Judge Vaughn Walker seems unwilling to abdicate his Article III function to give the telecoms immunity for breaking the law.

Porn free, as free as the wind blows. . . .

Outgoing FCC Chair Kevin Martin will try to push through his plan for free wireless internet before the year ends. . . with a big caveat.

Since returning from the NRO Cruise, K-Lo and the usual gang of niwits have been rattling the tin cup for alms for the brain bereft.

In her Today Show interview with Brad Pitt, Ann Curry reported that the actor told her that he and Angelina Jolie "will get married when everyone can" and that marriage should be a right for all.

Saxby Chambliss is a Bush/Cheney Republican and a pawn of corporate interests, and he ran the sleaziest, most reprehensible campaign imaginable against Jim Martin. And chasing him from the Senate gives us a real shot at a fillibuster-proof majority.

1. Cherry picked a 2007 National Journal ranking which concluded that Obama was the most liberal Senator. This despite the fact that it had a deeply flawed methodology that no other ranking confirmed, and only a true nitwit would conclude that Obama was more liberal than Russ Feingold or Bernie Sanders.

For the last couple of weeks the only outlet trying to break through President Elect Obama's bubble to warn him off the Eric Holder nomination has been FDL. Now that it's official, NYTimes and WaPo have jumped on the bandwagon. Come on in boys, the more the merrier.

After designated Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel declined to affirm the incoming administration's commitment to the Employee Free Choice Act, representatives of the Obama transition team have so far declined to clarify or affirm the incoming administration's commitment to the legislation.

The Bush tax cuts have helped the nation's top 1 percent increase their share of the wealth to levels unseen since 1928, just prior to the Great Depression. Meanwhile, the number of people living in poverty grew 26% from the time Bush took office through 2007.

I realize the issue of poverty and labor don't generally affect the lives of the DC chattering class, but they really need to give the class war stuff a rest.

Why am I not surprised?  Treasury bailout overseer sees no real plan, no coherence, nothing strategic as yet in the billions of dollars pouring forth out of our taxpayer pockets and into failing corporate coffers. Via NYTimes: ...the government still does not seem to have a coherent strategy for easing the financial crisis, despite the billions it has already spent in that effort....