I agree with [Milwaukee area "shock jock" Mark] Belling. By the time you're 74 years old, you're just too grizzled and ol...

Ann and Nancy Wilson of the 1970s band Heart are displeased with the GOP's use of their chart topping hit Barracuda to market John McC...

Wasn't it only recently that certain vocal members of the conservative GOP punditry were excoriating the "mainstream media" fo...

"If there has been a basis upon which you can pursue someone for a criminal violation, they will be pursued," [Delaware Senator Jo...

In commemoration of the American Library Association's Banned Books Week , which begins September 27, an excerpt from a letter written ...

We were elected to change Washington, and we let Washington change us. We lost the trust of the American people when Republicans gave in to ...

Thank you, Sarah Palin (YouTube, 2:55) Jesus Christ was a community organizer. Pontius Pilate was a Governor. pwnt .

"Snide efficiency" is how Illinois Senator Barack Obama's campaign adviser David Axelrod described Sarah Palin's well-rehe...

What a spectacle, Washington power elites praising other Washington power elites for the benefit of the hardscrabble Grand Old Party grassro...

So it can get a little more entertaining : [John] Stein says that as mayor, Palin continued to inject religious beliefs into her policy at t...

Wolf Blitzer is reporting that John McCain is some upset with CNN because one of his media flacks, Tucker Bounds, almost had to — horror of ...

Seriously . (By the way, it's a natural gas pipeline, Mr. Daily Dish.) But I agree the $500m advance is at least a slice of manna from H...

The Marquette Law School Faculty Blog Michael O'Hear is one of the smartest people in the universe.

How much more entertaining can the John McCain campaign get this week? Recent revelations will be hard to top. Senator McCain, who once upon...

While it's a bit too conspiratorial for my tastes, a Daily Kos diarist, dogemperor, investigates and writes about Sarah Palin's Ass...

A godfearing conservative blogger gesticulates, having satisfyingly derived the appropriate measure of self-righteous indignation at an off-...

Republican notables George W. Bush and the GOP's official demon exorcist Bobby Jindal are reportedly preparing to put their RNC performa...

The Legal Times 's U.S. Supreme Court correspondent Tony Mauro notes that Sarah Palin harshly criticized John McCain's favorite co...

"Most doctors think that he’ll be around at least [four years],” said Charlie Black , one of Mr. McCain’s top advisers. That's comf...

Unless she's figured it out in the meantime, Sarah Palin doesn't know much about either science or the Establishment Clause of the ...

On Wednesday, Alaska governor and McCain veep Sarah Palin awarded a potential $30 billion contract — including a 500 million dollar advance...

A local blogger says of Barack Obama's speech to the DNC in Denver last night, "Leni Riefenstahl couldn't have done it better....

Jaco Pastorius — Donna Lee Charlie Parker — Koko

Rick Esenberg quaffs deeply from the GOP Kool-Aid by observing that Barack Obama's stage at Invesco Field resembles a " Greek tem...

While most people know that convicted felons may be prevented from owning firearms, there is a federal law that prohibits those convicted of...

Looks like the RNC may be in for a little competition . Not even Mitt Romney can blow 110 mph wind.

A more proficient make-up artist was Man Ray , the American photographer and bon vivant born this day at Philadelphia in 1890. One of my fa...

Yesterday a federal district court in D.C. handed the Bush administration yet another defeat in its ongoing efforts to delay the subpoenaed ...

Red Army Lt. Col. Vladislav Tretiak . h/t TOSOMM .

Do it today .

"Well, I guess they don't believe in freedom of speech," concludes intrepid Faux News teevee journalist Griff Jenkins after wa...

One thing I invariably look forward to on Saturday evenings is finding out what complete nonsense the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel 's edit...

Never forget, Senator Biden saved America from Robert Bork . "I believe I have rights because I exist, in spite of my government, not b...

Yesterday an anonymous commenter here left behind a strange deposit alleging that criticism of Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce is p...

So James A. Buchen , one of the handful of characters in charge of Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce's political activities, claims...

Prof. Amy Wax believes it's caused by the gay agenda . And the gay agenda, says Father Jeremy Davies of Westminster, is driven by ...

World Nut Daily, the online lair of fabulist smear merchant Jerome Corsi , today responds to a lengthy profile of Leah Daughtry, who is he...

Here is an amusing online debate among some law professors on the question of same-sex marriage, hosted by the Federalist Society . Two par...

Welcome to the club, Avril Lavigne . Why not just cancel her because she's too awful. Fortunately, Milwaukee books the talented Canadian...

Wild Bill Donohue, the irascible fruitcake head of something called the Catholic League, is upset that a website "with homosexual tend...

So conservatives are whooping it up over Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's introduction of Barack Obama as "a leader that God ha...

Via Prof. Friedman : The California Supreme Court held unanimously that a medical clinic's physicians are prohibited from discriminating...

Via Pundit Nation : Daniel Cody is wondering at the time Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker is spending calling in to the Charlie Syke...

The assumption of Obama's critics is that a president should always reduce complex issues to simple black and white truisms, unfounded i...

The Christian Prison Guards of Communist North Vietnam . Evidently John McCain was in no "cone of silence" either, as Left Coast m...

Last night during Left Coast megapastor Rick Warren's Q&A session with Senators Barack Obama and John McCain, Warren asked for both ...

The values of this country are degenerating at a rapid pace and all we have to do is look in the mirror to see why. I'll take her/him an...

Khristian Oliver killed Joe Collins when Collins arrived home to discover Oliver in the midst of a burglary. After shooting Collins, Oliver ...

Better known as George Orwell , follow his daily entries from 1938 at this link . The project will continue for some time, apparently. Augus...

Via The Motley Cow : Too crazy for even the deranged and the demented . eta: Via gnarlytrombone : 9/11 "truther" nuttiness . Jero...