed the...
Politics :: The Atlantic
An 18-Year Plan for the Supreme Court
A specific way to reduce the carnival aspects of how we choose and confirm Supreme Court nominees Supreme Court - Samuel Alito - Earl Warren - Supreme Court of the United States - John G. Roberts...
What Was Michelle Obama Thinking?
I don't think there's anything wrong with Michelle Obama vacationing in Spain; they have the money,… Spain - Michelle Obama - United States - Republicans - President...
Linda McMahon Uses Randy Savage's Tagline?
A reader's observation about 'Ohhhh yeah,' as it appears in a McMahon campaign ad ...
Modest Proposal: Fixed Tenure for the Supreme Court
How James Madison might line-edit the Constitution, if he had a chance now ...
The Fight Over State Aid, on the Campaign Trail
Democrats hit Republicans for opposing the $26.1 billion state aid bill the Senate passed before recess United States - Democratic - Mitch McConnell - Republican - Pat Toomey...
End Birthright Citizenship ... but How?
Options for Republicans who want to alter the 14th Amendment's citizenship rule United States - Constitution - Mitch McConnell - Lindsey Graham - United States Constitution...
NYT > Politics
White House Revamps Ethics Team, Without a Familiar Name
With ethics issues swirling in the capital, the Obama administration plans to renew the structure for overseeing them, but without the “ethics czar,” Norman Eisen. ...
Within Fed, Subtle Shift Toward Deflation Concerns
A Fed member warned that the agency’s current policies put the United States economy at risk of “Japanese-style” deflation. ...
Payback Time: Labor’s New Critic: Allies in Elected Office
Republicans have often railed against public employees’ pay and benefits, but now friends of labor are joining in. ...
M.D. Ginsburg, 78, Dies; Lawyer and Tax Expert
Martin D. Ginsburg was a tax lawyer and professor of tax law and the husband of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the Supreme Court. ...
Saturday Word: Obama and Financial Regulatory Bill
President Obama urged swift passage of the final version of the financial regulatory overhaul, as Republicans hammered his party for fiscal irresponsibility. ...
Haley Wins Republican Nomination for South Carolina Governor
Nikki Haley won the Republican nomination for South Carolina governor, a victory that swiftly elevates her to become one of the leading faces of the party. ...
All Stories | The New York Observer
'TBD' ETA: Next Week; Wemple and Brady Talk to Reporters
Former Washington Post web editor Jim Brady and former Washington City Paper editor Erik Wemple spoke to reporters today about their Albritton-owned (like Politico) local news start-up "TBD." The site is going live next week with about 50 staffers, according to Newsonomics (Paid Content's David Kaplan said the site will...
Cocktail Hour: 'Newsweek' Hits the Bar
This evening the Newsweek staff will be having a little party. There will be drinking! Who deserves it more than they? And how better to get a lil' loose — to tie one on, if you will — then by drinking some cleverly named cocktails, like the "Oh F--k We're...
The 'W' We Were, With John Fairchild
“If I see another movie star in a fashion magazine — it’s ridiculous! It’s a nightmare,” said John Fairchild, who launched W magazine in 1971. “That’s what they call the cutting edge," he continued. "I hate that word. And buzz. It’s a crock. They love buzz! When I hear the word buzz,...
Gun Heiress Platt Sisters, the New Queens of Green
The day after President Obama made his first Oval Office speech-an attempt to harness the BP disaster to kick-start comprehensive energy reform-the lanky Lauren Remington Platt, 26-year-old great-great-great granddaughter of the founder of the Remington Arms Corporation, hobbled on rickety gold heels into an eco-friendly hut called Solar One in...
Oh, Balls: Why I Love the Sport of Soccer
"Grow a pair." It's my new favorite sexist expression. When anyone within earshot is exhibiting less-than-assertive behavior, I exhort him/her to "Man up, dude, and grow a pair." The young moderns of Hollywood would appear, based on recent startling developments, to be taking my edict and running with it, all the...
Both T Magazine and WSJ., The Times' and The Journal's fashion magazines, are having editor hiccups. Sally Singer, who was hired from Vogue to replace Stefano Tonchi, won't be coming into the office until after Labor Day, according to Frank DiGiacomo. By the time Ms. Singer comes in, T will have...
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines
How to Lose Big Brother’s Interest
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As a political matter, the mother-daughter getaway to a five-star resort on the Spanish Costa del Sol was not a good idea. But I’d just as soon not have my First Family vacations determined by focus groups....
