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Keith Olbermann was nominated for an Emmy Award for the above tribute to his mother following her death. A transcript was also posted by Diogenes2008 at Daily Kos: And finally, how does one tell this story?  My mother passed away Saturday night.  Our number one story on the COUNTDOWN, Marie Katherine Charbonier Olbermann, 1929-2009.  This [Read More →]

The Republicans want to be returned to the majority party but they have one problem which was painfully obvious the last time they were in the majority–they have no rational policies to promote. After all, when you think that everything the government does is bad it is hard to think of things to do when [Read More →]

The title of this story from CNN is misleading: CNN poll: Americans don’t like health care bill. Even ignoring the evidence from previous polls that Americans primarily do not like the bill because they do not understand what is actually in it (and support it when they do find out), the poll actually shows majority [Read More →]

Tea baggers united in support of Scott Brown without realizing that he was not one of them. While in other states they tend to reject moderate Republicans and demand ideological purity, a path likely to lead to loses such as in the New York Congressional race, the prospect of winning Ted Kennedy’s old seat led [Read More →]

The White House has been responding to yesterday’s attacks on the watered-down Senate health care reform bill from the left which I also discussed here. David Axelrod appeared on MSNBC: Axelrod, responding on MSNBC, said: “I have a lot of respect for Governor Dean but he got on the phone with Nancy-Ann DeParle, our point [Read More →]

Barack Obama has accepted the Nobel Peace Prize. The full text of his acceptance speech is under the fold.

The New York Times looks at the increasingly common path of going from hospital to bankruptcy court: The legislation moving through Congress would attack the problem in numerous ways. Bills in both houses would expand eligibility for Medicaid and provide health insurance subsidies for those making up to four times the federal poverty level. Insurers [Read More →]

One of the most heavily visited old posts on the blog is about the possibility of Amy Sherman-Palladino returning to do a movie of The Gilmore Girls and possibly reveal the four final words she intended for the series. Sherman-Palladino had stated long before the end of the show that she already had the final [Read More →]

Sarah Palin’s book, Going Rouge is coming out. Look for it in the fiction section of your local book store. Considering how many of my posts on Sarah Palin are devoted to debunking the falsehoods she states, did anyone really expect to see any honesty in her book? AP fact checks her book and provides [Read More →]

When presented with various options for Afghanistan but none were satisfactory, Barack Obama had the guts to do the right thing and demand more choices. This shows a tremendous difference for his predecessor, who was so spineless and lacking in intellectual curiosity that he allowed the neoconservatives to call the shots after 9/11, regardless of [Read More →]

Lacking much of substance to attack Obama on, opponents have been desperate to grab at anything. Several conservative sites have latched onto this criticism of Obama’s response to yesterday’s tragic shooting at Fort Hood. The article complains about not seeing “a  somber chief executive offering reassuring words and expressions of sympathy and compassion.” One conservative [Read More →]

Scott Conroy and Shushannah Walshe followed Sarah Palin during the 2008 election campaign and have published their account in an upcoming book, Sarah from Alaska. CNN has described some of the items in the book, such as this report about Palin on election night: According to a copy of the book obtained by CNN, Palin’s [Read More →]