Former OMB Director Peter Orszag gives us an absurd argument for why we should extend Bush tax cuts for the richest two percent of Americans for another two years but end the Bush tax cuts for everyone by 2013. To get there, Orszag has to ignore both economics and fairness and use logic and political arguments only when convenient.

Orszag literally wrote the book on benefit cuts to Social Security.

While Petraeus is merely saying to the American Taliban (see what I did there) that riling up their parishioners by deliberately antagonizing the entire Muslim world will put American lives at risk, his daring to suggest such a thing has conservatives up in arms. . . .

The rumor that Pastor Terry Jones of Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida has been arrested for child pornography is false. It is true, however, that Dove World has lost its tax exempt status for a portion of its property because it is used for a for-profit business.

Yesterday’s announcement by President Obama of $50 billion dollars in front-loaded infrastructure spending is a smart idea that moves things in the right direction in the short- and long-term, and instead of going back to the tax cut well, focuses on targeted spending for job creation.

In a letter sent December 15, 2006 to his brother–sent just months after KSM first became accessible to the Red Cross at Gitmo and described as the first his family received from him–KSM includes a request for photos of his sons. The request is particularly important given reports that the US captured two of KSM’s sons–then aged around 6 or 7 and 8 or 9–and interrogated them to get information on KSM.

• Yeah, it’s getting that bad.
• Peter Orszag: let’s extend tax cuts for rich people!
• No double-dip?
• Why don’t kids today just get a job?
• Kind of odd messaging, to say the least.
• Right-wingers to Gen. Petraeus: STFU.
• So true.

The Bizarro World of the Right Wing, hatred for no other purpose than causing even more hatred.

Gordon Lightfoot – Early Morning Rain Something mellow to finish off the Labor Day Weekend with…! What’s on your mind, tonite…?

Get ready: the 9/11 vampires are stirring in their coffins.