Well At Least Organize Wall Street Never Said Nigger

The entire Tea Party movement was deemed racist because Congressman John Lewis alleged, albeit without proof, that somebody, presumed to a member of the Tea Party, called him a nigger.   Well so fare as I know, no member of Organize

Putting a Boot up Max, from Max Boot, Commentary:

ContentionsTime for Close Air Support in Libya

“We do not provide close air support for the opposition forces. We protect civilians.” So says Gen. Carter Ham, head of Africa

Don’t let the door hit you on the way out Arlen! Specter gives final Senate floor speech, from Shira Toeplitz, Politico:

Ever the prosecutor, Sen. Arlen Specter delivered a critical attack of partisan politics in his self-described “closing argument”

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This is the Unemployment Edition In honor of those who have lost their jobs thanks for Barry the O.

• DEATH PANEL:  If

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This is the Grocery Store edition.

• Franken: About an hour ago came word that Al Franken was decalred the winner of

Oh, my.

Where to begin, on an examination of Obama’s speech to the Middle East? I’m certainly not going to hit you with all 6000 words.  I can’t even jump on everything in the speech that should be jumped

Matthew Yglesias  is just a tad bit confused.

This seems very confused. Being a “reverse racist” can’t be similar to being a “racist,” it needs to be the reverse of being a racist. Limbaugh clearly just thinks Sotomayor is a

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This is the Free Beer Edition.

• Take a Bow: Apparently the lesson is still not learned, that it’s not the mistake,

New York Slimes:

Now that was a real nail-biter. The court designed by the White House and its Congressional enablers to guarantee convictions of high-profile detainees in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba – using evidence obtained by torture and secret evidence

These Nightly Rambles are all things I’ve found during the day. I input them all day long and auto-post whatever I’ve collected at around 4 to 430 eastern. I put things in here that catch my eye but that perhaps

Bob Herbert, New York Times, attempts to slime John McCain, only to show his true and bigoted colors:

The racial fantasy factor in this presidential campaign is out of control. It was at work in that New Yorker cover

Bit rambled:

Obama. Reparations. ‘Nuff said.

Not quite enough.   Speaking at the UNITY ’08 conventionb, BO said, Laurie Au, Star-Bulletin, Honolulu:

“There’s no doubt that when it comes to our treatment of Native Americans as well as

The House of Representative is set to pass this tripe:

Resolved, That the House of Representatives–

(1) acknowledges the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery and Jim Crow;

(2) apologizes to African-Americans on behalf of the people

By way of AJ Strata, we get a partial update from Hillbuzz about this tape Larry Johnson keeps mumbling about:

For about 30 minutes, Michelle Obama launched into a rant about the evils of America, and how America is

Gerson at the WaPo:

There are few things in American politics more irrationally ideological, more fanatically faith-based, than the accusation that Republicans are conducting a “war on science.”

According to Hillary Clinton, the Bush administration has declared “open season on