Last night on Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Chris Hayes – the Washington editor of The Nation magazine – scored a great point about the hypocrisy of James O’Keefe’s trespass in Senator Mary Landrieu’s New Orleans office. Still haven’t heard of O’Keefe? He made the pimp and ho films in ACORN offices last year that led [...]

The latest buzz is deficit reduction, and the new black in politics is the Conrad-Gregg Commission. I’m not going to spend any space arguing about public vs. private spending during down-cycles in the economy, or asserting the ineffectiveness of supply-side economics. Instead, I would rather talk about the mechanics of this commission (known formally as [...]

I’m not one for name calling, but if the shoe fits… We had three wonderful nominees this week, so I’ll just lay them out in order. First is Rush Limbaugh – the shock jock from my home state of Missouri (that’s right, born and bred in the Bootheel) – who commented about America’s response to [...]