by Madeleine Begun Kane
Hannity Insanity
Few people are better at creating a Krauthammer-lauded “alternate reality” than Fox’s Sean Hannity. Columnist Dick Polman provides an excellent example:
On his Fox show one week ago, Sean Hannity told his credulous fans that President Obama had made a deliberate effort during his Cairo speech “to give 9/11 sympathizers a voice [...]

Reprise from June, 2008 on The power of Facebook, Twitter and Social Media
My Toronto friend Lisa sent one of many Facebook invitations that cross my desk to a group called Re-instate Stacey Fearnall Now!! I normally bin them because I learn too much about my Facebook “friends” – Do You have a Higher Movie IQ than Dave? Noooo… I don’t care to know that and [...]

 
by Madeleine Begun Kane
My Homage To Feigned Outrage
May 14th, 2009
Republicans (and Joe Lieberman) have been staging yet another temper tantrum. What’s their grievance du jour? Speaker Nancy Pelosi said CIA leaders misled Congress about interrogation techniques.
The CIA’s under attack
By the Speaker who gave it a smack.
She accused it of lying.
The GOP’s crying:
She’s mean and must [...]

 
By Denis Campbell
I’m worried. Yes, President Obama rocked the correspondent’s dinner, has deftly aided in the demise of the Republican Party by producing a species threatening outbreak of ‘hoof in mouth’ disease and increased financial and diplomatic confidence around the globe. But what if, as our friend Charley James said, he’s content with only 50% [...]

 
By Madeleine Begun Kane
Nothing brings out Republican hypocrisy like a nice, juicy U.S. Supreme Court vacancy. Take Karl Rove, for instance, on Obama’s potential nominees to replace Justice David Souter:
Karl Rove rails against the possible nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor because “her opinions…have been very liberal.” But when Sandra Day O’Connor retired, Rove said the [...]

 
There will be no shortage of media analysis of last evening’s milestone Presidential Press Conference. A new phenomenon is the use of Twitter to fill-in the blanks behind the scene.
Ana Marie Cox http://www.twitter.com/anamariecox or simply @anamariecox for Twitter followers is National Correspondent for Air America Radio and contributor to both The Daily Beast and The [...]

Two new limericks by Madeleine Begun Kane
 
Rudy’s Family Values
How to become a GOP family values champion:
1. Marry your cousin.
2. Pretend you didn’t know she was your cousin.
3. Get your lengthy marriage to your mystery-cousin-wife annulled.
4. Marry someone else, have kids, then cheat on your second wife very publicly and notoriously while you’re New York City mayor.
5. [...]

 
By Madeleine Begun Kane
(Two new, hysterically funny limericks from Mad Kane - Ed.)
Fox News “pundit” rants always look foolish, especially when they’re packed with gleeful predictions of Democratic failures. And most especially when their predictions turn out to be dramatically wrong.
Such, thankfully, was the case with the loony rantings indulged in by Newt Gingrich, Glenn [...]

by Madeleine Begun Kane
I, for one, thoroughly enjoyed the House Republicans’ number-free budget. And I’m looking forward to the expanded version they’ve promised for next week — the one that won’t have any letters in it either.
Republican Road To Remedial Math (Limerick)
The purported Republican budget
Has no numbers, so how can we judge it?
There’s no dollars or sense
In [...]

 
It’s been done before, an FDIC/Comptroller of the Currency (or similar insurance or governmental institution elsewhere) bank take-over. I witnessed my first in Miami in 1991 when a former employer in the mid 80’s, Southeast Banking Corporation of Miami, then Florida’s oldest bank, had a deep liquidity crisis.
It was a swift, brutal, painless to depositors [...]