Month: December 2011

Holder Declares War on Vote Suppression

More, please: Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Tuesday entered the turbulent political waters of voting rights, signaling that the Justice Department would be aggressive in reviewing new voting laws that civil rights...

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The Unquenchable Ego

Leave it to Donald Trump to try to get more publicity out of an unmitigated disaster. In his announcement tonight that Trump is mercifully cancelling a debate that even the Republican travelling freak show was (mostly) too...

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Serious Question

Actor Gary Busey is endorsing Newt Gingrich, at least until Donald Trump enters the race as an independent. Meanwhile, former Delaware senatorial candidate Christine O’Donnell has endorsed Mitt Romney, leading the...

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Everything Still Broken in DC

Here’s the roll call for Boehner’s stupid bill to do a bunch of radical things in exchange for extending the payroll tax holiday and unemployment insurance benefits. Ten Democrats, most of them reliably terrible,...

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