Meanwhile, Scott Brown continues to distinguish himself in the Senate.

You would think at a minimum the regulators of theses lax agency’s could at least handle cleaning up a mess.

The Steve Miller Band — Take The Money and Run, live April 9, 2008, at the Kodak Theater, Los Angeles.

Here’s the sweet story: Once upon a time there was a little blond girl named Rachelle growing up in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. Her daddy left when Rachelle was two and she had no real relationship and little contact with him; he died when she was 12 (or 15 depending on the story).

Rand Paul’s ambivalence (and by “ambivalence” I mean “antipathy until he realized he was getting killed politically”) towards Title II of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, followed immediately by his “sometimes accidents happen” defense of BP against big neck-booting meanie Obama gave us a great reminder of the biggest of all of conservatism’s zombie big lies: The free market makes regulation unnecessary.

I’m in Louisiana trying to document the struggles of locals whose livelihoods have been ruined by the Gulf oil spill.

As the controversy over BP’s refusal to switch to a less toxic dispersant rages on, it seems reasonable to take a look at the underlying chemistry and biochemistry of dispersants and oil which has been dispersed into water. The biological effects of dispersed oil depend very much on the droplet size of the dispersion, and yet this property cannot be controlled by BP as they mix dispersant with the oil leak at the ocean floor.

Both Robert Menendez and David Vitter offered legislation on the Senate floor to alter the liability cap on oil companies who damage American land through spills, but both were denied unanimous consent, as members of the opposite party objected.

Seizing on a recent NBC/WSJ poll (PDF) showing 60% of Americans continue to support offshore drilling, several journalists and pundits have implied that support for offshore drilling has not declined sharply in recent weeks. As I’ll show below, this is absolutely false.

This is only the most glaring of what has been a spate of stories of reporters denied access to areas of the shore where oil has washed up.