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Oh no, Eisenhower bowed to a Frog!

The Right has literally let terrorists win

Glenn Greenwald on our favorite chickenhawk tough guys’ reactions to the KSM trial: [T]he Right's reaction to yesterday's announcement -- we're too afraid to allow trials and due process in our country -- is the textbook definition of "surrenderi...

Very odd

Taegan Goddard: Maybe Levi Johnson really does have a dark secret about Sarah Palin that she doesn't want revealed. Though Palin's new memoir takes shots at many people -- and "describes heart-wrenching anguish about her teen daughter's pregnanc...

But I will be known as the sweetest autocrat ever...

On sad and wilting iPhones

AT&T regarding Verizon’s latest batch of TV ads: The image of the sad and wilting iPhone on an island of misfit toys falsely communicates that the iPhone is a broken device. </param></param></param></embed>

Me too...

At least this finally explains my love/hate relationship with Wisconsinites.

Olympia Snowe (R-ME) is screwed

…but Olympia Snowe (D-ME) might have a chance. I bet she and Joe Biden have lunch sometime this week.

OK, it's settled: Bart Stupak is a dickhead

I just kind of assumed he was a garden variety jerkoff before, but this clinches the deal for me. Bart Stupak is seriously a dickhead: A day before the bill passed out of committee, Stupak co-sponsored, and voted for an amendment written by Rep. ...

A fitting coda on things past

From Paul Krugman: [T]here’s this awkward fact that markets have, you know, gone up under Obama. And this isn’t just a phenomenon of the last few months. Look back at stock returns under recent presidents, which is easy using a clever gadget at ...

Time for Olympia to pull an Arlen

I mean, don’t get me wrong, Arlen is completely screwed in 2010, but that shouldn’t make Olympia Snowe think for a second that switching parties is a bad idea. Cuz, let’s face facts: she’s going down in 2012’s Republican Senatorial Primary in Main...