Threat Level posts an interview they did with Russell Tice three years ago. In it, he suggests we subpoena the corporate executives involved in the illegal wiretap program to find out how our government spied on us.

When Congress set a goal for the automakers to come back on February 17 and present them with a plan for being “financially viable” along with making more fuel efficient cars, they were in serious denial about the fact that doing one makes the other impossible, at least in the short term. We’re now coming up against that reality.

The Coleman camp apparently signaled its main strategy in a conference call Sunday:

As former Republican Sen. Norm Coleman’s lawsuit contesting the results of a hand recount in Minnesota begins today, his lawyers are predicting a ‘very, very tedious proceeding.”

The three-judge panel overseeing the suit will convene at 1 pm CT Monday.

Is this deliberately malicious insinuation or outright lazy ineptitude for the Weekly Standard’s Michael Goldfarb: Late last week the Hill put out a list of the top 20 lobbying firms in Washington. The list detailed year over year performance for each firm….Oddly enough, [the firm showing substantial growth] — the Podesta Group — just happens to boast a managing partner who shares a last name with the man that ran Barack Obama’s transition, John Podesta…. Well, let’s try to answer a few questions about lobbying for poor, befuddled Goldfarb, shall we?

• Yeah, this makes a hell of a lot of sense.
• So does this.
• Paging Turdblossom…
•  Here’s what you get when you watch Glenn Beck.
• And here’s the truth.
• OMG see, he’s Muslim!
• Feingold not impressed with Geithner.
• Coates is not impressed with Burris.
• Formerly gay Ted Haggard update.
• Memories of John Thain.

There are reports of a clash on the Gaza border. This attack is being described as the first breach of the cease-fire, yet Israel has been shelling the Gazan coast for days and wounded several children.

Those who forget history, are destined to run the GOP

New videos from Priscilla Ahn and Tab Benoit.

The New York Senate food fight set off by a former Bush press secretary? That figures.

Bill Kristol’s Conservative Suicide note unnerves Eric the RedState