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Watch the Elana Kagen confirmation hearings. Should she be appointed to the Supreme Court? How polarizing and contentious will Kagen’s confirmation process be?

Joe Biden, a man who is not afraid to speak his mind… especially when getting some frozen custard and some guy tells him to lower taxes. You tell ‘em, Joe. Why can’t a man just get a frozen treat without being reminded what people want him to do in his job? Sprinkles and a cup of STFU, please.

The incoming first lady, Michelle Obama, talks to CNN about that fateful first time meeting Barack. At first she thought he was going to be nerdy and weird but after that first lunch she was smitten. Then after that first date she knew he was the one. 

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I gotta say that at first the movie “Frost/Nixon” didn’t really grab me as something that might be interesting on film but now that I’ve been reading and hearing more about it, I’m intregued. I found this 60 Minutes clip from 1977, shortly before the interviews aired on TV.

November 4th, 2008 will go down in history as a defining moment for America and I have no doubt this speech will be remembered as one of the greatest moments in political oratory in this era. I am very proud to be able to say I watched it happen live and I have no doubt I will watch this again and again, if for no other reason than to be proud to be an American.

Voting machines elect one of their own as president… with frightening results…

John McCain stars as himself along with Tina Fey’s brilliant Sarah Palin parody in this weekend-before-the-election SNL show opener. Honestly, McCain’s comic timing isn’t that bad at all.

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This is possibly the funniest thing I’ve seen on SNL in a long, long time…

I think it’s really pretty funny how much they got away with saying stuff to her face in the name of “just goofing around”… I really love what they did here. Tina Fey is just awesome. Alec Baldwin seems nervous, like a guy who has never done live TV before. I’m thinking he may have been intimidated by Gov. Palin…