Your humble host is quoted in this Maclean’s article about First Lady Michelle Obama, check it out!

It is rare in the modern era for a single, decisive mistake to end a political career. The only recent examples of this happening are probably the disclosure that Eliot Spitzer used prostitutes or that Anthony Weiner used Twitter too often. But the last time a megaton-bomb level mistake truly destroyed a presidential candidate was [...]

Rush Limbaugh has hired a crisis manager. Almost like his show is facing some sort of… crisis.

Ezra Klein’s article in the New Yorker makes a pretty good case, in my opinion, for totally killing the filibuster. At the very least we should kill the phony filibuster that both parties have utilized in the Senate to hold up legislation. Make them actually stand and talk a bill to death, rather than take [...]

First, go read Milt Shook’s piece on progressives, the Democratic Party, and how to win. Okay. So, I totally disagree. First, some background. As a progressive I concede I have things better than a lot based on who represents me in congress. First there’s Rep. Donna Edwards, then Sen. Ben Cardin and Sen. Barbara Mikulski. [...]

Here, in full, is the first amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of [...]

“I hope he poops rainbows.” That was my first thought when I read the news that the Washington Redskins had given up their 2012, 2013 and 2014 first round draft picks for a 22 year old man who last season played for a college football team that went 10-3. Everyone I’ve spoken to about this [...]

ABC’s Jake Tapper makes what I think is a bad comparison here as he takes the Obama administration to task for praising “aggressive journalism” while at the same time pursuing prosecutions against those who have leaked classified data. Tapper tells White House spokesman Jay Carney that “You want aggressive journalism abroad; you just don’t want [...]

Yes, you can buy a gun powerful enough to take out a helicopter. Without a background check. This is insane. Hundreds of thousands of guns are for sale, on hundreds of websites. We responded and set up meetings at popular shopping malls. We bought everything from a police-grade pistol to a semiautomatic assault rifle. We [...]

Conservatism is a fraud. This interesting article from the NY Times backs up what many on the left have said for some time. The right is jam-packed with hypocrites when it comes to the social safety net. They aren’t, in fact, rugged individualists out of some Ayn Rand novel, but in fact just like everyone [...]

It is downright eerie the way conservatives right now sound like liberals in 2004. From the NY Times report from CPAC: The Republican nominee, it seemed, mattered less in their efforts to mobilize than their intense dislike of President Obama. In dozens of interviews at the conference, which was scheduled to end Saturday afternoon, people [...]

There is a little bit of garment-rending in progress about a new Washington Post poll that shows liberals strongly supporting the government’s program of using drones to take out terrorist targets. I don’t quite understand the confusion. When it comes to taking out terrorists not on U.S. soil we have three options: 1. Let them [...]

Did you enjoy the Iraq War? Well, the Weekly Standard wants to do it again, with a new article arguing that sure, Obama got Bin Laden killed and has arrested or killed 20 of the most wanted Al Qaeda terrorists, but never mind because Iran is part of the Axis of Evil. No, seriously. Let [...]

One of my new favorite phrases is “not tethered to facts.” That comes from ABC reporter Jake Tapper doing a write-up of a new ad campaign from the conservative Americans For Prosperity targeting President Obama. It’s a nice way of saying “you lying ass.” The phrase “not tethered to facts” came to mind when reading [...]

So I’m reading this book about World War II that’s really great. It’s called All Hell Let Loose by Sir Max Hastings and is a re-telling of the story of World War II with the addition of tons of first-person observations from people experiencing the war. Some interesting stories I’ve found so far. * A [...]

Bob Ehrlich used his campaign money to pay for the defense of now-convicted vote-suppression activist. A campaign account maintained by former governor Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. (R) was used to pay more than $100,000 last year to law firms involved in the criminal defense of his 2010 campaign manager, Paul E. Schurick, on charges related [...]

If you can’t decipher this complex graph, allow me to help: Blue good.

Martin O’Malley just sent out the following e-mail, linking here to solicit money for Marylanders For Marriage Equality. He’s not being wishy-washy about this.

When Bill Clinton was involved in the Lewinsky affair, it was bad, reprehensible conduct for a husband and a father. Certainly it showed a lack of morals and judgement. That said, it was not a high crime or misdemeanor by any stretch of the imagination. He had done wrong, but it didn’t warrant a crisis [...]

The defense of Mitt Romney’s career as a corporate raider is in full sway, and especially how he’s a virtual lock for the nomination now, the usual conservative clowns are lining up like they always do in order to protect their cause. Case in point, the nimrods at Powerline (background on their years of stupidity) [...]