Today Jerry Brown called Meg Whitman a liar ! Well almost. His choice of words was a little more interesting, but his point is the same. ...

I had the distict pleasure today of sending the following response to the organizer of a conference that I've routinely attended for the...

I just love it when I get on my commuter bus at 5:30 AM to find that every pair of seats is occupied by a single person with their bags pile...

This post by David Rees has got to be one of the funniest, most appropriate, reactions to Dick Cheney's recent speech on national secur...

For a long time, it’s been considered somewhat unacceptable, even among prominent critics of the Bush administration, to suggest anything re...

There’s lot’s of discussion and speculation lately over the fact that after spending eight years of secretly running the government from an ...

With Arlen Specter’s party switch prompting a huge welcoming embrace from both the Democratic Caucus and the Obama White House, you have to ...

Paul Krugman summed it up in three simple sentences: Let’s say this slowly: the Bush administration wanted to use 9/11 as a pretext to inva...

In his ongoing effort to defend the Bush administration’s “enhanced interrogation” methods, Rush Limbaugh on his radio show today, compared ...

For many months, George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley has been a leading voice for the rule of law and the importance ...

I took a few minutes at lunch today to walk through the crowd at today's Sacramento "Tea-bag" Tax protest. All I can say is WO...

Here Lawrence destroys Pat Buchanon in their argument over President Obama and his upcoming speech at Notre Dame. Enjoy!

It’s hard to believe that this blog has been around for nearly 3 ½ years! It started on October 24, 2005, with Left-Over’s expression of ex...

Despite his amazing success at raising campaign funds through small donations from individual citizens, Barack Obama never campaigned as a p...

I’ve read lots of commentary on John Stewart’s public spanking of CNBC’s Jim Cramer, but nothing more fitting than Glenn Greenwald’s point ...

Sure, it’s a good thing that Bernie Madoff is likely to pay a harsh price for his crimes , but let’s not think that punishing him is a decis...

I really don’t have a good feel at all for what should be done for the auto industry. I’m torn between letting them fail, in order to make ...

As some of you know, my office overlooks Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco, which gives me a straight-on view of the courthouse steps in f...

If Rush Limbaugh is now the de facto head of the Republican Party, then does the party have a new de facto ass? Or is the Republican Party ...

Life must be tough when you’re a recently replaced ex-President, who is trying to raise funds for a legacy-fluffing monument during the onse...

How ironic that Republicans are now giving self-righteous speeches about “fiscal discipline” after they presided over the largest bungling ...