Upset Feds, locals, tourists.

Strikingly, but predictably, NRS does not denote lack of fact checking, stonewalling, or feckless after-the-fact lying about the reasons for having published lies. Instead, it encompasses a failure to be “liberal” enough: The number one problem facing the Democratic Party is that, as events of the last week demonstrate, it continues to be plagued by The New Republic Syndrome, one of the most fatal political afflictions that exist. In 2002

The PresidentialWatch08 map is composed of the 297 most visible and influential websites and blogs – out of a complete dataset of over 2000 sites – using Linkfluence’s proprietary crawl technology. As Ethan Zuckerman writes: “The idea here is to look at linking between political blogs in only a political context, discarding other links that are outside of context.” Protein Wisdom: Visible. Influential. Near the center of the political blogosphere. Who’da

Apparently, someone at Instaputz was bent about my paean to Carlin, and posted this: Somewhere Out There Is An Ex-Girlfriend Who Needs To Be Publicly … 5 hours ago by TS   Yes indeed, Dan Collins’ post on the late George Carlin is stupid as one might expect. But let’s give DC the benefit of the doubt: maybe the second half of the sentence — “because I’m a fucking idiot”

Date set for Odysseus’ return from Trojan War No blood for pussy! Breaking: Obama part Irish! We’ve finally broken through in Chicago!

James Hansen, who heads NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, tells the Guardian that heads must roll: James Hansen, one of the world’s leading climate scientists, will today call for the chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature, accusing them of actively spreading doubt about global warming in the same way that tobacco companies blurred the links between

At the New York Times, Brian Stelter reports on on the Incredible Shrinking Coverage of the US mission in Iraq: According to data compiled by Andrew Tyndall, a television consultant who monitors the three network evening newscasts, coverage of Iraq has been “massively scaled back this year.” Almost halfway into 2008, the three newscasts have shown 181 weekday minutes of Iraq coverage, compared with 1,157 minutes for all of 2007.

The Hartford Courant takes Sen. Chris Dodd — and his wife — to task for taking a VIP “Friends of Angelo” deal from Countrywide to refinance their East Haddam and Washington, DC, homes: Sen. Dodd and his wife will save thousands of dollars over the 30-year life of the loans because of Countryside’s perks. Even still, we find it hard to believe the senator would have sold his constituency (or his

I don’t get it.

Today’s New York Times carries a piece from Larry Rohter on Barack Obama’s many ties to the domestic ethanol racket, starting with campaign trips with former Sen. Tom Daschle: Mr. Daschle now serves on the boards of three ethanol companies and works at a Washington law firm where, according to his online job description, “he spends a substantial amount of time providing strategic and policy advice to clients in renewable