Vaughn Walker wants more homework from Eric Holder on retroactive immunity. And he’s demanding that Holder do his own work this time.

Six senior citizen residents of the Motion Picture Television Fund have died since the closures of the long-term care facility and hospital at its Woodland Hills retirement home were announced in January– a far higher death rate than usual. According to a letter sent by several MPTF families to the home’s chief executive, David Tillman obtained by The Wrap:

Some of the 100-plus frail residents threatened with removal to other facilities before the end of 2009, many of them in their 80s and 90s, feel “tormented” and are reluctant to eat,

We didn’t hear much about Rahm when things were looking dicey and Obama had to step up himself and fight for the bill, but now that there is a conference deal, Rahm would like his credit. Let’s see who’s jockeying for access in the new White House and obliging.

Well, first the obvious.

You know world financial markets are roiling when Dubai is having trouble: No one knows how bad things have become, though it is clear that tens of thousands have left, real estate prices have crashed and scores of Dubai’s major construction projects have been suspended or cancelled….

• Nearing a vote.
• Cui bono.
• Was Rahmbo behind most of the stimulus cuts?
• We made them do it.
• Bill Gates, re-distributing socialist generational thief.
• Turdblossom: the GOP wins!
• Bobby Jindal will give exorcist response to POTUS address.
• Wingnuts have no sense of humor.

Principles are for suckers, stomping your feet is more fun.

On a wet winters day, after a night of tornado’s narrowly averted, The Thermals remind me why I will always love straight up Rock and Roll.

I so freaking want to go to Cuba. And now it looks like all of us who want to check out the santeria and seafood may have a chance: A group of Congress members led by William Delahunt of Massachusetts introduced a bipartisan bill calling for an end to the 46-year-old ban on travel to Cuba.

So many examples of Republican values on display today that I heard the squeaking wheels of tumbrels…

For the past few months, the Mormons and other big backers of California’s anti-gay-marriage Proposition 8 have been holding an immense pity party with our national media, in what looks to be a press blitz as tightly-orchestrated as was their push for Prop Hate itself. The theme? “Poor little us, being picked on by those awful gays and their boycotts!” Of course, they don’t mention how they were trying to blackmail and intimidate donors to gay-rights cause into ponying up for Proposition Eight.