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At High Country News, Charles Bowden writes about The War Next Door: Adam Smith's invisible hand meets magical realism on the border The man talking on the screen was recruited by the drug industry in Ciudad Juarez, sent to the state police academy, where he got around $150 ...

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With over 100 advertisers (and counting) abandoning Glenn Beck's show, it's obvious that what's left is the dregs of the world, like these guys. But the gold dealers dominating the ranks of his advertisers have new competition: Yup. All those Beck viewers are suckers, because their gold ...

Another day, another parasitic rip-off of someone else's journalistic heavy-lifting. Must be another case of the traditional media complaining about riffraff bloggers living off its professional investigative work, right? Oh, wait. Here's Roll Call, presenting a lengthy hard news piece about Base Connect (formerly BMW Direct), a direct-mail ...

Poor Eric Massa -- it only took a day to go from being Rush Limbaugh's hero: This story speaks for itself ... Massa says the White House and Emanuel went after him because of the health care vote ... Now, Massa warns us what we all know, but ...

The International Brotherhood of Electric Workers is doing more than complaining about how much money bailed-out bank executives are making: Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N) was sued on Monday by a large union pension fund that accused the Wall Street investment bank of overpaying its executives. The ...

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts isn't happy with the President of the United States: Chief justice: Obama criticism 'troubling' From NBC's Pete Williams Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts today called President Obama's remarks about the court during the State of the Union message "very troubling." ...

As you can see in the video above, it turns out that Eric Massa, the right-wing media's newest darling, hasn't exactly managed to tell a consistent story on health care reform. In just a few months, he's gone from supporting single-payer even if opinion were 80-20 against it ...

Marriage equality arrives in Washington, DC: ...

Should health insurance reform allow direct government subsidies for abortion? Yes, it should. Should we drop the Hyde Amendment, the law that has, since 1976, barred spending of government money for abortions under Medicaid except in cases of incest and rape, and when the woman's life is at risk? Yes, ...

Phew. The top conservative activist on the powerful Texas Board of Education, who rejects evolution and has pushed for a revisionist right-wing U.S. history curriculum, is on the way out, after a moderate candidate defeated him in a tight primary last week. For months now, TPMmuckraker has ...

Every once in a while, I'm right about something. Me, on July 7, 2009: With 14 months until the Florida Republican Senate primary in 2010, popular Gov. Charlie Crist is riding high in the polls against his challenger, former state House Speaker Marco Rubio. But the current numbers ...

New developments in the case of the right-wing's latest hero: Former Rep. Eric Massa has been under investigation for allegations that he groped multiple male staffers working in his office, according to three sources familiar with the probe. The allegations surrounding the New York Democrat date back ...

Rove's new book is (obviously) full of lies. By fighting hard, progressives were able to significantly strengthen the health care bill. We obviously didn't get everything we wanted, but we pass this, and we have a good foundation to tinker, improve, and expand. And losing Rush to ...

Needless to say, former Hewlett Packard head Carly Fiorina has found her entrance into the elective political game to be a bit challenging. She opened up this election year with a January rollout of a website which was almost uniformly mocked. Then came the now infamous Demon Sheep, an ad ...

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This is how you begin to corral asshole Democrats. AFL-CIO leaders said Tuesday their decision to oppose Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln's re-election bid should send a powerful message to other Democrats who fall out of step with unions. Officials at the nation's largest labor federation call the ...

Chris Bowers over at Open Left has a whip count for filibuster reform: Filibuster Reform Whip Count 50 Senators who are currently safe bets for being in Senate in 2011 Favor 51-vote Senate (11): Begich (AK); Bingaman (NM); Brown (OH); Durbin (IL); Harkin (IA); Johnson (SD); Kerry ...

Yup, that'll be the Blanche Lincoln strategy for the primary: TPMDC spoke with several Democratic senators on Capitol Hill today who said the party will close ranks around Lincoln and that she won't have to worry about rogue endorsements. The Lincoln camp and her supporters will accurately frame ...

If Jim Bunning wants to continue his filibuster against the extension of emergency unemployment benefits, Senate Democrats increasingly likely to force him to stay on the floor -- all night, if necessary -- to carry it out. Roll Call: Although no final decisions have been made, Democrats confirmed ...

