San Francisco - Today a federal appeals court rejected a government claim of "lobbyist privacy" to hide the identities of individuals who pressured Congress to grant immunity to telecommunications companies that participated in the government's warrantless electronic surveillance of millions of ordi ...

There's a great op-ed in the Washington Post by Kevin Huffman that highlights some of the antics of the former Congressman: In our moderate, land-locked state [Colorado], my Republican neighbors would sometimes express puzzlement over Tancredo’s obsession. He came to sound more like a deranged borde ...

Sunday post-snow funnies. WaPo: By delivering a paid keynote address at a convention other politicians had avoided because of allegations of profiteering, Palin displayed one of the traits that has electrified her anti-establishment followers: a talent for persistently and defiantly flouting the ...

Ars Technica 's Nate Anderson reminded readers last week to beware watching Sunday's festivities on a screen larger than 55 inches in diameter -- if you're gathering with friends/coworkers in a public place to do so. Remember when the Indianapolis,

Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that during a private conversation in August 2009, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said that liberal critics of conservative and moderate Democrats were "fucking retards." Cute. According to ABC News, however, Emanuel has offered an apology to the ...

Sundays are great days for having an opinion. And if you read this blog, it's an informed opinion. Not everyone does. NY Times editorial: The economy grew at an annual rate of 5.7 percent in the fourth quarter of 2009. But well over half of that growth came from large adjustments to business inv ...

You can here the defenses now, but they are coming from fewer and fewer quarters. And they are become feebler - consider this one: [T]he latest collective freak-out is over the proposed discretionary spending freeze that Obama will explain in the State of the Union address and that his administra ...

Nate begins: "As critics of the Citizens United decision have moved in their stages of grief from denial to anger to depression and now acceptance, attention has turned to the questions: Who wins and who loses under this new system...

Update: The Wilmington News Journal has now corrected their story based on a statement from the Vice President. According to Biden, he did not ask the columnist to encourage his son Beau to run; he asked the columnist to encourage senator Ted Kaufman to run - assuming that Beau elected to forego a r ...

Brad Smith is giddy. Heather Gerken sees a silver lining (more here). Nate Persily says it is too soon to tell. And I am just gloom and doom....