Helping a blogger in need

Barbara, the blogger at Mahablog, is getting jerked around by her landlords so badly that she could lose her apartment before Christmas.  I hope this isn’t a growing trend, but at CFLF, this is the second time this year we’ve published a post asking you to donate some money to a blogger...

A Wicked Man Continues to Spout His Wickedness

Emptywheel (aka Marcy Wheeler) examines Dick Cheney’s latest rantings — on missile defense, on Iraq and Afghanistan, on America’s success in keeping its moral bearings while torturing confessions out of prisoners, on how his administration’s policies kept us safe (except for 9/11...

A Guide for the Perplexed

Or at least for Jake Tapper. Here, Jake: here is what makes Fox so different from any other news organization: In response to the WashPost’s Ruth Marcus who on Tuesday obediently typed up what virtually every Beltway journalist has said about the White House and Fox News (i.e. it’s the White...

Democrats Want Obama to Get Tough on Public Option

Sam Stein at The Huffington Post: There is a growing sense on Capitol Hill that the White House’s refusal to weigh in more forcefully in the health care debate could come at the cost of a public option for insurance coverage. Democratic aides said that a “handful” of senators who are...

Hilarious Quote of the Day

When do you fight for something? When you think it’s the worst possible option? Obama ”will obviously weigh in when it’s important to weigh in” on the possibility of a public option, chief of staff Rahm Emanuel said. Added Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett: ”He’s not...