Jeffrey Toobin, on Justice John Paul Stevens and what the Court will look like without him.
Seinfeld on SNL: I have a feeling “Massa massages” were followed by “Massa-bations.” Watch.
They say the brave man dies only once, the coward a thousand times. Then there’s the Public Option, which seems to have lived and died probably nine or ten times over the last year. Brian Beutler looks at what’s behind its latest and probably final (in this legislative cycle) demise.
Meet the new mystery roiling the Tea Party movement ™ and the more gonzo-ish right wing blogs: is Harry Reid’s Tea Party challenger really a liberal front? Our Christina Bellantoni takes a look.
Former FCC Chair Reed Hundt brings us up to speed on the FCC’s new national broadband plan and why we should see it and support it as a jobs plan.
A reader takes a second look at Scott Brown’s victory in the Bay State …
The election of Scott Brown in Massachusetts was widely viewed as early evidence of a surge of voter dissatisfaction that would eventually swamp Democrats in November. But with the benefit of a couple months of perspective, it looks more like the wave crested with Brown’s election. Ironically, it may be the Democratic defeat in the Bay State that saves the party’s prospects in the fall.
SNL Weekend Update Special Guest Jerry Seinfeld advises Eric Massa against trademarking his harassment methods. See the video.
At a rally over the weekend Rep. Michele Bachmann told the crowd that if Health Care Reform passes they don’t have to pay taxes or follow the new law. See the video.
The FBI’s Top 10 Most Wanted fugitives list is so firmly affixed in the American cultural consciousness that I guess I assumed it had been around as long as the FBI itself. Not so. The FBI launched the Most Wanted list 60 years ago, March 14, 1950, a milestone in the history of public relations. But what began as a PR stunt has persisted so long that the names and faces of those who made the list are an interesting historical artifact.
Is the US Military becoming impatient with the lack of progress on the Israel-Palestinian front? A very interesting piece in Foreign Policy about a briefing CentCom Chief David Patraeus’ people gave to Adm. Mullen a couple months ago about the Israel-Palestinian question and global US interests vis a vis the Islamic world.