Joan Walsh caught this tidbit, among others:

In a related tangent, I was stunned by Editor and Publisher's report that AP, the New York Times and other news organizations quoted liberally from Pittsburgh health club murderer George Sodini's diaries, but left out his racist diatribes against Obama. The diary in fact began the day after Obama was ( Read more... )

Salon has this handy source for refuting all of the idiotic claims of the Birther Movement (BM) impugning Barack Obama's eligibility to be President. It won't do any good, of course, since these morons, like all other conspiracy-buffs, simply ignore contervailing evidence and go on repeating the same long-disproven allegations over an over again ( Read more... )

Ed Brayton has this post discussing reactions and analyses of Sarah "Bible Spice" Palin's sudden and disorganized resignation as Governor of Alaska. (Her resignation speech is here. It's so badly written, so incoherent, and so transparently infantile and dishonest that I found it physically painful to read ( Read more... )

Here are two reader reactions to the Huffington Post article about Sarah Palin's ever-more-obvious idiocy that I thought worth passing on:

We now know thanks to fox news (how ironic is that??) the reason Palin is so anti-intellectual. She just does not understand what that word means. I have a special needs nephew. He is such a cutie who happens ( Read more... )

Now that the various factions of the Republican Party have started the long and painful process of blaming each other for their recent stunning nationwide defeat, their wall of secrecy and obfuscation is starting to crumble, and at least a little of what they've worked so hard to keep under wraps is now becoming visible. If this process continues ( Read more... )

From the Washington Post (free subscription may be required):

Al-Qaeda is watching the U.S. stock market's downward slide with something akin to jubilation, with its leaders hailing the financial crisis as a vindication of its strategy of crippling America's economy through endless, costly foreign wars against Islamist insurgents ( Read more... )

I totally forgot to add this bit about the head of McCain's transition team:

William Timmons, the Washington lobbyist who John McCain has named to head his presidential transition team, aided an influence effort on behalf of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to ease international sanctions against his regime.And why would a good conservative lobbyist ( Read more... )

Well, I guess McSame won't be mentioning Obama's connection with Ayers in tonight's debate -- because now we're finding McCain also has a connection with Ayers. He also has connections to anti-Castro terrorists too -- people who, unlike Ayers, have actually caused injury to other people.

Not only that, but McCain advisor Charlie Black is ( Read more... )

From Talking Points Memo:

It's easy to rile up a crowd by stoking anger and division. But that's not what we need right now in the United States. The times are too serious. The challenges are too great. The American people aren't looking for someone who can divide this country -- they're looking for someone who will lead it. We're in a serious ( Read more... )

Y'know, I'm bored with talking about Barack Obama's allegedly anti-American chums. There's just not that much to talk about, as many Republicans discovered earlier this year (and now seem determined to forget). So I think I'll just turn the page on all that and talk about Sarah Palin's anti-American chums instead...

From this Salon article:

Oct ( Read more... )