Month: January 2012

Oh, good. Dan Burton is retiring. Now he can dedicate more time to shooting watermelons in his backyard. I had forgotten about his proposal to build a transparent bullet-proof shield around the House chamber. I guess he took a...

You might not be seeing a lot of evidence of this yet, but there’s a very strong likelihood that, as the year progresses, mainstream political journalists will settle on what Bob Somerby famously called “a story they...

. A Civics lesson. LOL Stephen Colbert’s Super PAC Hauls in More Than $1 Million (ABC News) – The Stephen Colbert super PAC is run by a comedian, but the political action committee’s bank account is no joke,...

Steve M. is worried that Gingrich’s extreme clownishness is not so much damaging Romney as it is making him look reasonable and presidential by comparison. There’s something to that. Before I talk about that, though,...

Sen. Richard Burr has a lot of nerve. He was one of only two senators to vote today against a bill that prohibits members of Congress and their staffers from making stock trades based on insider information. Back during the...