The Julian Assange case makes Sweden look like a country that’s governed by congenital idiots and populated with nothing but crazy sluts and lawyers.

Did Obama’s tax cut deal demolish the Republican charge that he’s a radical? Not hardly.

Tonight’s topics: The tax cut deal, Obama’s primary challengers, and whether politicians should care about the unemployed.

Has WikiLeaks changed journalism forever?

Minor fluctuation in tax rates is not the most significant thing happening in the world’s largest economy.

Aaron Sorkin gets “happy” when hunters accidentally kill one another.

President Obama’s press conference yesterday, bitterly railing against Democrats in the Congress for being “purist” and “sanctimonious,” is brilliant triangulation.

Some DC based hipsters want to know why America doesn’t have good pubs like in London. It turns out, they’re everywhere.

The namesake of “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” is no hunter, no matter what she might pretend.

Mike Brown, who discovered Xena, decided he could not in good conscience allow it to be made a planet. And killed off an old favorite in so doing.

Julian Assange is a loathsome human being. Is he also a rapist? Under Swedish law, maybe.

Joe Biden: “Obama: On the way to a failed presidency?”

Michael Wilbon departs the Washington Post after more than 30 years to work full time at ESPN. Here are his last — and first — columns.

The unemployed are predominately poorly educated non-voters. Some argue that they are therefore getting far too little attention from the political class.

Many Congressional Democrats both campaign for a higher minimum wage and employ interns at less than the existing minimum wage, many for no pay at all.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested Tuesday in London on a Swedish warrant.

The hunters in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and West Virginia alone would comprise the largest army in the world.

According to a new Gallup poll, President Obama is not only less popular than George W. Bush, but the only president from the last half century less popular is Dick Nixon.

An odd union contract creates powerful incentives against making escalators at subway stations in the nation’s capital work.

SNL’s Julian Assange spoof isn’t their best work but it’s mildly amusing

Republican maneuvering to extend the Bush tax cuts for all Americans appears about to pay off.

Are American diplomats lying to reporters because they figure our citizens can’t handle the truth?

While the University of Oregon’s athletic programs are flourishing in a seas of green, its academic programs are woefully underfunded.

Wayne State has canceled the Helen Thomas Spirit of Diversity in the Media Award, citing its namesake’s controversial remarks.

Those of us who think we’re overreacting to terrorism should remember that we’re in a tiny minority.

The Obama administration is banning hundreds of thousands of federal employees from calling up the WikiLeaks site on government computers because the leaked material is still formally regarded as classified.

The editors of the Washington Post want you to know that “Fair Game,” the new movie about the Valerie Plame affair, is “Hollywood myth making.” Propaganda and lies is more like it.

Viacom says a lower court ruling in favor of Google “would radically transform the functioning of the copyright system and severely impair, if not completely destroy, the value of many copyrighted creations.”

The commander-in-chief, secretary of defense, and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff all support removing the ban on gays in the military without further delay. A long-awaited Pentagon study showed no reason not to do so. But three of four Service chiefs disagree.

Unemployment rose to 9.8% from 9.6% in November.

Iowa Republicans are targeting professor sabbaticals, thus demonstrating that they understand neither higher ed nor economics.

Despite recurring predictions that the Internet and mass communications would allow people to work from anywhere, talent continues to cluster in big cities.

WikiLeaks domain name service was terminated for violating terms of use.

Why would anyone buy Johnnie Walker Blue, when amazing single malts can be had for less?

If 33 states can muster support to kill a law, how would it have gotten enacted to begin with?

Incoming House Speaker John Boehner plans a radical overhaul of how Congress spends our money.

Republican pollster Glen Bolger makes a bold promise: The GOP will retain House control in 2012 – Guaranteed.

Michael Yon provides a digital copy of PFC Bradley Manning’s Charge Sheet, dated 29 May. It makes for interesting reading.

Despite the Defense Department releasing its study showing that the effects of allowing gays to serve openly would be minimal, Senator John McCain isn’t convinced.

Bridget Terry Long, a professor of education and economics at Harvard, argues that we should give prospective college students and their families better information on such matters as loan burdens, graduation rates, average class size, average aid package, salaries earned and positions held by recent graduates, and alumni satisfaction.

The Pentagon could have taken down WikiLeaks but decided not to. Out of kindness, I suppose.

Meghan McCain doesn’t know what a “blue blood” is but doesn’t want to be called one.

Tonight’s topics: The fallout from the latest WikiLeaks dump and the Pentagon’s report on gays in the military.

WikiLeaks has been dumped from Amazon’s servers.

The prospective Republican field for 2012 is dismal. Then again, it always is.

A top Saudi cleric says nothing in the Koran forbids women from driving cars.