The New York Times and the White House can’t figure out why there is so much support for having the choice of a public health insurance option.

In the coming debates over the new McChrystal plans for Afghanistan and his requests for more time, more troops, some voices will not be heard.

Saturday in Washington DC an estimated bajillion times infinity people showed up to protest the election that took place over ten months ago…

Obama’s actually starting to talk about the public option again. Keep letting him know you’re paying attention — if he really fears a repeat of 1994, let him know that listening to Rahm Emanuel is not the way to avoid one.

Economics attempts to understand how societies solve a very basic problem. Because our resources are limited, people cannot have everything that they desire. Given that reality, how do we decide what to produce, how to produce it, and how to distribute the output? Economics strives to understand how societies and individuals make choices about how to allocate their scarce resources over the nearly unlimited wants of individuals within the society.

On a rousing and lovely day in DC, the Billionaires for Wealthcare thanked the thousands of teabaggers who had arrived on billionaire-funded buses. As they protested, we profited–and we love them for it!

When CIA had a torture training session on July 1, 2002, they said everything but waterboarding was legal.

Here’s a fascinating little case study in wingnut BS transmitting.

The Supreme Court has it figured out. Corporations are persons, so they need to be able to own people, just like people own corporations. But they can’t be held accountable, and neither can their humans.

In his speech Wednesday night, President Obama spoke of the perpetual tug-o’-war between the individual and the social. This is the dilemma of democracy, and without it we wouldn’t be free.