See Boehner’s false statement at about 2:30
On Fox News Sunday, GOP House Leader John Boehner of Ohio made an assertion about the status of stimulus spending in Ohio that he had to have known was false:
BOEHNER: “In Ohio, the infrastructure dollars that were sent there months ago, there hasn‘t been a contract let, to my [...]

Duck!
Does this woman just stay up at night, cooking up new and better ways to burn bridges and insult people? La Llorona (the crying woman) herself is at it again. Sarah Palin shared this delightful little swipe in a speech at the recent Anchorage Lincoln Day Dinner, as she once again revisited her losing campaign [...]

It’s hard to know what to think about Jamie Foxx. First he releases the song, “Blame It” which seems a cautionary tale to women about the effects of alcohol, an unusual subject for hip hop. The video, of course, is mostly getting press not for its content but for the star-studded and in some cases [...]

Joe “Smiley” Bearden, one of two men accused of killing Ryan Skipper, a gay student, was found guilty of second degree murder today in a courtroom in Bartow, Florida. After deliberating for two days, the jury also found him guilty of grand theft of an automobille, tampering with evidence, receiving stolen property and accessory to [...]

Arnold Schwarzenegger smoking pot
This video from the 1970s is appropriate now because a bill has been introduced in the California Legislature to legalize the state’s $14 billion marijuana industry. The taxes on the pot could add as much as $1 billion per year in tax revenue, which would be helpful now because the state is [...]

Layoffs are causing as many as 14,000 people to lose their health insurance every day, according to projections by the Center for American Progress and based on Urban Institute research:
Private companies — the health plans — have had at least since 1993 when they killed Hillarycare to come up with a solution. It’s [...]

TruTV’s live coverage of the Ryan Skipper murder trial yesterday in Bartow, Fla., was interrupted yesterday by coverage of another case, which is unfortunate because a potentially significant new allegation was revealed in testimony given while the cameras were dark.
According to witness John Kirchoff — who was part of a cadre of meth addicts [...]

TruTV legal analysts covering the trial in Bartow, Fla., of one of the men accused of killing Ryan Skipper spent considerable air time yesterday speculating about the prosecution’s decision to remove the hate-crime charge against the defendant, Joseph Bearden.
The anti-gay bigotry came to light from the first minute the story of Ryan’s murder broke, [...]

Witness testimony began yesterday in the trial of Joseph Bearden, one of the two men accused of the cold-blooding killing of Ryan Skipper, an openly gay man, in Florida in March 2007. The trial of William Brown, the other accused killer, has not yet been scheduled. Both men face the death penalty if convicted.
Joe Bearden [...]