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Give credit to Jim DeRogatis for being a relentless pain-in-the-ass to Bono in the middle of a glad-handing radio event last night in Chicago. While I imagine Bono would have preferred to discuss whether the new U2 album is just a great 2009 album or the greatest, DeRogatis decided to ask a series o...

James G. Cummings a millionaire and Nazi sympathizer was killed by his wife last December. He reportedly was upset with the election of Barack Obama and had bought depleted uranium with the goal to construct a dirty bomb. Why are......

Why is it that whenever there is a crisis working class people not only have to pay to bail out the rich people, but they must also take the pay cuts while the people who caused the problems get bonuses? This is no more clear then with the case of Pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger. This Union Pilot...

We’ve bashed the Corporate Research Associates polling around in these parts for quite some time.  Since since it’s the only game in town, however, it’s what we have to work with. Here are some quickie observations on the most recent poll: 1.  The margin of error for the most recent ...

I started to write this post last week but got sidetracked. Maybe it was for the best because we have a follow-up today that actually makes my point for me. Last week David Brooks wrote a standard piece of conservative claptrap 'bout how - and this is his own description - "the ...

OK, let’s review the Philadelphia Eagles for a few minutes, shall we? Here’s a team that last won the Super Bowl… oh, right. They’ve NEVER won a Super Bowl. The head coach embarrasses our city with his “family in crisis”, his home characterized as a “drug em...

Well, here’s a BIG surprise: the Democrats say they don’t have the votes to pass the Employee Free Choice Act: he president’s party simply lacks the votes to break a GOP filibuster of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), the No. 1 priority of the labor movement that’s headed ...

Porn porn porn. Cable companies are hoping to "quietly" sell enough pay-per-view porn to make, you know, a profit. Ad Age wrote a whole story about it just so it could use this quote: "If you you're creating something that's just going to be masturbatory, fine, but if you want to stay alive in this ...

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