House votes down bill to raise debt ceiling with no strings attached.
Benjy Sarlin explains how it came to this here.
If you know anything about Prince Philip’s background and history, I’m really curious to know what he’s thinking in this picture.
The Pentagon is poised to declare that it will treat cyber-attacks on US critical infrastructure as “acts of war.”
Palin bus tour to stop in New York for summit with The Donald.
One of the sleeper stories coming out of the 2010 election was that Republicans had elected Republican governors in several critical swing states across the country. Now though those governors — particularly those in Ohio and Florida — have become extremely unpopular. And that’s buoying President Obama’s reelection chances for next year.
The World Health Organization now says that cell phones may increase the risk of brain cancer.
Disgraced non-gay former telepastor Ted Haggard is slotted to make a cameo appearance as himself in a new Christian sex comedy promoting abstinence.
I guess if it’s a sex comedy with a pro-abstinence message it’s pretty much automatically comedy.
Politically-devised symbolic votes are usually just partisan garbage. The party in power in either chamber devises a vote not for the purpose of legislating but to put the minority party in a bind. Sometimes though, it’s a totally fair shot. And the minority party gets called out for a genuinely egregious hypocrisy. That’s what the Republicans are doing to the Democrats today.
The Republican strategy this summer will be to use what amounts to extortion to force massive and not particularly popular spending cuts on the White House — by refusing to allow the country to keep paying its collective mortgage unless the White House caves on various draconian spending cuts. The consequences of that defaulting — i.e., the USA for the first time in its history defaulting on its debt — are catastrophic. Read More
Did you know that Fox News chief Roger Ailes has a specially bomb resistant office to protect him from al Qaeda and the gays?
Sarah Palin was just a sidecar to the big annual Memorial Day weekend motorcycle ride on Washington held by the group Rolling Thunder.
Dedicated to the “full accountability for Prisoners Of War (POW) and Missing In Action (MIA) of all wars,” Rolling Thunder was formed in the late ’80s during the peak of the Vietnam POW/MIA myth-making. Pics from this year’s gathering:
