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GEE, I CAN'T IMAGINE WHY OBAMA IS SO WORKED UP ABOUT ELECTIONS From U.S. News : Some Republicans are working to delay votes on Presiden...

YOUR LIBERAL MEDIA An event you probably missed over the weekend: The Independent Women's Forum reports that its "About Our Chil...

W for Weird The DNC just called to fundraise from me. I would rather talk politics than clean the kitchen so I started sparring right away ...

THE COMFORT OF HATING AN OLD FAMILIAR ANTICHRIST Glenn Greenwald makes a couple of good points in this post about the Beckistas and 9/12er...

To Whom? Where? When? I've been meaning to write a blog post for a long time called "Does Public Opinion Matter?" But I think...

THE RIGHT'S RICH FANTASY LIFE At Lucianne.com right now: I don't think you'd post this even half-seriously if you didn't g...

DANCING FOR ACQUITTAL By way of introduction, Mance tells one of the classic legends of Texas singers, that of the man who sings his way ou...

DON'T JUST MAKE MORE DEMOCRATIC VOTERS. MAKE MORE LIBERALS. A lot of people are fretting over this new Gallup poll: Americans are mor...

HOW CONVENIENT: NOW THE WINGNUTS MAY HAVE NO NEED TO ATTACK OBAMA FROM THE LEFT ON AFGHANISTAN A number of you didn't agree with me w...

ANDREW BREITBART DESPERATELY TRIES TO SUSTAIN THE HIGH If you do powdered drugs, at a certain point you get a tad antsy -- you get worried ...

GLENN BECK AND WHAT (PROGRESSIVE) ARMY? Oh, Frank Rich, are you joking? Over the short term, the real economic grievances lurking beneath t...

NAGOURNEY, STILL NOT GETTING IT In today's New York Times, Adam Nagourney gives us another Republicans-are-back article. Given the e...

THE RACE-PROBLEM PROBLEM The latest David Brooks column is titled "No, It's Not About Race." This is in reference to the Oba...

THE WANNABE-ISM ISN'T A BUG, IT'S A FEATURE I've been saying for a while that the neo-crazies on the right have a bad case of...

TIME COVER STORIES ON BECK AND COULTER: SEPARATED AT BIRTH? There really is a formula to these Time cover stories on right-wing demagogues...

R. S. McCAIN: WE HAVE MORE TEEN PREGNANCY ... THEREFORE TEEN PREGNANCY IS GOOD! I'm sure he'll say I'm misrepresenting his arg...

What I'm Reading Today The Power of Maps, by Denis Wood . Influenza 1918, by Lynette Iezzoni The Great Derangement, by Matt Taibbi and U...

A REQUEST A reader has e-mailed me to say that he's planning to attend a bipartisan health-care town meeting in Virginia featuring the...

BECK'S IDOL AND THE MYTHICAL ULTRACAPITALIST COMMIES I've been telling you for some time that Beckites have a bizarre worldview in ...

A SPLENDID LITTLE RACE WAR In response to Rush Limbaugh's take on the school-bus incident in Belleville, Illinois ( "It's Ob...