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Firedoglak points out an inconvenient truth: [Denise Prosser] is dying because she lost her job and she can’t pay her medical bills. She didn’t steal anything so she could get taxpayer money so she can pay lobbyists to get her more taxpayer money–that’s AIG. Nobody will tell ...

It;’s a little primitive, and we’re still working out the kinks, but please give me big fat ratings!...

I’m just gonna publish the whole thing, cus it’s a doozy. You will by now have seen the statement by Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair reporting that I have withdrawn my previous acceptance of his invitation to chair the National Intelligence Council. I have concluded that t...

I’m going to piggyback on Greenwald’s excellent post on the odious Charles Schumer, who indeed “represents nothing other than the rotted ways of Washington… everything that is broken and sleazy about our political system.” As you may have seen, Schumer is strutting arou...

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...

Marcy Wheeler: Five years ago today, Andy Card and Alberto Gonzales rushed to John Ashcroft’s ICU room to try to trick him into signing the re-authorization for George Bush’s illegal wiretap program over Jim Comey’s objections. Jim Comey arrived at the hospital in time to prevent C...

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 ...

I was bopping around the Intertubes this morning when a chance visits to Glenn Greenwald took me to Andrew Sullivan’s place, where the answer to the following question was illustrated in the starkest colors: [The Israeli] assault on top of a blockade, carried out with an “iron fist”...

Joe the Plumber is at it again, and I am more confused than before. Look, i’m not a complete dope: I understand that politicians make mountains out of molehills all the time, and bring out guests at important events that serve to illustrate whatever point the politicians is trying to make. Bar...