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Charles P. Pierce I wasn't ready, but the 2016 Iowa caucus campaign kicked off this afternoon when Tailgunner Ted Cruz announced that ...

Good. Stu Rothenberg Political parties seem to suffer through internal battles periodically, but the current state of the GOP is much wors...

For Jay in NC. Eerily apropos, I think, given his comment on the second post below this one. :-) It's crazy-makin' ta think the ...

Kos Among the more bizarre moments of Senator Cruz's fake filibuster tonight was his reading of the Dr. Seuss book Green Eggs and Ham ...

The title will be instantly explained when you go see Andy Sullivan's post . David Corn echoes a lot of what I’ve been arguing about ...

So says Daddy Frank in his latest monthly article. I'm most certainly no fan of Paul except for the blessed damage he is doing to the R...

Ironic Times Sixteen States Introduce Rules Restricting Access to Advice About Obamacare Explain “what they don't know won't hurt...

Unknown Journal , wherein the writer ties the Koch brothers to Ilse Koch, "the bitch of Buchenwald", Hitler, Stalin, the John Birc...

Published on Sep 20, 2013 1980 Pop Goes The Country Thanks to 1000Magicians , UK.

Charles P. Pierce Uh-oh, without even knowing how he did it, because that is what happens when you wander through the monkeyhouse blindfol...

From an op-ed in that commie rag, The Wall St. Journal : Republicans must threaten to crash their Zeros into the aircraft carrier of Obam...

Stewart: Republican diplomacy ‘is like a glory h*le: Just stick it in and you worry about the consequences later’ Go watch Stewart do Miss L...

By Michael Tomasky . Today's 'recommended read'. I don’t know about you, but I’m not very interested in being lectured that Ba...

Ironic Times Standard & Poor’s Claims Government Lawsuit “Retaliation” for Its Downgrade of U.S. Debt Fact that S&P committed mas...

“Brighter future for politics and policy requires a different Republican Party” If a motorcycle was in the same state of disrepair as the G...

Published on Sep 3, 2013 Emmylou Harris and the Hot Band perform a live version of the Gram Parsons/Tom O'Brown song "Return Of Th...

From Tea party Sen. Ted Cruz is eager to force a government shutdown Sanity, however, is seen as weakness by the Republican militants. The...