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Bill Berkowitz A parade of the usual suspects (Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich), and wannabees (Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, Bobby Jinda...

Published on Feb 15, 2013 EMMYLOU HARRIS performs @ A Tribute To Mike Auldridge at The Birchmere, in Alexandria, Virginia. One of three Em...

Let me count the ways... Today's 'must read' at Truthout Not to put too fine a point on it, but the invasion of Iraq turned ...

Raw Story Speaking on the Senate floor Thursday, Sens. John McCain (R-AZ) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) tore into Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) “rid...

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BooMan I want a AH-64 Apache attack helicopter. I am assured that it is the best attack helicopter in the world and if it's not, it...

William Rivers Pitt Let me see if I have this right. A generation of GOP trickle-down economic thievery depth-charged the American econo...

If it's Wednesday it must be Morford , coming to you today from HuffPo, on the deaths of journalists in Mexico. I've won a few won...

MoDo gets it right for once in a long time. In a documentary soon to appear on Showtime, “The World According to Dick Cheney,” America’s ...

Why Jeb Bush will never be president Note to Jeb: Your father wasn't the worst President in U.S. history, but your brother WAS and the B...

Will Durst Q. When was the last time a pope retired? A. Thursday. Q. No, before that. A. July 4, 1415. Gregory XII stepped down to h...

Ironic Times State Dept. Approves Keystone Pipeline Dept. of Energy approves arming Syrian rebels. Supreme Court Seems Poised To Strike...

Daddy Frank's latest feature piece . Long, many links, good read. Lipstick on an Elephant Deep behind a tangle of denial and rebrand...

Published on Mar 1, 2013 Singers Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell perform "Chase the Feeling" from their new album, "Old Ye...

Heh. Thank you, Old Fart , for making this so easy! And I heartily concur that drug testing for people taking our tax money, in this case ...

LATimes U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is alleged to be one of the great intellects of conservative jurisprudence, but his com...

In case you missed this, you MUST see it! In this exclusive, unedited interview, Rachel Maddow shares her in-person observations of the Su...

CPAC is the 'Star Wars Bar Scene of the Conservative Movement' Heh. No shit!

Dana Milbank For a quarter-century, Antonin Scalia has been the reigning bully of the Supreme Court, but finally a couple of justices are ...

A fun and not too off the mark look at Senator Ted "Tailgunner Joe's Ghost" Cruz at Political Garbage Chute . Shit, Cruz even ...