Weekly Address: Student Loans

Here's a good idea: Waterboard Sean Hannity. The sickening part is that he thinks of it as a big joke. Lawrence O'Donnell has the right of it, though: Hannity is a coward...

Dick Cheney remains proud that the United States became a nation that tortured...

We can't stop them from saying "no," but why not bypass the Republicans on health care? They've shown repeatedly that the more critical the issue, the less they have to offer...

Rushbo Stupidism of the Week: Someone named Mark Davis filled in for Rushbo yesterday and contributed this unbelievably dense and incredibly offensive gem to the national discourse:

All right, having -- having put the character type, the species of human that is the tea party organizer/tea party attendee under the microscope to see, it's funny because you can't generalize. At the tea party in Dallas that I was proud to emcee, there were people of all sizes, shapes, stripes, economic levels, and, yes, races. I mean, did they tend to be pretty white? Yeah. Hang on, maybe talk shows of the future will deal not with the question of, you know, "What is it we're doing that repels black people?" but "Why aren't black people more attracted by liberty?" There's your question.

MR-GO is a "hurricane highway":

Bob Bea, a civil engineer with the University of California at Berkeley, said Katrina's flooding would have been minimal if the 76-mile Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet had not been built or if the Army Corps of Engineers had maintained it properly.

"This was not a natural disaster, this was a manmade disaster," said Bea, who specializes in studying engineering disasters and risk management and who, by his own account, has spent about 10,000 hours studying the levee failures during Katrina.

The art of invective: It takes real talent to do invective right, and I'm not talking about the philistine bloviations of Rush Limbaugh and his ilk. Michael Taibbi shows how to employ a creative vocabulary to devastating effect to the First Line above...