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Jesse Jackson Jr. pleaded guilty this morning in federal court to a criminal conspiracy charge. The details are just coming out of what happened in court, via NBC News: Former Illinois Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. on Wednesday pleaded guilty in federal court to misusing hundreds of thousands...

It has been a long time since the name Angelo Carusone has graced these pages. Carusone is the go-to guy at Media Matters for organizing boycotts and secondary boycotts against people with whom Media Matters disagrees, with Rush Limbaugh as the prime example. Carusone's efforts were documented...

California made a move yesterday that makes about as much sense as throwing away your telescope to get back at that meteor for hitting Russia. And yet, in California, it’s strictly business as usual (via LA Times): The nation's biggest public pension fund is taking a stand against...

We just received this notice from the U.S. Attorney's Office: From: Miller, William (USADC) Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 6:07 PM Subject: Court hearings in U.S. v. Jesse L. Jackson, Jr. and U.S. v. Sandra Stevens Jackson We have just received notice from the Court of the...

I'm glad that my post, Upworthy — or, How we are losing the internet to lowest of low information young liberals, has garnered a fair amount of attention. Mandy Nagy at Breitbart.com, has an interesting history, in response, that we all should consider, Why LOLcats Matter in Politics: In...

You can guess the result. Via Israel Matzav. ...

Via Memeorandum, news that man makes stupid comment about rape and right of self-defense: How do I know that this will not be the Democrats' Todd Akin? Because he's a Democrat, he's at the state level, and this is not an election year. But mostly because he's a...

a/k/a let the bubble burst, we have nothing to lose but the insanity...

The apparently principled opposition of Republicans in the Senate to Chuck Hagel’s nomination as secretary of defense appears to be over. Via Slate: Sen. John McCain says that while he doesn’t believe former Sen. Chuck Hagel is the right man to lead the Pentagon, Republican senators will...

Behold “liberal” cartoonist/columnist David Horsey’s latest horsey---- in the Los Angeles Times. It is no wonder Florida Sen. Marco Rubio needed to grab a bottle of water in the middle of delivering the Republican response to President Obama’s State of the Union address. The speech he...

Disgusting. And probably will sell for a lot, because it's history. From ProJo: Bidding is under way for the bloody sock worn by former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling in the 2004 World Series, which he put up for sale after the collapse of his Providence-based video game...