Charlie Savage describes changes the FBI is making to its Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide. On its face, the changes he describes are downright bad.

• Tonight, live from NH – The Freak Show.
• Because he didn’t do enough for them already.
• Krugman: Medicare saves money.
• Fiscal conservatism, Bush style.
• Cowards.

The AT&T/GLAAD gaywashing scandal proceeds apace. The AT&T-written letter GLAAD ‘president’ Jarrett Barrios submitted to the Federal Communications Commission is linked to former Orrin Hatch staffer and current AT&T lobbyist Mr Troup Coronado, GLAAD board member.
Lobbyist Mr Troup Coronado has a smarmy history that goes back to the bad, old days when Speaker Dennis Hastert and his now-felon deputy Tom Delay set the loosest ethics rules in the the history of the House of Representatives.

So which country has the real extremists?

Somebody To Love/White Rabbit–Jefferson Airplane

Tony Perkins is not genuine himself. Tony Perkins lies. Tony Perkins hates. Why does CNN provide him op-ed space to blather about Values nowadays, as if his opinion is important and valuable to GOP primary voters?

The Copper River is under increasing pressure from every direction, but the number of fish caught annually there over the past 40 years has stayed remarkably close to the same from decade to decade. The first year I caught a salmon at the Copper River, was as a commercial gillnetter, in 1974. The most recent ones were on Thursday, as a personal use dipnetter.

Movies-goers and politics junkies will have their eyes-a-poppin’ when The Undefeated hits theaters July 15th. Directed by Tea Party activist Stephen Bannon, the documentary features numerous Palin supporters giving rah-rahs about the former Alaska governor

Meanwhile, guerrilla filmmaker Nick Broomfield has a Palin pic in the can. In the past, he’s skewered Courtney Love in Kurt & Courtney, raised more than a few questions in Biggie & Tupac, and profiled Margaret Thatcher, dominatrixes, and serial killer Aileen Wuornos.

Sometimes the constant push to make another nickel off of any distress is simply downright appalling. People are dying, so now we can make another buck, comes the raptor screech on the right. Organic gardening really pulls their chain. The vision of normal people doing simple things that make their life pleasant without recourse to the chemical product industry really makes the right wingers mad.

Senior Democratic politicians have begun to sound the alarm on jobs. They want to see some major spending programs, for example an investment in infrastructure, to goose demand and increase economic growth. But so far, the only thing the Obama Administration is discussing, according to published reports, is a renewed payroll tax cut, this time on the employer side. There’s currently a payroll tax cut of two percentage points on the employee side, running through the end of 2011.