Afghan Civilian Deaths Up in 2010
Afghanistan’s human rights commission announced Sunday that civilian deaths so far in 2010 had risen by 6 percent, a fact construed as negative unless you’re The Associated Press, which seems to think “the modest increase suggested that U.S. and NATO efforts to hold down civilian casualties were having some success.”...
Brewer Riding High After SB 1070
In the months leading up to SB 1070’s passing, Jan Brewer was seen as just a fill-in as Arizona governor and a laggard in the coming election for the post. Now after signing the anti-immigrant legislation, she is enjoying success within the party and is considered a certainty to win...
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire
There could be some interesting last-minute developments ahead of Tuesday's primaries in Colorado. Colorado Pols: "There is some thinking in GOP circles that gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis could indeed be persuaded to exit the race following a victory on Tuesday -- if he has a say in his successor, and...
"I do believe that -- we've got to get more money in the hands of small businesses and American families to get our economy going again. And the only way to -- to get that economy going away is to do that, and to get arms around the spending."-- House...
Frank Rich: "Betting on amnesia is almost always a winning, not a losing, wager in America. Angry demonstrators at health care town-hall meetings didn't remember that Medicare is a government program, and fewer and fewer voters of both parties recall that the widely loathed TARP was a Bush administration creation...
Here's the latest New York Times political best seller list: 1. The Obama Diaries, by Laura Ingraham 2. The Big Short, by Michael Lewis 3. Empire Of The Summer Moon, by S. C. Gwynne 4. War, by Sebastian Junger 5. Spoken From The Heart, by Laura Bush 6. The Last Stand, by Nathaniel Philbrick 7. Can America...
"All I care about is that I get my money." -- Florida U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Greene (D), quoted by the St. Petersburg Times, explaining his practice of signing blank deeds that led to fraud at a California real estate investment....
Florida Official Timed Official Trips with Personal Travel
The St. Petersburg Times reviewed more than 1,500 e-mails from Florida Lt. Gov. Jeff Kottkamp (R) and found they "paint a picture of a man with little reluctance to use taxpayer and Republican Party resources to make life more comfortable for himself and his family."...
George's Bottom Line
George's Must-Reads: Rangel Didn’t Study Alone
Rangel didn’t study alone. Last words of a killer. Karzai corruption fight: More harm than good? Sven Birkerts laments the loss of bookstores. Stop to "stop loss." --George Stephanopoulos...
Proposition 8 Ruling Takes Aim at Justice Kennedy
It’s not if this case reaches the Supreme Court, it’s when. And as Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick pointed out on "GMA" this morning, Judge Walker’s ruling that California’s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional was aimed at one man: Justice Anthony......
George's Must-Reads: New Opening With Iran?
Dahlia Lithwick describes Judge Vaughn Walker’s opinion on Prop 8 as a love letter to Justice Kennedy. Will biting sanctions and nuclear setbacks (sabotage?) create a new opening with Iran? Obama hopes so, writes David Ignatius. Gulf well finally dead.......
Lou Dobbs: GOP Gone Too Far on Immigration
Senator Lindsey Graham took some by surprise when he called for eliminating birthright citizenship and changing the 14th Amendment -- and Lou Dobbs took even more by surprise when he opposed Graham’s idea. Dobbs, an outspoken advocate for tougher immigration......
George's Must-Reads: 74% of Gulf Oil Gone?
74% of Gulf oil gone: Scrubbed, dispersed, evaporated, absorbed...huge, if true. Lame duck pile up…START treaty put off by Senate…midterm victim? Michael Gerson asks: What makes Obama angry? Adds that voters might like him better if they knew. Dorothy Rabinowitz......
Geithner: Elizabeth Warren an 'Effective Advocate for Reform'
A few interesting pieces of information that we did not have time to air on "GMA" this morning. The tension between Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and a possible nominee to head the new consumer advocate agency, Elizabeth Warren, has been......
The Caucus
Familiar Story in Nevada: Republicans on Offensive
Midterm election campaigns, by their nature, knit together a diffuse patchwork of story lines. But the Nevada Senate race distills the patterns of 2010 as well as any....
Obama Enlists the Pros for a Game
The President invites N.B.A. stars for a basketball game and a White House visit...
The Sunday Word: Trail Dispatches
Political action moves beyond the Beltway for the next four weeks as lawmakers try to defend their home turf....
The Gulf oil spill, same-sex marriage, military suicides and the Congressional midterm elections are all part of the discussion on Sunday morning....
