I may be indulging in some naive wishful thinking, but I truly believe it is a testament to our unique form of government, a federated three-tiered, three-branched representative republic — not to mention a bounty of natural resources, robust industrial tradition and innovative technological l...

The two Tempo Petrocelli-Mesa Cyndi littermates that I own schooled for the first time today at PBKC The male closed in the stretch to win his race and his sister finished 3rd despite major trouble.These pups were raised and trained by the Robans. That means they were very well raised, fed and handl...

Joe - @JoeNBC - Scarborough told me (and all of his Twitter followers) to go read a long and wonkish “autopsy” of the now deceased conservative movement at TNR: Conservatism Is Dead. (Yeah … I KNOoooW!) Sam Tanenhaus traces the evolution, or rather convolutions of what conservatism...

Now that he's rolled out his own Depression-busting budget, President Obama's place in history as the second coming of FDR seems all but assured. But the president's ambition to convince Americans to swallow "An Era of New Responsibility" (the White House's title for the budget) via raising taxes by...

Just how many jobs do you think Dick Morris ever created? The draconian tax increases on the segment of the population that pays most of the taxes, generates most of the jobs, employs most of the workforce, and accounts for much of the consumer spending will chill whatever small warmth the stimulus ...

John Cole asks a thought provoking question: You know, I keep wondering- was the opposition party this petty and stupid during the great depression? When FDR proposed his budget, did some rich prick with a fake tan get up in front of microphones an hour after it was proposed (mind you, this is the s...

With the tsunami of Washington DC Journalist inundating Twitter along with a flurry of Senators, CongressCritters and political has-beens getting in on the act, there is growing speculation that the cute little social media engine may be in danger of “Jumping the Shark.”  It may wel...

Louisiana’s radical right wing agenda to nowhere.  In all, Jindal turned away nearly $100 million in federal aid for his state’s unemployed residents. Further, as the National Employment Law Project projected on Febuary 13, EUC extension alone would have benefited 24,981 Louisiana resid...

OUTRAGEOUS!! For instance, “Obama’s Elf” is not the original title to this song, but you’ll never hear this song the right way again. Also, Google Earth did NOT find the Lost City of Atlantis — or so they want you to believe. Being pissed off at the Republicans for wrec...

We’re all in this together?  Shared sacrifice?  Rising tide floats all your boats … or something?  Preposterous! How dare Barack Obama suggest that we try to save ourselves by having those who are still on relatively sound financial footing throw a rope to the folks drowni...