More fun from the neo-conservatives. Here’s the transcript… MATTHEWS: The polling that took place before we attacked, conducted by “Time” and CNN, showed that 72 percent of the American people, nearly three quarters, believed it was likely that Saddam Hussein was involved in the attack on us 9/11. How do you think they got that [...]

For years I’ve been arguing that the government should simply get out of the institution of marriage all together, and some folks in Cali are trying to put that idea into motion. From The Herald: California’s top election official gave two Southern California college students the go-ahead Tuesday to start collecting signatures for a proposed [...]

I can’t believe this thing is still going on, and it’s now going to be decided by the courts…which is an awful way of doing this. But hey, if it’s good enough for the Oval Office… Still, Franken can’t be happy that this is how it’s going to go down. Talk about a cause for [...]

“This is a bit of an inside baseball observation, but it’s becoming clear that the columnist with the best access to the White House is, improbably, David Brooks.” – Ezra Klein in The American Prospect Here’s more… In itself, that’s not abnormal. Administrations often choose themselves a favored columnist to bless with access and exclusives. [...]

TheStreet.com’s CEO quits immediately after last night’s interview. Not sure why. After all, the interview that Stewart used to bludgeon Cramer with has been around for quite some time…and on TheStreet.com. But nonetheless… Friday brought more tumult for CNBC anchor Jim Cramer, when the chief executive of his online financial news site, The Street.com, resigned. [...]

This Saturday morning, enjoy a bit from The Late Show with David Letterman…

President Obama has decided to relegate the term “enemy combatant” to the waste bin of the Bush era. The Obama administration is abandoning one of President George W. Bush’s key phrases in the war on terrorism: enemy combatant In court filings Friday, the Justice Department said it will no longer use the term to justify [...]

As every American in financial trouble knows, it’s never good when your creditors start asking questions. Well, today, the United State’s biggest creditor grumbled about our current spending. China’s premier didn’t say it in so many words, but the implied warning to Washington was blunt: Don’t devalue the dollar through reckless spending. Premier Wen Jiabao’s [...]

If you didn’t see it last night, well, here ya go… Part One Part Two Part Three That very last part about Stewart’s mother…wow. I think we all know somebody like that and it’s why we’re so furious when we consider how jokers like Cramer were asleep at the wheel at best or, at worst, [...]

Over at The Atlantic, Megan McArdle supported Barack Obama’s candidacy because of his economic team. Now, she worries that support may have been misplaced. Namely, she thinks Obama’s budget numbers are insane (her words) and the stimulus package was far too ideological. The budget numbers are just one more blow to the credibility he worked [...]

One of my favorite comedians is on his way overseas to entertain our brave men and women and he’s posting a lot of pictures and commentary detailing the whole thing. Here’s the first entry… Last December (2008) I went to Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan as part of the Seargent Major Tour for the USO. I [...]

Do you know which one? Tyler Cowen does.

9,000 more jobless applications were added to the total, which had been revised upwards to 645,000. More numbers from Bloomberg: The number of people staying on benefit rolls rose in the previous week by 193,000 to a record 5.317 million. Employers ranging from United Technologies Corp. to AMR Corp., which owns American Airlines, have announced [...]

It makes sense that Michigan is getting hit the hardest, but check out which states are doing just fine… Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas, Montana, Oklahoma, Utah and Louisiana are all under 6% and some of them are under 4%. That doesn’t bode well for getting much support from Republicans or moderate [...]

We all know Cramer has a big mouth, but back in 2006 he gets dangerously close to admitting that he has engaged in “fomenting” the market, which he calls “blatantly illegal.” First, most of the quote: You can’t foment. That’s a violation. [...] You can’t create an impression yourself that a stock’s down, but you [...]

There are of course many folks who think President Barack Obama is trying to do too much too soon. Republicans, looking for every chance to assert their differences, have hammered on the president in recent days for not focusing his attention solely on the economy. However, having run a campaign featuring the word hope and [...]

While President Obama has often criticized his predecessor’s frequent use of signing statements meant to alter the effect of new laws, our new president didn’t take long to issue a signing statement of his own, tacking one onto the spending bill he signed today. [In the signing statement,] he objected to provisions of the bill [...]

For those who thought that Kristol wouldn’t be replaced with a true conservative, well, that would mean that you thought Kristol was a true conservative in the first place. But I digress… This is a MASSIVE win for Douthat and a fantastic win for conservatives too. Because now they don’t have to worry about Kristol [...]

You want some additional insight into what’s going on? Watch… Does anybody think this guy doesn’t know his stuff? Seems to be pretty dead-on to me, especially when you take him out of the 30 second sound byte culture. Thoughts?