Probably the best thing that has thus far happened to the Tea Bag Party Movement would be the Tiger Woods fucking a lot mega-scandal, for the simple reason that without Tiger, the Tea Bag Party Movement would be the most tedious, trainwrecky, make-pretend important thing to have made normal people want to kill themselves over [...]

Looking at an exchange between Arlen “Scrapple that used to be Haggis” Specter and Eric Holder on the recent al-Haramain verdict.

Just a couple great stories where students show themselves to be far slicker and more clever than politicians, and better reporters than the traditional media.

Despite being depicted as an anti-tax movement, barely a majority of the most dedicated activists think they are personally paying too much in income taxes.

Now we’re having a partisan fight, not a fight about the merits of the bill, and on that score, Democrats do appear to be winning.

Republicans know that the best way to kill or discredit Democratic financial reform bills is to falsely equate efforts to limit and regulate too-big-to-fail(TBTF) banks with the unpopular financial bailouts that occurred entirely under President Bush. How will US media report this dishonest misdirection?

Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, someone with enormous power over monetary policy to improve market conditions for hiring, is telling the unemployed that they’ll have to wait “a significant amount of time” for any jobs to come up. Too bad, so sad.

Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee today urged Attorney General Eric Holder to stick to his initial determination that the alleged 9/11 plotters should be tried in civilian court, and not bow to partisan politics on what should be a legal determination.

Brig. Gen. Mark S. Martins played a key role in writing the new prisoner status review program under an Executive Order from Obama and now is serving in Afghanistan in a key role implementing it.

While anti-choice zealots may have the necessary votes to uphold the 20-week ban regardless of John Paul Stevens’ replacement, this is why the Court matters so much. The right has used judicial appointments in a blatantly political fashion, and unless the President is willing to see basic rights stripped away, he must act boldly.