I would like an answer to my question. How can someone be so determined to knock everyone else off the stage that he would spend nearly a billion dollars to do it, and when his waffling and doubling dealing in office don’t yield the desired result, blame President Bush and everyone else under the [...]

I wasn’t alive when America witnessed the assassination of John F Kennedy, and was a mere toddler when Bobby Kennedy was killed. I was just three when Chappaquiddick happened. I grew up in the generation of John John, and sadly we experienced our own Kennedy tragedy. The entire Kennedy clan seems to be touched by [...]

(bumped up from this morning)
As a liberal from way back, I must say, if anyone on the left allows themselves to be represented in thought or deed by the likes of Keith Olbermann and Village Voice’s Michael Musto, they really need to rethink their life choices. Jay Leno has also earned himself a spot [...]

We have been exposed to an education lately on International Law and the Rule of Law. Everyone has been following the torture memos and some of us have a quaint understanding of how the U.S. signing the treaty at the Geneva Convention forcibly influenced laws that we were required, by the treaty, to add [...]

Your op-ed in the LA Times on Friday, The GOP: divorced from reality, was really something to behold – a compendium of all the worst smears you could find, carelessly banding all those who oppose President Obama’s reckless actions on the economy into one group. I have never been a member of the GOP [...]

If a foreign enemy had done to this country what this industry has done to West Virginia, it would be regarded as an act of war.” – Robert Kennedy, Jr.

“If the American people could see what I have seen from the air and ground during my many trips to the coalfields of Kentucky and [...]

Yes indeedy people.  Our great leader, his Oliness The Foist, will be on the Tonight Show this Thursday, March 19, 2009.  The first sitting President of the United States of America to appear on an evening comedy show.

Thursday, March 19 President Barack Obama will be making his first sit-down talk show appearance since becoming elected.

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I worked in the mortgage business on Wall Street for 23 years. During that time period I had the good fortune of developing relationships with some of the finest minds in this sector. While I do not know Laurie Goodman personally, I can tell you that there is no one individual in the market [...]

Up to Date with the Truthby: Cheeto McTroll
Dateline Afghanistan – The war continues on two fronts today.  American troops under the command of General Emanuel, have reached the outskirts of the Taliban stronghold of Kabul.  You might remember that the 16th army reached this same point back in 2025 only to be repelled by the [...]

Stay tuned for LD’s Central Station — which is turning into a weekly Saturday morning LIVE chat that is NOT to be missed! — starting at 9:00 a.m. to Noon where you can ask the master himself, LD (!), as we navigate the economic landscape. LD is a Wall Street veteran who welcomes sharing his [...]

Editor’s Note: Don’t miss Larry Doyle’s radio show tonight at 8 p.m. ET, “No Quarter’s Dollars and Sense with LD.”
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The American populace knows that the primary architects in the formulation of the Stimulus Plan working its way through Congress are Rahm Emanuel, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid. This contingent, along with President Obama, have not [...]

We are only sixteen days into the age of the new messiah and his angel wings are in danger of falling off.
Consider, for example, that The One promised a new way of doing business in Washington but is responsible for managing the vetting of prospective nominees that green-lights not one but three tax [...]

(Steve Clemons’ blog is The Washington Note; he was a finalist for “The Best Very Large Blog” in the 2008 Weblog Awards. Steve Clemons serves as Senior Fellow & Director, American Strategy Program, New America Foundation and, in his spare time, as Director of the Japan Policy Research Institute.)
OF NOTE: Steve operates his blog [...]

FYI: The Afalfa dinner is “an annual black-tie event where the capital’s political and business leaders give humorous speeches.”
WORST JOKE TOLD (by Sen. Joe Lieberman): “Lieberman, who also spoke, ‘noted that former vice president Richard B. Cheney injured himself while moving into his new home, according to a source inside the dinner. “I had [...]

Can’t President Obama take one day off from this bipartisan baloney (which isn’t ever going to really happen anyway, unless Obama has started believing his own hopey-changey prattle)?
You live at the most prestigious and powerful address in the world. You can invite whoever you want, and they’re nearly sure to come. So, out [...]