Good, now can the Democrats move to remove him from their caucus?

This is getting really old: A brother of New York Sen. Hillary Clinton and local Democrats who backed her unsuccessful presidential campaign socialized privately Monday with a top surrogate of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Arizona Sen. John McCain. The private gathering featured Carly Fiorina, Mr. McCain’s top economic adviser, and took place at the […]

The FTC has finally done something I can really appreciate: Specifically, the FTC changed its venerable Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR) to prohibit, as of Sept. 2009, telemarketing calls that deliver prerecorded messages, unless a consumer has agreed to accept such calls from a given caller/seller. Between now and 2009, telemarketers must provide an obvious, easy […]

LeRoi Moore, the saxophone player from the Dave Matthews Band died last night from injuries he sustained in an ATV against back in June. If you never seen LeRoi in action you really missed out. Here is one of performances with DMB:

I like Dan, but I am really glad to see Rachael get her own show. She will debut after the conventions in the 9pm slot on MSNBC. UPDATE: Keith Olbermann has also posted a diary about Rachael’s new show over at DKos.

A brilliant post by Andrew Sullivan: In all the discussion of John McCain’s recently recovered memory of a religious epiphany in Vietnam, one thing has been missing. The torture that was deployed against McCain emerges in all the various accounts. It involved sleep deprivation, the withholding of medical treatment, stress positions, long-time standing, and beating. […]

Robert Greenwald has put out a new short showing McCain’s multiple houses. How many houses does Obama own, or you and me?

Is this the truth? No. But if John McCain thinks he can go out and say the same thing about people he don’t agree with when it comes to Iraq, then we have the right to wage our own baseless attacks against him. Of course if our side does start those attacks, McCain’s campaign would […]

The Boston Globe questions McCain’s constant chastising of Middle East adversaries by saying they don’t embrace our “Judea-christian values”: At the end of a long list of reasons to be suspicious of the Iranians, McCain declared: “And they sure don’t share our Judeo-Christian values.” It seemed at the time to be an odd thing to […]

Obama is finally hitting back on McCain’s childish campaign. He told the VFW today that McCain needs to dignify his campaign and stop it with the patriotism attacks.