Protest John Yoo in Charlottesville, Va., on March 19

We are very excited to bring you an exclusive online live video chat with Michael Moore as part of the DVD and Blue-ray release of ‘Capitalism: A Love Story'.

The 30 minute session will be on Tuesday, March 16th at 3:00 pm EST at Brave New Films site:
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Can't be said enough: the filibuster was invented through a stupid mistake.

Media Matters collects the lies in Karl Rove's book, beginning with his lies about war lies. What a tangled web.

Worried about torture lawyers: look at the guys who solicited the memos: The CIA's Lawyer Problem.

In search of more places to surrender: Obama, Biden cave to Netanyahu.

Who’s Running the Secret Side of the Wars?

More Shell Games: Command Structure for US Prisons and Special Operations in Afghanistan

FDL Book Salon Welcomes James Bradley, The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War

Closest thing yet to Bush on trial: the trial now underway of Canadian who tried to arrest Dubya.

Something somewhat positive out of the Justice Dept: ES&S Must Sell Assets in Diebold Merger.  Of course, these companies should not be permitted to have anything to do with our elections at all.  Here's Brad Friedman. At Velvet Revolution, we called for this result as part of our Diebold Return Our Money campaign.

California Student Uprising Highlights Need for Better Ed Funding, Student Loan Reform

More on student uprisings: http://www.democratizingeducation.org

"The Hurt Locker": When Great Art Meets Lousy Politics.

Health Care Whip Count Stands At 194-191

Why health care reform is not a "huge progressive victory".

See also: Bill Moyers' Journal. One of the last from one of the best.

Dennis Kucinich Explains Why He’s Voting Against the Senate Health Care Bill on Countdown

How to Get a State Single Payer Opt-Out as Part of Reconciliation.

Gotta Laugh Because Crying Hurts Too Much: Lynn Woolsey: Closing Barn Doors Since 1993

 And we should all join Sarah Palin in looking to Canada for a better healthcare solution:

 Full interview:

Iraq just held an election where at least results were posted at polling places and Diebold wasn't the only one permitted to know the results, so you'd think we could bring the troops home now (scroll down).  The news from Iraq is not all good though, depite what you may have read.

Here's something nice: Texas Judge Rules Death Penalty Unconstitutional

Imagine if students knew all the money went to the military and thought they could stop it: California students angry about higher-ed cutbacks rock campuses  Speaking of which, if you can't afford college and join the military, you may get electrocuted by KBR, which will then get big new government contracts.

For the 1000th day in a row most of the content of liberal blogs is devoted to rightwingers and the corporate media and other groups we've voted out of power, have no use for, or simply excel at repulsiveness.

Imagine the uproar if the gunman at the Pentagon had been Muslim or anything other than a white American: 'Lone wolf' anti-government extremist opens fire at the Pentagon. But let's not call it terrorism.

Oh, and shockingly they gave the oscar for best movie to the pro-war one and dissed the sci-fi condemnation of empire just when a couple of people had considered the possibility of recognizing it for what it was.

On the plus side, Keith Richards has responded to claims he was in rehab with: "Reports of my sobriety have been greatly exaggerated."

Just what Haiti needs: mercenaries!

Senator Bunning may be an ass, but he's not only being enabled by Democrats, he opposed the Wall Street bailout.

Don't look now (or ever) but the Iraq Occupation (Baraccupation) may not, you know, actually end. Plus, is Maliki giving out guns for votes?

The people of Japan and Guam are helping to save us from our own empire whether we know it or not.

British soldiers have gone AWOL 17,000 times since 2003.  Not bad for the junior partners in crime, but well behind the leader.

Obama Solution to Stop Outsourcing – Stop Counting Jobs Outsourced (No, Seriously!)

Single-payer advocates in California are optimistic, but why are they helping Jerry Brown imply he might sign the bill and ignoring his statements that he won't?  Is that how you're going to force him to do it?  This is a disaster in the making for the Hopey Changey crowd and masochists everywhere.

Can you really end anonymous holds? David Waldman points out that they've been ended by law, although there's no consequence to behaving otherwise.  Yet, I want to know why we can't force the Senate to end non-anonymous holds and filibusters and minority-rule of all sorts.  And why can't that ALL be done with rule changes rather than legislation?

Will U.S. scholars have second thoughts about having encouraged democracy in Germany when they see things like this: German Constitutional Court: Don’t Let America Spy on Germans

Encouraging: Pete Stark to Chair House Ways and Means Committee, Replacing Rangel

President still guiding Congess each step of the way to nowhere: Obama Writes to Congress, Cites GOP Proposals From Summit to Be Included in Health Care Bill

Check out Michael Moore and Sean Penn on REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER