Ana Marie Cox wrote this as part of a Spring Cleaning series at the WaPo (institutions that could be thrown out): It's not that the reporters covering the president are…
Set your DVRs, or watch it the old fashioned way ... live. Vice President Biden gave "60 Minutes" the chance to shadow him for a few days, and the result…
Anti-American Governor Rick Perry of Texas wants his state to secede from the Union. Yet today he wants America's help. Gov. Rick Perry today in a precautionary measure requested the…
Via HuffPo: WASHINGTON — The U.S. is declaring a public health emergency to deal with the emerging new swine flu. The precautionary step doesn't signal a greater threat to Americans.…
....according to President Obama's Republican critics, what the United States did during the Bush years was not torture. But torture is necessary. Ok. Aren't the Republicans, in their cowardice of…
The Texas secessionist talk is growing. To liberals, myself included, it's the joke that keeps on giving, but, to a certain segment of Texans, secession is serious business. Once again,…
LEAD STORY-The (UK) Independent: US Major Claims US Torture Has Caused More American Deaths than 9-11 Patrick Cockburn, winner of the 2009 Orwell Prize for Journalism, shows the counterproductivity of…
Via Wired. Daniel Knight Hayden, 52, was arrested by FBI agents who identified him as the Twitter user CitizenQuasar. In a series of tweets beginning April 11, CitizenQuasar vowed to…