Though we have heard of foolishly rushing to war, we have never seen cleverness in war associated with long delays...Delay tends to favor misfortune over good fortune. As long as affected parties have at least adequately prepared for the moment at hand, delay risks an...

Republican senators are somehow surprised by negative publicity over their vote endorsing Halliburton's alleged gang rape cover-up. Both of my senators have attempted damage control. In response to my email, Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) sent me a letter that is a scandal in its own right.

Thank you...

The strange nexus of right-wing Christian identity politics and beauty pageants has produced Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, and Carrie Prejean. What is it about their world that turns toxic and causes flaky behavior?

For those who missed it, here is Miss California's meltdown on Larry King Live the...

We've seen this pattern before. A non-sourced, anonymous story enters the right-wing blogosphere and gets picked up by mainstream media, allowing the right to stovepipe their insanity. This one began with a post at the Chicago Tribune Swamp page:

One Democratic strategist said that shortly...

When the public option rose from the dead last week, the Beltway Village media reacted with surprise. The public option hadn't been included in the Senate Finance Committee's bill, so pundits and politicians had stopped taking it seriously. After Olympia Snowe declared her opposition to a bill including...

When CNN's Campbell Brown played the MSNBC card against Valerie Jarrett, she was engaging in the fallacy of false equivalence. Faux Noise is all slant, all the time, while MSNBC is absolutely not a liberal mirror-image. The slant is not equal, nor do the two channels offset like penalties...

Back in June, Paul Krugman said that “at this point, whatever dividing line there was between mainstream conservatism and the black helicopter crowd seems to have been virtually erased.” Upon reading that, my immediate reaction was: there was a dividing line?

Bush was elected by eight years...

Democracy Corps did a series of focus-groups with movement conservatives in Georgia and found them happily living in their own special reality. "Democrats may joke that Republicans seem to live on a different planet sometimes," their report says, "but in some important ways, these Republicans would happily agree."...

Poor Rush Limbaugh. His dream of one day owning and trading Negro men has been shattered by the liberal media, which keeps making up lies about him. Lies, I tell you! The wingnutosphere insists: Rush has never, ever made a racist comment! Ever!

Except for this one....

The FBI arrested Elliot Madison in Pittsburgh on September 24th during the G-20 protests. Madison was part of The Tin Can Project, an anarchist group using Twitter and SMS text message technology to disseminate information. He was charged with hindering apprehension or prosecution, criminal use of a communication...

Article III of the Constitution defines treason against the United States in three ways: levying war against the country, adhering to the country's enemies, or giving aid or comfort to enemies. The punishment for treason is death, but the article requires a high burden of proof. It is the only...

There is a limitless supply of videos chronicling the August teabaggery, but this is the one I found most interesting: a woman declaring that "Obama is not God." It perfectly encapsulates the mind of the American right:

If I determine the enemy's disposition of forces while I have no perceptible form, I can concentrate my forces while the enemy is fragmented. The pinnacle of military deployment approaches the formless: if it is formless, then even the deepest spy cannot discern it nor the wise make plans against...

In a 2003 New York Times essay, novelist William Gibson -- who coined the term "cyberspace" -- remarked on the omnipresent surveillance cameras in England. Seeing them as more than just Orwellian control, Gibson called them a symptom of lost privacy for corporations and governments as well as...

Only in America can you spend $8500 on health insurance and get stuck with a $1700 bill for your child's trip to the Emergency Room.

Jackson is a rambunctious, brainy seven year old who likes fossils and Greek mythology. In August, he was sitting in a chair...

The wingnutosphere has been on fire over Patrick Courrielche's allegations of politicization at the National Endowment for the Arts. But make no mistake: this nontroversy is not about art. The targets here are those much-dreaded, un-American practices of community organizing and volunteerism.

Courrielche posts on BigHollywood.com, a website best known for...

Attempting bipartisan outreach, the president said last night he would consider tort reform as part of a general health care overhaul. Pledging to initiate pilot programs aimed at reducing "defensive medicine," Obama added the caveat: "I don't believe malpractice reform is a silver bullet." I would go further: tort reform...

Remember Glenn Beck's mysteeerious video of Obama's Secret Negro Army?™ It's pretty much the foundation of his entire conspiracy theory on the impending takeover of the country by armed Obama thugs, and serves today as the linchpin of the "Obama indoctrination" nontroversy. If you haven't...

Republicans talk about H.R. 3200 as if it were a marauding army of zombies.

They say health care reform will eat your grandma and your babies.

It will eat Republicans.

It will eat your flesh, starting with your penis.

Shrill, ugly,...