Video by SNPS Brian ShajariLooks like the perfect storm, doesn't it? This post is in honor of Old Coastie's success in helping to save California from election fraud.Repubs know they can't win a fair presidential race in '08, so they were trying to siphon off part of the CA electoral votes.

I have always believed that a guy like Jim Comey was not going to stage a mass resignation over some small disagreement involving a slight parsing of words. Nor do I think he is the sort to substitute his own policy judgements for that of an elected president. Nope, I have always believed that the showdown had to be over some black and white, "plain meaning" issue related to either a statute

If it weren't already crystal clear that the right-wing approach to the immigration debate has had the effect of infusing movement conservatism with the toxic sewage of the racist right -- all the way to the highest levels -- last night's GOP presidential debate drove the point home rather vividly.Rick Perlstein surveyed the damage and acidly observed:The Republican YouTube debate was an astonishment.

It's rather shocking to see how discombobulated Time Magazine has become over the whole Joe Klein/FISA debacle. Did they learn nothing from the Washington Post's Deborah Howell episode? If they thought they could get away with jamming their fingers in their ears and singing "la la la I can't hear you," the Chicago Tribune just stuck it to them by printing a genuine correction to the Klein

Big Tent Democrat seems to think there may be legal consequences for Rudy as a result of sending NY cops to chauffer his squeeze: There oughta be a law! Oh wait, there is one: [NY State Comptroller Alan Hevesi's] decision to step down came as Albany prosecutors were preparing to ask a grand jury to indict him on charges of defrauding the government and on other felonies stemming from his use of state

From the Associated Press this afternoon: An Arkansas legislator apologized Thursday for an e-mail in which he wrote that "we are being outpopulated by the blacks" and "we are being overrun" by illegal immigrants. But state Sen. Denny Altes insisted the comments in the e-mail he sent earlier this month to former Fort Smith Mayor Bill Vines were not racist. .

Every strike needs a star, and the WGA has one...Writer Boi. The AMPTP has returned to the table, maybe because...advertisers are on the brink of demanding refunds on the money they spend upfront? (Looks like all the "makegood" slots are in short supply.) The holidays are certainly a time that the studios could use to put pressure on the writers by making people who live paycheck-to-paycheck miserable and inflicting a

I don\'t quite understand this wingnut trend to \"volunteer\" to be waterboarded: Ashcroft caused an uproar when he declared Guantanamo Bay was a “good place” for detainees. In addition, he defended the torture tactic of waterboarding: Ashcroft also responded to questions from the audience. The first question came from a woman who asked if Ashcroft would be willing to be subjected to waterboarding. “The things that I can survive, if it were necessary to

[Please welcome Caroline Fredrickson of the ACLU to discuss the pending FISA/RESTORE legislation.  As always with guests, please stay on topic and be polite -- any off-topic discussions should be taken to the prior thread.  -- CHS] As the Joe Klein flap (H/T Glenn) has raged forward, with one Time misstep after another, I kept asking myself from whom he could have gotten such inaccurate information.  Wonder no more: Klein Kerfuffle FISA facts. By Peter

After last night's embarrassing spectacle, the wingnuts are predictably in no mood to talk about how pathetic their candidates looked. Cue the two minutes of liberal media hate! Pajamas Media: (updated) What we really saw tonight was CNN playing out its own agenda in front of a couple million viewers and seven or eight candidates, without anyone calling them on it. Townhall: