Why are Americans, especially the RELIGIOUS RIGHT so Gullible? How do they train themselves to be so impervious to reality? — Johann Hari has an answer: “…… It begins, I suspect, with religion. They are taught from a young age that it is good to have “faith” — which is, by definition, a belief without [...]

Bolt Again, and Again! 19.19 World Record in Berlin! BERLIN — Bolt Runs Away With Another One: Usain Bolt ran the 200 meters in 19.19 seconds, 11-hundredths of a second faster than the world record he established a year ago at the Beijing Olympics. So it went again Thursday at the world championships on the [...]

“A new analysis by Public Policy Polling (D) finds that Sarah Palin is especially popular with a key Republican demographic: The Birthers. Among those respondents in PPP’s latest national poll who either said that President Obama was not born in the United States or were undecided, Palin had a 66% favorability rating.” Eric Kleefeld/TPM The [...]

“…….There’s a point at which realism shades over into weakness, and progressives increasingly feel that the administration is on the wrong side of that line. It seems as if there is nothing Republicans can do that will draw an administration rebuke: Senator Charles E. Grassley feeds the death panel smear, warning that reform will “pull [...]

Sometimes in politics you will have enemies, and they must be democratically defeated. The political system cannot be gummed up by a need to reach out to the maddest people with the maddest fears. There is no way to expand healthcare without angering Big Pharma and the Republicaloons. So be it. As Arianna Huffington put [...]