David Brock says he will fuck Fox’s ass up. The liberal group Media Matters has quietly transformed itself in preparation for what its founder, David Brock, described in an interview as an all-out campaign of “guerrilla warfare and sabotage” aimed at the Fox News Channel. And good for him! Fox could stand a bit of [...]

Mike Huckabee leads among the 2012 Republican presidential hopefuls, but his share of the vote is only 19 percent, according to a new comprehensive Gallup poll of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents. From Gallup:

You may not have heard about “Win America,” because you’re not the target audience. This is a coalition of multinational corporations who want the federal government to enact another tax holiday for overseas corporate profits. This would allow these corporations to bring back money they illegally stashed in tax shelters overseas at a fraction of the tax liability. This repatriation holiday happened once in 2004, and the multinationals really loved that, so they want another one.

While FBI says it’d be nice if the folks holding the detainee consult with the lawyers in DC before delaying a suspect’s Miranda warning, they provide a great big invitation–”the agents on the scene who are interacting with the arrestee are in the best position to assess what questions are necessary to secure their safety and the safety of the public”–for them not to do so. And far be it for FBI Agents to refuse such a kind invitation!

In our civil society, if something is legal for one, it just has to be legal for all. The bottom line is, everyone is equal under the law.

At least that’s how I see it.

Not so, it seems, for Lanae Erickson and Jon Cowan, two Third Way muckety-mucks who recently penned a piece for the Baltimore Sun in which they argued that if LGBT Americans want to see marriage equality become a reality, they need to make it less about equality and more about embracing what the authors see as traditional values.

“As any student of aid and development should know,” Nathan Hodge writes in the prologue to his book Armed Humanitarians, “efforts to aid the developing world have often done more harm than good.”

After a series of public comments yesterday, it does look as if there could be a government shutdown after April 8. Either that, or both sides are sparring for tactical advantage. Or they just want to blame the opposition for the inevitable. One or the other or the other.

I wrote yesterday about the disquiet many Democratic attorneys general and consumer advocates had with the initial offer of a global settlement to mortgage servicers for their role in foreclosure fraud. A lot has happened since then. First, the bank-friendly federal regulator at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency may be going rogue and offering their own settlement to the banks. Now, Shahien Nasiripour writes that the initial offer in the term sheet, which would have included principal reductions and loan modifications for as many as 3 million borrowers, has been scaled back.

Thursday evening, the Vermont House of Representatives passed H.202, which will move the state toward adopting a single-payer-like universal health care system for all the people of Vermont.

Gadhafi is both defiant and dug in at the capital of Tripoli, while the rebels are a small, ragtag bunch that even with superior air support cannot really expect to win a conventional war. And that leads us to the next drip in the mission creep here, as the US mulls over arming the rebels.