April 2012 Archives

Updated for WP link:Thomas E. Mann is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Norman J. Ornstein is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. This essay is adapted from their book "It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism," which will be available Tuesday....

Sometimes, the politics are just too much.I know who to hang with from the 13-y-o crowd!:Just for fun:And then there was another one:Peace out, and have a great weekend!...

President Obama's re-election campaign released this ad highlighting Obama's decision to get Osama bin Laden:John McCain blew a gasket:"Shame on Barack Obama for diminishing the memory of September 11th and the killing of Osama bin Laden by turning it into a cheap political attack ad...This is the same President who said, after bin Laden was dead, that we shouldn't 'spike the ball' after the touchdown. And now Barack Obama is not only trying to score...

There's an old expression that talks about finding out how the sausage is made. The general idea is that people are usually fine with the outcome, but when they take a look at the process that goes into creating the outcome, they suddenly lose their appetite. Sausage seems to be number one on that lists of products that people don't want to watch being made. Government might soon replace sausage on that lists.A political history...

It would be funny if it weren't true. Via Newshoggers:...

Tonight, I went to a nice bar/restaurant to get out for a decent meal, a glass of wine, and some great people watching.  Little did I know that the whole evening would be cut short by an over-bearing neanderthal who watches waaaay to much Fox News.  It's happened to me before.  The weird thing is, it always comes out of the blue, and I'm always shocked.  I'm not sure why I'm shocked; I guess I...

MUST WATCH:  Last night, President Obama was on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and slow jammed the news about student loan interest rates:...

Here's a video of the interview I did with Rachel on the second anniversary of the blowout of BP's Macondo Well:...

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/04/24/151284311/first-criminals-charges-in-bp-oil-spill-filed-against-a-bp-engineer...

Pope Benedict the whatever has just reprimanded American nuns for helping the poor too much and not gay bashing enough.  Posted without further comment, because we are speechless....