Is Trauma over 9/11 a Valid Defense to the Bush Administration's Legal Violations or Moral Lapses?
Pro-Choice Doctor Shot to Death at Church
May 24 -May 30, 2009
Gen. Taguba Hasn't Seen the 44 Abu Ghraib Torture Photos Suppressed by Obama?
GOP Strategists Who Specialize in "Latino Outreach" Upset by Sotomayor Attacks
Defense Contractor Involved in Bribery re: Bullet Proof Vest Contract
Another Drug Maker to Settle Justice Dept. Fraud Suit
Dueling Media Messages about our Nation's Economy
Newt Gingrich Calls Sotomayor a Racist and other Nonsense
Banking Industry Reform: Regulation by a Single Agency?
Maj. Gen. Taguba: Abu Ghraib Photographs Censored by Obama Show Rape "and Every Indecency"
TPMtv's "The Day in 100 Seconds" (May 27, 2009 Video) -- Justice (Sotomayor & Gonzalez)
North Korea Threatens Armed Strike Against South Korea; Says Will No Longer Abide by 1953 Armistice
Gay Marriage Ban Upheld in California
Bill Maher vs. Sean Hannity (Video)
CNN: Americans Have More Favorable View of Colin Powell than of Cheney and Limbaugh
SOWF: Taking Care of Fallen Soldiers' Families
Mile-Long Memorial: a Most Impressive Tribute to our Fallen Soldiers
Maine's Education Department to Settle Justice Department Suit for $1.5 Million
Desperate GOP Geniuses Make Moronic Misstep: Comparing Pelosi to Bond Character "Pussy Galore"
Chuck Hagel Supports Obama Against Cheney
The Daily Show: Dick Cheney versus Obama (The "Dueling Speeches")
Obama Administration Agrees with Bush Again: This Time re: Valerie Plame Wilson
TPMtv's "The Day in 100 Seconds": Obama versus Cheney (May 21, 2009 Video)
Grayson Watch: Alan Grayson Will Introduce Paid Vacation Legislation
Five Alabama Policemen Fired for Beating Unconscious Man
Arlen Specter Defends Nancy Pelosi, Thinks CIA Might Occasionally Palter with the Truth
Jon Stewart: "Auto-Neurotic Gas Fixation"
FBI Thwarts 4 Homegrown Terrorists Who Were Planning to Blow Up Bronx Synagogues
TPMtv's "The Day in 100 Seconds" (May 20, 2009 Video)
Global Warming Gestapo! Feeeeeear the Cap & Trade!
Government Joins Whistle Blower Fraud-Suit against Drug Giant Wyeth
Colbert: Send Released Gitmo Detainees to Cheney's Ranch
Colbert Interviews Blogger & McCain Daughter Meghan McCain
Rumsfeld Appointed Himself Intermediary Between Bush and God?
TPMtv's "The Day in 100 Seconds" (May 18, 2009 Video)
Wall Street Journal Ensures Ad Revenues by Defending "The Rich"
Torture: Focus on Polling Numbers Distorts the Issue
Didn't Maureen Dowd Know She'd Taken Someone's Words?
Bill Maher & TARP Overseer Elizabeth Warren
Alan Grayson (D-FL): Does Anyone Know Where the Money Went?
43 Kids Stun-Gunned at Prison Systems' "Take Your Kids to Work Day"?
May 10 -May 16, 2009
More Law-Enforcement Crimes: Jail Workers Plead Guilty to Detainee Abuse
CIA Says Pelosi Lied, Which May be True -- Then Again, Pots and Kettles
TPMtv's "The Day in 100 Seconds" (May 15, 2009 Video)
The Thickening Plot: Sen. Bob Graham Says the CIA Gave Him False Information
TPMtv's "The Day in 100 Seconds" (May 14, 2009 Video)
TPMtv: Pelosi Accuses the CIA of Lying to Congress About Her Knowledge of Waterboarding
Geithner on the Medicare Crisis: Two Possible Solutions Worth Mentioning
Police Brutality: Another Head Kicking and More
TPMtv's "The Day in 100 Seconds" (May 13, 2009 Video)
Obama Administration Wants to Regulate Executive Pay
The Daily Show on Waterboarding, USA: The Parsing of Nancy Pelosi
TPMtv's "The Day in 100 Seconds" (May 12, 2009 Video)
Smoke & Mirrors: Health Care Industry Offers to "Stem" Price Increases?
