Google is entering a partnership with the NSA.

Eric Holder just sent the following letter to a bunch of whiny Republican Senators trying to make an issue about Americans respecting the rule of law. (I’m posting the whole thing bc there’s a lot of excellent smack down in it.) Dear Senator McConnell: I am writing in reply to your letter of January 26,2010, [...]

You know that Frank Luntz memo telling Republicans how to kill Wall Street reform? Republican message guru Frank Luntz has put together a playbook to help derail financial regulatory reform. In a 17-page memo titled, “The Language of Financial Reform,” Luntz urged opponents of reform to frame the final product as filled with bank bailouts, [...]

As Admiral Mullen just testified to Congress, Underwear Bomber Umar Abdulmutallab has been cooperating with the FBI. The blood-thirsty right, of course, has been screaming all month that Abdulmutallab wasn’t taken immediately to a military facility to be tortured interrogated harshly. That blood-thirst has always felt rather weird to me. Unlike all the others that [...]

I just got off a conference call with Speaker Pelosi. While she had a lot of optimistic things to say about the passage of a Senate plus sidecar bill, the big piece of news is that the House will pass (meaning, I presume she has the votes) a bill eliminating the anti-trust exemption for insurers [...]

Fresh off the Prop 8 trial, I was interested in what Markos’ latest poll–of 2003 Republicans–says about equal rights for gay men and women in this country. First, the poll shows that Republicans think gays should be allowed or not allowed to do the following things: Serve in military: Yes, 23%; No, 55% Receive federal [...]

Congress has not yet seen fit to give Americans health care. But there’s a new health care battle heating up right in the middle of the jobs bills that will be the next focus of Congress. The jobs bill the House passed in December extended subsidies to help laid off workers pay for COBRA that [...]

Oh, this is rich. Chief TeaBugger, James O’Keefe is preparing to argue that, the whole time he was sitting in jail with the son of the acting US Attorney for Shreveport, the US Attorney for New Orleans was abusing his rights. Interviewed on Fox just moments ago, Andrew Breitbart claimed that alleged Landrieu phone tamperer [...]

In response to the news that David Margolis spiked the misconduct conclusion in the OPR Report on OLC justifications for torture, I wanted to put together a timeline of its construction. Two things stick out. First, the role of Mary Patrice Brown–who replaced Marshall Jarrett at a time when OPR was backing off its offer [...]