Liberal Talk Radio

The Carpetbagger reports:
As if Rep. Bob Ney (R-Ohio) didn’t have enough to worry about with a possible Abramoff-related indictment looming, now he has a new problem: a primary challenger back home. James Brodbelt Harris, a financial analyst, announced yesterday that he’s taking on Ney in a GOP primary. “I believe any good Republican could hold [...]

That’s always struck me as the big question when it comes to the spread of democracy around the world. Do market economies create a need for democracies? Or can democracies be independent of economic systems. It’s less clear than it might seem: China has an emerging market economy but little democracy. Ditto [...]

Some free association — for some reason, I’m seeing Michael Stipe in spandex . . . “In Living Color” suddenly springs to mind . . . and suddenly I’m eating this up like Jim Carrey loves teeth:
An Israeli cartoonist has launched an “anti-Semitic cartoon contest” to poke fun at fellow Jews in response to furore [...]

I saw the headline, but it didn’t register which Malaysian they were referring to until I saw this. Does Jack Abramoff have even the tiniest bit of self-respect? Never mind, don’t answer that:
When the government of Malaysia sought to repair its tarnished image in the U.S. by arranging a meeting between President Bush and its [...]

Lawrence O’Donnell and Tucker Carlson were arguing about the Cheney incident last night on MSNBC. Carlson egged him on: “What could Cheney possibly have to hide?” O’Donnell didn’t mince words, calmly replying: “That he would have failed a breathalyzer test.” Straight up.
I think O’Donnell’s wrong. I doubt Cheney was drunk, even though he [...]

This gives a new (and sorely needed!) meaning to the term “underground rock”:
“Please, I’m going to be in deep trouble,” said a rock musician after a recent show when asked for a copy of the lyrics to a song his group had performed (in English). He handed them over, but cautioned he could get in [...]

Paul Hackett has withdrawn his candidacy for the Ohio Senate. Good. I really like Hackett, and I certainly don’t want to get drawn into what sounded like a nasty intra-party squabble (er… “primary”) between Hackett and Rep. Sherrod Brown.
My big beef is with a disease I’ll call “Celebrity Candidate Inflation.” That is, [...]

It’s not so much a horny jerk-off situation as it is a really scary, f**ked up, nihilistic, inhuman hellhole:
The latest testimony from a victim of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s lethal anti-gay pogrom comes from inside Mashad, the ultra-conservative city under strict religious control where two teenage gay boys were hanged for their homosexuality in [...]

I think this is what is known as a purposeful leak:
The United States and Israel are discussing ways to destabilize the Palestinian government so that newly elected Hamas officials will fail and elections will be called again, according to Israeli officials and Western diplomats.
The intention is to starve the Palestinian Authority of money and international [...]

So we all know that there isn’t enough corn on the planet to supply all our ethanol needs. Which is why the Prez talked about switchgrass and other plant waste as possible sources of raw material. The trick is in converting those items into sugar, so they can be fermented into ethanol. [...]