This is the level of violent and unapologetic discourse CNN has decided to bring into its public square and hand its million-dollar megaphone. John King’s USA is clearly not mine. Is it yours?

The Tea Party Express sails into town in their huge buses, suck up taxpayer services and hold their event in public parks all the while screaming about the need to cut taxes and reduce government services.

Last April, shortly after beginning his first term as president, Barak Obama promised that the war supplemental he requested from Congress would be the last one ever: White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Thursday that this will be the last supplemental spending request for the wars. The administration has already earmarked $130 billion for [...]

There’s a tendency among iPod or iPhone users to scoff at the notion that a news app might actually be worth paying money for. No reason to spend a few bucks on a subscription each month when you can easily go online on your phone and find the news that way. On the other side of the spectrum are people like Rupert Murdoch who think news can still be bought and sold like before the internet. Murdoch will charge for web access to the Times of London and $17.99 a month for a subscription to the iPad edition of The Wall Street Journal.

I think both these arguments are partially wrong.

If Chris Dodd is to be believed, his financial reform bill, which passed the Senate Banking Committee this week, will hit the floor of the Senate right after the two-week recess. Noam Scheiber reports that the Administration settled on financial reform as the next big push because of the opportunity it creates to squeeze Republicans.

[Welcome Anne Kornblut, and Host Nona Willis Aronowitz] [As a courtesy to our guests, please keep comments to the book.  Please take other conversations to a previous thread.  - bev] Notes from the Cracked Ceiling: Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, and What It Will Take for a Woman to Win The 2008 election season came at [...]

On April fifteenth, hundreds of thousands of Sedentary-Americans are set to not-march on Washington DC in order to protest the unfair taxation that was recently enacted and then shoved down their throats by that colored fellow in the White House.

The guys who probably approved an unauthorized technique, the guys who probably had read both Bybee Memos, relied on the intent language of the Bybee One memo to excuse an unauthorized technique, and declare the deliberate exposure of someone to near-freezing temperatures not to be murder or torture.

Yesterday’s Tea Party event in Harry Reid’s hometown, headlined by the likes of the Quitter and Joe the Plumber, was billed as a “conservative Woodstock” and was apparently supposed to be this huge gathering of Teabaggery. Not so much.

Alan Greenspan once admitted that there was a flaw in his thinking about markets. Now he falls back on failed theories and false talking points to defend his failure to act.