ThinkProgress: Jindal takes credit for stimulus, presents constituents with jumbo-sized stimulus check. Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-LA) reemerged on the national stage yesterday, penning an op-ed in the Politico to slam efforts to reform health care and declaring the Economic Recovery Act a failure. Jindal declared the Recovery Act “a nearly trillion-dollar stimulus that has not [...]

Lou Dobbs and the canard over President Obama’s birth: The subject fits neatly with Dobbs’ nativist, immigrant obsession. And the cable demagogue, already well behind in ratings, has got to find some way to keep from sagging even further behind. LA Times: Lou Dobbs had David from Freeport, N.Y., on the line, the caller musing [...]

   Columnist – John SammonHere are nine things you can do if you’re black to avoid frivolous arrest in your own home by white police officers. Of course, the recent arrest of a Massachusetts black scholar by officers who thought he was trying to break into his own house is instructive. The police maintain he deserved [...]

“If I had tried to jimmy the lock at the White House, I’d get shot.” – President Obama at yesterday’s White House press conference. Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Exhibit A in the Race “Debate” — Writes Eugene Robinson: Folks, no matter how much you’d like to think that racism is dead, the Gates affair demonstrates [...]

Media conservatives have taken to fearmongering about health care reform, baselessly claiming that reform efforts will result in the denial of care for senior citizens. Radio host Laura Ingraham, one of Osama Bin O’Reilly’s “Fox TV concubines” warned of “death camps” for the elderly. Dick Morris, the disgraced FAT “toe-suckling” pervert, political WHORE, and author [...]