This is the kind of nostalgia I can live without.

The Blue Dogs and conservadems engineered their own electoral demise by putting their “fiscal conservatism” ahead of the wellbeing of their constituents and the country as a whole.

Haitian women, aided by women’s rights organizations, are banding together to protect themselves and all women in post-earthquake Hatii from sexual assault, rape and other forms of gender-based violence.

War is not politics, it is violence – murder – on an enormous scale. It does not lead to democracy, security, or good governance, it leads to anger, humiliation, and above all else, more violence.

The Administration’s argument for trying to shut down a public nuisance lawsuit against the nation’s top greenhouse gas emitters is “an industry argument,” according to the co-lead counsel in the case, and has been contradicted by opinions of past Democratic Administrations.

Social news aggregator Reddit.com today agreed to host for free advertisements from marijuana advocacy group Just Say Now, after Conde Nast, the site’s parent company rejected all marijuana legalization display ads.

The Reddit community revolted to the censorship, with hundreds of users saying they’d turn on “ad blockers” to deny Reddit and Conde Nast ad revenue. After several hours of pressure from community members, Reddit issued a statement to its community and challenged its parent company’s decision.

Not everyone I’ve heard from who moved through the HAMP program has failed to secure a lower mortgage rate. Indeed, Treasury Department statistics show that 434,000 borrowers have received permanent modifications, with 421,000 of those still active. However, this is a fraction of those who are eligible for the program, and nowhere near the 3-4 million borrowers Treasury said they would help when they announced the program in March of 2009. 1.3 million people have started trials, and 616,000 have been kicked out of the program. Most economic experts see these numbers as disappointing.

I guess the idea of the government forcing you to buy a product from one of the most disliked industries in American just isn’t popular–who could have possibly guessed?

“Extend and pretend” always assumed that at some point things would start turning around. But since that’s not going to happen anytime soon, this is like death by a thousand cuts — to both the banksters and homeowners.

The activity on the left to fire Alan Simpson from the Catfood Commission is growing. Today, Rep. Alan Grayson joins the effort.