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Open thread for night owls: Summoning the godfather of investibators

This actually appeared as an op-ed for the New York Times. From previous Times editor Bill Keller, no less. Republicans are howling for President Obama to name a special prosecutor to investigate the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of Tea Party groups. Show More Summary

Open Thread

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C&L's Late Nite Music Club With Chuck Jackson

Title: Any Day Now Artist: Chuck Jackson Motown Anthology Artist: Chuck Jackson Price: $5.13 (As of 05/22/13 07:01 pm details) Here's a singer. Got a favorite vocal performance?

Late Night: Thank the Lord?

oops! Blitzer to tornado survivor: “I guess, you gotta thank the Lord, right?”  

Economics Daily Digest: Where Have All The Good Jobs Gone?

By Rachel Goldfarb, originally published on Next New Deal Click here to receive the Daily Digest via email. The Case for Raising the Minimum Wage (U.S. News and World Report) David Cooper makes the case that raising the minimum wageShow More Summary

How to interrogate a one-year-old (video)

A note on tornado intensity ratings

Devstation in Moore, OK, courtesy of Jeff Masters at the WeatherUnderground. Click for more expert storm info & images. There's been some confusing numbers thrown out on the rating of the tornadoes that devastated Oklahoma yesterday....Show More Summary

Fox's Hannity and Malkin Blame London Attack On Progressive Gun And Immigration Laws

From the May 22 edition of Fox News' Hannity: MALKIN: What do you need to have? Neon lights that say, 'Islamic jihad,' 'Islamic jihad?' I mean, duh. They were screaming at the top of their lungs, 'Allahu Akbar,' and repeatedly swore in the name of Allah that they would continue to fight against us. Show More Summary

A Troubling Trend Continues: A Growing Share of Wisconsin Schoolchildren are Low-Income

The number of Wisconsin children who are from low-income families has climbed for the ninth straight year, according to a new report from the state’s Department of Public Instruction.

Colbert Mocks Tea Partiers For Whining About Tax-Exempt Status They Didn't Have to Ask For

Click here to view this media ABC's Jonathan Karl and his part in helping to feed the scandal-mongering over Benghazi wasn't the only recent Republican drummed up outrage Stephen Colbert decided to take on during this Monday's show.Show More Summary

VA Lt. Gov. Nominee Called Three-Fifths Clause An ‘Anti-Slavery Amendment’

This was all in the cause of attacking President Obama. In an April 28, 2011 statement while he was a Senate candidate, conservative minister and lawyer E.W. Jackson held up the three-fifths clause as an “anti-slavery” measure. The context of his statement was to attack President Obama after a pastor at a church service he [...]

Tesla Motors, Called ‘Losers’ By Romney And Palin, Pays Off Government Loan 9 Years Early

Will we hear “Tesla” as many times as we heard “Solyndra?” “I would like to thank the Department of Energy and the members of Congress and their staffs that worked hard to create the ATVM program, and particularly the American taxpayer from whom these funds originate,” billionaire inventor and Tesla CEO Elon Musk said. “I [...]

Pope Francis: Atheists Can Be Good People

It’s not what you believe, it’s what you do. The leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Roman Catholics made his comments in the homily of his morning mass at his residence, a daily event at which he speaks without prepared comments. He told the story of a Catholic who asked a priest if even atheists [...]

Bernanke to Congress: Enough with the austerity, already

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke is over austerity and, in typical Fed speak, did his best to convince the members of the Joint Economic Committee of Congress that just maybe their efforts would...Show More Summary

U.K. Sued for Rendering Libyan to Qaddafi

The British government is trying to force a case examining its role in the rendering of an opponent of Muammar Gaddafi back to Libya in 2004 to be heard in a secret court, or not at all.In the first preliminary hearing over the claim...Show More Summary

Mickey Kaus: The Daily Caller's Sexual Assault Truther

Daily Caller contributor Mickey Kaus theorized that recent incidents of sexual assaults in the military may be a diversion tactic aimed at steering attention away from the White House. Sexual assaults in the military are a growing problem. Show More Summary

VA Lt. Gov. Candidate On Why He’s Made Hateful Comments: ‘I’m A Christian’

That’s how E.W. Jackson explains the horrible things he’s said about gays, Democrats, and Liberals. “Homosexuality is a horrible sin, it poisons culture, it destroys families, it destroys societies; it brings the judgment of God unlike very few things that we can think of,” he said last year. He has also called Democrats “slave masters” [...]

Dead Boston Bombing Suspect Implicated In Triple Homicde

A man killed earlier Wednesday by FBI officials told them Boston bomber Tamarlan Tsarnaev was involved with him in the slaying of three men in 2011. Ibragim Todashev, who died during the interview with authorities, not only confessed to his direct role in slashing the throats of three people in the killings in Waltham, Massachusetts, [...]

The Honeybee Crisis

According to statistics released by the US Department of Agriculture earlier this month, 31 percent of the managed honeybee colonies died in the winter. Since fruiting is dependent on fertilization, a result of pollination, honeybee decline can impact agriculture. We can directly link honeybees to one out of every three bites of food that we put on our table.

Arizona Abortion Law Struck Down

Arizona’s abortion law is unconstitutional, according to a federal appeals court. About a year ago, the state banned abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy except in medical emergencies. But a circuit court now ruled that the government...Show More Summary