The Arkansas Times has the writeup and video: Halter said 1) on card check. Compromise legislation is in the works, which he hasn’t seen, but which includes elements he favors – accelerated union elections; protection of workers against undue pressure; exemptions for small businesses; ...

AP: Sen. Jim Bunning has again blocked the Senate from extending unemployment benefits and health insurance subsidies for the jobless. [...] Bunning has been single-handedly blocking the stopgap legislation since Thursday, to the increasing discomfort of Republicans like [Sen. Susan] Collins. Frustrated Democrats have been lobbing ...

He's going on the air: As is obvious, Halter is a dynamic guy that excel in retail politics. By contributing to his race, you help him spend time talking to voters, instead of big money donors and corporate interests. The insiders fear Halter because he won't be ...

Uh oh. The Breitbartocalypse looms. What is the Breitbartocalypse? See here. John Boehner talks to the Onion: It is my responsibility as an elected official to look out for the people back home, the voters who sent me to Washington. So, after 20 years representing Ohio's 8th ...

Quinnipiac. 2/22-28. All voters. MoE 2.6% (12/18 results) Democratic Senate primary Arlen Specter (D) 53 (53) Joe Sestak (D) 29 (30) General election Arlen Specter (D) 49 (44) Pat Toomey (R) 42 (44) Joe Sestak (D) 36 (35) Pat Toomey (R) 39 (40) ...

Reinforcements. A labor source confirmed to TPMDC tonight that the AFL-CIO voted to back new Senate candidate Lt. Gov Bill Halter over Sen. Blanche Lincoln in the May 18 Democratic primary in Arkansas. Three unions within the umbrella group have committed to a $3 million independent expenditure on ...

Harold Ford, to his BFF Joe Scarborough this morning: "I spent seven weeks traveling and listening and learning and I can assure you, voters don't know the junior senator," [Ford] said, referring to Gillibrand. "They can't name a single positive outcome from her, which means one simple thing: ...

When Halter released his announcement video, Lincoln responded: I know that I am the target of both political extremes but that’s what makes this campaign so important to all of us. This Senate seat belongs to Arkansas, not to outside groups that are angry I don’t answer to ...

Greg Sargent of The Plum Line does some great follow-up on Kent Conrad (D-ND): In an interview with me just now, Senator Kent Conrad tore into the media for repeatedly botching its reporting on reconciliation, and confirmed that in his view, the current plan being entertained by Obama ...

Expect Blanche Lincoln to make much hay of "outside extremists" (us, labor unions, groups like the League of Conservation Voters) that are "meddling" in the race. For example, in her statement greeting Halter into the race, she said: I know that I am the target of both political ...

Tuesday opinions, and guess who's got the Big Mo? WaPo: Obama stays on offense with health-care proposal Amid speculation that the White House would narrow its ambitions, president sticks to goal of comprehensive changes to the system. McClatchy: Obama's blueprint, or ...

driftglass never minces words, but he frequently makes mincemeat of the rightwing's relentless lying. Sunday, he deconstructed Newt Gingrich's incendiary little speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference. Discredited on a dozen counts in civilized circles, Gingrich was outshone at CPAC by rising new stars. But that didn't stop him ...

Tonight's Rescue Rangers are Louisiana 1976, grog, Hoosier Deb, dopper0189, jennyjem and YatPundit with jennyjem as editor. The diaries up for rescue tonight are: A Siegel brings to us an incredibly cool irrigation gizmo being tested in Africa: Energy COOL: Solar Powered Farming. (grog) DWG declares that the ...

Let's jump right into a very busy day on the campaign trail. It's time for the Wrap on this, the 278th birthday for the First President of the United States, George Washington... THE U.S. SENATE IN-Sen: Hill Expressing Some Interest In Senate Opening In what could create an ...

Sorry, teabaggers (and Governor Perry), but even Justice Scalia says you're wrong. To begin with, the answer is clear. If there was any constitutional issue resolved by the Civil War, it is that there is no right to secede. (Hence, in the Pledge of Allegiance, "one Nation, indivisible.") ...

Senate leadership is planning to pass a stop-gap 15-day unemployment insurance/COBRA subsidy extension this week. The previous extension expires at the end of the month, and states and businesses have already had to start processing notifications for people dropping off the programs. Advocacy groups worry that it's too little and ...

TPM's Zachary Roth: Steve King To Conservatives: 'Implode' IRS Offices Rep. Steve King (R-IA) told a crowd at CPAC on Saturday that he could "empathize" with the suicide bomber who last week attacked an IRS office in Austin, and encouraged his listeners to "implode" other IRS offices, ...

Suspected NYC bomb plotter Najibullah Zazi pleaded guilty today to three counts. A former Denver airport shuttle driver admitted Monday to a plot to bomb the New York City subways, saying he was recruited by al-Qaida in Pakistan for a "martyrdom plan" against the United States. "I ...

Joe Lieberman is going to introduce legislation to repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell. "I will be proud to be a sponsor of the important effort to enable patriotic gay Americans to defend our national security and our founding values of freedom and opportunity," he said in a statement ...

What you missed on Sunday Kos .... In What stands in the way of "forcing" a filibuster, David Waldman looked at what he termed "all the moving parts" involved in the complicated process of "real" filibustering, and what that would entail, in a detailed procedural post that should ...

Adam Green from the Progressive Change Campaign Committee appeared on the Ed Schultz show, and announced that Tim Johnson and Debbie Stabenow are the 21st and 22nd Senators to sign on to the Bennet letter asking that the public option be included in a reconciliation package for healthcare reform. ...

For the anti-choice groups, it's Stupak Coathanger amendment or nothing. The new White House health care bill doesn't change the more lenient Senate-passed abortion provisions, and now the pro-life group known as Susan B. Anthony's List is saying that it will pressure pro-life lawmakers to oppose the compromise. ...

A few Republicans actually care more about jobs than fat cat tax cuts, believe it or not. As of this moment, Scott Brown did buck leadership on his first significant vote, and Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe joined with him to vote for cloture on Reid's $15 billion jobs package. ...

This is hilarious. Check out the sign, and then check out the Fox Chyron. So Fox News is freaked out because Comrade Obamalinksy might dare to foist the democratic process upon the United States Congress, thwarting the will of the minority? Oooh, how scary. Here's the thing ...

So even Florida Gov. Charlie Crist should realize by now that he's toast in the GOP. A new Rasmussen Reports poll shows former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio with a towering 18-point lead over Gov. Charlie Crist in the 2010 GOP Senate primary. Rubio takes 54 percent ...

A Blast from the Past - Daily Kos, February 16, 2003: Protests largest in countries backing US While many on the Right like to point to the handful of nations that back the US's mad dash toward war, it's interesting to note that the largest protests yesterday ...

Tonight's rescue rangers include jlms qkw, aloha and mahalo, HoosierDeb, dopper0189, ItsJessMe, and Louisiana 1976. jlms qkw also waved her wand and drove the Editmobile. Today we remember and give thanks not only for George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, but all leaders who do the hard work and make ...

All in all, a reasonably quiet President's Day in the world of electoral politics. Well, except for that whole Evan Bayh thing... THE U.S. SENATE AZ-Sen: This is (Not) Good News For John McCain It now looks like the anti-incumbent vote in the GOP Senate primary in ...

Today is the 190th birthday of Susan B. Anthony, one of the leaders of the women's suffrage movement in the United States. Fun facts: r refused to teach her long division because she was a girl. (And where is that teacher now, huh?) She became ...

Matt Yglesias finds an important story that makes the tie between public trust in government and the economy. The relationship is striking. The economy explains about 75% of the variance in trust. If you delete 1964, which looks like a potential outlier, the economy still explains 73% ...

Texas, with its primary elections now just over two weeks away, is probably the next stop of every political junkie's 2010 American tour. And rightfully so, given the gubernatorial primary there. But one gubernatorial race horse-race fans would do well to keep their eye on is New York, because ...

What you missed on Sunday Kos .... In Brownout, Dante Atkins challenged the netroots to move beyond its obvious successes--bringing attention to conservative lies, fund-raising for candidates and keeping progressive hope alive--to exercise power at the micro-local level, identifying candidates for school boards, city councils and other specialized ...

Joe Sam the Plumber Tax Cheat isn't feeling the love anymore: McCain was trying to use me...I happened to be the face of middle Americans. It was a ploy...I don’t owe him s—...He really screwed my life up, is how I look at it. Let's all ...

Though they're still not happy about it, Roll Call reports that Republican leaders will participate in the hcr summit [sub req]. Republicans, demanding to have a say in the summit’s format and warning for days they have no interest in attending a "public relations" exercise disguised as a ...

The White House created some confusion on Friday when it issued its invitation, particularly with this part: Since this meeting will be most productive if information is widely available before the meeting, we will post online the text of a proposed health insurance reform package. This legislation would ...

Aw, gee, isn't this thoughtful? Anthem Blue Cross has agreed to a Feb. 8 request by California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner to delay its individual health insurance rate increase until May 1 to allow an independent actuary to review their rates, the California Department of Insurance has reported. ...

One man's theory on Bayh's retirement: "It was just part of his journey towards the White House, a journey which he'll never complete." Funny, in an orange-hued, Boehner kind of way. Rachel Maddow ruled GOP Rep. Aaron Schock on MTP Sunday, in her ongoing effort to catalog the Republicans ...

Reid Wilson and Quinn McCord of Hotline On Call explain what Bayh's timing means for the Democratic nomination process: Sen. Evan Bayh's (D-IN) decision to retire has sent Dems scrambling to figure out who will carry the party's standard -- and how to go about getting that person ...

Via BTD, Politico heavyweights Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei have a long justification for why Dick Cheney gets to do what he would have called treason just 13 short months ago--criticizing the President in a time of war. Or maybe it's just a long justification for why Politico has chosen ...

We all know about Dick Cheney's reckless fear mongering when it comes to attacking the Obama Administration on national security, so it was no surprise when he kept up his ferocious assault on ABC's This Week yesterday. But despite Cheney's terrified bluster, on two big issues he actually revealed ...

Sunday it was Q&A time with former half-term Governor Sarah Palin. Of course, she kept the interview within the family (the Fox family), so we took the liberty of rephrasing the questions she was asked in order to shed some light on the true nature of what she was saying: ...

Last week was a flurry of mixed messages on healthcare reform, first with sources telling Greg Sargent that the White House supported the reconciliation fix for healthcare reform. Then another administration source told HuffPo's Sam Stein "that no such signal was being sent." Meanwhile, Sherrod Brown complained that Obama's ...

You know what the funny thing is about the leader of the anti-bailout Tea Party teabaggers? She supported the bailout in the first place! Yep, Sarah was for the bailout before she was against it. Just like Glenn Beck. ...

The DOJ is hiring for its Civil Rights Division: The Civil Rights Division encourages qualified applicants with targeted disabilities to apply. Targeted disabilities are deafness, blindness, missing extremities, partial or complete paralysis, convulsive disorder, mental retardation, mental illness, severe distortion of limbs and/or spine. Applicants who meet the ...

In the House, courtesy of the Office of the Majority Leader: First Vote of the Week... Tuesday 6:30 p.m. Last Vote Predicted... Thursday p.m. ARY 8, 2010 On Monday, the House will not be in session. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2010 On Tuesday, the House ...

From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE... The Mouse Roars When you lead a protest against your fifth-grade teacher and win, that's a pretty good sign that you're political activist material. Such was the case with one of Daily Kos's new Featured Writers, Angry Mouse, although reports differ on ...

Go New Orleans! The Little Engine That Could! WaPo: At the moment the Saints won the Super Bowl and New Orleans would never be the same, they spilled through the doors of Sidney's Saloon at the corner of St. Bernard Avenue and St. Claude. They jumped ...

Stephen M. Walt at Foreign Policy writes: If [Friday]'s New York Times was reporting accurately, you should be very skeptical of anything that Afghan commander General Stanley McChrystal says. Not because he's inherently dishonest, mind you, but because misleading everyone about the situation in Afghanistan may ...

Tonight's Rescue Rangers are grog, ItsJessMe, YatPundit, BentLiberal, ybruti and vcmvo2, with claude at the Editor's desk. skralyx shows how human activity has caused the first steps of speciation in the Central European blackcap, effectively demonstrating Evolution in real time. (ItsJessMe) With passion and sadness, rturner229 urges Don't blame ...

This isn't so much an essay as it is an indictment. And there's plenty of guilt to go around. DailyKos released a poll. The poll was conducted by professional researchers who found self-identified Republicans and asked simple yes-or-no questions. Questions such as "Do you think Obama is a socialist?" ...

