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Week of November 9, 2009
- Congresswoman Diana DeGette
- Senator Bernie Sanders
- Jeff Sharlet, author of "The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power." He's also a contributing editor to Harpers magazine.
- Ana Marie Cox, Air America Radio
From the Web
- The Stupak Amendment
- Obtained: In Letter To Pelosi, 41 House Dems Pledge To Vote Against Bill With Anti-Abortion Amendment
- Obama: 'This is a Health Care Bill, Not an Abortion Bill'
- TRMS Flashback: Oct. 3, 2006, The Rachel Maddow Show on Air America - Rachel suffers some consternation from her interview with Congressman Bart Stupak about then-Congressman Mark Foley's Congressional page sex scandal. (mp3, Total length 8:47. The interview excerpts begin around 4:00.)
- Ensign moves out of home on C Street
- Officials: U.S. Army Told of Hasan's Contacts with al Qaeda
- U.S. tracked Fort Hood suspect before shooting
- Rupert Murdoch vows to take all of Newscorp's websites out of Google, abolish fair use, tear heads off of adorable baby animals
- Tom Brokaw: ‘It is permission to leave the GDR’ (don't miss the video)
- The Inside Story with Ana Marie Cox
- Claire McCaskill opposes Stupak
- Billionaire Xchange
- Colonel Jack Jacobs, MSNBC military analyst
- Suhail Khan, Senior fellow for Muslim-Christian Understanding at the Institute for Global Engagement. He is also a former senior political appointee in the administration of President George W. Bush.
- Congressman Anthony Weiner
- Former Vice President Al Gore, author, "Our Choice: A plan to solve the climate crisis"
From the Web
- Camp Lejeune Reaction To Fort Hood Shooting
- NEW INFORMATION: Marine In Custody For Homicide At Camp Lejeune
- Fort Campbell soldier and her civilian husband are dead in an apparent murder-suicide
- Birther Site Is Already Lying About Ft. Hood Shooter and Obama
- CBO writes to Congressman Boehner with its assessment of H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act.
- Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry: Let states lead the way - "Texas, for example, has adopted approaches to controlling health-care costs while improving choice, advancing quality of care and expanding coverage."
- U.S. census bureau: Texas ranks dead last in percent of population covered by some type of health insurance: 74.9 - Table HI05. Health Insurance Coverage Status and Type of Coverage by State and Age for All People: 2008
- A Message From Congressman Anthony Weiner
- Bachmann aide no longer taking care of business
- Sources: Suicide probed in census worker case
- The Preamble of the United States Constitution
- School House Rock: The Preamble
- Let's learn about coal coloring book
- NBC’s Charles Hadlock & Jim Miklaszewski on Ft. Hood, Texas shootings
- Salon's Mark Benjamin | Articles
- Rep. Barney Frank on health care reform
- Eugene Robinson, Pulitzer Prize-winng columnist, Washington Post
- Matthew Hoh, former State Department official in Afghanistan who resigned over Afghan war
- Former Vice President Al Gore, author, "Our Choice"
From the Web
- Lindsey Graham warns GOP against going too far right
- Don't Kill Grandma .com
- AFP buses coming to Washington DC Nov. 5
- Eugene Robinson: A world of change in 287 days
- Must Read, Amazing: Armey says he mastered dual roles of lobbyist, conservative leader
- Dick Armey Is Back on the Attack
- Mr. Cuccinelli's bigotry
- 'Everything but marriage' backers smelling victory
- Parker, Locke in runoff for Houston mayor
- Matthew Hoh resignation letter (pdf)
- Iraq Swears by Bomb Detector U.S. Sees as Useless
- Al Gore's Journal: Our Choice
- Al Gore's Our Choice: Progressive Book Club Review
- RepowerAmerica.org
- Statement by President Barack Obama on Iran
- 82 Endangered Sea Turtles Hatch At San Diego SeaWorld (PHOTOS)
