So, yes, people are “angry” at Wall Street. They are also “angry” at Octomom. I wonder if the depth and quality of those two rages differ–or is this all just a television show?…If you want to be angry about something, get pissed at a media culture that goes beserk about bonuses one week and forgets [...]

As Beltway insiders go, Chuck Todd has a well-deserved reputation for solid reporting, keen analysis and fairness. Because of this, NBC elevated him to the White House press corps, one of the media’s top posts, earlier this year.
“Why, given this new era of responsibility that you’re asking for, why haven’t you asked for something [...]

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger told the Los Angeles Times today that he is “not running for anything,” meaning he won’t run for Barbara Boxer’s U.S. Senate seat, next year.
Schwarzenegger has a nearly insurmountable problem in the state: He has no base among California voters.
The statement came just a few weeks after he fueled speculation [...]

Leaked documents detailing the formation of an anti-gay front group by the Mormon Church in Hawaii over a decade ago have prompted a call for an official investigation into the church’s relationship with the National Organization for Marriage, a group formed in 2007 to promote Proposition 8, the anti-gay marriage amendment, in California last year.
“The [...]

We all lived on polls before the presidential election, and some of us live on them the rest of the time too. But how accurate were the endless projections we hung on?
A Fordham University professor, Costas Panagopoulos, Ph.D., took a poll of the pollsters and ranked them by accuracy. Pew Research and Rasmussen, the [...]

From Pres. Obama’s interview on “60 Minutes” last Sunday:
“The whole premise of Guantanamo promoted by Vice President Cheney was that somehow the American system of justice was not up to the task of dealing with these terrorists.”- Pres. Obama
STEVE KROFT: A week ago Vice President Cheney said essentially that your willingness to shut down Guantanamo [...]

If like me you have a yard, and if like mine it crunches underfoot, then this site can help you decide whether it’s your imagination or you really should be sniffing the wind for wildfires.
Drought.gov offers a fascinating array of maps that tell you more than you want to know about the status and outlook [...]

The Republicans’ campaign to gin up outrage over AIG bonuses has at least two purposes, neither of which has anything to do with bonus caps. Their over-arching motive is to damage the Democrats at any cost. In the short term, however, Republicans are agitating about the bonuses to shift public attention from the fact that [...]

The Dittohead Caucus in the U.S. House — which includes every GOP representative — followed their dictates of their leader, Republican Party boss Rush Limbaugh, and voted overwhelmingly against a bill that would impose a heavy tax on bonuses received by executives at financial institutions that are on the dole from U.S. taxpayers.
Earlier this week, [...]

A lot of questions are being raised about this “public service announcement” (PSA) from Florida’s Republican Attorney General Bill McCollum.
For one thing, why did he skirt Florida’s procurement laws to hire his own 2006 campaign media consultant to produce the PSA and buy the media? The tab, so far, is $1.4 million.
McCollum is the [...]