Well, hello everyone, my name is Jason, and welcome to what promises to be an interesting summation of an interesting week in our lives. Ha: kidding! It will probably be an unendurably shallow summation of same, but I like to spend a few minutes pretending.

What a week, right? A...

Florida, your long nightmare is over!

No, I'm not talking about the current reign of your grifter governor -- that's a nightmare of much shorter duration.

At long last, and on its third attempt, the Florida legislature has succeeded in passing an anti-bestiality bill. From the perspective...

This week was an important week for American democracy, as the GOP met in South Carolina for a grand debate, in which all most some a handful of longshots and holographic screensaver of Tim Pawlenty, competed to win the GOP nomination make an impression with voters win the approval of...

This past weekend, the mood established by the festivities of the White House Correspondents' Dinner shifted very quickly to the harried, high-tension period of time of waiting for Sunday night's surprise news about the death of Osama bin Laden to break. And during that time, there were apparently a number...

Do you have plans for the summer of 2011? I know I do. I'm going to visit London, and redecorate my apartment, and maybe go see some movies or something. But we all may want to put our plans on hold, because it's entirely possible that the world might end...

Did you miss last night's GOP presidential debate in South Carolina, between four people who have only a slim chance of ever being the party's nominee and a Tim Pawlenty-themed holographic screensaver? I have to imagine that many of you did, since it's May, more than a year from the...

The Speculatron's favorite longshot candidate, Fred Karger, has released a new web video in support of his ongoing efforts in New Hampshire. Titled "Demon Frisbee," it references Carly Fiorina's cinematic masterpiece, "Demon Sheep," with a lot of "Plan 9"-style sci-fi cheese effects. But it's all in good fun! Karger supporters...

The first scheduled debate of the campaign season, jointly sponsored by NBC News and Politico, was supposed to have been held on May 2. But back at the end of March, the debate organizers rather astutely observed that the presumed frontrunners weren't yet running and that the campaign season had...

You know, I understand that the media today mainly wants to dispute whether or not the Bush administration deserves some credit in the wake of the operation that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden. After all, it's a hell of a lot easier than asking if the ongoing...

UPDATE, 4:11pm: Mike Huckabee is disputing reports that suggest Fox News has imposed a decision deadline on him. Per Andy Barr:

Citing GOP operatives, RealClearPolitics reported Thursday that the network has given Huckabee until the end of May to opt against a run or lose his lucrative contract...

Hey, you guys remember Buddy Roemer, right? Former Louisiana Governor? Re-emerged after a quarter-century of being out of politics to announce he was running for President? Last seen procuring a Winnebago? Yeah, that guy. He's been out of the news so long that I started to worry that he...

While most of my assumptions about the state of Minnesota are based upon a single weekend trip to Minneapolis and the entire Replacements discography, I have been largely led to believe that Minnesotans are known the world over for being nice. And not just any old standard of niceness: "

As it turns out, sending Osama bin Laden to his watery grave is a great political move.

The most recent New York Times poll sees Obama on the bounce: approval rating up 11 points, from 46 percent to 57 percent, his "highest number since the summer of 2009."

For so many months, we have waited and waited for Newt Gingrich to resolve his many thousand "financial entanglements" and make up his mind on whether, after sixteen years of sidling up to the idea of running for president, he finally might make the plunge.

Back in...

Some bad news for presumed candidate for president and putative frontrunner Mitt Romney today. Mother Jones' Andy Kroll reports that Bruce Keough, who "oversaw Romney's 2008 campaign" in the state of New Hampshire, won't be re-upping with Romney for his 2012 run, and will instead shop around for a...

I think most of us are glad to no longer be sharing the same space as Osama bin Laden, metaphysical or otherwise. But because a long time ago it was decided that it was acceptable for major news organizations to just take polls about whatever damn thing happened to occur...

Ahh, Charlie Crist. Once upon a time people thought Crist, who served as the governor of Florida from 2007 to 2011, had a bright political future. He was going to run for Senate, if he wasn't snatched up as a vice presidential candidate for John McCain first. He was...

I'm really not sure if this is an example of a bit of tweet-snark gone terribly awry, or maybe an account that's been hacked, but Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has sent one of the strangest tweets ever in response to the death of infamous terrorist Osama bin...

As we've already pointed out, having to cover President Barack Obama's announcement of the operation that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden proved to be pretty hectic for everybody involved.

But the good news, as far as the media is concerned, is that they'll probably...

Former Utah Governor and U.S. Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman has only recently completed his overseas obligations, but as reports from last week suggested, he's pushing ahead on making a possible White House run in 2012.

Per Politico:

Moving swiftly since his return to Washington from Beijing Friday,...