Today in America, people die who could be saved because of the political power of big insurance. Lies are used to justify the status quo. It’s time to tell the truth.

Ryan Nees, writing in Indiana’s Howey Politics, looks at Bayh’s tack to the right and says “there’s a future for Evan Bayh” in a “radicalized shell” of the Republican party:

Though that POTUS gig is only good for eight years, Obama doesn’t need to worry–after last night, it’s clear he could headline a sold out comedy tour no problem.

CENTCOM Commander General David Petraeus, National Security Adviser Gen. James Jones, Dick Cheney, The Dalai Lama, Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai, Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari, White House Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Christina Romer, William Greider. Happy Mother’s Day.

Deduce, You Say starring Daffy Duck and Porky Pig.  This Warner Bros. Inc. Looney Toons cartoon was released on September 29, 1956.  Directed by Chuck Jones.  Story by Michael Maltese.  Animation by Abe Levitow, Richard Thompson, Ken Harris, and Ben Washam.  Layouts by Maurice Noble.  Background by Philip DeGuard.  Voice characterizations by Mel Blanc and June Foray.  Musical direction by Milt Franklyn.

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Brent Bozell has unmasked a terrible conspiracy: the broadcast networks are covering up a Supreme Court decision preventing them from getting rich off piping words like “motherfucker monkeyshit God-damned pissy tittyfuck” into your living room 24/7.

This week Blue Dog Congresscritters who rely on fossil cult campaign contributions bribes for their cushy lives bravely suggested that to keep their jobs, we roast a whole planet full of other peoples’ kids: Earth. Mass suicide: the “centrist” Democrats’ new love. You see, in order for today’s kids to survive into their senior years, we adults have to stop increases in global warming gases. Chris Van Hollen and the Blue Dogs want us to do nothing.

Here’s a non-cynical explanation for why the idiot arguments put forward by the mortgage bankers association were successful.

The GOP squeals and Obama greases their detainee wheel. On May 1st, the New York Times warned that President Obama was contemplating reinstating the tyrannical Bush/Cheney military tribunals for Gitmo detainees. Today we are one step closer to return of the tribunals, a regrettable turn away from the appropriate standard of American justice and due process.

Anyone unlucky enough to watch much Cable news in the weeks following the 2008 Presidential election was informed repeatedly by various talking heads that “America is (still) a center-right nation.” While the precise meaning of this claim remained somewhat vague, its deployment seemed desired to send a signal to the Democratic Party, who’d dramatically swept into power over the last two election cycles, that they should bear in mind the fundamental centrist conservatism as they govern, lest they go too far and suffer an electoral backlash for their overreach. This concern often appears alongside the claim that Obama’s tax plan, which raises the upper marginal tax rate to 1990’s levels (and well below average 20th century rates) along with small tax cuts for 95% of Americans, constitutes an act of ‘class warfare.’