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So Kill the Gusher Already!

Wednesday, 30 June 2010 09:14 Gene Gaudette

For nearly a month, the Energy Department (and BP) have known that the Deepwater Horizon well site's casing has been destroyed, with at least two under-the-seabed drill pipes blown into the blowout preventer.

But there's more bad news.

Kloset Klansmen on the Senate Judiciary Committee

Monday, 28 June 2010 21:40 Gene Gaudette

Senate Republicans used Elena Kagan's confirmation hearing to give the late Thurgood Marshall a high-tech lynching.

Rahm Emanuel on the way out?

Sunday, 20 June 2010 22:12 Gene Gaudette

[UPDATED 6/21/10] Ha'aretz, via the Telegraph, is reporting that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel will leave at the end of President Obama's second year in office. Unconfirmed but definitely of interest — especially the detail about Emanuel finding Obama too "idealist" — although Raw Story's Stephen Webster has questions about the story's sourcing and bias.

Peter Daou Dares Call Out Our Nation's Shameful Response to the BP Oil Spill

Sunday, 23 May 2010 21:09 Gene Gaudette

Who should take the blame? The pols. And BP. And corporate media. And YOU. And ME. Go read it.

All Hail the Glorious Teabag Comrades!

Tuesday, 20 April 2010 09:05 Gene Gaudette

I direct your attention to this one sentence:

The Tea Party movement’s dirty little secret is that its chief financial backers owe their family fortune to the granddaddy of all their hatred: Stalin’s godless empire of the USSR.

You know you have to read the rest. Click here for Yasha Levine's terrific article on the Tea Party's Bolshevik bankroll.