MSNBC is reporting that shots may have been fired in or near the Rayburn Office Building at the U.S. Capitol. The entire Capitol is in lockdown now.

Much ado about not much: Republicons in Congress are crowing today about the “massive” give-back of $13 billion in federal taxes on mobile phone calls announced yesterday. But it adds up to less than it appears, and it appears to be just another election-year gimmick intended to make conservatives seem compassionate.
CongressDaily reported that Treasury [...]

Murry Waas:
On September 29, 2003, three days after it became known that the CIA had asked the Justice Department to investigate who leaked the name of covert CIA officer Valerie Plame, columnist Robert Novak telephoned White House senior adviser Karl Rove to assure Rove that he would protect him from being harmed by the investigation, [...]

ALSO ADMITS THAT OTHERS MADE MISTAKES IN ABU GRAHIB PRISON SCANDAL

After Bush’s Admissions, Tweety Immediately Confers Sainthood on Dear Leader Once Again
“I think the biggest mistake that’s happened so far, at least from our country’s involvement in Iraq is Abu Ghraib.” – President Bush
I watched a bit of Chris Matthews’ coverage on MSNBC yesterday of [...]

Yesterday a jury convicted former Enron executives Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling on all counts related to fraud and dirty dealing in the collapse of Enron corporation, the giant energy corporation that was headquartered in Houston.
Bush personally joined the fight against imposing caps on the soaring price of electricity in California at a time when [...]

From “The Devil’s Dictionary” —
UN-AMERICAN, adj. Wicked, intolerable, heathenish.
— Ambrose Bierce (1842- disappeared in Mexico 1914), American writer

Columnist Rick Casey tells us why we should note the passing of Lloyd Bentsen.
If nothing else, thinking of Bentsen reminds us what it was like before lockstep partisanship turned Republicans into yammering clones led by cynical, greedy louts.
I didn’t serve with Lloyd Bentsen. I didn’t know Lloyd Bentsen. Lloyd Bentsen was not a friend of [...]

All great religions, in order to escape absurdity, have to admit a dilution of agnosticism. It is only the savage, whether of the African bush or the American gospel tent, who pretends to know the will and intent of God exactly and completely.

— H.L. Mencken (1880-1956), American editor, critic

Too little, too late: Man, Zacarias Moussaoui must be pissed. A tape purported to be a recording of Osama bin Laden has surfaced on which a disembodied voice identified as bin Laden says Moussaoui had nothing to do with the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Unfortunately, that info comes just weeks after Zack dodged the death penalty [...]

It is looking very likely that Sen. Rick Santorum, the third-ranking Republican leader in the Senate, whose comments equating gay relationships to bestality will (we hope) follow him to his grave, will be moving to K Street next year.