How health reform de-funding will cost you By John F. Wasik, Author, The Cul-de-Sac Syndrome Although corporate and conservative interests have done a stellar job of demonizing “Obama Care,” it makes no economic sense whatsoever to de-fund this landmark legislation. In a major concession triggered by pending state lawsuits challenging [...]

Egypt: Mummy’s curse or economic boom? By John F. Wasik Author, The Cul-de-Sac Syndrome Did the Egyptian rebellion open up a gold mine for civil reforms or a mummy’s tomb of economic perils? I choose to think there are some robust opportunities presenting themselves as Egypt and other countries press their demands for [...]

Here’s Democratic Congressman, Anthony Weiner going off the handle on GOP opposition to the 9/11 Health and Compensation Act: Which has been cleverly compared to this famous Al Pacino bit: I wonder when someone will have the guts to give Mr. Weiner the same treatment over [...]

Julian Sanchez has an excellent piece over at The American Prospect on the Obama administration’s surveillance power grab:

At issue is the scope of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's power to obtain information from "electronic communications service providers" using national security letters (NLS), which compel private companies [...]

I’m not exactly surprised that Shirley Sherrod is planning to sue conservative blogger, Andrew Breitbart, but I do find the whole affair troubling. Liberals and enemies of Breitbart are excited by the news, but I think they fail to grasp its implications. First off, should bloggers face lawsuits for posting [...]

Andrew Stuttaford has the goods on the latest attempt by do-gooders in Congress to save The Children. He points to this snippet at Firedoglake (that’s right, you get a Corner link and a Firedoglake link for the price of one!):

Last night the United States Senate voted [...]

Is it me, or have Democrats suddenly found their footing against Republicans? Politics is not inherently about righteous indignation, but a little righteous indignation on an appropriate issue never hurt politics. New DCCC t-shirt idea: What would Anthony Weiner do?

It seems that Erik Kain and I have unofficially agreed to create the eleventh hour Bitter Enders Club of True/Slant. Expect no weepy goodbye post from this corner of the Intertrons, at least for the next few hours. If there is decent political news on which to write over the course [...]

This is a wonderful little video on the war on marijuana flowers:   The war on drugs has made not one iota of difference on the consumption of drugs in America. It has stripped Americans of our liberties, robbed us of our tax dollars, and sent countless young men [...]

Reihan Salam, responding to this Bruce Bartlett interview over at The Economist’s Democracy in America blog, writes:

My central disagreement with Bartlett is that I don't think it's very sensible to interpret political history as a series of psychodramas. One could present the same facts in a [...]