Michael Ledeen thinks Barack Obama is a fascist. Which sounds kind of silly, but then, well, I guess Ledeen would know from fascism.

GM says the government either has to bail them out again or provide bankruptcy debtor-in-possession loans. They’re being squeezed by their bondholders. They’re cutting 10,000 more jobs. The UAW has walked away from the negotiating table. The nation’s auto suppliers are asking the Treasury for $18.5 billion in emergency aid to prevent the collapse of auto suppliers, or one million jobs

When we have the USDA and FDA, why are we still dying from the salmonella and risking brain damage from the mercury in contaminated food? How were industrial food megacorps and the Peanut Corporation of America able to get foodstuffs they knew were tainted past Federal food safety agencies?

The dirty little secret about America’s food safety agencies is that for decades leaders in both corporatist parties have been sacrificing our

Michael Isikoff adds more details to Brad DeLong’s hints yesterday that Yoo and Bradbury are in trouble.

One day after one of the judges of the Election Contest Court made it clear that she wasn’t buying the Coleman camp’s arguments with regard to counting absentee ballots, the rest of the court weighs in.

Guess what? They’re not buying it, either.

Beneath its ambitious title, this is a modest book. Greg Mitchell does not undertake a grand investigation into the multiple factors that came together to bring about the historic Obama triumph. That synthesis awaits deeper inquiry and analysis.

The veteran editor, author, liberal blogger, and self-described political junkie Mitchell provides a readable, entertaining, and perceptive month-by-month diary of – and reflection on – the 2008 presidential campaign as seen through both the “mainstream” (corporate) media and the ever-more politically significant eyes of “new,” that is Web-based media, where progressives (Mitchell argues) hold the day.

CNBC gets a chance to interview Nuriel Roubini and Nassim Taleb following their SRO appearances at Davos, and then spends it trying to get stock tips. Everyone should watch what may be CNBC’s stupidest interview this year.

It turns out Roland Burris wasn’t completely forthcoming about the extent of his conversations with the Blago camp about the Senate seat.

David Brooks, Economist and Time Lord

Does the Treasury team really understand, in a way that clearly separates the public interest from that of the bankers, the situation we are in?