9 p.m. ET:
- Dave Weigel, reporter, The Washington Independent
- Melissa Harris-Lacewell, associate professor of politics and African-American studies, Princeton University
- Jesse Connelly, campaign manager, NO on 1 Protect Maine Equality
- Cleve Jones, human rights activist
- Jane Hamsher, FireDogLake.com
11 p.m. ET
- Governor John Baldacci, Maine
- Lawrence O’Donnell, The Huffington Post and MSNBC analyst
- Melissa Harris-Lacewell, associate professor of politics and African-American studies, Princeton University
- Jane Hamsher, FireDogLake.com
From the Web
- David Weigel: NY-23: ‘Doug Rode the 50-Foot Wave’
- David Weigel: NY-23: Hoffman Says Victory Would Be for ‘Average People,’ Not Necessarily Republicans
- The uprising in NY -- and what it means for Connecticut
- 'Meet the Press' transcript for August 16, 2009 - Dick Armey, Tom Coburn, Tom Daschle, Rachel Maddow, Charlie Rangel, Bruce Josten, Bill Ritter (includes video)
- Reid reassures left Lieberman on board
- Reid, Lieberman Offices Both Strongly Deny Report That Lieberman Won’t Filibuster
- Chris Hayes, Washington editor, The Nation
- Melissa Harris-Lacewell, associate professor of politics and African-American studies, Princeton University
- Ned Lamont, ran as a Democrat against Joe Liberman in 2006 and is a Fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics
- Matt Miller, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and author of the book, "The Tyranny of Dead Ideas: Letting Go of the Old Ways of Thinking to Unleash a New Prosperity"
From the Web
- Hoffman unfamiliar with district issues
- PUblic Policy Polling: Maine 11/2 (pdf)
- The Washington Poll, October 27, 2009 (pdf)
- Melissa Harris-Lacewell: New Orleans still waits for change from Obama
- Melissa Harris-Lacewell: Will a Racial Divide Swallow Obama?
- Matt Miller: Why the trigger will work
- Left, Right & Center
- Bush favours UNSC seat for India
- Blame it on Macys - Why the Phillies lost
- Philadelphia Enquirer: A message to our readers
- Monty Python- Déjà Vu
- Howard Fineman, senior Washington correspondent, Newsweek and analyst, MSNBc
- Melanie Sloan, executive director, CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington)
- Jonathan Turley, professor of Constitutional Law, George Washington University Law School
- Xeni Jardin, editor and partner, BoingBoing.net
From the Web
- Harkin: Lieberman will come around
- CREW lawsuits results in a release of notes of Cheney's FBI interview in Wilson leak case (includes original document links)
- Alabama doctor and free clinic founder confirmed as U.S. Surgeon General
- CREW issues statement on House ethics investigations
- Reagan May Consider Tax Changes to Cut Deficit
- Reagan, Nuclear Deployer, Turns Into Nuclear Defuser
- The Nation: Gorbachev on 1989
- Orly Taitz: REMINDER! PROTEST BILL O’REILLY IN NY ON VETERAN’S DAY
- Web Addresses Now Can Be All Greek to You, ICANN Rules
- Current Top Level Domains PLUS!! scroll down close to the bottom for a view of the internationalized domain names that were tested
- Boulder naked pumpkin run (um... yeah, definitely NSFW)
- Palm Beach Sugar Daddy Ken Doll
- Jane Hamsher, FireDogLake.com
- Congressman Anthony Weiner
- Governor John Baldacci, Maine
- Congressman Ed Markey, Chairman of House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming
From the Web
- WellPoint Board of Directors
- House health-care reform bill to include public option
- Jane Hamsher: House Health Care Bill: A Death Sentence For My Fellow Breast Cancer Survivors
- Jane Hamsher: Dodd: Lieberman Being Reprimanded Is “Ridiculous”
- Jane Hamsher: Yes, I Dared Blanche Lincoln to Filibuster on MSNBC…
- Jane Hamsher: Is Blanche Lincoln Against Taxpayer-Funded Insurance For Big Ag, Too?
- If The Dems Make A Health Care Bill, Will The Tea-Partiers Come?