From the Department of Wrist Slapping: Drug Maker to Pay $9 Million to Settle Civil Case
The Daily Show: "Come home, Truth...Daddy Cheney Forgives You."
TPMtv's "The Day in 100 Seconds" (May 11, 2009 Video)
US Soldier Kills 5 Fellow Soldiers in Iraq, Injures 3 Others
Obama DoJ Preparing to Fit Up Antitrust Laws with Some Sharp New Teeth
Cheney Emerges from the Nether World to Have Another Go at Obama
Obama Knocks 'Em Dead at White House Correspondents Dinner
Quote of the Day: GOP Chair Michael Steele on Judges with Empathy
CBS Announcer Says Any US Soldier Would be Glad to Assassinate Reid and Pelosi
Simon Johnson Says Stress Tests are a "Whitewash"
Chair of NY Fed Chair Quits After Continuing Role at Goldman Questioned
Congressman Alan Grayson Votes to Protect Homeowners
TPMtv's "The Day in 100 Seconds" (May 7, 2009 Video)
The Daily Show: "Apakalypse Now" (Pakistan & Afghanistan)
"A Higher Platform of Morality": US Air Strikes in Afghanistan Kill Dozens of Civilians
TPMtv's "The Day in 100 Seconds" (May 6, 2009 Video)
Murtha's Nephew Got Defense Contracts Without Competition?
Colbert Explains Why You Should Bail Out the Prescott Group
The Resilience of Elizabeth Edwards
Two Photographs, and What They Prove
Obama Promises to Crack Down on Offshore Tax Havens that Could Produce $210 Billion in Tax Revenue; GOPpers Mourn for the Multinationals
Wages are Falling -- for Ordinary Americans, Anyway
New York Times: The Story Behind the Torture Administration's Use of "Harsh Interrogation" Methods
Feds Probe the Edwards' Campaign Finances
Jack Kemp, Chief Proponent of "The Big Tent," Dies
Lady in Red: Sarah Palin Deluged by Ethics Complaints
The Daily Show: John Oliver Asks Why Proponents of the Large Hadron Collider Want to Destroy the Earth; Plus (Bonus!) The Large Hadron Collider Rap
Stanford Students Rough Up Condi Over Torture; Get a Condi-scending Response
Colbert Report: Donkey Flu Claims Specter as Victim
SUPREME COURT JUSTICE DAVID SOUTER TO RETIRE
Apr 1 - Apr 30, 2009
(Apr 30)
Bank of America Publicity Stunt: Lewis off the Board but Still CEO
Jon Stewart on the Jane Harman Scandal ("This Conversation Does Not Exist")
Judge Bybee Defends the OLC's Torture Memos as a "Good Faith Analysis of the Law"
Sebelius Sworn in as Secretary of Health and Human Services, Just in Time for the Flu Outbreak
The Daily Show Unedited Interview: Cliff May Wants to "Push the Boundaries" of Torture
If Govt. Can Reduce Auto Execs' s Pay, Why not Bank Execs' Pay?
Sing Along: "Zombie Banks -- They're Dead but They Just Don't Know It'
Businessman Sentenced for Turning Women into Virtual Slaves
Four Members of Congress Arrested during Protest re: Darfur
Richard Baer Talks to Bill Maher About Torture on Real Time
Krugman: Will Executive Compensation at Investment Banks Soar Back to 2007 Levels?
Obama & Cantor Exchange Words; John Cole Sums Up The Know Nothing Party Position
Polls: Most Minnesotans Ready for Coleman to Concede
Why the GOP Can't Come to Terms with Reality
US Declares Swine Flu to be a Public Health Emergency: What to Do Besides Worry
Torture Used in Hopes of Getting False Evidence Supporting Iraq Invasion: Did Cheney Lie?
Theft of Fuel From Military in Iraq: One Man Guilty, One Indicted
Recent Bank Seizures Cause 2009 Total to Exceed 2008 Total
$4 Million Judgment Against Hurricane Katrina Contractor
Tales from The Torture Administration: Military Agency Calls Torture Torture
Florida's Rep. Grayson Supports Credit Card Bill of Rights; Plus Some Background on the Bill
Colbert: "Shepard Smith swearing on camera isn't something he can get away with -- like torture"
SoS Hillary Accuses Pakistani Gov't of Abdicating to Taliban; Taliban Forces Prepare to Retreat
Racist Set Fire to House of White Woman who Associated with People of Color
Ex-Millitary Employee Guilty of Bribery
Do We Know that Bank of America CEO was Telling the Truth?
