Mercury Rising

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Long after the original Evil Hippie Spitter legends were debunked , the NYT -- in the person of reporter Ian Urbina -- is going out of its ...

From the House Judiciary Committee web site Wednesday 01/31/2007 - 10:15 AM Room 2141 Rayburn House Office Building Full Committee House ...

(Update: With apologies to MEC, who spotted this first and is therefore entitled to give me a dope slap) Via Avedon's Sideshow the AFT...

George W. Bush and his enablers: "We're fighting the war over there so we don't have to fight it here." Susan Sarandon,...

On Fox Noise, as Keith Olbermann calls it, Sean Hannity is going to show the scenes that were deleted from The Path to 9/11 because they ...

A huge antiwar is taking place on the National Mall right now. C-SPAN is covering it live. MSNBC is reporting on it, though not covering...

So Mike "More Fundie Than Thou" Huckabee is officially announcing that he's running for President. Goody. Atrios wondered...

Bush denies preparing attack against Iran Everything Bush says is a lie. We're in big trouble.

May 22, 1999: "There ought to be limits to freedom." December 19, 2000: "If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of...

From DemocracyNow AMY GOODMAN : And the other connections, Jeremy Scahill, between Blackwater and the Bush administration and the Republic...

I'm watching C-SPAN right now, the beginning of a Senate hearing on the credit industry. The Banking committee members are making their...

Ian Williams wonders why all those people who are loudly raking Jimmy Carter over the coals for using the A-word (apartheid) in connection...

Ted Kennedy on Republican obstruction to raising the minimum wage : "We have now had amendments that have been worth over 200 billion ...

Lies and the lying liars The UN mission in Haiti says four people were killed when its peacekeepers expanded their presence in the Cite So...

You'd think that by now, the nutcase right would have finally got over Keith Ellison's having been seated as a member of Congress. ...

WP by way of Atrios : Memo to Tim Russert: Dick Cheney thinks he controls you. This delicious morsel about the "Meet the Press&quo...

Maria Bartiromo is one of the few personalities on CNBC with some brains and some talent. I have often admired how she manages to ask tough,...

"It's so simple. Most people who couldn’t afford health insurance also are too poor to owe taxes. But...if you give them a deducti...

Jack Welch -- the hardcore conservative Republican who was one of those who early on heeded William Simon's call for rich cons to take ...

This article by Stephen Lendman, on the nationalization of the right-wing Venezeulan TV station that helped orchestrate the attempted dict...

Testify, E.J.! In his reply to President Bush's State of the Union speech on Tuesday night, Webb defined the two central moral issu...

Gene Lyons : "Has the Iraq debacle taught this president anything at all?" No. This has been another edition of Simple Answers ...

Via JMM , this from M.R. Kropko of the Associated Press Two election workers were convicted Wednesday of rigging a recount of the 2004 pr...

"Didn't like that stick in the eye? Here, have another." Palast: There was that tongue again. When the President lies he&#...

Inside Higher Ed reports that a new study applies the standards for academic research to studies looking for bias in university professors...

Crooks and Liars has the video and transcript of Jim Webb's rebuttal to the State of the Union Address. Beginning to end, it's a p...

Minnesota's very own answer to Katherine Harris shows that when it comes to schoolgirl crushes on sons of Poppy, Cruella DeVil has not...

Wonder why the US Government is drowning in debt? It's because Bush cut the taxes for his rich buddies. Here's the proof, courtes...

My summary of the State of the Union address: "Every word [he] says is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'." Jim We...

From the Guardian today (via Atrios ): ``They're trying to set me up. They want me to be the sacrificial lamb,'' Wells said, re...

If a Christian ever needed proof that a fundamentally evil force is behind the Republican Party, s/he need look no further than the Unificat...

Via Ojitos in Mexico , a good radio program on Oaxaca by National Radio Project . If you want to understand the situation, this program from...

If she and/or her spokescritters keep reinforcing Republican bullcrap memes for their own political gain at the expense of the party and u...

XicanoPwr has been following a story in which Immigration has imprisoned a family. Here's how Texas Civil Rights Review describes it:...

Case Workers for Wounded Laid Off Defense Department officials have laid off most of their case workers who help severely injured service ...

Haiti under the UN According to residents of Cite Soleil, UN forces attacked their neighborhood in the early morning hours of Dec. 22, 200...