Month: May 2010

Things that make you angry: At a hearing in New Orleans, the highest ranking official on the Deepwater Horizon testified that he had a disagreement with BP officials on the rig before the explosion. Jimmy Harrell, a manager who...

While BP’s engineers, and all the other industry experts arrayed to assist them, are praying that the “Top Kill” procedure to end all the oil leaking into the Gulf works (it’s still too soon to know),...

The president still has the confidence of the Senate, including 41 of 59 Democrats, for his policy in Afghanistan. I guess that’s good in a way. But he doesn’t have my confidence on this issue. I see no ray of...

Bill O’Reilly is hilarious. Last night he had the following exchange with Marc Lamont Hill, a black professor at Columbia University in New York City. OREILLY: I don’t need IEDs. If I have 10,000 guard down there, that’s...

When Rand Paul won a primary last Tuesday, becoming Kentucky’s Republican nominee for the Senate, he declared himself a national leader of the Tea Party movement.  It was an important moment for the movement as it,...