At Last, an Explanation for Cheney & Rove: Balzheimer's Disease?
FBI Special Agent: "For Seven Years I Have Remained Silent"
"The Banal Evil of Jay Bybee": The Memo Set to Music
Apr 19 - Apr 22, 2009
(Apr 22)
Jon Stewart on Fire: "We Don't Torture"
Hillary Smacks Down Cheney (& Dana Rohrbacher)
Supremes Don't Care if School Officials Strip Search Your Daughter To Look for Advil?
Did Torture "Work"? Does that Matter, and are They Telling the Truth?
"Frumpy" Scottish Singer Blinds the Swimmers at the Shallow End with Her Talent
McCain: Waterboardings "Unacceptable" ("Waterboarding is Torture, Period")
The Right Wing Fit du Jour: Obama Didn't Wheel on his Heel to Give Chavez a Cold Shoulder
Al Qaeda Boss Still Hates Obama, Pleads with Other Followers to Hate Him Too
"Radioactive": Harman Caught on Wiretap Promising Intervention for AIPAC
Still More Abuses by Law Enforcement: this Time in Ohio
Updated: Did the Bush Administration Condone Torture? (Warning: horrifying details included)
Medical Test Manufacturers to Settle Suit for $302 Million
Conyers Wants Investigation of Bush Officials re: Torture
Ex-Mississippi Police Chief Sentenced for Head Stomping
Apr 12 - Apr 18, 2009
Is Israel About to Bomb Iran's Nuclear Sites?
(Apr 17)
Sullivan: "If You Want to Know How Democracies Die, Read These Memos"; Olbermann and Others to Obama: "Prosecute, Mr. President"
The Torture Administration: Exposed; The Operatives: Indemnified & Immunized
DoJ to Release Torture Memos; but Obama Won't Prosecute
Was It the Teabags Talking? Rick Perry, Gov. of Texas, Says Texas Might Secede
Colbert: Spontaneous Grassroots Events Hosted by Fox
The Daily Show Tea Par-TAY! "Americans buy one million teabags to protest wasteful spending. "
A Courageous & Dangerous Act of Protest: Afghan Women Take a Stand
Dept of Hollow Laughter: Right Wingers Incensed Over DHS Report on Rise of Right Wing Extremism
Multiple Teabaggings Everywhere: Teabaggings for Everyone!
... If Treasury Won't Clean Up the Banks Balance Sheets...
Minnesota Court Declares Franken the Winner; Coleman Vows to Appeal
(Apr 13)
Any Way They Look at It, We Lose
Focus on the Family's James Dobson: The Wingnuts Have Lost the Culture War
Congressman Alan Grayson (D-FL) versus Fox's Yapping Cur-in-Chief
Saudi Judge Refuses to Let 8 Year Old Divorce 47 Year Old Man
"Top Talent" Fleeing Regulated Banks?
Jonathan Turley: The Trend in the West to Ban Anti-Religion Speech
Habeas Schmabeas: Obama Continues Bush's Policies; Again Lets Down Progressives With Resounding Thud
Apr 5 - Apr 11, 2009
"Night of Teh Living Gays:" A Response to the National Organization for Marriage
Best O' the Daily Show: Investment Banks, the DoD's New Budget, & "Queer Eye for the Hawkeye"
(Apr 7)
Vermont Legalizes Gay Marriage Over Governor's Veto
Eleven Arrested for conspiring to Export Munitions to Iran?
"Focus on Family" Employee Allegedly Sought Sex with Teenager
Drug Company Exec Pleads Guilty to Dishonest Dealings
Lobbyist Gets Wrist Slapped after Destroying Evidence
Panel Head Wants Execs Fired from Bailed-out Banks
North Korea's Missile Launch a (sort of) Failure
Big Contractor Northrop to Settle Fraud Suit for $325 Million
Apr 1 - Apr 4, 2009
Obama Administration Officials' Financial Disclosure Forms
Vietnamese Gunman Kills 13 in New York, Taliban Claims Credit
Is the Obama Administration Creating Loopholes in Bailout Legislation?
New FASB Rule: is our Government Encouraging Accounting Fraud?
663,000 Jobs Lost in March: Unemployment Rises to 8.5%
Franken and Coleman Update: Why Isn't Right Wing Telling Coleman to "Get Over it"?
More False Anaologies from the Right Wing: this Time re: Executive Pay Caps
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