- The Mob That Wasn't Greets Arrival Of Pelosi Bill
- A Message From Congressman Anthony Weiner
- Daily Kos/Research 2000 Maine Poll
- Baldacci calls for equality at No on Question 1 event
- Rep. Buyer's scholarship fund hasn't helped a single student
- PhRMA Gave Big To GOP Rep's Iffy Foundation, Hired His Son, Kept On Giving
- How They Did It: David Plouffe on Obama's 2008 Victory
- UK trustees approve Wildcat Coal Lodge despite students' protests
- House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming: Fraudulent Letters Opposing Clean Energy Legislation
- Did Coal Lobby CEO Lie Under Oath?
- Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com
- Tim Weiner,reporter, New York Times and author, "Legacy of Ashes"
- David Brancaccio, host and senior editor, NOW on PBS
From the Web
- CBO's public option stunner: It reduces deficit
- Google: "Joe lieberman" filibuster
- Lieberman Rejected Filibusters On Other Bills He Opposed, But Not Health Care
- Remember The "Gang Of 14?"
- Glenn Greenwald at Salon.com
- Dan Carpenter: What may the circle betoken? (The article cited by Greenwald on the air)
- Newsman to Speak at Events of Group Opposed to Health Care Plan
- John Stossel Takes Your Questions this Thursday
- Brother of Afghan Leader Said to Be Paid by C.I.A.
- Karzai’s Brother Is a CIA Asset
- Craig Ferguson's studio blackout
- The Case for More Stimulus
- PBS: Blueprint America
- WSDOT animation shows Viaduct destruction
- Raw: WSDOT simulation of viaduct destruction during quake
- eBay refuses benefit auction for Roeder
- Women squirted with paint while distributing pamphlets
- In NJ Incident, Police Confuse Followers of Lyndon Larouche With Workers for Drug Giant La Roche
- Palin created company while in office
- Palin's financial disclosure statement (pdf)
- Jane Hamsher, FireDogLake.com
- Eric Schmidt, chairman and CEO, Google
- Steve Benen, writer, WashingtonMontly.com
- Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky
From the Web
- Lieberman: Sure, I'd Filibuster A Health Care Reform Bill With A Public Option
- Reid: Lieberman Is The Least Of My Problems
- Jane Hamsher: Lieberman to Filibuster — And What’s Obama Going to Do?
- Jane Hamsher: Rachel Maddow Redux: Dangers of Keeping Lieberman in Caucus, From November 2008
- FDL: State Blogs Weigh In on Joe Lieberman Filibuster Threat, “Opt-Out”
- Fisker Automotive
- Right Battles G.O.P. in a Pivotal Race in New York
- Steve Benen: Part of a movement, not a district
- Watertown Daily Times: Hoffman unfamiliar with district issues
- H Res 870: Expressing gratitude and appreciation to the individuals and families who participated in the Taxpayer March on Washington on September 12, 2009. (Introduced in House)
- Brother of Afghan Leader Is Said to Be on C.I.A. Payroll
- U.S. official resigns over Afghan war
- Hoh's resignation letter (pdf)
- L.A. Times: Nine years later the N.Y. Times still awaits its Bush interview
- Politifact: President Bush did give the New York Times interviews
- Jeremy Scahill: Iraq Embassy Scandal Expands: Contractor May Have to Repay $130 Million
- Schakowsky Outlines Road Map for Intelligence Reporting Investigation
- Dawn Rizos Did Get Her Money Back From Newt Gingrich. No, It Wasn't 5,000 Singles.
- Strip club owner: Gingrich group pulled award
- The Lodge (not porn and no real nudity but probably NSFW just the same)
- Senator Ron Wyden
- Lee Thompson, attorney for Dr. George Tiller's estate
- Richard Engel, chief foreign correspondent, NBC News
- Kent Jones, chief motivational correspondent, TRMS
- Dave Zirin, sports editor, The Nation
From the Web
- Online auction to raise funds in Scott Roeder case
- Richard Engel: Deadly hours in Afghanistan
- Brian Katulis's blog: The AfPak Channel
- Humana Mailer Targets Elderly, Claims Medicare Benefits To Be Cut
- Feds investigate health insurance company
- Sebelius Prods Senate to Move on Surgeon General Nominee
- $7 million for UK basketball player dorm would put 'coal' in the name
- Wildcat Coal Lodge proposal which side are you on?
