Paul Krugman: It remains to be seen whether the Occupy Wall Street protests will change America’s direction. Yet the protests have already elicited a remarkably hysterical reaction from Wall Street, the super-rich in general, and politicians and pundits who reliably serve the interests of the wealthiest hundredth of a percent. The way to understand all [...]

Mike Papantonio talks with blogger and author Chauncey DeVega about how the Tea Party GOP is attempting to court African Americans by using their “my friend is black” strategy with Herman Cain. Uncle Ruckus Herman Cain — On The War-Path Defending Republican Racism & Bigotry Bill Maher: The Republican ‘Strength on Defense‘ & Obama is [...]

In his new book, uncle-tom Herman Cain couldn’t help but use himself to give absolution to the racist past of his Republican constituents, on the haunting issue of race. While peddling the book [ This Is Herman Cain!: My Journey to the White House ] at MSNBC, host Laurence O’Donnell pounced on Cain — and asked him why he sat on the “sidelines” while the anti-segregation Civil Rights Movement led by Martin Luther King Jr. was in full gear in the sixties.

Palin’s current boss at Fox News, the morbidly obese Roger Ailes has confirmed that Sarah Palin is a dingbat with little or no substance: “I Hired Sarah Palin Because She Was ‘Hot And Got Ratings’”

Steve Jobs, who overcame steep odds as an adopted child and a college dropout, spoke in great length about his own mortality more than six years ago after the world-changing success of the iPod music player. The Apple co-founder and former CEO, who rescued the company in 1998 following his ouster 13 years earlier, was diagnosed in 2003 with a neuroendocrine tumor, a rare form of pancreatic cancer, and had a liver transplant in 2009. He died Wednesday, 24 hours after Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook, whom Jobs hand-picked as the company’s leader, unveiled the latest iteration of the phenomenally successful iPhone.