Must Reads

Alissa Torres: 9/11 Widow: The Media Duped Us

BooMan: Why We Need Tax Cuts for the Wealthy

Jason Linkins: Quran Burning Story: This Is How The Media Embarrass Themselves

Ted Koppel: Nine Years After 9/11, Let's Stop Playing Into Bin Laden's Hands

Raina Wallens: My Husband Didn't Stand for Hate

Chris Kelly: The Secret Relevance of Glenn Beck's 9/11 Show REVEALED

Must Reads

Chris Kelly: Laura Ingraham's New Book Could Be Better

John Cole: Apart From Better Sanitation and Medicine and Education and Irrigation and Public Health and Roads and a Freshwater System and Baths and Public Order… What Have the Romans Done for Us?

The Rude Pundit: Nevada Senate Candidate Sharron Angle Is a Fucking Retard, Too

David W. Dunlap: 18th-Century Ship Found at Trade Center Site

Jon Perr: Meet the New Republican Alchemists

Peter Beinart: The Tea Party's Immigration Hypocrisy

Elise Foley: Violent Crime Is Down in Arizona, Up in Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s County

Matt Taibbi: The Steinbrenner Slobituary

Quote of the Day

"Laura Ingraham is a highly successful political pundit, radio host, author and public speaker, but she's never said anything funny in her life. I'm not saying that as a knock. She also hasn't free styled a rap or yodeled or done birdcalls. It's simply not part of her act. Which is to be a horribly angry hurt unpleasant person.

She radiates wounded joylessness and her voice makes animals miscarry."

~ Chris Kelly wondering about Ingraham's decision to write her "parody" book, The Obama Diaries.

Must Reads

Chris Kelly: A Horrible Thing to Think About Casey Johnson

Bob Cesca: The Twisted and Dangerous Republican Record on Terrorism

Gail Collins: Oh, Byron, We Hardly Knew Ye

Bruce Schneier: Our Reaction Is the Real Security Failure

Must Reads

Susie Madrak: Tweety Gets To The Heart of the Abortion Matter With Bishop Tobin

David Leonhardt: Budget Hawks Have a Buffet of Options With Health Bill

Chris Kelly: A Rogue Thanksgiving

Glenn Greenwald: Tough-guy John Bolton, hiding under his bed

Karoli: Bill Bennett: Whitewashing Terrorism

Harry Shearer: "Reality Stars": Sign Us Up Before We Kill Again

Christopher Brauchli: The Passenger and The Airline Ticket

Armadillo Joe recommends...

Matt Taibbi: Yes, Sarah, There is a Media Conspiracy

Rants, GinAndTacos: Going Rogue

Lance Mannion: Pickett's Charge

Pandagon: You’re not fooling anyone with this stunt, Banana Man

DaveJ, Open Left: Concentration of Wealth = An Influence Lock On Our Politics

Must Reads

Chris Kelly: John McCain Makes Bob Dole Look Like Bobby Kennedy

...I was still digesting [the "Britney" ad] when the "Moses" ad came out. The point of this one was that there are voters who are so tragically, laughably ignorant they're actually thinking of voting for someone who inspires them. They're assholes. You know, like the Israelites.
People with faith! They'd be sad if they weren't so damn funny!
Don't they get it? It's a garbage existance -- even if Jihadists don't kill you -- and you're just making fools of yourselves with this "change" bullshit. So pull up your socks, stop acting like some love-struck German, and vote McCain...

Digby: Negative Appeal

“Sen. Obama is still opposed to a comprehensive energy plan,” McCain claimed. “It seems to me the only thing he wants us to do is inflate tires” to improve gas mileage.

Just like Bush: "you can believe me or you can believe your lying eyes, rubes." At this point I don't care if Obama flips on every single issue, I will do everything I can to see this jackass defeated. Ugh.

And speaking of improving gas mileage...

Ben, Think Progress: Clueless Gingrich Claims Inflating Car Tires Properly To Save Energy Is ‘Loony Tunes’

...Obama is correct to suggest that inflating tires properly and getting regular tune-ups “could save all the oil that they’re talking about getting off drilling” — and by a long shot. According to the Energy Information Administration, if Congress lifted the moratorium on offshore drilling, by 2030, oil crude production in the “lower-48″ outer continental shelf will increase by about 200,000 barrels per day. By contrast, the production offset based on Obama’s proposal will likely approach 800,000 barrels per day, immediately.

MItt Romney on Drugs and Racism

Chris Kelly over at Huffington Post skewers the Romney Unit on equal rights and drug prevention. I guess Mitt was putting out some "questionable" information on his record.

I find his writing laugh-out-loud funny and suggest you add him to your list of favorite bloggers at HuffPo.

Here's his take on Romney's equal rights stance.

Here's his take on Romney's "tough on drugs" stance.

UPDATE: Another laughable moron.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has said he watched his father, the late Michigan Gov. George Romney, in a 1960s civil rights march in Michigan with Martin Luther King Jr.
On Wednesday, Romney's campaign said his recollections of watching his father, an ardent civil rights supporter, march with King were meant to be figurative.
"He was speaking figuratively, not literally," Eric Fehrnstrom, spokesman for the Romney campaign, said of the candidate.