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Watch the State of The Union in the post below, and catch our commentary here. Featuring me (shani-o), Jamelle, Monica, blackink12, and G.D.. Watch the video below. Liveblogging the State of the Union Address

You can watch it right here, via Hulu, at nine. And! You can read mine, Jamelle’s, and Monica’s commentary in a post (it’s going up closer to the start of the address) that will collect our tweetage right here on the blog.

Matt Yglesias does the admirable work of explaining President Obama’s bizarre plan for a three-year freeze on non-defense discretionary spending (via Dara): The freeze would not apply to the Department of Defense, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Homeland Security, or to the foreign operations budget of the State Department. The official emphasized Read More

Not only is this a fantastic video, it wins points for highlighting the single most frustrating thing about the abortion debate, namely, the fact that anti-abortion folks are the only people in the United States that can pick and choose what they want their tax dollars to support. If I, for example, tried to withhold Read More

Adam Serwer writes that after decades of taking increasingly punitive steps against nonviolent felons, many of the folks who championed so many of those same tough-on-crime policies — which has left 1 percent of the U.S. population behind bars — are starting to change their tunes. Fueled by the damage mass incarceration has done to Read More

Cross-posted from TAPPED. Bloggers and columnists, in the flurry of predictions that come at the start of any new year, are wondering how we’ll consume media in 2010. What will be the new Twitter? Will any of it will be enough to save old media outlets? These questions are important, but it’s worth remembering that Read More

Adam Serwer on liberal discontent over the state of healthcare reform: I think this is basically right. For all the havoc Joe Lieberman has caused, it’s worth remembering that an ideal bill for liberals, with a robust public option, was always a longshot even with his participation. A couple months ago,  Latoya Peterson and I Read More

I’ve been a vegetarian* for a little over four years now, and a big reason was Eric Schlosser‘s meticulously reported Fast Food Nation. In it, Schlosser argued that the big, unsanitary factory farms which produce our meat were breeding grounds for bacterial infection and possibly even mad cow disease — an unsettling state of affairs Read More

It’s official — the public option has finally been put to rest, and in it’s place are  a set of measures which arguably are a much — much — better deal.  Here’s Talking Points Memo with the details: As has been widely reported, one of the trade-offs will be to extend a version of the Read More
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