Ohhh, Lordy. Here come the musical guests for the inaugumuration (from Tbogg via Atrios via Kevin Bacon, etc):Artist, Description-- JoJo, Pop/Top 40-- Hillary Duff, Pop/Top 40-- Ruben Studdard, Soul-- 3 Doors Down, Rock-- Boxkar, Rock-- … [Read more...]

The facts are finally starting to catch up to President Bush.  Despite his and his administration's incessant efforts to portray the Social Security system as on death's door, and on the verge of collapse unless his radical revisions … [Read more...]

So now Bush regrets having used certain colloquial Hollywood expressions, like saying "Bring 'em on,"  to the Iraq insurgency, and saying he wanted Osama bin Laden "Dead or Alive".Of course, if he'd actually gone … [Read more...]

The WaPo has the story on a 119-page report just released by the National Intelligence Center, a CIA thinktank (hat tip: Oliver Willis).  The NIC's director told the Post: "At the moment, Iraq is a magnet for international … [Read more...]

Wow. The always provocative Ed Kilgore at New Donkey almost made my head explode today in this post about the intersection of religion and politics in America.Ed also links to this commentary (LA Times, reg. req'd) by Stephen Prothero of … [Read more...]

Just in case you're new to this blogosphere thing, I gotta say: if you're not reading Josh Marshall's continuing coverage of the Social Security Super Bowl, well hell, you just ain't living. Josh has a hold of this thing like a big dog with … [Read more...]

Almost literally:D.C. officials said yesterday that the Bush administration is refusingto reimburse the District for most of the costs associated with nextweek's inauguration, breaking with precedent and forcing the city todivert $11.9 … [Read more...]

First, in the run up to election day, the following actions by Mr.Blackwell, the Republican Party and election officials disenfranchisedhundreds of thousands of Ohio citizens, predominantly minority andDemocratic voters: The misallocation … [Read more...]

David Corn at the Nation says that Armstrong Williams told him that he (Williams) is not the only commentator receiving taxpayer money to toe the Bush administration line.  Oh, do tell, Armstrong!  Do tell!  (He says he … [Read more...]

I wrote this post last month with some degree of bitterness that we of the Center and Left had outraised the Republicans dollar for dollar, and organized better than we ever had, and had nothing but defeat to show for it.Well, now Amy … [Read more...]