There is no "Know Your Lender Act Of 2011" but the great and ongoing discussion at Dr.

A federal district court judge has driven a stake through the heart of the 17 year old 'don't ask, don't tell' policy on gays in the military, placing an injunction on its enforcement throughout the military and declaring it unconstitutional. The judiciary is a co-equal branch of government, and the judge was doing what the judiciary is supposed to do, ruling to defend the rights of Americans under the Constitution.

Peter Paul Reubens

It’s been sixty years since Alfred Kinsey’s groundbreaking reports, separate ones on male and female sexuality, opened the lid on the hidden sexual lives of Americans.  It caused discomfort in many circles, but allowed for discussions that were off-limits in social circles, and probably even academic circles.

Steve Benen at Political Animal has put together this video.  I don't know about you, but I'm tired of all the political ads smearing candidates.  This one is very convincing in a subtle way.  Please send it along to people you know who are thinking of opting out in 2010.

Jobs are needed in America.  There are many who are willing and able to get to work. Others choose to be asleep at "their" job.

Crossposted at www.Kavehadel.com/blog

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Subject: While You Were Not Elite H/T: Atrios.

(A complete, paragraph by paragraph rebuttal to Time’s Mark Halperin.

Barack Obama is being politically crushed in a vise. From above, by elite opinion about his competence. From below, by mass anger and anxiety over unemployment. And it is too late for him to do anything about this predicament until after November's elections.

15th CENTURY GIRLY-MAN

No need to bomb, no need to install another "authority" figure, worse than the other.

People will speak, whether in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan or the United States of America.

Time to come home. We've got to take care of people here.

Crossposted at www.Kavehadel.com/blog

            What a difference two years make in times as serious as these. Two Novembers ago, all was hope and glory on the center-left in American politics, all was despair and despondency on the center-right. But that is not how things stand now. The political momentum has shifted back, and shifted back very quickly, into the hands of the very conservative forces whose future looked so bleak when Obama first entered the White House.