"He put Americans back to work building things we still use." Franklin Delano Roosevelt, State of the Union Address to Congress, January 1936: If these gentlemen believe, as they say they believe, that the measures adopted by this Congress and its predecessor, and carried out by this ...

It's halftime in Miami and after it looked like the Colts were going to run away with it early, the Saints have come back with two field goals, making it the Colts 10, Saints 6. Go Saints! Updates: Wow! Gutsy onside kick, quick drive, a TD pass from ...

Indianapolis takes the early lead on the leg of Matt Stover (why did the Ravens ever let him go?). The early commercials haven't been too impressive, although the guy, his dog and the Doritos wasn't bad. And btw, coming up at halftime, The Who is performing -- why, ...

We're fast approaching the kickoff to Super Bowl XLIV, featuring the New Orleans Saints and the Indianapolis Colts. This marks the first Super Bowl appearance for the Saints in their 43 year history, and the second for the Colts since they stole the team from Baltimore in the dead ...

The Tea Party movement is given far too much attention. The traditional media, always drawn to a spectacle, has flocked to the many spectacles provided by this movement far out of proportion with their import. Sarah Palin speaking to 600 people who've paid inflated ticket prices to cover her huge ...

Your one stop pundit shop. John Kerry (D-MA) reminds us that is recovery in Haiti will require "sustained help from the outside world." Eugene Robinson points out that actions speak louder than words: It doesn't matter whether Obama speaks in a loud voice. What's ...

Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich weighs in on the White House's budgetary cuts and middle-class relief: President Obama [Monday]offered a set of proposals for helping America’s troubled middle class. All are sensible and worthwhile. But none will bring jobs back. And Americans could be forgiven for wondering ...

Tonight's Rescue Rangers are grog, jlms qkw, jennyjem, dopper0189, and dadanation with jennyjem as editor. The diaries up for rescue tonight are: situationist provides a concise view of conservative hypocrisy in Real Bold Fresh Common Sense: The Right’s Fake Disdain for Big Government. Make sure you get to ...

The two biggest (and most dispiriting, if you are a Democrat) political stories were already on the front page earlier today. Nevertheless, there are plenty of more electoral fish to fry, so let's take a look in this Monday edition of the Wrap.... IL-Sen: Dueling Polls Paint Contrasting ...

It would have been easy to get smothered in the avalanche of fawning press coverage of Scott Brown and his upset victory in Massachusetts last week. Leave it to the Fox News Channel to go the extra mile, however. Far from trumpeting the victory of America's newest Republican Senator, ...

So the Obama Administration is preparing to announce a freeze on Federal discretionary spending through 2013. And they are proposing it in the middle of a the deepest recession since the Great Depression. Apparently, it's a political decision made in response to a single election. Great. A single ...

Republicans trotted out five familiar faces the Sunday talk shows yesterday (Senators McConnell, McCain, DeMint, Hatch, and Cornyn) and they all had the same message: now that Republicans have won 41% of the seats in the U.S. Senate, it's time for Democrats to kill health care reform bill and start ...

From the diaries. Susan. There are no words to describe how disastrous this news is from TPM: President Obama will propose freezing non-security discretionary government spending for the next three years, a sweeping plan to attempt deficit reduction that will save taxpayers $250 billion over 10 years. ...

Come Tuesday, Oregonians will be voting on whether to raise taxes on high-income earners and on corporations that haven't seen an increase in the $10 minimum for corporate taxes since 1931. Foes of the two ballot referenda, Measure 66 and Measure 67, call them class warfare. Democrats in the state ...

What you missed on Sunday Kos .... In Talking Candy, DarkSyde shot down yet another fallacy being perpetuated by a leading climate change denier--that a respected researcher benefitted inappropriately from stimulus funds. In Never With a Fuller Purpose, Devilstower drew on historic Civil War battlefield strategy ...

Yes. A lot of the worries I hear expressed about using a reconciliation "sidecar" (I like that term!) to fix the Senate health insurance reform bill center around the time people imagine it might take to get such a bill in shape and moved to the floor. We all ...

Yesterday, Meteor Blades posted a comment by South Carolina's Republican Lieutenant Governor Andrew Bauer comparing the school lunch program and other public assistance to "feeding stray animals...because they breed." Amazingly, Bauer is continuing to defend his shocking comparison, saying that "what I was trying to talk about was a ...

