If there’s still anyone out there that needs more proof that “Teabagger” is just another name for “Bush/Cheney Republican” — here you go.

Jim Webb, who squeaked out a victory for Senate in Virginia in 2006, will leave the Senate after one term, adding another to the many opportunities for Republicans in the Senate in 2012.

On Saturday, private security firm HBGary Federal bragged to the FT that it had discovered who key members of the hacking group Anonymous are. In response, Anonymous hacked HB Gary Federal and got 44,000 of their emails and made them publicly available.

As TechHerald reports, among those documents was a presentation, “The Wikileaks Threat,” put together by three data intelligence firms for Bank of America in December. As part of it, they put together what they claimed was a list of important contributors to WikiLeaks. They suggested that Glenn Greenwald’s support was key to WikiLeaks ongoing survival.

No wonder Obama has no problem pushing our Egyptian torturer, Omar Suleiman, to lead Egypt. It’s completely consistent with our own practice of promoting our own torturers.

[Ed. note: Todd Tucker, research director with Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, will be liveblogging the Ways and Means Committee hearing. Latest updates will appear at the bottom of this post.] The Ways and Means Committee is having its second hearing on the NAFTA expansions to Korea, Panama and Colombia. The hearing is also looking at [...]

I was away, but last night brought that rare species in Washington – an unexpected event. I fully expected the House to pass the extension of three key provisions of the Patriot Act, despite the 2/3 vote needed under suspension rules. But 26 Republicans broke with their party and, along with 122 Democrats, denied passage. [...]

The crowd in Cairo’s Tahrir Square remains strong today. New participants continue to stream into the square to take part in what Egyptians see as both a historic event and as the first opportunity to exercise freedom of speech. Yet in spite of the increasing size and reach of the uprising, Vice President Omar Suleiman made a veiled threat about the duration of the protests.

Get big gubmint out of my wallet and back into my sister’s uterus where it belongs!

It’s good to know what the really important priorities are nowadays…corporate profits trump mass murder every time.

Sugarcult — Los Angeles — set to video of landing at LAX International Airport via the SADDE Six Arrival, as viewed from the cockpit.