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God's Plan By Chris Hillman and The Desert Rose Band - Chris Hillman was one of the original Byrds - He has an amazing musical history a...

EssEffChron The International Cannabis and Hemp Expo at the Cow Palace in Daly City has opened its doors. Organizers say the two-day even...

Ex-Blackwater president indicted on firearms charges The wheels of justice grind slowly but exceedingly sweet.

Paul Krugman with a 'recommended read' on the Repug reaction to the proposed financial reform that will rein in their biggest cust...

From Molly Ivins' biography , p.190: [...] {Molly} took (Abe Rosenthal, editor of the NYTimes ) to a party at Dave and Ann Richards'...

From French TV Emmylou Harris ~ Jambalaya Thanks to 1000Magicians , UK.

What the show Glee is all about, nor do I care, but I think it should get an Emmy, or Grammy, or Oscar, or whatever they give TV shows, jus...

You'd think, if you were selling your 'military expertise' on the open market (read: you're a soulless fucking mercenary), y...

Chris Buckley (yeah, yeah, button it, he's fun to read) on financial reform: As for Republicans, now howling out the windows of their L...

US charges Goldman Sachs with fraud The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged investment banking titan Goldman Sachs with civil fra...

Obama mocks Tea Partiers: I cut your taxes, so thank me Fat chance. He's still a black commie nazi fascist socialist foreigner who's...

Friday Morford. But first... Opinions You Should Have The "Double Down" -- named, appropriately, for a gambling procedure in which...

WaPo via Oliver Willis : President Obama mandated Thursday that nearly all hospitals extend visitation rights to the partners of gay men an...

No comment : ... But in follow-up interviews, Tea Party supporters said they did not want to cut Medicare or Social Security — the biggest d...

Against aliens? The Doughy One opens his trap : ... No, he wants to know if Barack Obama has the guts of fictional President Bill "Ind...

Yeah, this'll work. Beck has a plan . Ain't we been down this road before?

I feel very fortunate that I have enough that I have to pay taxes instead of not having to pay taxes because I have nothing. Buck Norris sin...

Sam Stein at HuffPo. On Tuesday, a wave of protesters, upset with overly-burdensome taxation by the federal government, are set to descend ...

Josh Holland at AlterNet. It’s Tax Day, and Glenn Beck is talking about secession. But he’s not simply re-litigating the Civil War, as is p...

Digby excerpts an NYT poll on the teabaggers: ... Here's a shocker: Only 58% of Americans think Obama was born in the US as opposed to ...