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Republican candidate for New York District 23, Dede Scozzafava, recently pulled out of the race.  She had come under withering attacks from Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman and his supporters, including Sarah Palin, for not being "conservative enough" because of her pro-choice, pro-gay marriage stance on social issues, ties to organized labor, and support for the stimulus.  Scozzafava claims her record was misrepresented and that she simply could not raise enough money to counter the...

If you want to see what stifling free speech really looks like, examine the case of Simon Singh.  I had the honor of seeing him speak at the Museum of Natural Science here in Houston once, so I'll get my own bias in his favor out of the way up front.  He's a real scientist and a brilliant communicator, kinda like Britain's Neil deGrasse Tyson.Singh recently published a book with Edzard Ernst, the first Professor...

On This Week yesterday, George Will responded to former VP Cheney's charge that the Obama administration needs to "stop dithering" on Afghanistan with what should be the standard reply to anyone from the Bush administration who has the temerity to criticize President Obama as he deliberates the significant troop increase requested by General McChrystal: "A bit of dithering might have been in order before we went into Iraq in pursuit of non-existent weapons of mass...

The ODS-afflicted right is so eager to pounce on anything derogatory about President Obama, the First Lady, their children, their dog, and whoever or whatever else about which Limbaugh spews or the far-right blogosphere scribbles in crayon, that whether or not the story has any shred of truth or credibility to it makes no difference. (See birth certificate, the First Lady's purse, her staff, etc.) The latest is the "thesis hoax," which the ODSers jumped...

Have you ever heard of Brooksley Born? Neither had I until I watched the latest edition of Frontline on PBS called The Warning, which lays out the history of the collapse of the financial markets. Brooksley Born was the head of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission in the late '90's who tried to warn the financial wizards of the day, specifically Alan Greenspan, Robert Rubin, and Larry Summers about the impending disaster in the derivatives...

Will the last one to leave the Republican Party please turn out the lights? Apparently that 20% party ID number isn't low enough for the wingnuttiest of the wingnuts, as two more Republicans, Bill Frist and Bob Dole, both former Senate Majority Leaders, have been ex-communicated by Laura Ingraham and Michele Bachmann. Frist and Dole dared to say positive things about President Obama and health care reform, and have been labeled "non-pro-freedom" by Bachmann. Yes,...

Even SNL couldn't stay out of the act on the Colorado balloon boy story.  Have a look:...

For some inexplicable reason, Sen. John McCain was a guest on one of the Sunday news shows again yesterday, this time CNN's State of the Union. As Steve Benen at Washington Monthly points out:"For those keeping score, this will be McCain's 14th Sunday morning appearance since President Obama's inauguration in January. That's 38 Sundays, for an average of a McCain appearance every 2.7 weeks...Not bad for a senator in the minority, who isn't in the...

From Balloon Juice:I know it's shooting moose in a barrel, but anyway:Copyright © 2009 Creators SyndicateCopyright © 2009 Creators SyndicateHappy rainy, dreary, non-golfing, football-watching, Sunday....

Fasten your seat belts, my fellow Hurricaners. Expect to see the mother of all hissy fits unleashed today on talk radio and Fox News, President Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize: OSLO -- In a stunning surprise, the Nobel Committee announced Friday that it had awarded its annual peace prize to President Obama "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.""He has created a new international climate," the committee said...