- Tea Party Patriots vs. Tea Party Express
- Tea Party Activists Reject PAC-Backed ‘Tea Party Express’
- Dave Zirin: My Response to Rush: It's the Racism, Stupid
- Christopher Hayes, Washington editor, The Nation
- Michael Isikoff, investigative correspondent, Newsweek and MSNBC contributor
- Xeni Jardin, editor and partner, BoingBoing.net
- Will Femia, lucky pedestrian, msnbc.com
From the Web
- Fox Reporter to Host Totally Balanced Anti-Health Care Reform Event
- Michael Isikoff: Update: Major Republican Donor Plans to Fund Liz Cheney’s New Organization
- Rich Life Club's BBB grade: F
- Get Motivated Seminars, Inc.'s BBB grade: D+
- Lowes sell fomer Pope mansion in Manalapan to joint venture
- Robert Scoble's tweet about seeing a Google car and the photo, which should have been credited to Rocky Barbanica is here.
- Will Femia: OMG! It's the Google Street View car!
- Keith Olbermann, Countdown, MSNBC
- Retired United States Army Major General Paul Eaton - He served more than 30 years in the U.S. Army and from 2003-2004 oversaw the training of the Iraqi military. He is now a senior advisor with the National Security Network.
- Jane Mayer, staff writer, The New Yorker and author, "The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals"
- Howard Dean, former Vermont Governor and DNC Chair
From the Web
- Obama Charms Even a Night's Grand Ol' Party
- Bush and Cheney on N.Y. Times Adam Clymer
- The photos of right-wing radio hosts meeting with President Bush can be seen here and here. (Anyone got better links for these?)
- David Rohde: A Drone Strike and Dwindling Hope
- Jane Mayer on predator drones and Pakistan
- [abstract] Jane Mayer, The Political Scene, “The Predator War,” The New Yorker, October 26, 2009, p. 36
- S.909 - Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act
- HRC: "...our nation’s first major piece of civil rights legislation for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people..."
- The President has just signed IAVA's number one legislative priority for the year into law - advance funding for VA healthcare.
- TPM: Snowe: I Do Not Support Opt Out Compromise, Would Likely Filibuster Public Option Bill
- John Ensign: I'll stump for Harry Reid's opponent
- Tamara Lowe, co-founder and executive vice president, Get Motivated Seminars
- Congressman Barney Frank
- Adam Green, founder, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee
- Jamie Leigh Jones, former KBR employee & rape survivor
- Todd Kelly, attorney for Jamie Leigh Jones
From the Web
- People "Get Motivated" to Flood into Hartford
- CBO's public option stunner: It reduces deficit
- Hula hooping it up for health, first lady swivels
- Progressive Change Campaign Committee
- Lake Havasu City Councilman Says He's "Just a Little Jewish" When it Comes to City Manager's Contract
- No Joke: Have You Heard About the Official FBI Cologne?
- The Franken anti-rape amendment (S.AMDT.2588)
- Senator Franken explains his amendment
- Balloon Boy Game (the sea gull one)
- Balloon Boy adventure (the barfing one)
- Dave Weigel, reporter, The Washington Independent
- Jesse Connolly, campaign manager, NO on 1 Protect Maine Equality
- Wayne Slater, senior political reporter, Dallas Morning News
- Bill Wolff, Vice President of Primetime Programming at MSNBC and the Executive Producer of TRMS. Also a columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, a sports expert and a HUGE Saint Louis Cardinals baseball fan.
