Assange lashes out

The Christian Science Monitor: Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder compared to terrorists by Vice President Joe Biden, to Thomas Jefferson by the activist-journalist John Pilger, and to Martin Luther King by himself, went on the offensive today against, well, everyone. In a series of interviews, he lashed out at the Guardian newspaper, one of his [...]

Tuesday: Science, politics and niche theory

Update: I totally missed this.  The FCC is proposing new rules for broadband and wireless providers.  Depending on whether you have a landline method of delivery or wireless, your internet stream will be regulated differently.  This is particularly important because the world is going wireless so it could be a coup for the masters of [...]

Even his friends don’t like him

Remember all that stuff you heard about Mitt Romney being the GOP lead dog for 2012? Don’t believe it: Romney’s Conservative Problem Mitt Romney’s been looking weaker and weaker in our 2012 Presidential polling over the last couple months and it’s pretty easy to identify the reason why: he has a major problem with conservatives [...]

You got DADT, now STFU

One Battle Won, Gay Rights Activists Shift Sights As gay people around the country reveled on Sunday in the historic Senate vote to repeal “don’t ask, don’t tell,” a liberal media watchdog group said it planned to announce on Monday that it was setting up a “communications war room for gay equality” in an effort [...]

The Marines are afraid of a few good men

That’s what Citizens United thinks. They claim that 40% of our current batch of leathernecks will quit the Corps because they’re scared of serving with gays and lesbians. Sgt. Stryker must be spinning in his grave. I’m thinking of the movie Invaders From Mars, when the Marine General says “Don’t worry son, the Marines aren’t [...]

While progressives were getting their reach-around . . .

. . . poor people were getting screwed. Don’t believe me? Would you believe Consumer Reports? 51 million, mostly lower-income, will do worse under new tax law The federal tax bill passed by Congress yesterday includes some extras for the middle class and lots of goodies for the wealthy. But individuals making less than $20,000 [...]

Obama gives progressives a reach-around

It says so right in the Washington Post: Obama reaches out to liberal groups to shore up Democratic base after tax deal n the wake of President Obama’s tax-cut deal with Republicans, the White House is moving quickly to mend its strained relationship with the Democratic base, reassuring liberal groups, black leaders and labor union [...]

Monday: Does anyone in the Democratic party know how to play this game???

Let’s recap the last couple of days: Republicans get just about everything they ever wanted in tax cuts and then some.  They managed to get the president and most of the rest of the Democratic caucus to agree to extend tax cuts for the rich and stick all future Social Security recipients with the bill. [...]

Should lame-duck Congress be unconstitutional?

I’ve commented before on the unusually busy agenda for this lame-duck session of Congress. I’m not the only one to notice: Here’s the funny thing about this month’s lame-duck session of Congress, in which frantic lawmakers have pinballed from tax cuts to “don’t ask, don’t tell” to a nuclear weapons treaty: It’s not supposed to [...]

NYT concedes the case against Assange “less flawed” than his supporters have claimed (UPDATED)

Swedish Police Report Details Case Against Assange Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks who was released from a British jail late last week, is facing a new challenge: the leak of a 68-page confidential Swedish police report that sheds new light on the allegations of sexual misconduct that led to Mr. Assange’s legal troubles. [...] [...]