At the Biomorph Café...

... it's so organic.

Bogus bully brouhaha.

"Despite the rare and tragic cases that rightly command our attention and outrage, the data show that things are, in fact, getting bett...

Esquire's blogger Charles P. Pierce purports to instruct me: "For the record, writers do not write their own headlines."

He writes: "Thanks for the link , but, seriously, I know there are better things to do in Wisconsin than to be this publicly dim....

A rally to repeal Wisconsin's "castle doctrine" law — citing Wisconsin version of the Trayvon Martin case.

The Wisconsin State Journal reports on a rally — with about 150 — that occurred on campus here in Madison last Tuesday. [T]he March 3 killin...

"Laws do not allow teachers to use children for partisan political advocacy, but that has not been the case, particularly in Wisconsin."

"Elementary school children have been forced to take part in anti-Scott Walker activities, even those young enough to not have any real...

Obama wants to "make this country a little fairer."

With "the Buffet Rule" : "If you make more than $1 million a year, you should pay at least the same percentage of your income...

Rush Limbaugh — calling SCOTUSblog "a very, very left-wing blog" — explains "the left's" "full swing" "effort to intimidate" the Supreme Court.

That took me aback, because I'm so used to viewing SCOTUSblog — which I read all the time — as a very authoritative and relentlessly s...

Romanticizing suicide. [AND: Murder!]

In the NYT. Expect more propaganda of this kind, my friends, because in the future, it is hoped, you will be your own death panel.

What makes Obama so confident?

"The part I struggle with is how you undo two years worth of implementation..."

"It would leave tremendous uncertainty about what is the direction we’re going in and that uncertainty would obviously affect the patie...

Crackdown on blog commenting.

In China: The moves are among the most dramatic censorship efforts undertaken by Beijing since the rise over the past two years of the popul...

Things I'm glad I didn't blog about.

"IRS not investigating Nikki Haley for tax fraud."

The Azalea Café...

... is good for what ails ya.

"EPA Backpedals on Fracking Contamination."

"The Environmental Protection Agency has dropped its claim that an energy company contaminated drinking water in Texas, the third time ...

Unpaid bloggers lose their lawsuit against Huffington Post.

"The principles of equity and good conscience do not justify giving the plaintiffs a piece of the purchase price when they never expect...

Olbermann falls further.

Fired by Al Gore's Current TV, less than a year after getting fired by MSNBC. Ouch. We created Current to give voice to those Americans...

The recall election against Gov. Scott Walker is scheduled, and Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett announces that he will run.

1. The Government Accountability Board certifies the election and schedules it for June 5. Get ready! 2. Tom Barrett, whom Walker defeated ...

A federal judge strikes down parts of Wisconsin budget repair law.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports: The court side with state officials in upholding limitations on what can be bargained, but found the...

Retweet the Right Thing.

Next time Spike "Do The Right Thing" Lee does racial politics on Twitter, perhaps he'll be a little more more circumspect. He ...

Adam Liptak — at the NYT — says the SG tried to appeal to Justice Kennedy's idea of liberty.

Liptak refers to the way the Solicitor General, Donald B. Verrilli Jr., ended his argument by connecting the health care law to liberty: “T...

What's with calling politicians — Romney... Obama... — "creepy"?

Scanning the news via iPhone while still lying in bed this morning — that's my habit, absurdly — I noticed someone was asserting that Ro...

"J-Lo, can you scoot over a little bit?"

Telling Jennifer Lopez to move her sublime ass? There really is only room for one female on the "American Idol" panel. Whenever t...

"I feel like throwing up when I hear it. No, I shouldn't say that. No, actually, I do feel like throwing up."

"I wish I could say, 'Oh listen, everybody! It's the Celine Dion song!' But I don't. I just have to sit there, you know...

"Our passports may say that we are French, but we don’t feel French because we are never accepted here."

"No one can excuse what he did, but he is a product of French society, of the feeling that he had no hope, and nothing to lose."

"Trayvon Martin was not innocent. He was guilty of being black in presumably restricted public space."

Writes Melissa Harris-Perry in The Nation: For decades, Jim Crow laws made this crime statutory. They codified the spaces into which black b...

Paul Ryan endorses Romney.

