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Addressing Seditious Rhetoric…

Several days ago, the new President of the National Rifle Association, not only called President Obama a “fake president” but went on to suggest that the Civil War was an example of an armed citizenry, and thusly, training all able bodied...Show More Summary

Arkansas Treasurer Arrested for Extortion

Arkansas Treasurer Martha Shoffner (D) has been arrested and jailed by the FBI on federal charges of extortion. Shoffner was arrested on charges of extortion under color of official right, said FBI spokeswoman Kimberly Brunell. Legislative auditors last year questioned bond sales Shoffner made before the bonds matured. Show More Summary

Craziest Republican of the Day: E.W. Jackson

By Michael J.W. Stickings Virginia may be turning blue, but its Republican Party -- the party of Gov. Bob McDonnell and Lt. Gov. Ken Cuccinelli -- is getting redder and redder. And crazier and crazier, perhaps because it knows deep down that it's losing the state. Show More Summary

Anonymous launches Operation Guantanamo

On Friday, May 17, the international hacktivist collective known as Anonymous, joined by Code Pink and other political action groups from the U.S. and the U.K., launched Operation Guantanamo to mark the 100th day of a hunger strike within...Show More Summary

10 Bars to Visit Before You Die

ABC News lists bars that should be on your bucket list to visit before you die. Among them: "Heinold's First and Last Chance, Oakland, Calif. Built from an old whaling ship in 1883, this waterfront saloon saw sailors and pirates drinking at the (now very slanted) bar and playing cards at the original tables where you can still sit today. Show More Summary

Virginia GOP Nominee Believes Gays Are ‘Very Sick’ And Democrats Are Worse Than The KKK

The Virginia Republican Party this weekend nominated for lieutenant governor a minister who has a history of virulent anti-gay statements, accuses the Democratic Party of enslaving African Americans, and criticized President Obama for having “Muslim sensibilities.” The former Senate candidate,who in 2012 garnered less than 5 percent of the vote in the Republican primary, [...]

Michele Bachmann, Move to Eugene!

By Maria Smithson of Charlotte, North Carolina. Maria is a native Oregonian and a longtime national campaign operative. A proud mother of four Democrats, she is currently Political Director of True Blue NC. Dear Michele: The Daily Currant hoodwinked us good here in Liberal Land. Show More Summary

IRS Targeting Overlooked Biggest Players

The nation's tax agency has admitted to inappropriately scrutinizing smaller tea party organizations that applied for tax-exempt status. But the IRS largely maintained a hands-off policy with the much larger, big-budget organizations...Show More Summary

Queer Talk: Sara Bareilles, “I Want to See You Be Brave” [Video

“I Want to See You Be Brave” is the first single from the third studio album by Sara Bareilles. The Blessed Unrest. GayNet calls it the “uplifting gay anthem you’ve been waiting for.” From the lyrics: You can be amazing. You can turn a phrase into a weapon or a drug. You can be the [...]Show More Summary

NBC's David Gregory Mainstreams Theory That Obama Personally Fomented IRS Focus On Conservative Groups

From the May 19 edition of NBC's Meet the Press: Previously: The Bureaucrat Whisperer

1,200 Harvard Students Demand Investigation Into Jason Richwine’s Thesis On Hispanic IQ

Over 1,000 Harvard students delivered a petition to Harvard University’s JFK School on Saturday, demanding an investigation into how and why the school approved a 2009 doctoral thesis arguing that Hispanics have lower IQs. The thesis was written by Jason Richwine, a co-author of a paper by the conservative Heritage Foundation that argued immigration reform [...]

Honey, I shrunk the deficit! (video)

Climate change isn't AN issue, it's THE issue

Home Nicholas Stern has been a lecturer at the University of Oxford, a professor of Economics at the University of Warwick and the London School of Economics, chief economist and special counsellor to the president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, World Bank chief economist, second permanent secretary at H.M. Show More Summary

Worse Than Watergate: Growing Scandal Brings Nation To The Brink Of Ruin

The Washington Post’s Ezra Klein points us to the ever-growing scandal that will echo through the ages: When future generations look back on the scandals of our age, it’ll be the unchecked rise in global temperatures, not the Benghazi talking points, that infuriate them. Yes, unchecked warming is likely to prove the greatest scandal in [...]

CNN's Crowley Adopts False Right-Wing Claim That Obama Didn't Call Benghazi A Terrorist Attack

From the May 19 edition of CNN's State of the Union: Previously: Fox And Issa Claim There's A Difference Between An "Act Of Terror" And A Terrorist Attack Major Newspapers Whitewash Obama's "Act Of Terror" Assertion

ABC's Jon Karl Tells CNN He Regrets Getting Benghazi Talking Points Reporting Wrong

From the May 19 edition of CNN's Reliable Sources: Previously: What ABC And The Weekly Standard Got Wrong On The Benghazi Emails Media Observers on ABC's Jonathan Karl Benghazi Talking Points Story: "Sloppy" And "Inaccurate" ABC News & The Whitewater Tactics At The Center Of The Scandal Machine

VIEWPOINT: Ambassador Chris Stevens Deserved Better Than What Benghazi Became

I didn’t know Chris Stevens. I admit that the first I’d heard of the U.S. Ambassador to Libya was the morning of Sept. 12, when I woke up and, along with the rest of the country, learned that he and three others had died in an attack on a diplomatic mission in Benghazi. By all [...]

Rand Paul Struggles To Tie Obama To IRS Scandal

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) went on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday to use the IRS scandal to attack the Obama administraiton, but flubbed a key part of his case: he couldn’t defend the claim that IRS was targeting conservative groups as part of a political strategy to help the White House. Paul, like [...]

The Myth of Privacy in a Google Age

It's incredibly ironic that after years of the Patriot Act, and actually sitting on information that the Bush administration had been monitoring millions of Americans' communications without warrants that the media is now up in armsShow More Summary

Government by Platitude

A society where knowledge is irrelevant, replaced by focus-group tested slogans and canned talking points created by and for a bunch of rich people isn’t a democracy.