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Sitting in For Rachel: Thank you for all of your great suggestions for last night's Rachel Maddow show. If you missed it, click here to watch my interviews with Bill Maher, Eric Schmidt, Nate Silver, Cory Booker, and Lawrence O'Donnell. And here is a collection of behind-the-scenes video we shot at the show.
On the very day that we raised our voices for change and voted to move away from the failed energy philosophy of "drill, baby, drill," the Bush administration dragged us in the opposite direction.
There are many annoying aspects of the noise machine that is blaring that arrogant and cacophonous yet familiar mantra: "Clinton is inevitable." We heard it for all of 2007, and we're hearing it all over again.
Sen. Reid's new bailout bill for the Detroit Three does not set additional fuel-economy requirements, nor does it establish a government oversight board. That's two strikes against getting our money's worth.
Surprise, surprise, the party of ideological purity that wouldn't yield on anything in the last eight years has had a deathbed conversion about bipartisan government.
The incoming administration should take care to not alienate the institutions and employees who work earnestly (though not necessarily under the best leadership) to protect America.
Anyone who thinks we don't need a more transparent election process here in Alaska because their candidate is in the lead is a pathetic partisan hack.
Democrats who worry that Obama is selling out to the opposition may have it backwards. His ingenious approach could end up marginalizing the GOP for decades.
An item appeared on a New York Times blog that makes me understand why Mr. Cuban seems to be throwing caution to the wind and making an accusation of federal misconduct.
It is clear to me that Obama in his infinite Mickey wisdom will not exact revenge against his enemies. I'm the quacking Donald who wants to see Lieberman drawn and quartered and McCain chained to a tape recorder.
The never-ending Republican War on Voting continues apace, with new smears against Democrats and Senate candidate Al Franken for alleged voter fraud in the razor-thin race against Norm Coleman.
The management of GM doesn't deserve to be bailed out, and it's not clear to me that a bailout would work -- certainly not as long as the company continues its "change as slowly as possible" pace.
Why get involved with the Clintons when there are much better choices to be considered? Shouldn't the new president-elect be forming his own team of Obama loyalists?
Next week, we all finally get to hear Chinese Democracy. You know the new Guns N' Roses CD. But I want to know why anyone cares.
This past weekend's summit of world leaders in Washington represents another step in the painful process of fixing today's financial crisis.
Diplomacy is as important for keeping Iraq stable as it is for making sure that US troops are not targets of attacks by insurgents, or caught in the crossfire of an explosion of sectarian violence, as we begin to pull back.
We heard very little during the campaign about what has succeeded at enabling hardworking families with average or below-average incomes to afford a home.
Barack Obama's Hyde Park home is destined to become a national landmark. When I lived there between 1969 and 1973 the mansion was a hub of social activism.
It's so easy to be cynical about the state of education in the U.S. that to meet five smart, winsome teenagers who say things like "We are One" is nothing short of Obama-worthy inspiration.