The leading activist group behind healthcare reform, HCAN, is urging Congress to pass real, comprehensive reform. Health Care for America Now is putting its money where its mouth is. Last week, the nation's largest reform campaign put itself on the side of major labor organizations, and leading members ...

John Cole: Why is it that all the people who claim to be the base turn out to be self-serving, self-promoting jackasses who have very narrow agendas and love to inform us that if the Obama administration does just what they want them to do right when they ...

If you've enjoyed Devilstower's Sunday essays on science, evolution, politics and the cross-currents that run between them, his book The Evolution of Everything: How Selection Shapes Culture, Commerce, and Nature is now available for pre-order. What will Wednesday's State of the Union Address include? According to an anonymous source: ...

Tonight's Rescue brought to you by Blank Frank, HoosierDeb, mem from somerville, jlms qkw, dadanation, grog, and pico. Diary Rescue is all about promoting good writers, so remember to subscribe to diarists whose work you enjoy reading. boatsie updates us on the action since Copenhagen, and the importance ...

In the words that follow, you will find analysis on a couple of new polls (including one with...gasp...good news for a swing-region Democrat), as well as more headlines in a campaign cycle that seems to grow busier by the day. Quiet days seem less likely to found as we head ...

BREAKING: BORING: In case you missed it -- and it was easy to do -- President Barack Obama has issued his first veto. And it was a veto of the continuing resolution [definition] that we discussed so often in the "This Week/Today in Congress" feature as being necessary to continue ...

After nearly a year of senatese stalling, it looks like the Office of Legal Counsel nominee Dawn Johnsen will finally get her up-or-down vote before the full senate -- and the reason is as noteworthy as the vote itself: Brian Beutler at TPM reports that under pressure from ...

From Think Progress comes this idiotic comment by a GOP operative (emphasis added): "He's become our Howard Dean," says a top Republican leadership aide. Steele's latest remarks that the party won't take control of the House in the November midterm elections—a prediction he later backed away from—have revived ...

Another day, another poll. Rasmussen. 1/11. Likely voters. MoE 3%. Martha Coakley (D) 49 Scott Brown (R) 47 week, Rasmussen found Coakley with 50% and Brown with 41%; that's not a direct trendline, though, because this time around he included a third-party candidate. The overall story ...

Chris Matthews: How can Sarah Palin be a pundit? She doesn't know anything! /index.html">Transcript (and video) at DKTV. ...

With nervous eyes on the special election in Massachusetts next week for Kennedy's Senate seat, there's some discussion about how the health insurance bill could pass if the Senate doesn't have Martha Coakley's Democratic vote. For a bill to become law, the House and Senate have to pass ...

Nate: Over the past decade or so, divorce has gradually become more uncommon in the United States. Since 2003, however, the decline in divorce rates has been largely confined to states which have not passed a state constitutional ban on gay marriage. These states saw their divorce rates ...

After yesterday's meeting between Obama and labor leaders, the White House says Obama remains committed to the excise tax, but is open to changing it. President Obama told union leaders at a private White House meeting on Monday that he remained committed to taxing high-cost insurance policies as ...

Even in most generic poll question imaginable, teabaggers are not the majority (CNN, Jan. 8-10, +/- 3%): In general, would you say that President Obama's views and proposed programs for the country are too liberal, not liberal enough, or just about right for the country? ot liberal ...

I'm back! The midday open thread has always been my task, but I had to surrender it the last two months as I worked on my third book. That first draft is now complete, and while I have more work ahead of me in February, at the moment ...

Poor Lou Dobbs. He just doesn't understand: I ask a question, and I am attacked from the extreme Left as a quote-unquote birther. I mean, what the hell is that? When you can create a controversy by asking what seems to me still a perfectly commonsense question? It ...

The man who was arguably the top recruit for Democrats in the wake of the retirement of Governor Bill Ritter in Colorado has apparently made his decision, and it is in the affirmative: Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper has told top Democrats he intends to run for governor, sources ...

It's anticipated that the Supreme Court of the United States will be handing down its long-awaited opinion in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission tomorrow morning. Because of the imminence of this decision, I wanted to take a moment today to link back to my two earlier stories ...