Steele Vs. Laumbugh: A New Republican Feud?

RNC Chair Michael Steele is none too pleased with the notion that Rush Limbaugh is “the de facto leader of the Republican Party.”  Appearing with DL Hughley, and responding to Hugley’s statement that “no one will decry the things [Limbaugh] says,” Steele’s response is, “Rush Limbaugh is an entertainer. Rush Limbaugh, his whole thing is entertainment. Yes, it’s incendiary. Yes, it’s ugly.”

Greg Sargent at The Plum Line has the details of what is evolving into an ongoing feud.  Limbaugh didn’t allow himself to ignore Steele’s comments:

Yes, said Michael Steele, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, I’m …

Why Do Women Stay In Abusive Relationships?

Rihanna’s father supports her reunion with Chris Brown, two weeks after he allegedly assaulted her the night before the Grammy Awards.  Ronald Fenty (right), spoke to US Magazine as his daughter was holed up over the weekend with Brown courtesy of Diddy at Sean Combs’ mansion near Miami.

Fenty says, “I love my daughter with whatever road she takes. I’m behind her win or lose. I will be supportive. If that’s the road she wants to choose, I’m behind her. I hope to see her soon. I talked to her after her birthday, and she told me she’s …

CIA Destroyed Interrogation Tapes

Why, you ask?  Why do you think?  Acting US attorney Lev Dassin says, “Ninety-two videotapes were destroyed,” many more than originally thought.  At the trial of 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui prosecutors first said no such tapes existed before admitting there were two videotapes and one audiotape.

The ACLU has filed suit, seeking more details of terror investigations.  Of course the government is claiming some of the information is classified, such as the names of CIA agents who viewed the tapes.  Tapes?  What tapes?…

Limbaugh: Liberalism Is Psychosis, Not Ideology

Preaching, as usual, to the choir, another icon of conservatism uses the CPAC platform to bash Obama in particular and liberals in general. 

It is not their task, it is not their right to remake this nation to accommodate their psychology. I sometimes wonder if liberalism is not just a psychosis or a psychology, not an ideology. It’s so much about feelings, and the predominant feeling liberalism is about is feeling good about themselves. And they do that by telling themselves they have all this compassion.

Conservatives are desperate to maintain their audiences and stay relevant after the party, the …

RIP Paul Harvey

No one may have had more influence and more success in gathering a radio audience than Paul Harvey (above, with his beloved Lynne, aka “Angel”).  Long before there was a Limbaugh, Harvey made his mark as an iconic pronouncer of each day’s events.  “The rest of the story” gave us the background we never would otherwise have learned on important issues.  The biographical verbal pictures he drew, where the name of the subject was the punchline to the story, gave us rare insights into important figures.  The pause at the end of each newscast had engineers all over America on edge, …