Huffington Post - By Rob Fishman - Mar. 04 (Opinion) - If the media has been quick to villainize the fallen kings of Wall Street — New York magazine crowned Dick Fuld the "true villain," only to be replaced by "new villain," John Thain — reporters have just as swiftly glorified the middle-tier p...

AlterNet - By David Flumenbaum - Mar. 03 (News Report) - In recent days, journalists around the globe have reported on the efforts of Asian governments to censor speech and images in support of gay rights from the broadcast of last Sunday's Oscars. According to the AP, the Hong Kong-based, Murdoch-o...

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that we can set down a marker by today's date as the day the GOP Civil War truly began.Santorum At CPAC: ‘Absolutely We Hope That’ Obama Fails, ‘I Believe His Policies Will Fail’ As I mentioned in my big weekend update, this past weekend was the annual ...

I read this in Salon this morning, and I’ve been brooding over it all day. Mick Arran points out that the powers that be only get worked up about class war if they start losing the war. That pretty much sums up the dynamic of this country for the past 30 years or so. (I remember reading in som...

AlterNet - By Nora Eisenberg - Feb. 27 (News Analysis) - Americans, and our leaders, would do well to take a hard look at the war that we continue to love only because we never got to see it. NewsTrust Rating: 4.6 average (not enough reviews) - See Review » - Review It  &nb...

(Clip from Luntz, Maslansky Strategic Research, whose results are similar to Democracy Corps.) I can’t tell you how happy I am to see this. It’s going to be a lot easier to fix things when the president inspires this kind of support from both Democrats and Republicans: Democracy Corps co...

Ira Forman, executive director of the National Jewish Democratic Council, writes at HuffPo: Today, I learned that CBS News named Jeff Ballabon, a New York Republican activist, to serve as the Senior Vice President of Communications. What is CBS thinking? This guy is very far out there with his parti...

Obey over at TPM: To get to the point, my question is, what has happened to Krugman that we have him playing Baldrick to Emanuel’s Count Blackadder (oh, go look it up…)? I first became familiar with the man in the nineties with his lovely take-downs of the illiterate economic frauds in t...

Jane has a lovely comeback to Ryan Lizza’s piece on Rahm Emanuel: When Rahm Emanuel went looking for a loyal stenographer to dictate a canonical piece on himself, no surprise his gaze landed on Ryan Lizza, who did the honors for Chuck Schumer in the recent past (wherein Lizza called Russ Feing...

First CNBC’s financial reporter Rick Santelli ranted the floor of the stock exchange about Obama’s recovery plan, then tore into “deadbeat” homeowners and calls the losers. To which White House press secretary Robert Gibbs gave him a dressing down: Santelli, dude, this is wha...