Easy HTML For Comments

A visitor’s guide to making your comments stand out Formatting HTML to make your comments doesn’t have to be hard. Except that most people don’t do it often enough to remember the tricky details. Here’s how you do the most common formats: Copy and paste into your comment: Linking to another webpage: (replace riverdaughter.wordpress.com with [...]

It’s catfood for you!

Giving us the first clear idea of their plans for managing the federal budget, the deficit fiscal commission’s Catfood Commission co-chairs, Erskine Bowles and former-Sen. Alan Simpson released a teaser report today with hints of the proposals they want accepted: Panel Weighs Deep Cuts in Tax Breaks and Spending The proposed simplification of the tax [...]

The Obama Movement

Sean Wilentz discusses how Obama sowed the seeds of his own destruction: The dream of the Obama presidency based on a movement model of politics was devised by Marshall Ganz, a veteran union organizer and lecturer at Harvard’s Kennedy School, hired as an Obama campaign official and charged with training Obama volunteers—and articulated by Ganz’s [...]

Dana Milbank: Cheat off the Smart Girl, Bro!

Cross-posted from The New Agenda Some of you might remember the reprehensible sexism of the repulsive Dana Milbank from back when he suggested that Hillary Clinton should drink “Mad Bitch” beer. Or from when he defended Alan Simpson after he likened Social Security to a cow with 310 million tits. Or perhaps from his numerous [...]

Wednesday News

Good Morning Conflucians!! The aftermath of last weeks election is still being felt. In fact, it’s not over yet. The Senate race in Alaska is still being counted. Regardless of whether the winner is Miller or Murkowski, the seat will be held by a Republican. But it will certainly be interesting to see who won. Both [...]

Video hit of the day: Hamish & Andy interview Hillary Clinton

We posted this video this morning but, we love it so much we’ve got to post it again: And if you liked that, don’t skip the Official State Department Transcript of the interview — the video left some good stuff out!