Obama isn’t the first president to get into trouble by inviting an entertainer to the White House.
Maddow: Modern GOP so far right, Reagan would have drafted Kucinich for VP - TheDC
MSNBC host favors 1950s Eisenhower Republicanism, argues government set union rules ‘calls into question the whole idea of conservatism’
Obama's State of the Union was filled with doublespeak
Last night’s State of the Union address was a gambit that ultimately failed.
Birchers bounced from some Tea Parties - TheDC
Conservatives question whether John Birch Society should be accepted as part of Tea Party movement
Deficit roadmap already plotted in three major debt plans - TheDC
Final debt commission vote anti-climactic, as three plans released already lay out way forward
Lone group on right takes on the deficit commission report - TheDC
Americans for Tax Reform, run by anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist, has been outspoken in its criticism of the report
A history of wave elections since 1894 - TheDC
Election handicappers say Republicans could possibly net 75 seats in the House. Here’s a look at prior wave elections.
Prepared remarks of President Obama in Cleveland
All the presidents' best-sellers - AP
Since 1942, only six of the 13 men who have served as the nation’s chief executive have placed a book at the top spot for nonfiction
British X-Files describe secret UFO study - MSNBC
Letter says Churchill, Eisenhower hushed up flying-saucer sighting during World War II
Could Gen. Petraeus be awarded a fifth star? - TheDC
Support for making Petraeus the first general in six decades to hold the distinction of a fifth star has been picking up in the blogosphere
Argument over media bias doesn’t go quite far enough
Much of the mainstream media, especially in their opinion pages and talking-head analysis, have crossed the line into propaganda. Where bias reflects a particular way of looking at the world that emphasizes some facts over others, propaganda is an echo-chamber effort to skew facts in order to serve a larger “truth”