New Revelations on Scope of NSA Spy Program

Keith Olbermann interviewed Russell Tice on Countdown last night. Tice is the whistleblower who revealed the existence of the NSA illegal surveillance program to the New York Times in 2006. Last night, Tice went further, telling Olbermann that the domestic spy program collected the electronic communications...

Non-Issue of the Day

Oh come on now — you didn’t really believe that retaking the oath of office would suffice to get wingnuttia and fellow travelers to focus on an actual real issue, did you? (via Joe...

CommentsCast, Episode 4 – Obama.. Speaks.. More.. Enter

This week on CommentsCast I was joined by Kyle and TAS. In light of what was the upcoming (now old news) inauguration we spent our slightly over an hour together discussing the things we will both miss and remember about Dubbya as well as some thoughts on our new Commander in Chief, President Obama. Enjoy...

Crime and No Punishment

I’ve seen this video before, but not for a while, and I’m not sure I ever put it up here. It’s from a post titled “How to Stump Anti-Abortionists With One Question,” at Unreasonable...

A House That Slaves Helped Build

Full circle: Slaves—men of West African origin branded with Christian monikers like Tom, Peter, Ben, Harry, and Daniel—helped build the White House. Three were on loan from its chief architect, James Hoban. Construction began in 1792, and slaves worked as sawyers, quarrymen, carpenters, stonemasons,...