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Note: the following is a note from my Facebook page. I'm reproducing it here just in case Facebook decides to take it down or whatnot. A...

Probably the best article that I've read so far explaining how Wall Street got into the mess that it did: A year ago, it was hardly unt...

As only Barney Frank can. According to the Republicans' misty memories of the period before 2007, I allegedly singlehandedly blocked th...

Michelle Malkin made her mark defending America's use of internment camps for Japanese-Americans during World War II. She's gone on ...

Comes Chris Dodd to Hardball to explain how the February 11 language was put into the bill: So, number one, Chris Dodd knew the language wa...

Glen Greenwald has pulled together the best presentation of this yet, and it's clear that the language exempting bonuses before Februar...

There has been a lot of fury expended over the past few days about the bonuses AIG executives in the derelict Financial Products division re...

The gig is up and Congress' questions are answered. AIG has released names and numbers for who got what from them directly and from Mai...

The video of the uncut interview is available at the Daily Show site, because their code is screwing up my blog. Bleh. My take on this is o...

Combine this insight with Bernanke's stressing of savings relative to investment below: According to Minsky and according to economic t...

Somebody does Frank Miller doing Peanuts .

Michael Steele is now busy walking back his pro-choice comments made in an interview for GQ four days before he called Rush Limbaugh an ent...

It should have been three months or time served. The Iraqi journalist who threw shoes at then-President George W. Bush was convicted Thursd...

More details from a whitepaper published on the fifth of March : On February 28, 2008, American International Group, Inc. (AIG), the largest...

Among a lot of others, mind you. It's in the WSJ today and branching out from there -- several of the counterparties receiving par payou...

Hoo boy. After Bernanke's appearance today in front of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee to deal with the AIG mes...

Karen Tumulty wrote this article for Time . Its thesis was suggested when her brother was diagnosed with kidney failure: The diagnosis was ...

I've been losing weight now since the middle of November. I needed to do it, my cholesterol ...

I'm at the Cafe tonight, after a rather lengthy post I put together at DU. Enjoying some early Randy Newman... Cafe Wellstone is run by...

On a Monday. Welcome to the new administration : The Obama administration threw open the curtain on years of Bush-era secrets Monday, reveal...

Kenneth Pollack, our intrepid media's example of an Iraqi war opponent, wrote a book called "The Threatening Storm: The Case For In...

The latest debunking video I've made available at YouTube, I hope. Powered by ScribeFire .

Via Josh Marshall (short post, so that's the whole thing): As you can see, we now have the first hint of what was at the center of the ...

From the Associated Press : WASHINGTON - Documents show that eight congressional leaders were briefed about the Bush administration's t...

From Think Progress : This New York Sun editorial explores the idea of Richard Cheney running for president. Mr. Cheney has virtues as a c...