"Yesterday, we reported an unexpected political role for the American family dining chain that's famous for its wings. That chain, of course, is Hooters. They're famous for their ... wings. Right?" ...
... "I have heard that their wings are awesome."

-- Rachel Maddow, pontificating on Chamber of Commerce fraud and Hooters (more...)

Yesterday afternoon, Talking Points Memo ran a story about the White House's reaction to discussion of an opt-out clause in the Senate's health care bill, "Sources: White House Pushing Back Against Senate Public Option Opt Out Compromise." (more...)

This morning the Associated Press joined Talking Points Memo and Gawker as practitioners of the 'open notebook' method of reporting — well, inadvertently. (more...)

Yesterday the Justice Department released a 2004 memo detailing abuses that took place inside the CIA’s overseas prisons "showing how interrogators choked a prisoner repeatedly and threatened to kill another detainee’s children." Shortly thereafter the New York Times took the unusual step of posting the entire report in a document reader on its website and invited "readers to help us annotate and make sense of the new details revealed in the report and other supplementary materials we will also post as they are released." (more...)