Understand that–for better or worse–the new report released by John Kerry on how Osama bin Laden escaped at Tora Bora is a designed to be a political document.

Until some tangible progress occurs, and on things that matter and not “entitlement reform” or some triangulating issue that will only piss off the base further, that enthusiasm gap will only expand heading into next November.

Always remember, the United States is the only industrialized nation where healthcare remains a privilege not a right.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Sen. Carl Levin, Dick Armey, Dede Scozzafava, Ed Gillespie, Sen. Jack Reed, Sen. Richard Lugar, Patrick Byrne, Tony Blair, Rep. David Obey, Maziar Bahari, Eric Schmidt, Sen. Jon Kyl, Sen. Evan Bayh, Howard Dean, Mike Huckabee, Bill and Melinda Gates, and Naomi Klein.

I’m Just So Happy — From the Drew Carey show Whose Line Is It Anyway, with special prop star Richard Simmons.

In keeping with an ancient Mayan prophecy predicting unspeakable catastrophes to be unleashed, former Vice President Dick Cheney returns from his lair, floated as a possible White House candidate for 2012. The horror, the horror…

How do you choose the perfect gift?

Either Fineman can’t read or he’s making shit up to make a point. In either case, it’s unacceptable.

This is the third of a four-part series covering Rhode Island’s Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse’s keynote address at the recent Brennan Center for Justice’s Second Annual “Living Constitution” event.

Christopher Meyer, British Ambassador to the U.S. in 2002 and 2003, testified that the anthrax scare in the US soon after 9/11 impacted attitudes towards Iraq more deeply than he grasped at the time. All the more reason to review the FBI’s investigation of the anthrax attack.