The Low Road

Exactly right explanation of how swift boating works from Josh Marshall

Compassion. Spain's parliament voiced its support on Wednesday for the rights of great apes to life and freedom in what will apparently ...

We need more images of McCain in those studly, very dark glasses, "Navy" baseball cap, and golf shirt, especially those where aver...

I'm not telling my wife, or anyone else for that matter, but today I broke my $2000(plus) hearing aid. I was getting into the car, leav...

The Bush regime has pulled us all into the sewer. Is it too much to hope that someday they will called to account for these atrocities? The...

The U.S. military confirmed Wednesday that a former Guantanamo detainee from Kuwait carried out a recent suicide attack in northern Iraq. A ...

We think they should buy it for us.

If Obama wants to connect to the working class he needs to talk seriously about gas prices. It is their central concern.

No matter how hard you try you will find it impossible to under estimate the intelligence and knowledge of the average Pennsylvania voter. M...

I used to be a tugboat captain. With that experience my wife is now entitled to be a tugboat captain.

Pick one: Extraterrestrial beings visit Earth because 1. They think us interesting and want to be our friends. 2. They want to eat us. 3. Wa...

I liked his speech a lot, though I think it went whistling right by the wad of chuckleheads that make up this country's core. The more I...

When one seems to surge ahead I begin to like the other one.

Feb. 5 (Bloomberg) -- GMAC LLC, the lending company that General Motors Corp. sold to a hedge fund manager, lost $724 million in the fourth ...

Edwards is out. That leaves us with a choice between lessers.

Save yourself and your upper class friends and shoot everyone else. Biggs's Tips for Rich: Expect War, Study Blitz, Mind Markets Jan. 3...

Sometimes you can have your day made by a whisper of good news about a good friend getting recognition for living generously and not comprom...

flying saucers will save us.

Plenty if you can afford it, less for the rest. The price of copper has tripled in five years. Zinc has doubled. Wheat and soybeans rose 70 ...

From today's Krugman column in the NYT: ...The Obama campaign’s initial response to the latest wave of bad economic news was, I’m sorry ...