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Awesome new stats coming out of LA Times, and Derek Thompson at The Atlantic does a fabulous cut and paste job: While they make up only 15% of the country’s workforce, Latinos have racked up half the employment gains posted since the

DNC Communications Director Brad Woodhouse told Martin Bashir that he didn’t remember any “official” representing the Democrats attack President George Bush in the same manner that Republicans attack the President today.

Charles M. Blow, over at The New York Times, loves to allege that Republicans are racist, racist, racist. James Clyburn, the third ranking Democrat in the House, accused Gingrich of practicing the Southern Strategy. The NAACP piled on. In Gingrich’s

The documentary feature “His Way” premiered on HBO this past Spring. “His Way” is based on the autobiography “When I Stop Talking, You’ll Know I’m Dead,” which highlights the life and career of the great film producer/concert promoter/manager/philanthropist/entrepreneur Jerry Weintraub

Close your eyes. Picture this. It’s 1999. There’s an event for something significant and then-candidate George W. Bush is attending along with a few members of the KKK. Bush & the KKK members are together behind the podium. The first

From Investors Business Daily: President Obama faces head winds from independents, an important voting bloc for re-election in 2012. Many of them think well of him personally, but they are disenchanted. They don’t like his policies, and they see him

Each of us has a unique experience of September 11th. I was in my last few days of summer vacation before heading back to college in Scotland. For me, the cultural response to 9/11 experienced was British. I arrived back

Ten years ago at this exact time I was standing in my pajamas in my living room with tears streaming down my face, my hair a wreck. I was a 21-year-old newlywed and mother. My months-old infant sat in a

This was going to be just one post on how great Hollywood has done with the 9/11 coverage and specials. But people on the left had to ruin it because Hollywood didn’t take advantage of this opportunity to take swipes

“There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin.” — Linus van Pelt in “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” Facebook has been great for me. I’ve reconnected with many people

A lesson for the ages has unfolded in Libya. Moammar Qaddaffi, erstwhile terrorist and dictator, observed the activity of the United States in Iraq post 2003 and decided the time had come for him to be rehabilitated. He came in

The Talmud says: “One should not extravagantly distribute more than one fifth of one’s income to charity.” Are the sages saying there’s a ceiling cap on giving charity? Yes they are, because if everyone were to give too much away

The morning was spent in Jerusalem and I would sleep that night in Tel Aviv. The next day I would travel north to Nazareth where I would meet with Pastor Afif, an Arab Palestinian Christian, the pastor who would baptize

A funny thing happened while I was taking my Shabbos nap the other day, Mr. Media Matters himself, Eric Boehlert read one of my posts. Exciting right? I mean it’s not as cool as when Andrew Breitbart takes one of

Pinch Happened: Republicans should celebrate Abramson’s promotion because if they look closely at it — and at the growing effectiveness of conservative media — they will see two freight trains running toward each other that will collide spectacularly next year

Thursday: Wow, you can really feel the energy here in Minneapolis at Netroots Nation 2011 – the vibe is so much better than at Starbucks where that fascist Mr. Rodriguez keeps oppressing me by insisting that I get to work

It should be no surprise. People who actually want to help others don’t put on tight leather pants and play guitars for screaming women. They usually go into quieter professions like medicine, social work, or ministry. So when a Rockstar

Pravda doesn’t come out an call Obama “anti-black,” but they essentially argue in this editorial that he is unconcerned about the plight of American blacks. It’s interesting that while the foreign left-oriented press regularly took on Republican Presidents like Ronald

So the father of John Walker Lindh, the “American Taliban,” had a column in the New York Times, making the case for freeing his son from prison. Now that bin Laden is dead, he says, why should his son be

From The National Journal: But one expert on the region is warning against broad predictions today in assessing the impact of bin Laden’s death. “We need to be very cautious… in assuming it will now damage al Qaida and other

[youtube JFYz3V6KgDU nolink] “If this were George Bush saying he was sending drones into Libya this morning a lot of us would be saying ‘Oh no you don’t, oh no you don’t, that’s taking it one step too far, that’s

Paul Krugman may be a Princeton poster child for Keynesian economics, but I am not sure how being a numbers wonk qualifies this man to comment on U.S. foreign policy that does not involve trade. One cannot deny his academic

Paul Krugman may be a Princeton poster child for Keynesian economics, but I am not sure how being a numbers wonk qualifies this man to comment on U.S. foreign policy that does not involve trade. One cannot deny his academic

When Obama administration Green jobs czar Anthony “Van” K. Jones resigned late Saturday night, September 5, 2009 over the long Labor Day weekend, a storm of breaking news about his radical anti-American history was being reported by conservative bloggers. One

Whether or not you’re buying the sudden, unlikely, belief in American Exceptionalism that Barack Obama displayed during his State of the Union speech, one thing is clear. However great we, as a nation are, we cannot “win the future.” In

One of the most frustrating things about writing blogs or trying to win over hearts and minds is the slow realization that the opposition actually possesses a different thought process. It’s not just about laying out the facts, pointing out

Taylor Swift. Now that that’s out of the way, Kanye West has a new album out, and it’s pretty darn good. Not as good as all the other critics are managing to say once their spit glands dry up, but

so claims a “human rights” lawyer. The Daily Mail reports: “George Bush could face arrest abroad after his frank admissions on waterboarding, a leading human rights lawyers has claimed. Geoffrey Robertson said the former President was now at risk of

Part 1: Part 2: Part 3: Part 4: Part 5: Part 6: George Bush sat down with Matt Lauer of NBC’s “Today” to discuss key moments in his presidency and his new memoir, Decision Points, out today. Topics include waterboarding,

As bits of information about what former President George Bush’s wrote in his soon to be released book, “Decision Points” are published, the stark difference between our former President and today’s commander-in-chief becomes incredibly apparent. One is a true leader

Nothing like a little new media joust on a Saturday afternoon in the fall. Josh Marshall on both Obama and Bill Clinton today at TPM: Being president is hard. Being president two years into your first term is hard. And

When I saw that Charlton Heston’s former publicist, Michael Levine, had started a petition to let “the Citizen Stamp Advisory Commission [know] that Heston deserves to be placed on a postage stamp,” I emailed Big Hollywood’s Editor John Nolte and

REP. CHARLES RANGEL: Good morning, kids. I’m your Uncle Chollie in Washington. I help your Uncle Sam take care of you and your family. Today, I’m here to introduce a very special person. He’ll explain how you–our youngest citizens–can partner

Power up your TARDIS, turn on your lightsaber, and set your phasers to stun because we are about to geek out kids. Not content with making over $2 billion worldwide, James Cameron is re-releasing “Avatar” in theaters. Supposedly, a lot

So roughly eight years ago, as President Bush was getting ready to golf, reporters peppered him with questions about suicide bombings in Israel. Holding his driver, the President said, “There are a few killers who want to stop the peace

The whales, the wolves, the rainforests, the Stephen’s Kangaroo Rat–seems Hollywood-ites are always trying to “save” something. Save the Castroite Terrorist-Murderer! has become Danny Glover’s latest cause, though he words it a bit differently. The Cuban convict Gerardo Hernandez, who