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Our legislature shall be terrorized by freedom no more. French fries and french toast have returned to the US Capitol!

Sleater-Kinney's concert was postponed last night due to some freak electrical issues.

In a flash of inspiration, the Onion reported that Critics Accuse Joe Biden Of Running For President For Political Reasons.

Attempting to package a minimum wage hike with the estate tax cut is cynical politics at its worst, designed primarily to embarass Democrats rather than actually pass either provision. Anyone wonder why Congress' approval rates are hovering just above 20%?

Stephen Colbert interviewed Peter Beinart (author of The Good Fight) last night, and was really playing hardball. The way he heckled Beinart at the beginning was almost a mirror image of the O'Reilly/Scarborough tactic. (Scarborough once claimed that he wasn't doing his job if he lets his guest speak for more than seven seconds at a time without interruption.) As it turned out, however, his heckling actually allowed Colbert to build up to the logical conclusion that the Bush Administration was deliberately misleading the American public to further its own agenda and hide its own incompetence. Of course, he immediately rejected his own conclusion.
Jon Stewart's been a lot more aggressive lately as well, but unfortunately, he's actually trying to be taken seriously and comes off as more annoying than enlightening. While The Colbert Report runs head-first into packing as much satire as possible into a half-hour segment, The Daily Show has become content to just slip in a couple jokes between "oh-those-wacky-correspondents" features and straight-faced interviews. At least the punny headlines are still good.