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Home Today's Catch Reader Comments Top-Rated Blogs Add a Blog Info for Bloggers About Us All Topics News Entertainment Politics Technology Cars Sports Health General   Latest post rated: Beauty and the Beast Season 2 Teases: Meeting the .... Rating: 3 stars.   Latest blog added: Mason Dexter Adventure Books. Welcome!   More recent ratings:   Video: Reboots that need the boot, part 3—Pitfal.... Rating: 1 stars.   Having fun today. Rating: 2 stars.   Friday list: Celebritology reminiscences. Rating: 3 stars. Politics (What's this?)  Blog posts that may rise to the "Most Popular" position if they receive more votes. Total Score 93 Rate It Crooks and Liars: France Signs Gay Marriage Into Law Just one day after France's Constitutional Council approved the country's gay-marriage and adoption bill, French President François Hollande signed the bill into law. Although it was adopted by both the Senate and the National Assembly last m... Dateline: 2013-05-19 8:16am -07:00T (259 words) Average Rating:   Total Score 92 Rate It Althouse: For the birds. The phrase "for the birds" — originally, "strictly for the birds" (I guess the strictures broke down over time) — is defined by the (unlinkable) Oxford English Dictionary to mean "trivial, worthless; appealing only to gullible people." This isn't such... Dateline: 2013-05-19 8:16am -07:00T (237 words) Average Rating:   Total Score 90 Rate It The Moderate Voice: GOP overplays its hand GOP overplays its hand by Dana Milbank Washington Post Writer’s Group WASHINGTON — At the end of a truly dismal week in his presidency, President Obama remains lucky in one crucial category: his opposition. It has been only a matter of days... Dateline: 2013-05-19 9:00am -07:00T (839 words) Average Rating:   Total Score 90 Rate It Crooks and Liars: The Myth of Privacy in a Google Age It's incredibly ironic that after years of the Patriot Act, and actually sitting on information that the Bush administration had been monitoring millions of Americans' communications without warrants that ... Dateline: 2013-05-19 9:31am -07:00T (408 words) Average Rating:   Total Score 89 Rate It PrairiePundit: The excuse machine at the IRS NY Times: Confusion and Staff Troubles Rife at I.R.S. Office in Ohio Alienated from the broader Internal Revenue Service culture and given little direction, specialists in a Cincinnati office struggled with the caseload of groups seeking tax exempti... Dateline: 2013-05-19 7:18am -07:00T (245 words) Average Rating:   Total Score 88 Rate It Crooks and Liars: Anonymous launches Operation Guantanamo On Friday, May 17, the international hacktivist collective known as Anonymous, joined by Code Pink and other political action groups from the U.S. and the U.K., launched Operation Guantanamo to mark the 100th day of a hunger strike within the ... Dateline: 2013-05-19 10:46am -07:00T (393 words) Average Rating:   Total Score 87 Rate It The Moderate Voice: Quotes of the Day: Scandals and Wrong Reporting Not Impacting Obama Poll Our political Quote of the Day comes from Booman, of the must-read blog Booman Tribune, who notes that despite all of the controversy last week President Barack Obama hasn’t seen a drop in a big drop in his polling numbers — and in fact in on... Dateline: 2013-05-19 9:00am -07:00T (1153 words) Average Rating:   Total Score 87 Rate It The Moderate Voice: GOP overplays its hand GOP overplays its hand by Dana Milbank Washington Post Writer’s Group WASHINGTON — At the end of a truly dismal week in his presidency, President Obama remains lucky in one crucial category: his opposition. It has been only a matter... Dateline: 2013-05-19 9:33am -07:00T (847 words) Average Rating:   Total Score 87 Rate It Power Line: A durable libel (Scott Johnson) Charles Enderlin is the France 2 Jerusalem correspondent who broadcast the incendiary account of the death of 12-year-old Muhammad al-Dura at the hands of Israeli troops operating in the Gaza Strip in September 2000. Based on film footage ... Dateline: 2013-05-19 10:15am -07:00T (590 words) Average Rating:   Total Score 87 Rate It American Power: E.W. Jackson Wins Virginia GOP Lieutenant Governor Nomination This dude is rad! At Big Government, "E.W. JACKSON WINS GOP NOMINATION FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR IN VIRGINIA." And flashback to last year, at PJ Media, "Bishop E.W. Jackson: ‘It Is Time For a Mass Exodus from the Democrat Party’": More at... Dateline: 2013-05-19 12:05pm -07:00T (280 words) Average Rating:   Total Score 86 Rate It The Moderate Voice: Those Online Dictionaries Since English is an acquired language for me, I am a very frequent user of English dictionaries — and foreign language dictionaries, too, but more on that later. Thus it is no surprise that an article, “The Role of a Dictionary,” by David Skinn... Dateline: 2013-05-19 12:03pm -07:00T (918 words) Average Rating:   Total Score 85 Rate It 2 Political Junkies: Not So Fast, My Friends It should not be surprising to readers of this blog that the editorial board of the Tribune-Review routinely misleads its audience by only presenting part of the story when it tries to make some point.What's only surprising about this example is how much ... Dateline: 2013-05-19 9:30am -07:00T (437 words) Average Rating:   Total Score 82 Rate It American Power: Yahoo's Tumblr Porn Problem I'm not on Tumblr, but when I was searching for Kelly Brook photos awhile back it wasn't long before I was "tumbled" to a lot of disgusting pornography. At Business Week, "If Yahoo Buys Tumblr, What Will It Do With All That Porn?": If Yahoo! s... Dateline: 2013-05-19 12:05pm -07:00T (305 words) Average Rating:   Total Score 81 Rate It Althouse: "Look, I can't speak to the law here. The law is irrelevant. The activity was outrageous and inexcusable." The Weekly Standard has this clip of Obama aide Dan Pfeiffer this morning on ABC's "This Week," asked whether the IRS's actions were illegal: Drudge links to this in a top-left headline reading "Law is irrelevant," which appears above the main head... Dateline: 2013-05-19 9:31am -07:00T (475 words) Average Rating:   Total Score 81 Rate It Balloon Juice: Karl’s Folly Here’s the media matters rundown on how veteran journalists are reacting to Jonathan Karl’s exploits last week:The slippery language Karl and ABC News adopted in describing the emails has drawn fire from media ethicists and veteran journalists... Dateline: 2013-05-19 11:15am -07:00T (658 words) Average Rating:     Latest Arrivals (What's this?) Cold Fury: Wakey wakey Arrived 51 minutes ago Political Pistachio: At Morehouse College: Racist Obama Calls America Racist, and Understanding What Barry Really Means Arrived 1 hour, 3 minutes ago. cjrdaily: Audit Notes: WSJ on the IRS, countering Kinsley, Cramer gets an 'F' Arrived 1 hour, 5 minutes ago. cjrdaily: 'We are all journalists now' Arrived 1 hour, 5 minutes ago. Althouse: Obama's message: Nobody cares... no time for excuses... 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