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Teabagger, the movie

This is an actual trailer for a new documentary about the Teabaggers. This isn't a joke. It's an actual serious documentary taking the Teabaggers seriously. The trailer is bizarre. These people...

Maybe the Taliban are the solution

I will admit to being poisoned by the Viet Nam experience, where the whole thing started as a "training" exercise. Maybe Afghanistan isn't Southeast Asia but the slope is just as slippery from...

Young voters still approve of Obama, don't approve of how he's handling the issues

This seems to reflect what we've been hearing among all voters. Personal approval remains high while approval on specific issues is dropping.What does this mean? Well it all depends on why you...

Dem Sen. Ben Nelson threatening to take down health care bill over abortion too (he wants it more a

And why shouldn't he? Nelson et. al. have already been told that if they whine enough they'll get their way, to wit, watering down the public option. So why shouldn't Nelson venture out and start...

Would the liberal base of the Democratic party walk next election

In an interesting story from The Hill on whether there truly is liberal dissatisfaction with President Obama and Democrats, and whether liberals would truly walk, come the next election, if they get...

Leading climate change scientist wants Copenhagen to fail

Sounds crazy but he may not be completely wrong about this. The Guardian:In an interview with the Guardian, James Hansen, the world's pre-eminent climate scientist, said any agreement likely to...

Despite strong support for public option, its prospects look less likely in Congress (but they'll k

If you ever doubt whether Congress is out-of-touch with Americans, the public option debate in Congress proves it. Yet another poll shows strong support for the public option: Most Americans would...

House GOPers having jobs summit with architects of the failed Bush economic policy

Can't make this stuff up. The economy is in a shambles because of the mess created by the failed policies of George Bush and Dick Cheney. Democrats have been trying to dig out of this disaster for...

It's official: Comcast buying NBC from GE

Now that it's pretty much a done deal, this seems pretty big. Comcast, which is a conduit of content, is buying a major creator of content:After nearly nine months of negotiations, Comcast, the...

Thursday Morning Open Thread

Good morning.I'm back from an amazing trip to South Africa. I've wanted to see animals in the wild since I was a kid. And, I did. Lots of them. We spent several days in Kruger National Park and I...