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Mark Kleiman gets the mike ( link ): The current Republican ruling clique is sometimes reactionary, sometimes plutocratic, sometimes theocra...

I see by the Wall Street Journal that the President departed from his prepared State of the Union text at least once--to refer to "the ...

I like TigerHawk, honest I do. Granted, he’s a lot more comfortable with violence than I am, and he seems to have more confidence in the p...

It's a meme of sorts: the Beast started things with its list of the Fifty Most Loathsome people in America. Carpetbagger invites rea...

PRESIDENT BUSH: Well, you know, I think a lot of people are in this fight. I mean, they sacrifice peace of mind when they see the terrible i...

The always-must-read Carpetbagger has a nice post up about Martin Luther King, Jr., and the right’s new-found meme that “he’s really one o...

It’s probably too late for more Gerald Ford references, but my copy of Fred I. Greenstein’s The Presidential Difference is still on the bed...

I’m late to the party over Bush’s tear after a meeting with the mother of a Marine casualty—Google Blogs records 35 hits for “Bush tears” w...

I think the “catch of the day” prize goes to Solomon Moore in the LA Times, via Larry Johnson at TPM Café. [Lt. Gen. Raymond T.] Odi...

Just good country people: link Oh, and from the same edition: news that pigs fly .

From Underbelly's Alabama bureau: read a piece about the sentencing soon of Bob Ney of Ohio. should the democrats name the lobbying re...

Last summer I not-entirely-flippantly suggested that we skip impeaching Bush and instead impeach Cheney ( link ) (my friend Fensterwald gav...

They say the job of every (Republican?) president is to make his predecessor look good. The web is awash with commentary this morning on...

One of my fave movie scenes is the one in Body Heat where Mickey Rourke tells William Hurt he isn’t smart enough to be a criminal. Now t...

I assume ten thousand bloggers will weigh in this morning on Joe Moroszcz, president of the College Republicans at Boston University, and hi...