The Obama Administration threw a desperate new tactic into the warrantless wiretap suits: absolute immunity. It appears to be a probably futile attempt to keep all the cases before Judge Walker from collapsing onto each other.

Maybe President Obama needs to travel more often — his overseas excursions certainly do great things for marriage equality!

A union crew pulled off another heroic act today, as the crew on the Maerks Alabama–at least 12 of whom are members of the Seafarers International Union–took their ship back from pirates.

The Election Contest Court yesterday opened up the last ballots to be counted in the 2008 Minnesota Senate election, and guess what? Al Franken increased his lead by 87 votes, from 225 to 312.

Jennifer Granholm joins the chorus of those calling on JP Morgan and friends to return the favor the US taxpayers gave them when they gave them TARP funds.

Ben Smith has an article on Common Purpose, one of the many groups Rahm Emanuel has set up to coordinate messaging among liberal interest groups.

There are a variety of vehicles through which this is done — the 8:45 am call, Unity 09, Campaign to Rebuild and Renew America — and they’ve been extremely successful.

Such was the headline in Sunday’s London Observer.

The Observer’s correspondent went on to note that a call would be made this week by the U.S. watchdog “for the removal of top executives from Citigroup, AIG and other institutions that have received government funds in a damning report that will question the administration’s approach to saving the financial system from collapse.”

Obviously, lots of teabaggers present.

On Saturday, April 11, there are going to be demonstrations all across the country to protest what the banks are doing to this country.

No, not the stupid teabagger protests where people who never cared about George Bush spending like a drunken sailor are suddenly “fiscally responsible” and want to hold hands and blame black people for taking out subprime loans.

While the Obamas were in Europe the House & Senate approved the president’s $3 trillion budget. But the battle isn’t over. What will be cut and what will remain? Speaking late last month Obama said, “There are times when you can decorate your home and there are times when you have to fix its foundation.