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Pols for GOP nomination are lame, or not sufficiently crazy Update : See also Sarah Posner's Christian Zionists, Bibi, Obama, and Armage...

When news of the 2009 Fort Hood Massacre broke, the most tenuous evidence was used to paint the killing as the work of Al Qaeda and other Is...

Sarah Palin's camp is in full retreat mode, and is now caught in a lie. Adviser to Ms. Palin, Rebecca Mansour, says the cross-hairs plac...

Update : See also Did Task Force 20 Kill Osama Bin Laden - U.S. Army Sergeant Ayman A. Ibrahim's intelligence directly led to the cap...

- Stupid, white people do not mess with the memory of Dr. King and then get away with it - I spent a lot of time in some neighborhoods on t...

A radical, right-wing charismatic evangelical movement is burrowing into the power structures of major American cities and states; if Sarah ...

Teabaggers are the same, old, white, xenophobic, racist garbage. Good for a laugh, but never let racism go by unchallenged. Cuéntame -- ...

Just when you thought American politics could not possibly sink to lower depths of self parody, Sarah Palin's address to the Tea Party-w...

Update : Those not yet convinced of the brilliance of this magnificent woman can see the video below. Sarah Palin's address at the Tea ...

Update : Please note response of the office of Sen. Feingold in the comments section. George Wagner's MJS column last month reporting...

With the rise of the public relations industry American politics—from the municipal alderperson to the chief executive—has been reduced to t...

Sarah Palin made a splash yesterday showing her grasp of the global economic crisis is on a par with her mastery of biological evolution. Fr...

It's past time for President Obama to call a liar a liar. The GOP is in full campaign mode with lots of money and lies. And Obama is pla...

You have to watch this one. I never knew that Sarah Palin has the heart of Ginsberg, Kerouac and Blake. Via John Amato from Crooks and Liars...

Update : Here's Judith Davidoff's Cap Times link . Judith Davidoff has a profile up at the Capital Times , "Citizen McConkey: ...

Sure, Sarah can write. From Wonkette on Sarah's piece in "the important neo-con pamphlet The Washington Post ." SHUT UP, CLOW...

Update II : Tana Ganeva: Sarah Palin Resigns: Is She Fleeing Scandal? Update : Robert Perry - ' Sarah Palin’s abrupt decision to resign...

Just saying. - Roubini's Pissed-Off and Stiglitz Goes Ballistic - Robert Shiller: Depression Lurks Unless There’s More Stimulus - Krugma...

Team members of McCainCon are conducting last-minute system testing though the objectives have already been met: John McCain's campaig...