Perhaps We've Never Been Safe?

If an underwear bomb means we're not safe under Obama, does a shoe bomb mean Bush didn't really keep us safe after 9/11? - David Kurtz, Talking Points Memo

America's Waterloo?

Via a Talking Points Memo reader:

Just to mention something that is obvious, but hopefully not overlooked, i.e., if this country cannot pass a bill which insures that every citizen has access to medical care, which every developed country has managed to do (and got done many many years ago), there is something very fundamentally and structurally wrong with this country.

Sen. Jeff Sessions - Doing the Crack Thing?

Via Talking Points Memo

Highlights of Obama's Cairo Speech

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The Day in 100 Seconds - Swine Flu Edition

Talking Points Memo The Day in 100 Seconds - when Shepherd Smith is the voice of reason, you know the media is in trouble.

What's that again?

Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo makes an interesting observation:

Conservatives are so incensed by warnings about the threat of right wing radicalism that they're considering overthrowing the federal government.

Path Forward in a Nutshell

From Talking Points Memo, a nice way to look at how to save Detroit:

"The manufacturers had to assign the job to the engineers, instead of to the lobbyists."

Read the whole posting at TPM - it's worth it.