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Today's New York Times has a shocking editorial on the GOP's efforts to turn the United States into a fascist dictatorship. Actually, the editorial is about the prospect of changing or clarifying the Senate rules regarding the use of a filibuster. [T]he White House's insistence on choosing only far-right judicial nominees has already damaged the […]

Well, it's Sunday, and the Los Angeles Times prints not a single letter criticizing its North Korean propaganda piece. Shameful.

The Los Angeles Times gets a load of flak from the blogosphere for printing a North Korean propaganda piece. Hugh Hewitt has reproduced three letters to the Times that he was cc'd, raking the paper over the coals. Apparently, none of those e-mails made it through the Times' server. This one did. Opening a Door […]

Yesterday's Los Angeles Times had a front page story based on a couple of conversations a Times reporter had with a North Korean "businessman" in China. When I heard radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt reading the article as I drove into work my jaw dropped. When I got into work, I called up the […]

Krugman goes after Alan Greenspan. Still no solutions for Social Security. The banners have been updated.

Atlanta Braves pitcher Rick Mahler died today at the age of 51. (via Q&O) I met Mahler once many years ago. His brother lived just down the street from where I grew up in La Mesa, Calif. His youngest nephew was a friend of mine, and I was at their home when Rick came to […]

The media today started to pick up on Sen. Robert Byrd's GOP=Nazis comment after Jewish groups denounced him. Byrd's response? Not apology, but denial. Sen. Robert Byrd's description of Adolf Hitler's rise to power was meant as a warning to heed the past and not as a comparison to Republicans, a spokesman for the West […]

for those young people who've never seen an analog clock, the second hand counts off the seconds. In a quiet room you can hear each of the 60 ticks that culminate in the minute hand moving from, say 11:59:59 p.m. to 12:00:00 a.m. There's some magic in that second hand, because with just one tick […]

The Supreme Court today heard arguments in a pair of cases challenging the display of the Ten Commandments on public land in Kentucky and Texas. I will be very surprised if the monuments are allowed to stay. The Court for years has been moving toward removing religion from public life. The interesting thing that struck […]

Former Klansman and current senator from West Virginia, Robert C. Byrd, went to the floor of the U.S. Senate and gave a speech comparing Republicans to Hitler and the Nazis. Byrd is old enough that he should know the difference between the two -- and if he doesn't he needs to be put in a […]