I'm glad that Media Matters has posted the best clip from O'Reilly and Krugman's joint appearance on the CNBC Russert Show. Being extremely ill, I actually watched the whole thing, and this clip is basically how the entire thing went. O'Reilly lies through his teeth, Krugman...
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A terrific post at TalkLeft, discussing a Red Cross report that--if the charges contained within it are ultimately proven to be true--would mean that war crimes were committed at Guantanamo. One.
Anderson v. King Sims--the case discussed by Dave below--can be read in its entirety here. It's actually worth reading. It's lucid and relatively short. Progressives should familiarize themselves with this and similar rulings, because reactionary opponents of the decision will inevitably describe it as radical "judicial...
This NYT profile of conservative vanity candidate Ralph Nader has some useful information. First, I think we can put to rest the rationalization that, against all evidence, Nader would refrain from.
It would be difficult to imagine a movie from a major filmmaker sounding worse that Spike Lee's latest joint, She Hate Me. The centerpiece of the film apparently involves a.
Matt Yglesias has (justly) come under fire for his recent posts arguing against civil rights protections for gay people on the basis of conservertarian bromides that weren't persuasive when the Supreme Court used them to strike down maximum hours laws in 1905, and for his criticism of John Kerry's...
Michael Berube offers some voluntary editing services to a Cal Thomas column perhaps more egregiously stupid than the one by some tall blond guy that USA Today killed earlier this.
Matt Yglesias has (justly) come under fire for his recent posts arguing against civil rights protections for gay people on the basis of conservertarian bromides that weren't persuasive when the Supreme.
Erik asks in the comments if Rehnquist's nature was known when Nixon appointed him. As it happens, John Dean wrote a good book on the subject. Essentially, Rehnquist was a last-minute choice; Nixonites knew about many of the skeletons in his closet, but Senate Democrats didn't...
Paperwight makes a good point in the discussion of Dave's Ann Coulter post. It makes perfect sense for Coulter to recycle stale anecdotes from Reagan-era Michael Medved columns, because this will still seem fresh to a.
One of the most amusing pathologies of wingnut cranks is their unyielding conviction that Hillary Clinton would be the Democratic nominee in 2004, despite the facts that 1)she repeatedly said.