U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords shot and killed* in Tucson: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and six others died after a gunman opened fire at a public event on Saturday, the Pima County, Ariz., sheriff’s office confirms. The 40-year-old Democrat, who was re-elected to her third term in November, was hosting a “Congress on Your Corner” event at [...]

How very nice of the National Review to provide a forum for one of Jack Abramoff’s butt boys to defend the honor of a convicted Jack Abramoff butt boy. It’s like receiving a letter of reference for Charles Manson from Squeaky Fromme. Ralph Reed Flashback At age 44, he still has the choirboy looks that [...]

If you’re like me, you are very excited that Tim “Black Hole of Charisma” Pawlenty has a new book coming out that, aw shucks, may or may not be a harbinger of his inevitable failed run for the presidency. An evangelical Christian who has been an outspoken voice for the GOP, Pawlenty sat down exclusively [...]

Proving that Jennifer Rubin didn’t take all of the stupid with her when she migrated to Fred Hiatt’s Neocon Rescue Sanctuary, Abe Greenwald writes this thing about More Airline Passengers Losing Their Shit: Panic and civilian guesswork, our frontline defense in the war on terror: A Florida professor was arrested and removed from a plane Monday after [...]

With the L&T Casey mostly sitting around the house studying for her LSAT, Fenway  (as well as Wembley, if truth be told) has found her lap to be a good place for extended naps and snuggles. I really love this picture. (click it to bigger’it)

To be fair, Amanda’s twittertwat may be a coded message to her husband that not everyone is achieving the “blessings of liberty” if you now what I mean and I think you do. Moar perfect union pleez.

Dick: Mr. Cheney’s heart will never beat at full strength again, doctors say. His new mechanical pump, a partial artificial heart known as a ventricular assist device, leaves patients without a pulse because it pushes blood continuously instead of mimicking the heart’s own beat. Most pulse-less patients feel nothing unusual, but the devices do pose [...]

Now that I have your attention. Roy Edroso, possibly the Single Greatest Blogger in the Universe, has hit a bad streak and, despite the entreaties of his minions, refuses to ask for help…. the big fucking martyr. So frequent commenter and occasional TBogg blogger JayB has set up a paypal account, the proceeds of which [...]

Sub d-list radio personality Tammy Bruce who was briefly famous never twitter-twatted this thing about homo-hatin’ conservatives the other day: But this hypocrisy is just truly too much. Enuf already–the more someone complains about the homos the more we should look under their bed about 8 hours ago via web …which was obviously a coded [...]

Congressman Heath Shuler (TD-INT 15-33) about whom Charles Pierce once wrote: …a man who has found two careers in which his most remarkable accomplishment is consistently throwing the ball to the wrong team… …has decided that he is going to vote for himself for not-going-to-win Speaker of the House as a symbolic gesture against San [...]