Several items for your consideration tonight: State AGs, aided by the Obama Justice Department, are about to rain down a storm of payback upon the mortgage banking and financial services industries, including a major staffing increase for a reinvigorated SEC. A little trust busting would be in order...

Seymour Hersh put it out there last night, in a matter-of-fact way in response to a question at a University of Minnesota forum: Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh dropped a bombshell on Tuesday when he told an audience at the University of Minnesota that the military was running an "executive ass...

Jamison Foser at Media Matters this afternoon pens a great piece on the media's dishonesty about Obama's income tax plan, and its fixation on alleged tax increases. Obama is letting the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy expire, and making permanent the tax cuts on those making less than $200,000 a year....

Following Barack Obama is a tough act, but Bobby Jindal made a fool of himself and the GOP Tuesday night. And his party isn’t pleased at all at his buffoonish and empty performance. "You can't go on TV and counter Obama with that," said radio host Laura Ingraham. Philip Klein of the American Spect...

Some random thoughts this morning: After consulting with military leaders and hearing their concerns about complying with a 16-month withdrawal timeline, Obama is reportedly prepared to allow for a slight slippage to mid-2010, or perhaps August 2010, for when all combat troops will be out of Iraq. T...

AP photo of the Fiscal Responsibility Summit yesterday After the GOP’s kamikaze mission to obstruct the stimulus package, Obama rides a wave of public support, according to the latest CBS News/NYT poll out yesterday: President Obama is benefiting from remarkably high levels of optimism and confide...

AFP photo I'm very glad that Sean Penn and Kate Winslett won tonight. Despite the Hollywood chatter about Mickey Rourke's chances with "The Wrestler", Penn earned this award, like he earns all his awards, for his excellent work on the screen. It was also a class move on his part to give special ackn...

Last week, George Will wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post once again lamely trying to debunk global warming. As usual among the denier crowd, Will relied upon misstatements of fact to make his case. When bloggers asked the Post how such a flawed piece of crap got past any editing process for the ...

Several items for discussion tonight: Obama sends another 17,000 troops to Afghanistan, even before he figures out what his strategy is, at a time when Pakistan has given over a significant part of their country to terrorists. Until we realize that the border area between the two countries needs to ...

Judd Gregg, February 3rd: "This is not a time when we should stand in our ideological corners and shout at each other. This is a time to govern and govern well. It was my obligation to say yes." Judd Gregg, today: "(I)t has become apparent during this process that this will not work for me as I have...