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MATT DRUDGE'S ICK FACTOR I don't expect Matt Drudge to betray the right-wing team and avoid criticizing the repeal of Don't ...

CAN YOU HEAR HIM NOW? I see that there appears to be a deal to get the Zadroga bill through Congress: The deal to pass athe 9/11 heal...

MOMMY, WHY IS VAN JONES DOING A LAXATIVE COMMERCIAL? Dear Glenn Beck: You make $32 million a year. You can't find a video-site affi...

HALEY, I THINK YOU'RE GOING ABOUT THIS ALL WRONG In comments, mb tells me he/she still thinks Haley Barbour's would-be president...

MORE FROM THE FOX CONSPIRACY TO KEEP RIGHT-WINGERS STUPID Teaser on the home page of Fox Nation: Every card-carrying wingnut knows the...

A LETTER TO THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Here in New York, the Daily News has really worked to get the Zadroga bill for 9/11 first responders...

DOES THIS END BARBOUR'S PRESIDENTIAL BID? NAHHH. FAR FROM IT. In comments to my first Haley Barbour post yesterday, mb wrote: I t...

THAT NICE WHITE CITIZENS' COUNCIL IN YAZOO CITY David Halberstam, "The White Citizens Councils," Commentary, October 1956...

HEY, IT'S NOT AS IF BARBOUR SAID ANYTHING REALLY TROUBLING, RIGHT? To judge from the Trent Lott and George Allen incidents, I assum...

A BIT TOO SOON TO RELAX Paul Waldman at Tapped declares victory prematurely: Jonathan Bernstein makes an excellent point about the rep...

RIGHT-WING RADICALISM, PURELY FOR CENTRIST CONSUMPTION I'm a little late getting to this Robert Kuttner article, which a despairing ...

ON LESS MALIGN FAT CATS AND TALIBAN REPUBLICANS I actually agree with the thrust of this E.J. Dionne column -- though I don't underst...

FAILURE, AS USUAL, IS EXCELLENT NEWS FOR JOHN McCAIN Let's see: John McCain failed to prevent the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't...

MONTANA UNDER SIEGE! One win, one loss today: the Senate passed Don't Ask, Don't Tell repeal today -- and, much as it kills me t...

NICHE ANGER IS NOT ENOUGH Steve Benen flags this story from the New York Daily News : Arizona Sen. John McCain did it again, insultin...

NEWT GINGRICH, INCORRIGIBLE GRIFTER Rachel Maddow revisited an old (and rather silly) story last night: Tonight, we have brand-new dev...

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER'S STAR-SPANGLED WAR STORIES Yes, I too am puzzling over Charles Krauthammer's latest: If Barack Obama wins r...

PETER KING: AL-QAEDA RECRUITER OF THE YEAR Well, if he didn't just lap the competition to snag the award this year, blowhard New York ...

DEAR MEDIA: AFGHANISTAN IS NOT VIETNAM -- FOR YOU From a Sheryl Gay Stolberg article in today's New York Times: Afghanistan ... b...

GUESS IT KINDA SLIPPED HITCH'S MIND Via Ron Chusid, I see that Christopher Hitchens has written an admirably angry takedown of the t...