Remember when Barry Goldwater used to rant about “Democrat Wars” — well, now the GOP claims to have won all of them.

The Newscasters with Carol Burnett and Rock Hudson, a sketch on The Carol Burnett Show that aired on January 29, 1977.

Americans have gotten used to a Western White House before. And it’s never too cold in San Diego for the dog to ride atop the old station wagon.

Now this is something you don’t often see from American and Russian leaders. Presidents Obama and Medvedev have released a joint statement of international partnership in commemoration of the “Spirit of the Elbe,” when the western and eastern allied offensives in Europe converged.

If you have a much better memory than most of our media, you may remember the really big – in fact “decisive” – battle the US announced for the important Afghan city … oops, village … oh pardon me, collection of farms called Marja. Complete with a planned “government in a box,” Gen. McChrystal’s always [...]

Well, well, well. It seems that Lloyd Blankfein and the folks at the Vampire Squid think Sen Levin and the staff of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations “cherry-picked” the emails that were released yesterday. From today’s New York Times: In the messages, Lloyd C. Blankfein, the bank’s chief executive, acknowledged in November 2007 that [...]

Lindsey Graham has decided to withdraw his support for the climate bill he has worked on for months because of the timing of when that bill would come to the Senate. Graham has also been working on an immigration reform proposal with Chuck Schumer, but thinks that issue, which appears to be moving to the top of the priority list after Wall Street reform, has been politicized. The row threatens both priorities.

[Welcome authors, Campbell Craig and Fred Logevall, Hosted by Jeremi Suri] [As a courtesy to our guests, please keep comments to the book.  Please take other conversations to a previous thread.   - bev] Craig and Logevall, America’s Cold War America’s Cold War is a powerful and provocative book written by two very talented historians. Campbell [...]

COLBERT: I don’t believe this allegation. If Lindsey Graham found men sexually attractive, why would he hang out with Joe Lieberman?

What isn’t often mentioned was how the CIA was given the green light to lie and obfuscate by their superiors in the Executive Branch.