Months after going off on GE for not paying taxes, comes information that Rupert’s enterprises not only did not pay, but made a profit.

Katie Goodman — I Didn’t Fuck It Up.

Let’s face it: Liberals are presumed to be somewhat libertine. After all, we support LGBT rights, legalization of marijuana, abortion rights, birth control, equal rights. You know, the whole gamut of whatever conservatives claim is responsible for everything that’s wrong with this country.

And sometimes conservative values can make for some interesting offspring.

In 1976, Alabama passed a law allowing judges to override juries’ death penalty decisions in capital cases. So that their wiser, cooler heads could prevail over the passions of the jury… supposedly.

This is almost too easy. The GEO Group, a huge, multi-billion dollar corporation, also has a political action committee so that they can essentially donate twice in every political campaign they want to be a part of (it’s called GEOPAC). But apparently, all those billions of dollars couldn’t buy them lawyers that could understand the difference between state and federal laws.

Big Pharma has learned well from the oil companies.

Just because Mitch McConnell wants to surrender on the debt limit, doesn’t mean that the House GOP is going along with him. In a closed meeting today, Eric Cantor, who I guess is Speaker-in-Waiting at this point, introduced a series of slides that he claims are the “Democratic options” on the debt limit.

A detainee in what Jeremy Scahill describes as “a secret prison buried in the basement of Somalia’s National Security Agency (NSA) headquarters, where prisoners suspected of being Shabab members or of having links to the group are held”–one with key US involvement–describes his internment this way.

“I have been here for one year, seven months. I have been interrogated so many times. Interrogated by Somali men and white men. Every day. New faces show up. They have nothing on me. I have never seen a lawyer, never seen an outsider. Only other prisoners, interrogators, guards. Here there is no court or tribunal.”

The White House has been trying to maneuver everyone into reach a big austerity deal, but I simply can’t see Obama carrying out his short term veto threat unless the administration had been lying other aspects of the debt ceiling issue.

Now, I cannot name for you one single solitary member of Congress who lost his or her seat because they voted to increase the debt limit. So McConnell may consider this tactically brilliant, but Democrats would be fine to call his bluff. What’s more, it would keep alive the many charges they could level at Republicans in 2012, like voting to end Medicare. The way I think it’s structured, you wouldn’t even necessarily need the aforementioned Tester and Nelson and McCaskill and Manchin to vote to uphold the Presidential veto; you’d just need 34 Democrats.