Federal judges are required by law to disqualify themselves when their "impartiality might be reasonably questioned." This applies to the Supremes, too, but Diana Ross has greater standing to decide the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act than the compromised Clarence Thomas.

His wife Virginia has been a public Obama...

On Tuesday night's O'Reilly Factor, the Fox News host again showed his carnival barker's chutzpah.

Bill O'Reilly, leading off his "talking points" segment with a call for the absolute ouster of Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, insisted it's the only viable outcome because, after all, the guy "killed...

An 18-day peaceful revolution has just toppled Egypt's 30-year Mubarak dictatorship. As the free-falling government dispatched American-made F-16s to roar over Cairo as an act of intimidation, a coalition of average citizens (most of them under age 30) led the charge toward democracy. An uncertain but hopeful future awaits.
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During the 2010 midterm elections, Republican senate nominee Sharron Angle of Nevada said that "if this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking toward those Second Amendment remedies."

Lest her reference be too subtle for dummies, she immediately added, "I'll tell you the...

The Tom DeLay money laundering trial is coming to a close in Austin, Texas. Comeuppance is nigh.

To recap: The Lone Star State bans corporate contributions to candidates. In 2002, DeLay's political action committee, Texans For A Republican...

On Tuesday, September 7, HBO airs the documentary My Trip to Al-Qaeda by Alex Gibney and Lawrence Wright. It should not be missed.

Wright's most recent book, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, won the '07 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction....

Fox News founder Rupert Murdoch and network honcho Roger Ailes have a decision to make about an employee.

Glenn Beck's the name; tearful televangelism's the game, and his latest on-the-road routine is straight out of Pat Robertson's The 700...

UPDATE added below: Stossel responds.

All journalists make mistakes. After all, it's a human enterprise. Then there's John Stossel, now of Fox News.

He doesn't merely commit the occasional error, he combines tall tales and worthless stats...

Erykah Badu has posted a provocative new video to accompany the song "Window Seat." Currently #28 on Billboard's R&B/hip-hop chart, it appears on her latest album New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh.

In the video, Badu walks around Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas,...

Anyone who has ever questioned whether or not the Supreme Court is a politically-charged body can wonder no more. It is.

Chief Justice John Roberts, a George W. Bush appointee, spoke Tuesday at the University of Alabama. Commenting on President Obama's recent State of the Union remarks...

Anyone familiar with the 1974 line "The revolution will not be televised," or the many subsequent uses of that ubiquitous cultural marker, is familiar with Gil Scott-Heron, whether they know it or not.

His politically inspired spoken word soul music had its heyday in the '70s and '80s ("What's the...

Two weeks ago, I wrote that the top Republican candidates for governor of Texas actually lost their nationally televised C-SPAN2 primary debate to a tea party upstart named Debra Medina. She was cool, calm, collected (and, of course, nuts).

Guess what? It happened again Friday...

One of the nation's more closely watched races in 2010, the March Republican primary for Governor of Texas, pits a sitting U.S. senator, Kay Bailey Hutchison, against a sitting governor, Rick Perry.

Judging by their first encounter Thursday night, broadcast statewide on PBS and nationally on...

Some in the rightwing blogosphere, who can't stand Garrison Keillor for his liberal politics, are taking shots at him for his recent pro-Christmas piece at Salon.com, syndicated in various newspapers around the country.

What seems to offend is a brief and benign swipe at Jewish songwriters who...

UPDATE (Dec 4): A Dallas Morning News employee, depressed at the prospect of news editors now answering to the paper's ad sales people, files the following anonymous newsroom dispatch with the blog of the monthly D Magazine (not affiliated with the paper):

Everybody is disgruntled, to put it mildly,...

In the 1980's, billionaire conservative gadfly Ross Perot received the prestigious Winston Churchill Award at a lavish Dallas dinner. Prince Charles himself came across the pond for the event, and local high society, Republican to a fault, rushed around town in the two weeks beforehand booking lessons on how to...

The ongoing saga of the Iraqi oil patch pie adds a new chapter, courtesy of the Thursday New York Times, and its above-the-fold front pager, "American Adviser to Kurds Stands to Reap Oil Profits."

In today's installment, we learn that Peter Galbraith, former ambassador, foreign policy...

Americans take it on faith that movie stars are politically liberal. Whether the celebrity lives in L.A. or New York, from Streisand to Sarandon, we know how they see the world because they're honest about it.

Some don't think liberal actors should espouse personal views. The performer should shut up...

Everyone on the Right says President Obama hasn't earned the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. It's as if they have set themselves up as its sole arbiters.

Some on the Left even echo this sentiment. Jesse Berney, writing on Huffington Post, states that the prize "should...

You know we're in trouble when a major political party openly roots for its country to lose.

Republican congressional leaders denounced President Obama's brief jaunt to Copenhagen (24 hours total) to press the case that the good 'ol USA should host the 2016 Summer Olympics in Chicago....