Elizabeth Warren on The Daily Show     Christopher Hitchens on
the British monarchy  He gives it the drubbing it deserves but
has some friendly advice for the new bride: persuade your new
husband to abdicate before it is too late, and that corrupt and
soul-killing institution gets you too.   It’s uncanny     Donald
Trump and the birthers  On his MSNBC show, Lawrence O’Donnell
lashes out at the racism that motivates people like Donald Trump
and others who question Obama’s eligibility to be president (and
even his academic record) and the media’s complicity
(particularly NBC) in allowing these crazies to have a platform.
It seems like quite a lot of people simply cannot stomach the
fact that a non-white person with a foreign-sounding name could
be the president of ‘their’ country.   Bernie Sanders on The
Daily Show  The independent socialist senator from Vermont says
what I have been saying for some time, except far more clearly
and succinctly and without using the word oligarchy. It was
clear to me that Sande