The Wisconsin congressman embraces the frontrunner on the eve of the Wisconsin primary. This, just days after the endorsement from Congress...

"You return force with force when somebody assaults you. George was out of breath, he was barely conscious."

"There would have been George dead if he had not acted decisively and instantaneously in that moment when he was being disarmed." ...

At the Hyacinth Café...

... it's still quite early.

"Obama Shifts View of Executive Power."

"When he ran for president, Barack Obama promised to roll back President George W. Bush's use of executive power, a defining point ...

Huge crowd at the Ron Paul rally this evening.

We were in the "backstage" area. Note how many people are on the other side, including on the roof.  And way up over there: I have...

Sarah Palin weighs in on the Scott Walker recall election.

At her Facebook page: I look at the far Left’s assault on Wisconsin and I say, “Are you kidding?” As an outsider (albeit an admitted Green B...

Ron Paul speaks at the UW tonight, on the Union Terrace, at 7.

It looks to be a huge event. It will be interesting to see how the people of Madison react to the iconic libertarian.

"Tony Scalia's Retirement Has Started Early."

Says Charles P. Pierce on the Esquire website. Calling a man of Italian ancestry "Tony" when that isn't his nickname? Isn...

"An’ for every hung-up person in the whole wide universe... we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing..."

One more Bob Dylan quote... one more post about freedom... ... because I just asked Meade what his favorite Bob Dylan song was, and he hadn...

Goodbye to Adrienne Rich and Earl Scruggs.

She was 82. He was 88. Famous people die in 3s — it has been noted — but who could complete the triad that begins with Rich and Scruggs? H...

Robert Zimmerman interview.

"All of our family, everyone who knows George, knows absolutely that is George screaming. There's no doubt in anyone's mind....

There's a human rights complaint against Earls Albino Rhino beer.

"Ikponwosa (I.K.) Ero of Vancouver has alleged to the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal that the name singles out people like her who suffer f...

At the Tulip Café...

... open wide.

Time-shifted live-blogging of this morning's Obamacare oral argument in the U.S. Supreme Court.

I've finally got time to curl up with a nice MP3 and transcript . I'm going to treat this like a live-blog, with frequent updates un...

How bad was the SG in yesterday's oral argument?

Well, he certainly started off bad. I don't think once he got going, he was as much of "train wreck" as Jeffrey Toobin seemed ...

Rasmussen does a poll on whether Zimmerman is guilty of murdering Trayvon Martin.

Is a disturbing notion of due process taking over in America? Forget trials and juries and all that stuff? Let's do a poll! Despite roun...

A paywall comes tumbling down.

At TNR. This decision is in line with our desire to enable new readers to discover and share the best of what TNR’s writers produce each day...

Reports from Day 3 of the Obamacare oral argument, now in progress.

The argument today is about severability — that is, whether, if a portion of the Act is struck down, some or all of the rest of the Act must...

Wisconsin Voter ID case goes straight to the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

The Wisconsin State Journal reports: Appeals courts sent two lawsuits challenging Wisconsin's blocked new voter ID law directly to the s...

When it comes to the Obamacare case, you just can't lose.

Let me state the obvious and not belabor it: Whoever loses will easily and powerfully leverage that loss in the political arena. If Obama lo...

The NYT fails to engage with any of the most compelling arguments made against the healthcare mandate.

Here 's the embarrassing editorial they printed, apparently trusting that readers would accept their characterization of what went on at...

"It’s the iPads and laptops with the plausible-but-fake information that you leave out in the car. Oh, right."

Ah, yes! And when they use that material, we will know who the thieves are. Fiendishly devious.

"It’s not simply a brutal killing. This act of violence at the heart of it is really sacrifice of a very striking kind."

After violent murder and mutiliation, they "then drink the juices the decomposing body releases, after which they retrieve parts of the...

One year ago at the Wisconsin protests: "Shame, shame, shame... Where is the shame?"

"Is it in wearing a gray hoodie under a tailored blazer, a little black derby hat, and a smelled-a-fart expression while carrying a pre...

10 highlights of today's Obamacare oral argument.

1. Justice Alito asks Solicitor General Verrilli if he could state "as succinctly as possible" a "limiting principle" on...