But Rush is not a popular guy. He just isn't. The evidence isn't the slightest bit ambiguous on this point. Janny Mae comments: [The media] do not "know" that Rush is widely disliked. They BELIEVE that, because they believe their own propaganda. No, they believe that based on long-standing empirical...

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Loudmouths And Demagogues by digby I wrote a post yesterday about self-dealing Carville and Begala stepping on a useful strategy by blowing their own horns and was of the opinion that they screwed the pooch. I may have been wrong about that in one respect. When I wrote that I didn't know that Obama ...

Good morning and welcome to your Sunday morning liveblog, here at the Huffington Post. My name is Jason. So, today, because man does not live on bread alone and variety is the spice of life, I decided to give myself a brief respite from Fox News Sunday. But because many of you will think me a monstr...

I can’t say that I’m as big a fan of Sundays as most people. I’ve never really done the relaxing morning newspaper and coffee thing; I haven’t watched Meet the Press since Tim Russert died; I stopped watching much in the way of sports over the last year or two (aside from Uni...

So, the vice president (Mr. Cheney, not Mr. Logorrhea) waged and lost a just war with an increasingly irritated and ultimately implacable George Bush (and God-knows-how-many-other forces of pusillanimity who were whispering in the president's ear) over a pardon for Scooter Libby. It was a noble caus...

So, the vice president (Mr. Cheney, not Mr. Logorrhea) waged and lost a just war with an increasingly irritated and ultimately implacable George Bush (and God-knows-how-many-other forces of pusillanimity who were whispering in the president's ear) over a pardon for Scooter Libby. It was a noble caus...

At the American Spectator blog, Quin Hillyer is praising Dick Cheney: I spent eight years wishing that Dick Cheney had been president rather than George W. Bush. Here’s another example where Cheney was right and Bush was dead wrong: Cheney really fought to get Bush to pardon Scooter Libby. Lib...

1995: 50 books*The Unicorn Hunt by Dorothy Dunnett*What I'm Going to Do, I Think by L. Woiwode (repeat - read in 1969)*The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Selma Lagerlog*Dakota by Kathleen Norris*Indian Affairs by Larry WoiwodeA Time to Kill by John GrishamDecider by Dick FrancisIf Ever I Return, Pr...

Back in January of last year, as the Democratic primary was just heating up, the candidates gathered in Nevada for a debate hosted by Tim Russert. Russert asked the candidates to tell the audience about what they perceived as their own greatest strengths and weaknesses. John Edwards, whose real weak...