The NYT has a great story on how John Kiriakou pitched waterboarding in a minimally damaging way. But why not look at the CIA’s current campaigns to do the same?

Barney Frank has been making a big deal out of the Credit Card Holders Bill of Rights, which would impose interest rate caps, prevent arbitrary increases and establish limits that could not be exceeded, which would end enormous over-the-limit fees. The bill passed the House Financial Services Committee with the support of nine Republicans.

During a PFAW-sponsored press call yesterday, Douglas Kmiec had the following to say: Dawn and I are people who come from different points on the policy spectrum. But one of the things that I’ve long admired about her is her independence of mind.

• Tightening borders.
• Flu tracker (graphic).
• Just what the global economy needed.
• Yeah, probably not the best idea.
• After the first 100 days.
• A new conservative translation device.
• The Frothy Mixture has a bad memory.
• Sign of the times. 
• Hehindeedy!

How talking points emitting from a Republican’s Balloon-Knot gets out months before the truth does.

New videos from Old Crow Medicine Show and Brian Borcherdt.

Even out of office, Santorum can’t stop with the lying. I guess it’s some sort of genetic thing with Republicans.

Guess they’re really big on torture-enablers in Nevada.

This is what happens when you take away the legal ability of a soilder to object to an unlawful order. Soldiers who commit suicide rather than obey the order to commit torture.

The Emmy Award-winning documentary Made in L.A. traces the three year-long struggle between garment workers and the mall-shop retailer Forever 21–whose profits are listed currently at $640 million.

While Forever 21 was selling knock off tops for $13, their contractors were paying garment workers 19 cents a garment, taking advantage of undocumented immigrant workers. But the workers found an ally in the downtown Los Angeles-based Garment Workers Center in who helped guide a lawsuit and a series of protests, holding Forever 21 responsible for the worker’s conditions.