Meanwhile, a US soldier died in Iraq yesterday, after a rocket strike near Basra. This was the first casualty since the withdrawal of combat forces.

I’ve previously written about this little game those “strict constructionist” conservatives are playing in the post-Bush/Teabagging era, but it’s nice to see the Associated Press has gotten wise to it.

Many of the nation’s most prominent faith leaders have come together for a campaign called “Stop the War on Prayer” to protect the Park51 mosque, which includes the video above and a new website.

Dexter Filkins confirms today something that had been suggested in earlier reporting: Pakistan cooperated in our capture of Abdul Ghani Baradar in January to disrupt peace talks in Afghanistan. Now, seven months later, Pakistani officials are telling a very different story. They say they set out to capture Mr. Baradar, and used the C.I.A. to [...]

Trade hasn’t been a subject that has received much ink during the Obama Administration. They haven’t sought to overhaul NAFTA or CAFTA, nor have they signed any new major trade deals. And in some cases, they have raised tariffs on certain imports, bolstering domestic manufacturing. The White House says they’d like to double exports as [...]

I’m going to advance a theory that the political leadership in Washington has a plan to declare victory and get out of Afghanistan as surely as the Administration is doing in Iraq. Call it a hunch.

Treasury’s attitude about HAMP is not just evidence they’ve lost all track of who they work for and where the benefits of the economy are supposed to be delivered, but it also suggests that these Treasury folks have lost the most basic notion of capitalism, that if businessmen never pay for bad decisions, they’ll continue to make bad decisions.

• Gee, never saw this coming.
• We’ll be paying for these wars for decades, cont’d.
• Worried about the deficit? Cut taxes for millionaires.
• Wonder what they think about evolution?
• The party’s over.
• I’m sure this will be the big story on Faux News today.

Hey, gang — Phoenix Woman here, filling in for our good buddy Attaturk. How are you all this fine Monday morning at oh-dark-hundred? Y’all may have heard about Sarah Palin’s (or was it perhaps her bigot-loving ghost writer Lynn Vincent’s?) dumb-cluck Tweet about feminism being hijacked by a “cackle of rads”, which of course is [...]

Gregorian – Stairway To Heaven The Queen of the Utoobz, Suzanne, sent me this gem the other night! I just couldn’t pass it up…! Enjoy…! ;-) What’s on your mind tonight…?