Tis the Season….Already?

With voters giving voice to concerns about deficit spending at the prompting of political opponents, President Obama may be pressed to do what Congress won’t do with regard to budgetary restraint. But is it wise to do so during a nascent economic recovery?

Featuring new videos from Jarvis Cocker and Fitz and The Tantrums.

I said this much closer to 9/11/01, and I’ll say it again now: America is a big, strong, wealthy country with a rich history and a time-tested tradition of civil adjudication. What happened eight years ago was deplorable, sad, and horrible to witness, but it wasn’t anything close to an attack that could threaten America and American identity. . . unless we let it.

I never thought it would happen, but Ashleigh Banfield is coming back. Ashleigh Banfield, who made a name for herself earlier in the decade as an anchor/war correspondent on MSNBC, will be joining ABC News, TVNewser has learned. Banfield, who has been an anchor at CourtTV/truTV since 2005, is expected to join ABC News next [...]

If you had to choose: four point seven months for your spouse, or four years of college for your child? A monthly bill from the chemotherapy center, or the monthly mortgage?

As someone with recent experience, I can tell you that you would do anything – anything – that held out hope. That the equation of $80,000 for the possibility of 1.2 months would make sense to you.

Dafna Linzer reports that the evidence against some Gitmo detainees is so thin prosecutors are frantically trying to get them to plead to whatever charge they can charge them with.

The impact created by the LCROSS Centaur upper stage rocket created a two-part plume of material from the bottom of the crater. The first part was a high angle plume of vapor and fine dust and the second a lower angle ejecta curtain of heavier material. This material has not seen sunlight in billions of years.

“Billions of years”?! Holy man-sized safe, Batman — what else could be hidden under the surface of the moon that we earthlings have given up all hope of finding?

Anyway, it looks Reid’s poll is another attempt to put the pressure on the White House. I don’t think he wants this hot potato.

So, Harry Reid is trying to list build with progressives off the public option that he is now “fighting for.” Glad to hear it. Because as long as reconciliation is a possibility, I doubt either the AFL-CIO or us will accept him shrugging his shoulders and saying “what can I say, Joe made me do it” as a solid excuse for ditching it.