August Poli-Books Best Seller List
The most popular books based on sales of the past month....
The Saturday Word: Home Turf Attack
Elena Kagan will become a Supreme Court Justice, while Republican chide Democrats' spending. Watergate stirs a new debate....
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Graduate tax would cost teachers and nurses thousands, union finds
Relatively low earners would pay thousands of pounds more if ministers replace tuition fees with a graduate tax, says reportTeachers, social workers and nurses would be forced to pay thousands of pounds more for their university degrees if ministers replaced tuition fees with a graduate tax, according to a report...
Chris Huhne urges local councils to lead 'green energy revolution'
Energy secretary lifts ban on the sale of surplus electricity to the national grid as UK aims to meet EU energy targetsLocal councils will be allowed to sell renewable electricity to the National Grid from today, with the energy secretary, Chris Huhne, urging them to position themselves at the forefront...
Banks establish taskforce to fight criticism over lack of lending
HSBC chairman writes to George Osborne on behalf of banks to spell out plans to tackle credit droughtRead Stephen Green's full letter to the chancellorThe chief executives of the six biggest banks in the UK are to fight back against government concerns that they are not lending enough to businesses...
Letters: Coalition's rosy view of constituency size
John Denham (Response, 4 August) makes a powerful case for opposition to the coalition's plebiscite on electoral reform, but the issue of the size of constituencies still has to be properly addressed. Like most MPs I hold regular advice surgeries – three a week in my case – and I...
Letters: Majority voting and the fate of Iraq
"Being a member of the government … I had to support the decision of the majority," says Tariq Aziz (Interview, 6 August). Could not those words as easily belong to that other deputy, John Prescott? Both so loyally supported their respective leader. As in Baghdad, so too in London, the...
Messrs Miles and Ratford are right to argue that those who serve our country in a variety of posts abroad should be provided with boarding education facilities for their children, if necessary (Letters, 4 August). However, they do not recognise the issue raised by petty officer's son Pat Nicholls (Letters,...
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
Naturalist Jack Rudloe has started a Noah's Ark for animals affected by the Gulf oil spill. It includes over 350 species: We have to get as many animals in there as we can and then if the conditions permit, be... ...
A reader writes: You asked, "So why the uptick in anti-illegal hysteria now?" Is that a rhetorical question or are you honestly puzzled? The answer is obvious. Anti-illegal hysteria is about economic uncertainty, always has been. Illegals provide a convenient... ...
The Tree Of Knowledge, Not Understanding
Errol Morris finishes his series on anosognosia with a parable: When God created man (and woman), he gave them the ability to perceive the world, but withheld from them the ability to understand it. We could come up with one... ...
A reader writes: Speaking of the Iraq surge, you write that:I did not foresee the drop in violence in Iraq - although I did foresee the failure of the surge to achieve political reconciliation. The truth, I believe, is that... ...
"Whatever you think of Theodore Roosevelt, he was not Lenin. Woodrow Wilson was not Stalin. The philosophical foundations of progressivism may be wrong. The policies that progressivism generates may be counterproductive. Its view of the Constitution may betray the Founders’.... ...
"I think if two people love each other, then what the hell? I think that everyone should have the chance to be equally miserable, if they want," - rapper Eminem. Eminem - Rapping - Arts -...
Hullabaloo
One Nation Indivisibleby digby....
"The Answer Is Patently Obvious"by digbyLimbaugh's contribution to the wingnut hooplah around Michelle Obama's vacation is to say that liberals and the media are being soft on her because we believe our "slave past" means she deserves a "taste of the wealth of America."I'd love to know if there is...
Catching Upby digbySomeone asked me the other day if I thought that the liberal blogosphere had made progress with the mainstream media over the past few years and I answered that I thought there had been some in punditry but not so much in the mainstream news gathering. But I...
This Is Arizonaby digbyTucson, Arizona: On August 2, 2010 around 3:15 p.m. Officer Zinn and Officer Koontz of the Tucson Police Department called Border Patrol on a woman during a traffic stop. Border Patrol came and took her into detention.This is Arizona.Injunction or No Injunction. SB1070 or Not....
Jack Conway takes on the Prince of Cable
Taking On The Prince of Cableby digbySo the word is that at Kentucky's Fancy Farm political gathering Rand Paul stultified the audience so badly that they shouted "boring, boring, boring."Jack Conway, on the other hand, gave a barn burner of a speech:Conway: But the accident that the nation and...
