The first version of this story, the one that had the Gov caught up in an ongoing federal investigation of a high end prostitution ring, appears to be misleading at best. More recent coverage suggests that Gov Spitzer was the target all along and that the Emperor’s Club was sort of a bonus.
Curious they […]

If the sheer hypocrisy of the GOP doesn’t make you convulsive, you must be taking some pretty potent meds. This is so obviously a set-up, another victory for the corrupt Bush Department of Justice. The Department of Justice PROTECTED Sen. Vitter when he was found to be a client of the DC Madam. […]

Okay, here’s a hypothetical: It’s 2000 and John McCain is the darling of the GOP. He is, in a way, the Barack Obama of 2000 - suddenly offering a very credible threat, to the annointed front runner who, in 2000, was George W. Bush.
Since McCain was thwarted by the unabashed racism of Bush’s […]

Here’s an excellent if troubling item from David McWilliams in this afternoon’s Huffington Post:
In the past four decades, we have seen the Fed print money at a rate between 5% and 10% per year while pretending that this is not happening. The US also persuaded other central banks to link to US treasury bills instead […]

While all the results have yet to be tallied, Hillary Clinton has been declared the winner in Texas, Ohio, and Rhode Island, with Obama only taking Vermont.
Ideally, at this point, the Democratic Party should acknowledge that Clinton has won just about every primary in traditionally blue states - and in those that could well be […]

Not so long ago, Markos Moulitsas and his site Daily Kos rose to the top of the liberal blogosphere. This was because it’s contributors were well informed, civil and prepared to do the work needed to back up their arguments with source materials and citations.
In keeping with this vaunted seriousness, contributors risked being banned if […]

Back in the day before Markos Moulitsas found fame and fortune by getting dozens of insightful and gifted writers to contribute freely to his site, the Daily Kos was a source of insightful commentary and hard investigative journalism.
Always mindful of his ambition to get to the top of the heap in the blogosphere, Markos enforced […]

It’s been nearly two months since I first taked about the aggressive anti-Hillary bias surfacing in the MSM. Now it’s turning into a tidal wave, with Saturday Night Live capturing the tone. It’s hillaryous.
First last week’s Cleveland debate:

And, then, the guest appearance of Sen. Clinton herself:

Kudos to Lorne Michaels…Saturday Night Live might […]

The Sen McCain-Rev Hagee flap keeps on growing.
See our first discussion of it here
So, isn’t time to ask? Is John McCain a member of the Orange Order?
The Orange Order is best known for the obnoxious triumphalism they injected into Northern Ireland politics for centuries. Their rabid anti-Catholicism, […]

Attorney General Mukasky is refusing to enforce Congress’s subpoena to compel Josh Bolton and Harriet Miers to testify before congress.
Speaker of the House Pelosi plans to seek a court ruling to force their testimony.
Frankly, this is absurd. Congress is a co-equal branch of our government. Every child learns this in civics class, though […]