My father-in-law has brain cancer. He is a good man. He is the type whose hands are (sadly too often) filled at the end of a stroll with trash he picked up on the way. He has helped others in need, whether friends (doing all too many renovation and repair projects) to strangers (a pencil [...]

Responding to an Italian court’s conviction in absentia of 23 US officials for kidnapping a cleric in Italy, the Obama Administration further disgraced itself and America’s image by calling the results “disappointing.” They should have applied the word to themselves.

I got frustrated by the way few people in the media seem to be considering that Obama’s pressure on the Palestinian leadership to suppress the Goldstone report on Israeli and Hamas war crimes in Gaza has destabilized Palestinian politics in a manner beneficial to extremism. You’d have to basically say in public that it would have [...]

The CBO did a preliminary estimate of the Republican amendment to the House health care bill. There are now hard numbers to compare between the Democratic and Republican notions for health care. Coverage: Democrats – 36 million more covered by 2019, 96% of US covered; Republicans – 3 million more covered by 2019, 83% of [...]

A quick overview of Wednesday’s doings in House Judiciary Committee’s mark-up of the PATRIOT Act renewal. The hearing started with John Conyers introducing a managers amendment to the bill that made tweaks to the overal bill to move them slightly closer to what the Obama Administration wanted. Republicans tried to gut National Security Letters (NSLs). [...]

So it goes. Kerry said the group was trying to broaden support for a climate plan and “achieve the obviously all-important goal of getting 60 votes” that are needed to overcome a filibuster in the Senate. Although Kerry said the group’s push wouldn’t interfere with work by six Senate panels on the issue, it was [...]

Shorter Broder: We’re doomed…again!

New videos from Swell Season and Dirty Projectors.

Many threats threaten America with their threatening threatiness. Terrorism. Socialism. Cooties. Sesame Street. The Children’s Television Workshop? THE CHILDREN’S COMMUNISM FUCK-YOU-UNCLE-SAM-SHOP. Read this very important blog post and be afraid. Pee yourself. In FEAR! Wait… I said in FEAR! Not in LAUGHTER! Whatever is WRONG with you? STOP LAUGHING! Add one more soldier to the [...]

In the wake of last night’s disaster in NY-23, John Cornyn, the head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the GOP campaign arm for Senate races, announced that his organization will not endorse or spend money in “contested primaries.”