Democrats sort of have a bench here, and Barack Obama barely took Indiana in 2008, but this turns what looked like a pickup into a very difficult seat to hold.

Sun columnist Jon Ralston is reporting that the Tea Party has qualified as a third party in Nevada and will have a candidate in the Senate race to battle for the seat held by Majority Leader Harry Reid.

In the US strategy review that President Obama conducted, how much of this history of Afghanistan was considered?

• This is all going to end so well.
• Vice refuses to say Palin is qualified to be president.
• But really, can’t the networks just stop feeding the troll?
• Slaying GOP talking points on national teevee.
• Silly Glenzilla: the Baptists are white Christian ‘Merckans.
• Hehindeedy.

Things are getting stranger and stranger for the GOP

k.d. lang — Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen live at the Juno Awards in Winnipeg, 2005.

From a San Jose Mercury-News article about the dwindling prospects for Blacks, Latinos, and women in Silicon Valley, we garner this tidbit about GOP gubernatorial wannabe Meg Whitman: Take eBay, for example. While the San Jose company declined to make its executives available for an interview, or to share its most up-to-date employment information, eBay [...]

Both Members of This Club, a painting by George Bellows, at the National Gallery of Art.

While attention has turned to Afghanistan, US forces in Iraq are again involved in the deaths of civilians and are allied with Peshmerga forces believed responsible for the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Christians from Mosul and the surrounging region.

Relying on their puerile judgment, the 13 year-olds running the RNC have designed “Valentine’s Day” cards to send your loved ones from various parties from the Obama Administration and Democratic leadership. Har har har. Look at poor Ben Nelson. Nobody wants to be his valentine. Pshaw. Comedy isn’t hard.