Target Corp. and Best Buy are proving that their profits are the most important thing in the long run, not the long-term rights of all the people — employees and customers — in areas where they do business.

The Center for Budget and Policy Priorities has written a report on the catfood commission’s spending cut target, and finds it completely inadequate and bordering on numerology.

If you want to see what half of a Great Depression (a.k.a. a “Great Recession” looks like, take a look at this graph of the extent and duration of unemployment for each of the last six recessions.

The partial implementation of the Arizona immigration law, SB1070, began today in earnest, and already we’re seeing the friction between supporters and immigration rights advocates play out. Adam Sarvana, a spokesman for Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), an outspoken critic of the law, just sent out this release: The Yuma district office of Rep. Raúl M. [...]

On Tuesday, BP announced that they would be taking a $10 billion deduction on their US taxes because of losses stemming from the blown out oil well and expenses associated with the subsequent clean-up and compensation payments to Gulf businesses. Florida Senator Bill Nelson responded on Wednesday, writing a letter to the Senate Finance Committee, demanding an investigation into BP’s planned write-off.

It’s unclear what the charges of the lawsuit will be that Shirley Sherrod will bring against Andrew Breitbart — perhaps defamation or libel — but the discovery phase, at least, should be interesting.

Charles Rangel, the longtime Congressman and former Chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, has reportedly cut a deal to avoid a trial before Congress on numerous ethical violations. The deal could be revealed at a House Ethics Committee meeting within the next hour.

Unfortunately, because Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush cut taxes for rich people and exploded the debt over the past three decades, it seems that Hitler’s about to take over any minute.

President Obama managed to show just how nimble and how disingenuous an administration can be in his response to the WikiLeaks fiasco.

As the PPP poll stands right now, both former (and possible future) Gov. Jerry Brown and Sen. Barbara Boxer are less popular than Proposition 19.