FireDogLake founder Jane Hamsher explains that House Minority Whip Eric Cantor is confused about where the fifty billion dollar rescue for homeowners in trouble with their mortgages is coming from.

How political leaders are having a hard time dealing with torture

By now, it is all over the news, a man beheaded his wife of 8 years. She had a restraining order for their home, he turned himself in. That the man is a muslim and started a network to improve the image of muslims is what gives it the “man bites dog” news cycle stickiness.

He promised to do so on the campaign trail, and now he’s done it: President Barack Obama has approved a troop increase to Afghanistan. His just-released statement is below. Notice that the forces approved appears to be less than the 20,000-30,000 troops that Gen. David McKiernan, commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan, has asked for.

Betraying what David Sirota calls “his deeply corrupt attitude about health care policy” Tennessee governor Phil Bredesen, rumored to be among President Obama’s finalists for HHS Secretary, makes quite clear who his constituency is.

Los Angeles is one of the most diverse cities in the world, polyglot and multi-faithed. Yet when Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa hosted the Mayor’s prayer breakfast on Valentine’s Day, you would have thought this city was the glittering buckle of the Bible Belt.

Sunday, Newsday reported that Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) keeps two rifles under her bed in her upstate New York home. Monday, Newsday reported the guns had been moved. Why did Gillibrand feel the need to disclose this information in the first place?

While you were on vacation, the Pakistani government conceded the Swat Valley to the Taliban

Taking his cue from El Rushbo, America’s Favorite Washed-Up Action Hero offers a thoughtful critique of the stimulus bill.

On February 23 Obama has scheduled a “fiscal responsibility summit,” which will be led by Jim Cooper, Judd Gregg, Kent Conrad and other “entitlement reform” fetishists. On February 24, he’s scheduled to give a “state of the union” style speech before Congress, and according to James Capretta today, he’ll deliver a budget two days later.

Capretta says that given the tight time constraints, Peter Orszag — Director of the Office of