• The Teaparties are finally working!
• Historic poll numbers for GOP.
• Because $500B isn’t enough for some people.
• Disturbing.
• Getting worse in Abruzzo.
• Was the Italy earthquake predicted?
• Why are we listening to these people?
• Focus on the children?
• He is a crazy nutjob.
• Fire Chase!

New confirmation that American Military Medical Officers enabled the torture of those in American custody. Our own little Mengeles.

Couple of fiery new music videos from Sebastien Grainger and The Black Lips. Are these young artists imitating public sentiment or are they trying to fuel it?

Minnesota’s wackiest export treads the boards of the Wingnut dinner theater.

The House Committee on the Judiciary Majority Staff has written a Final Report to Chairman John Conyers, Jr. last month (March 2009), REINING IN THE IMPERIAL PRESIDENCY: Lessons and Recommendations Relating to the Presidency of George W. Bush, with a very important Foreward by Rep. John Conyers (D-MI). In this blog, I will be focusing on Conyers’ explanation of the lack of impeachment during the 110th Congress

Last month, Attorney General Eric Holder said the federal government would stop raiding marijuana distributors in states where it is legal. But last week Holder said he was exploring ways to lower the minimum amount required of pot for the federal prosecution of possession cases.

These are two central issues explored in High: The True Tale of American Marijuana, tonight’s documentary which show the ridiculously high cost in prosecution and imprisonment, and in the cost to patients to rely on medical marijuana to ease their pain.

While we wait for the last ballot count in the Franken-Coleman contest, I thought I’d tie in Operation Stonewall to the Republicans’ bizarre and seemingly inexplicable “objections” to Dawn Johnsen and Harold Koh. As it turns out, the Republicans are stonewalling Johnsen and Koh because they don’t want to suffer any form of accountability for their actions, especially their wholehearted backing of torture:

Given the embarrassing performance of the Obama economic team over the weekend, we’re left wondering what useful expertise the public got from Larry Summers that outweighs the apparent corruption of the revolving door policy he’s come to represent.

With the last of the absentee ballots to be opened and counted wending their way to Saint Paul, everyone is looking past the count and gearing up for the inevitable Republican-fueled appeal by Norm Coleman to the Minnesota Supreme Court.

Why is the appeal inevitable? Because Norm’s going to lose.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner wants to hand hundreds of billions of dollars to the banks. He says that we have no alternative, but for the cost of a few AIG bonuses, Congress could get a second opinion.