File this under things that would likely not have been a problem before the Internet. While President Obama was on vacation the Oval Office got a (very beige) makeover. The major contribution to the new look is a new oval rug featuring famous quotes from past presidents and one from Martin Luther King. Except apparently King is not the originator of the quote.

video Is this going to result in further calls for drug tests from Robert Gibbs? I think it's safe to say when one speaks of the "professional left" Paul Krugman and Tom Friedman are at the top of many people's list. And if this morning's This Week panel was anything to go by they are very, very angry.

It's been five years since Hurricane Katrina, and some marked the anniversary by looking back on what was lost, and thinking about how such a disaster might be prevented next time. Others just made really ill-advised football analogies.

video Apparently now that he has defeated dogged opponent J.D. Hayworth in the senate primary it is safe for the old John McCain to raise his head again. McCain popped up on Fox News Sunday this morning and essentially told Chris Wallace that if the GOP intends to make permanent inroads in the midterms this fall it needs to be something other than the party of No.

video Speculation about Hillary Clinton making a run for President in 2012, which began back in July, has made it all the way to Meet the Press. This morning David Gregory asked Obama campaign strategist David Plouffe whether he thought Hillary would challenge President Obama in 2012.

video Just days after President Obama declared Operation Iraqi Freedom officially over, former Prime Minister Tony Blair is jumping into the media fray with his new memoir 'A Journey: My Political Life,' which delves into his controversial decision to bring Britain into the Iraq War. Says Blair: "I think a lot of people don't understand that this is a generational-long struggle."

video Happy Labor Day weekend. According to Wikipedia, Americans "traditionally" celebrate the day "as the symbolic end of the summer." So mostly barbecues. However Labor day originally began as a way for the government to reconcile with the Labor movement and to demonstrate "the strength and esprit de corps of the trade and labor organizations." With that esprit in mind here are some famous 'working' movie scenes for you to enjoy between trips to the BBQ.

Twitter is the new Oprah. Just ahead of next Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards Kanye West spent yesterday penning a long apology to Taylor Swift on Twitter. And I mean long. As in 70-plus tweets. Says Kanye: "I've hurt, I've bled, I've learned. I only want to do good. I am passionate I am human I am real. I wish I could meet every hater." Also: "Beyonce didn't need that. MTV didn't need that and Taylor and her family friends and fans definitely didn't want or need that." Also, he wrote her a new song.

audio Florida Rep. Alan Grayson is a lively public figure, and having established a fairly solid public image (for better or worse), it seemed easy to predict what he would think of Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally. On the Stephanie Miller Show on Thursday, he described rally attendees as "people who were wearing sheets over their heads 25 years ago," which is almost predictable except... 25 years ago? In 1985?

WGN reporter Pat Tomasulo caught a lot of flack for dunking on a small child last year. Sure, the unnecessary showing of force made the four-year-old burst into tears, but life is like that sometimes. Sometimes you get dunked on by grown sports anchors.

video Keith Olbermann has found some strange rhetoric in the interior memos of the Joe Miller campaign (who defeated Sen. Lisa Murkowski in the Alaska Republican primary. "So far," the note explained, "the Lord has always provided the money." Except there is now evidence that Miller's campaign has ties to K Street, and he's not the first Tea Party-affiliated candidate to fall in the grasp of the larger GOP.

A massive fire has erupted at Pier 97 at West 57th Street and West Side Highway in Manhattan, currently at three-alarm status and counting. While the cause of the fire is as yet unknown, the warehouse is known to belong to the Department of Sanitation and it is suspected a barge holding diesel fuel has been set on fire. Video after the jump.

video Celebrity mom Bristol Palin is beginning the media tour for her upcoming appearance on Dancing with the Stars, and last night it landed her on the couch of Jay Leno's Tonight Show. Leno went easy the younger Palin, giving her space to dance, laugh, and take a few jabs at her ex Levi Johnston.

video On Today last week, NBC's Richard Engel argued that, before the US invasion of Iraq, leader Saddam Hussein was on the road to "moderation," and that his relationships with Eastern Europe, especially, were improving. Needless to say, on Thursday's O'Reilly Factor, Laura Ingraham and Greg Gutfeld had a field day with the idea that Hussein was a moderate.

video Some jokes are lost in translation. While it seems many in Iraq are laughing at celebrities that think they will be sent to jail for an attempted suicide bombing in the new hidden camera show Put Him In Bucca, Keith Olbermann muttered something about wives and families and extreme emotional distress on his "World's Worsts" segment last night. What a wet blanket!

video For people that disagree with her views, it's often hard to understand what could possibly be Sarah Palin's appeal to so many people. Well, here is clear proof of why: When Vietnam veteran Dave Roever found himself in Wasilla, Alaska with no TV equipment to make his appearance with Glenn Beck, Palin offered both her studio and her personal make-up artist services free of charge.

video Megyn Kelly was supposed to discuss the national economy with Major Garrett today, but, after talking about it all day, decided to forego the topic. Instead, Kelly and Garrett had a heartwarming exchange in honor of Garrett's last day at Fox News where we learn, among other things, that Garrett "isn't exactly a clean freak."

video New Zealand's second-largest city, Christchurch, was hit with a massive 7.2 Richter-scale earthquake earlier this afternoon (4:35 AM Saturday local time), and authorities are reporting that the damage in the city is "extensive," with several major buildings either in complete collapse or close to it.

video John Stossel's noble crusade against the Nanny State won't end until every single unreasonable bit of legislation is rejected by the American people. Many times, this leads Stossel to tackle obviously ridiculous law, like the time he got himself a government subsidy for a golf cart. Other times, it leads to outrage over the Americans With Disabilities Act.

The day after the Shirley Sherrod story broke 45 days ago, Andrew Breitbart was on every cable news network (and many other outlets) talking about the edited out-of-context video and subsequent overreaction from the government. But since that day, Breitbart, a media presence on the rise, has been absent from cable news. Did the Sherrod story damage his personal brand?