From Brian Beutler’s report on what appears to be happening within the Deficit Commission which will report back after the election …
Though most of the commission’s work occurs behind closed doors in small working groups, early reports indicate that the GOP’s unwillingness to support any significant tax increases are pushing the group toward proposed entitlement slashes and larger budget cuts.
More here.
Church carnival organizers decide shooting game with President Obama as “alien” target not such a hot idea after all.
Trustees find that Health Care Reform law extends the life of Medicare for 12 years.
Sociologists have carefully analyzed the impact of yesterday’s ruling that Prop 8 is unconstitutional, and the results are, well, pretty alarming: Read More
This is more comic than anything else. But someone just forwarded me an article by the Muslim-bashing blowhard and far-right crank Aaron Klein (truly a shonda for the Jews) who has a new piece up in World Net Daily milking the ‘Journolist’ story into Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon-like levels of parody.
Now we learn that John Judis (who happens to a be friend of mine, almost a mentor, if he’d be willing to think of me that way) was on Journolist. And though long associated with the radical “New Republic,” about thirty years ago he wrote for In These Times. And William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn are currently on the board of In These Times. And they were part of the Weather Underground that blew stuff up in the early 1970s. So it’s a pretty slam dunk case that Journolist was basically a terrorist planning listserve or a cabal developing strategies for hacking Breitbart.com.
Also, members of Journolist were tied to groups supporting Net Neutrality. Others were tied to the centrist apparently hard-left radical New America Foundation, the DC think tank which gets most of its funding from major corporations (not that there’s anything wrong with that) and has Google CEO Eric Schmidt as its Chairman of the Board.
Next thing New America will be trying to build near and desecrate Ground Zero.
Where do the Democrats stand on the so-called Ground Zero Mosque that isn’t a mosque and isn’t at Ground Zero?
The DOJ just unsealed 14 indictments relating to individuals in the US providing material support to a terrorist group. In this case, al Shahab, the al Qaida-linked group in Somalia.
The Doctrine of Nullification was first significantly aired during the Nullification Crisis of 1832-33 and then (or so it was thought) finally settled by the Civil War (or, as some call it, the War Between Lincoln’s Tyranny and the Freedom-Loving South). But Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) says he’s not yet ready to say whether or not he thinks Virginia can nullify federal laws within its jurisdiction.