Impeached Gov. Blagojevich, on the first leg of his media blitz timed to the start of his impeachment trial, in an NBC interview broadcast on The Today Show Sunday compared himself to human rights heros Nelson Mandela, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi. That’s some pretty crappy writing, but the story’s wonderful, especially because he seems to confuse himself with the Obamessiah. The art of analogy has fallen

Or are you just Chris Matthews? Printed in a size that easily fits into pocket or purse, this book is an anthology of quotations borrowed from Barack Obama’s speeches and writings. POCKET OBAMA serves as a reminder of the amazing power of oratory and the remarkable ability of this man to move people with his words. His superb and captivating oratory style has earned comparisons to John F. Kennedy and

Via Insty: UT probe: another Booth wanted to kill a president Dismissed for 175 years as a fake, a letter threatening the assassination of President Andrew Jackson has been found to be authentic. And, says the director of the Andrew Jackson Papers Project at the University of Tennessee, the writer was none other than Junius Brutus Booth, father of Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth. Dan Feller and his staff solved

The success stories just keep piling up; it’s two guys, not just one. It’s nice to know that they haven’t been stigmatized by their time behind bars in the Amerikkkan Gulag, and that in this time of rising unemployment they’ve found meaningful work. Two men released from the US “war on terror” prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba have appeared in a video posted on a jihadist website, the SITE monitoring