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If the Democratic Party wants to survive the next two years, it needs to find a new baby-sitter for Darrell Issa. After all, no one was more gleefully prepared after the shellacking last Tuesday to take over and cause trouble for Democrats…

Just how inattentive and asleep at the wheel does the government think the American media and citizenry are, to brazenly engage in the simultaneous duplicity of relying on the Durham investigation in Geneva for the UN UPR On Human Rights at the same moment it was using the Durham investigation to bleed out the statute of limitation on the primary jurisdiction of the investigation at home? Well, they think the media and people are completely asleep and, sadly, they are quite correct.

Today's news will be dominated with Bush's admission that Cheney was mad at him for not pardoning Libby. Bush, in an interview aired Monday on TODAY, said Cheney was angry that Bush only commuted the sentence of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, convicted…

On Friday, Russia joined the growing list of country telling us to investigate our torture chambers. It may be more noteworthy coming from Russia given the turnabout: back in the day, of course, dissidents and the US pressured the Soviet Union…

The narrative the banksters and their enablers have used to fight a foreclosure moratorium focuses on property values. If we put off foreclosures, they argue, it'll have detrimental effects on the local community, not least by (continuing to)…

In Steven Rattner's book, he describes newly elected Barack Obama asking his advisors "Why can't [the US automakers] make a Corolla?" Implicitly, of course, he was asking "why can't they make a Corolla in the United States." His economic advisors,…

Mary, who apparently is not a twit, noticed that those of us who are have been brainstorming all the great hearings the GOP will hold now that they control the House. And, in her infinite wisdom, she asked for a thread here so everyone can all…

Remember when Robert Gibbs justified his attack on the professional left by suggesting that they didn't understand--but the rest of the country did--that Obama had gotten our economy moving again? Remember Recovery Summer, Obama's effort to…

The Senate just lost its most principled member, Russ Feingold. Consider it a beacon of our money- and fearmonger- drenched politics. Feingold was the perfect politician for America as our founders envisioned it. But a terrible politician when…