I wonder how much of the Faux News/Becktard crowd, who supposedly love this country’ history, actually know why they get the day off today.

I cannot remember a more unsettling Labor Day weekend, given how many attacks are being made, as I write these words, against American workers’ rights.

In a country founded on “self evident truths” such as life, liberty, equality, and due process of law, the timeless quote from Ben Franklin speaks to the peril imposed when the founding principles are discarded or compromised …

It’s all well and good that the White House considers “stimulus” a dirty word among the public, and that they want to come up with some concoction that will get the needed votes. But with Republicans unlikely to agree with that, it’s both policy and political malpractice to come up with something so limp — something which economist Paul Krugman calls Rahmism.

In an interview on the PBS NewsHour last Wednesday, Joe Biden was unwilling to contradict the official narrative of the Iraq War that Gen. David Petraeus and the Bush surge had turned Iraq into a good war after all. That interview serves as a reminder of just how completely the Democratic Party foreign policy elite has adopted that narrative.

• Gosh, wonder why?
• Because what the GOP needed was to become even more wingnutty.
• Jane Hamsher was right — again.
• Sign of the times.
• It’s 1938 all over again.
• Uh, Jan? “If” you said that?

Tony Blair has come to America on another enabling tour.

R.E.M. Losing My Religion R.E.M. is one of my favorite groups…! What’s on your mind tonite…?

Just in case you wondered about the handsome man-from-Glad Roger Sterling-type sitting next to you on the connecting flight to Texas through Miami, flying in from Saudi Arabia — please don’t worry. If he’s a convicted plague-smuggler, carrying a “suspicious canister,” TSA will not let him enter the country.

A brouhaha that once again tried to call us lefties a violence prone cult makes us want to giggle, but should we be supplying the safe room instead?