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Great Moments In Constitutional Interpretation

By Unstable Isotope August 18, 200912 Comments

Today the Supreme Court announced a decision ordering a new trial for Troy Davis, who is on death row awaiting execution for the killing of a police officer. The conviction…

Ugh, Brett Favre

By Unstable Isotope August 18, 200938 Comments

Once again, the drama show that is Brett Favre announces his un-retirement. Brett Favre, who only three weeks ago said he planned to remain retired, changed his mind yet again…

Robert Novak Dies

By pandora August 18, 200919 Comments

Via HuffPo: CHICAGO — Political columnist Robert Novak, who was a central figure in the Valerie Plame CIA leak case, has died after a battle with brain cancer. His wife…

Maybe It Is 11-Dimensional Chess

By Unstable Isotope August 18, 200910 Comments

There has certainly been a lot of garment-rending and gnashing of teeth lately about the health insurance reform bill and whether the public option will be included in the final…

C’mon God!

By jason330 August 17, 20092 Comments

Bachman to run for President if God ever gets off his ass and picks up the phone.

The Graphinator Knows All, Sees All

By jason330 August 17, 20092 Comments

The retail customer.

Deepthought

By Donviti August 17, 200923 Comments

I think I just nailed it... Obama is trying to hook up "his people" with free health care and there aint no way in hell some people are going to…

Crazy Eileen Must Never Have Been a Mother

By liberalgeek August 17, 200948 Comments

I have been thinking about what you have to believe to be a birther. It must be hard to keep your head in it. You have to believe that Obama's Mother was crazy. You have to believe that she was quite pregnant and willingly flew to Kenya. She had to fly for something like two days on two or three different airlines. She had to fly like 3 segments on PanAm and 2 or 3 on East African Airways.

Republicans Don’t Compromise

By jason330 August 17, 200938 Comments

How f*cking hard is that to understand? [...]

Yawn…Another Day, Another Armed Man Outside A Townhall Meeting

By Unstable Isotope August 17, 2009148 Comments

Things are getting crazy out there. For the third time in a week an armed citizen has been spotted outside a meeting where President Obama is going to speak on…

I Must See This

By Unstable Isotope August 17, 20095 Comments

Today's news of the surreal: Former Republican Majority Leader Tom DeLay will join 15 celebrities from the worlds of entertainment and sports in kicking up their heels on the new…

Chart of the Day

By cassandra_m August 17, 2009

An excellent depiction of the current state of the Too Big to Fail showing their bonus payouts vs TARP holdings and current earnings or losses:

The Deep Roots of the Right Wing Crazy Tree

By cassandra_m August 17, 20094 Comments

Rick Pearlstein wrote an amazing op-ed today, which shows how the wingnut crazy has been a persistent part of the political landscape throughout much of the 20th century. (I love the story about how the right thought of Truman and Roosevelt years as "20 years of treason". Especially since the current expectation by their descendants is that history will rehabilitate BushCo in the way it rehabilitated Truman.) Pearlstein makes this point: