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*From a 'comment' on this TPM post . TPM Well, that was quick. Several hours after Mitt Romney told an Iowa heckler that ...

I posted on the "youth bike ban" some time back when it went down and no I'm not going to go look for it. Basically it was tha...

Dr. Krugman : ... When you’re bleeding profusely from an open wound, you want a doctor who binds that wound up, not a doctor who lectures...

Two pretty songs and some chitchat. Emmylou Harris - Johnny Carson Tonight Show Thanks to billwitt2010 .

Andy Sullivan "Michele Bachmann's first answer, Mark Halperin, was "I wish the federal government had defaulted." Had...

Why No Democrat Will Challenge Obama Many reasons, but cut to the chase: [...] The voices of protest bump up against the stubborn reali...

Un-fucking-believable . In preparation for a day of Sarah-chasing at the fair -- which we predict will result in, oh, nothing of actual n...

By The Rude Poet : Bachmann roughly fucked Pawlenty with a large red, white, and blue spiked cross. (One other note: when Ron Paul i...

Raw Story In a strange revelation Thursday, Mother Jones magazine unearthed a mostly forgotten 2002 movie that stars none other than R...

This comes as welcome news : ... "In essence, we have built a replacement sphincter that we hope can one day benefit human patien...

If the Dems, like the conservatives, would harp on shit the other side does, maybe the narrative that the Republicans are just a buncha obst...

Hopefully the people of Massachusetts will realize she's one of the good guys : ... Former Obama adviser and longtime consumer pro...

You'll like this. Andy Ostroy : Me: Mr. Christ, or can I call you Jesus?.... I gotta ask you this question before anything else. Is i...

Good piece by the Legal Schnauzer Why has Barack Obama been such a disappointment to many progressives? More importantly, why has he fai...

Matt Miller Here’s the thing. I know Tea Party Republicans were behind the debt-ceiling standoff that wreaked needless damage on confide...

Following up on Fixer's post , Reuters/Yahoo!News has an update. Nice photo of the ship. The long-awaited debut of the vessel, a ref...

Even if Mr. Obama and AG Holder don't want to "look back" at the transgressions of those in the Chimp administration, a federa...

Between the elephant's toes? Slow moving pygmies*. I've said it a million times; the rich don't care who they trample in ...

Our resident Long Island Dumbass is embarrassing us once again: Rep. Peter King (R-NY) has written a letter to the Defense Department an...

Because your faith in your elected officials is, sadly, misplaced: In case anyone was wondering if there would come a point at which bas...