Young fresh-faced Congressman Ben Quayle waxes metaphorical in his freshman class Reagan Day essay: “When I was a child, President Ronald Reagan was the nice man who gave us jelly beans when we visited the White House.”

Every race has a dark horse, running at long odds. In this year’s race for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Film, the dark horse is GasLand (2010), a film by Josh Fox that takes on almost everyone in the Oil and Gas Industry, including George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Halliburton over the use of “fracking” — hydraulic fracturing — to extract natural gas from vast deposits all over the United States.

U.S. Steel’s threat to punish those of its workers who take a day off to watch the Super Bowl is unsurprising because mean-spiritedness was and remains still a prominent feature of America’s capital-labor conflict.

Today’s Super Bowl game will see a different anti-marketing campaign for technology products and services — this ad may actually be serious in its focus on women.

America’s most established journalists are telling us this morning that the Obama Administration, careening like a pinball between ineptitude, arrogance, and its pretend empire has this super secret plan — conveniently leaked to Carl Bernstein and the New York Times’s David Sanger — to rescue the Egyptian regime from the anger of its own people. God help us all.

On April 11, 2010, private US military contractor DynCorp threw a party at its US-taxpayer funded Kunduz Regional Training Center where its employees train Afghan police. DynCorp’s employees allegedly took drugs and paid young “dancing boys” to entertain them.

The key to understanding Omar Suleiman’s statement claiming there is “consensus” in how to move forward in Egypt is to see how he redefines the crisis from being caused by legitimate grievances voiced by the “youth” involved in protests into a lack of security caused by the protests.

Today’s Teabagger Republicans try desperately to have it both ways. They love to trash hallmark progressive legislation like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid (and in Rand Paul’s case, the 1964 Civil Rights Act) — but when it comes right down to it, they always demure when pressed about what they’d dismantle.

Selling guns to mass murderers. Selling loaded derivatives to Alabama counties. People who do things like that lack character.

“Democracy: a recognition of souls, all down the open road, and a great soul seen in its greatness, as it travels on foot among the rest, down the common way of living.” D.H. Lawrence There are very few people around the globe who are not moved by the solidarity and passion of the Egyptian people [...]