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Emmylou Harris is joined by Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings for a live version of "Your Long Journey" from an event in 2012. Than...

Goblinbooks I know what you're going through, people. I've been there. I don't want to brag, but government shutdowns are kind...

The Kochs Can't Control the Monster They Created The billionaire conservatives join the ranks of business interests trying to rein in ...

El Rude-o is soliciting donations for Wendy Davis for Governor of Texass. He doesn't usually do this. Davis is gonna need all the hel...

Note to Repugs: Why bother with voter suppression? Just do it this way: Azerbaijan released election results before voting had even starte...

William Rivers Pitt . This is a good one! The single greatest political strength of the modern Republican Party is their utter and complet...

GOPers willing to lose House in losing bid to kill Obamacare We're more than willing to help.

If it's Wednesday it must be Morford on why some people are lucky and some people aren't. See? Obvious. But there’s a catch: Desp...

How The Shutdown Taught The GOP To Love Big Government Bwahahahaha! The GOP has always loved them some big government as long as it's T...

Short piece by Charles P. Pierce on the holdover trickle-down zombies that ate our nation's face. And planned the shutdown . Please for...

The GOP Has Been Planning The Government Shutdown Since Last Year. Here’s The Proof This comes as no surprise.

Click to embiggen A tip o' the Brain to Hammer the Gods .

Paul Krugman The federal government is shut down, we’re about to hit the debt ceiling (with disastrous economic consequences), and no reso...

Ironic Times Republicans Agree to Raise Debt Ceiling If Obama releases his birth certificate. Fox News Refers to Government Shutdown as ...

This one's for Bear , who noticed...

An homage to Donald Segretti, the first political ratfucker to call himself that, in the context of what the teabaggers are up to by Charle...

The last coupla ¶ from a post you should read at The Political Garbage Chute But one thing is for certain, Senator Cruz. You are going to ...

El Rude-o on the shutdown etc. Links at site. What the GOP has done, first through the ludicrous overuse of the filibuster and now throug...

You're not dummies. Watch it anyway. One chickenshit boozehound is holding me, you, and every American hostage over right-wing ideolog...