No, this is not about the shootings in Tucson — at least, not in any direct sense. This is about Rep. Peter King (R-NY) accusing Muslim-Americans (all Muslim-Americans) of being uncooperative with anti-terrorism efforts, of being disloyal Americans and, in fact, of not being real Americans at all when it comes to defending the United States:

People’s Parties

Coming from David Frum, this advice carries a lot more force than if it were coming from, oh say, Firedoglake or Crooks and Liars, e.g. (emphasis is mine):

My Google Alert for Wikileaks-related news brings me this item, from IT Security & Network Security News:

Some news about legislative activity out West, via Ezra Klein:

“John Saw That Number” and “That Teenage Feeling.”

Republicans in Congress seem to have a genius for screwing up their own gimmicks.

Republicans made a new budget rule that all legislation must be paid for, and one of the first things they did in the new session was break their own rule:

There is really nothing, beyond the title, that I can add to this:

I just live for connections like this; they fill me with delight!

Ezra Klein gives us two graphs. The first compares median household income to the wealthiest Americans’ share of income over the last 60 years; the second shows us income gains since 1947 — the gain for the top 1% compared with the median income gain.

I think it’s hilarious that the government-funded Voice of America publishes an article about a Wikileaks-released cable that indicates Israel would have only 10 to 12 minutes warning before an Iranian rocket attack while this same government’s State Department (among other government agencies) forbids its employees to read Wikileaks on government computers and the government’s Department of Justice pursues ways to prosecute Wikileaks founder for espionage and holds in solitary...

A new poll conducted by 60 Minutes and Vanity Fair finds that fully two-thirds of Americans supporting bringing the deficit down by taxing the rich:

In the United States now, law “enforcement” authorities literally have a license to break the law. Put slightly differently, if you are a police officer, you can do exactly what a gang member or a bunch of thugs would do, and almost always you will suffer no consequences at all. And although it may be true that the vast majority of police officers are law-abiding professionals, encounters like this DO happen every day in this country, and they should not happen at all.

From Project Censored:

This is one of the most beautiful songs I know, and certainly one of my favorite Sheryl Crow songs (lyrics below video).

The four C’s are Karl Rove’s Courage and Consequence, and John Yoo’s Crisis and Command. The winner of the number one spot on that list does not have to share the spotlight: It’s George W. Bush, for Decision Points.

Colman McCarthy has an op-ed in the Washington Post today that is drawing the ire of military and right-wing bloggers. I write about it here.

Jennifer Rubin, in her new role as Fred Hiatt’s latest right-wing blogger hire for the Washington Post (you can read Dave Weigel’s classy write-up here), is apoplectic about the six recess appointments Pres. Obama just made. ‘Egregious’! ‘Imperious’! ‘So much for bipartisanship’!

Triangulate: a word that has various meanings depending on the context. In the Wall Street Journal today, Floyd Abrams triangulates in the psychological sense: a three-person dynamic in which one person tries to drive a wedge between two people by allying with one against the other — aka playing two people against each other; also aka divide and conquer. Abrams is doing it in the service of demonizing and discrediting Wikileaks, and Julian Assange.