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Stolen from my bud Nancy : Ron Reagan, son of President Ronald Reagan, had this to say about Rush Limbaugh and his comments about Nancy Pelo...

Gordon heads for town... Story at EssEffChron . PARAMOUNT, Calif. — At least one well-known American vehicle manufacturer is rolling out ve...

Frank Reckard on the dazzling guitar work Mr. Reckard had an odd habit. He would stash his lit cigarette under the strings up by the nut du...

He sure ain't gonna win no bronc ridin' contests with that time. His girlfriend probably thinks that's a good ride though. This...

That was an old joke in my Marine Corps days. Somebody finally did it! EssEffChron Defense Secretary Robert Gates says American soldiers hav...

Like, DUH! McClatchy via Raw Story : American newspapers don't use the word "lied" as a matter of form -- preferring the more ...

Raw Story You have never before seen -- nor will you ever see again -- FBI director Robert Mueller so thoroughly humbled in a discussion abo...

Media Matters On May 21, 2009, the RNC tweeted an out of context quote from Barack Obama regarding a flaw in the constitution. The "fun...

Greenwald : ... There's very little worth saying about the speech Dick Cheney delivered after Obama's ... Indeed. The Mrs. and I ar...

I don't care what anybody says, I love Jack Cafferty . He reminds me of my old man, with a better attitude: ... The Bush presidency is ...

I've been saving this one for the right time, and this is as good a time as will come along. This goes out to The Dick on the occasion o...

As luck would have it, the first analysis of Obama's speech today that I've run across is from my new hero and role model (I'm n...

As leader of the Dirty Old Man contingent around here, I offer some words beyond his years from Mark Morford that may make you, er, desire ...

Think Progress , obviously regular readers of the brain, follows up on Fixer's post just below: When will the right wing insist the NY...

We're "fightin' them over there ": Four men have been arrested and charged in a plot to detonate explosives near at least ...

What'd I say almost 6 months ago? ... There is no problem with closing Gitmo. If there's admissible evidence (not coerced through t...

Think Progress On Saturday, the Dallas Morning News published an article about the battle between Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and Gov. Rick Pe...

The Existentialist Cowboy with a 'recommended read': US government crimes against the people of the US amount to organized high tre...

The Last Chance Democracy Cafe takes a whack at answering a question that seems to be popping up an awful lot of late: When did Democrats b...

Listen to me. I own 2 cards, Visa and Amex. For convenience, we use 'em like cash, paying off the bills every month, on time (or early...