Economic Terrorismby digbyPossibly one of the most depressing, yet entirely predictable, political moments in a long string of depressing moments is this summer's obsession with Muslim and Mexican bashing (with a dollop of good old fashioned white on black racism) while the real miscreants in our system carry on unmolested...
Crooks and Liars
My favorite scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail King Arthur: I am your king. Woman: Well I didn't vote for you. King Arthur: You don't vote for kings. Woman: Well how'd you become king then? King Arthur: The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite held aloft Excalibur...
C&L's Late Night Music Club With Antibalas
Title: Beaten MetalArtist: AntibalasHappy Sunday! Here's some Antibalas! ...
Bill Kristol Predicts Republicans Will Block Partial Extensions for Middle Class of Bush Tax Cuts
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Rush Limbaugh and William Shatner Debate Health Care
If nothing else, this small snippet of debate between Rush Limbaugh and Williams Shatner casts some light on how right wing lunatics look at health care: SHATNER: Here’s my premise, and you agree with it or not. If you have money, you are going to get health care. If you don’t...
Zombie Tea Party Leader Mark Williams: He's Baaaack!
After Mark Williams' absurdly racist satirical letter got him booted as Tea Party Express' chairman, he assumed a sufficiently contrite position and waited for the right time to regenerate. This is how they all operate. "Leaders" do outrageous things, make a big to-do about "stepping down" or "apologizing", separate from...
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Politics Daily
Celebrating 'Suffrage to Success': Are All Women Invited to the Party?
Filed under: Democrats, Republicans, Abortion, Sarah Palin, Woman Up, 2010 Elections, Conservatives, Tea PartyAs the board of the National Women's Political Caucus met over the weekend, it was again an occasion to discuss the question: "Do you have to be pro-choice to be considered a feminist?" Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments...
Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform: Building a Better Trap
Filed under: Economy, Humor, Chaos TheoryThwack! Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments...
The Struggle for Afghanistan: Counting Progress in Small Steps
Filed under: Afghanistan Journal, AfghanistanThere are undeniably success stories in the struggle for Afghanistan, but the remaining challenges make clear there is a long way to go. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments...
The Reid-McConnell Senate: Is It Really Such a Mess?
Filed under: Senate, Democrats, Republicans, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Mitch McConnellDoes our Senate need saving, or tweaking? It's not a well-oiled machine, but the "abandon hope" contingent overstates how broken it is. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments...
2010 Midterms Round-Up: Races to Watch in Tuesday's Elections
Filed under: Senate, Democrats, Republicans, Primaries, Polls, Governors, 2010 ElectionsFour states will hold primary or runoff elections Tuesday to settle a season of bruising nomination races. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments...
Karen Handel Leading Nathan Deal in Runoff Race for Georgia GOP Governor Nod
Filed under: Republicans, Mike Huckabee, Primaries, Polls, Governors, Poll Watch, 2010 Elections, Rahm EmanuelHandel is leading Deal by 7 points going into Tuesday's election. Handel has been endorsed by Sarah Palin and Deal by Mike Huckabee. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments...
The Swamp
Obama shoots hoops with NBA greats
by Mike Memoli Talk about a "Dream Team." President Obama shot hoops Sunday with some NBA superstars, a combination late birthday present and a showcase for some wounded warriors and participants in the White House mentoring project. The guest list......
RNC launches 'Fire Pelosi' tour
by Mike Memoli While Democrats are ramping up efforts to tie Republicans to President Bush, the GOP is making clear who their midterm bogeyman is. Or bogeywoman, to be exact. Speaking at an RNC gathering in Kansas City today, party......
The poll that's driving the new Democratic message
by Mike Memoli In a recent story on whether former President Bush would be a factor in the 2010 elections like he was in 2006 and 2008, I referred to a poll conducted by Benenson Strategy Group that tested the......
U.S. Chamber targets Giannoulias
by Mike Memoli One day after his campaign got a major boost from President Obama, Alexi Giannoulias finds himself facing a third-party attack on the airwaves that highlights one of his major vulnerabilities: Broadway Bank. The ad from the U.S.......
Unemployment spin: 'Bumps in the road'
Don Lee reports on the monthly jobs report: The employment picture in the U.S. remained bleak last month as the nation's payrolls fell for a second straight month, with private-sector businesses adding a disappointingly scant number of new jobs. The......
Economic adviser leaving White House
by Mike Memoli Christina Romer, chair of the president's Council of Economic Advisers, is leaving the White House to return to her teaching post at the University of California, Berkeley. The White House announced the move late Thursday. "President Obama......