From the Web
- David Weigel: Conservative Base Stands Up to GOP in NY Race
- Siena poll: Bill Owens surges past Dede Scozzafava in NY-23 congressional race
- Public Policy Polling: Maine Poll Preview
- ProtectMaineEquality.org
- Bush Headlining 'Motivational Mega Show' With 'Inspirational Firepower'
- Get Motivated! (NOTE: Contains auto-play video)
- Living down by the river in a van
- SUBJECT: COLLEGE OF THE OZARKS TO WELCOME GOVERNOR SARAH PALIN DECEMBER 2
- Wonkette: This ‘Hard Work U.’ At Which Sarah Palin Will Speak… One Must Never Go There
- College of the Ozarks Handbook (pdf)
- USS New York's Ship's Silver registry
- A Tiffany Registry for the U.S.S. New York
- The Incredible Shrinking GOP: Only 20 Percent Self-Identify As Republican
- Ensign’s Parents Among Reid’s Campaign Donors
- Bill Wolff: Wanna Bet? Money, if not eyes, on NFL
- American Scientist: Predicting a Baseball's Path
- Spitball master Perry watches Rogers with admiration
- How To Throw the Goopball
- Senator Sherrod Brown
- Congressman Alan Grayson
- Suhail Khan, former Hill Staffer and former senior political appointee to President Bush
- Kate Sheppard, reporter, Mother Jones Magazine
From the Web
- GOP Launches Strategy to Trip Up Health Bill
- New study finds 45,000 deaths annually linked to lack of health coverage
- Senator John Kyl, R-Az., on Meet the Press
- Steele: We Don't Need Comprehensive Health Care Reform
- Did Grayson Put His Seat at Risk?
- CongressmanWithGuts.com
- WorldNetDaily: Yes, CAIR is planting 'spies' on Capitol Hill
- Suhail Khan: Muslim Ex-Bush Official: 'Intern Spy' Hunt Threatens Careers Of Good Americans
- Myrick's Office Hasn't Submitted Muslim 'Intern Spy' Probe Requests Yet
- Meet The Man Behind The Intern Spy Wars: Muslim Mafia Author Dave Gaubatz
- DeMint watches out for all of us - "There is a saying that the Jews who are wealthy got that way not by watching dollars, but instead by taking care of the pennies and the dollars taking care of themselves."
- Rep. Buyer's scholarship fund hasn't helped a single student
- Overturned missile transport cleared from road
- Semi carrying missile parts overturns
- David Sirota: Diversionary Tactics Aside, The Tapes Make Clear Rush Limbaugh Is A Racist
- Will the real Chamber of Commerce please stand up?
- The Yes Men Changes the World
- Kate Sheppard: The Yes Men Punk the Chamber
- Kate Sheppard: Chamber: Global Warming is Good for You
- The Top Five Balloon Boy Tribute Songs
- Maziar Bahari Released - The NEWSWEEK reporter and filmmaker had been detained in Iran since the June elections.
- Keith Olbermann, Countdown, msnbc
- Ron Suskind, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author
- Eliot Spitzer, Columnist, Slate.com, former governor of New York
- Nathan Hodge, reporter, Wired.com's national security blog Danger Room, and co-author, "A Nuclear Family Vacation: Travels in the World of Atomic Weaponry"
From the Web
- Open Letter From Bush 41 to Aggie Family
- Elder Bush Decries Lack of Civility in Politics - "While he said he does not believe in personal name-calling, he singled out MSNBC personalities Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow calling them 'sick puppies.'"
- Bush Calls Olbermann, Maddow 'Sick Puppies'- "Olbermann tells us, 'Since Rachel and I are indeed both under the weather, we appreciate President Bush's kind concern.' Maddow added, 'Grrr... cough cough... grrrrrr.'"
- Video: Americans for Prosperity Speaker Compares HR 3200 to History's Greatest Atrocities
- AFP policy director, Phil Kerpen: "The SEIU-created video of a speaker comparing health care reform to genocide played by @Maddow is a FRAUD. Was NOT an AFP event."
- AFP bus tour event calendar, August 6, 2009, Pueblo, Colorado
- Eliot Spitzer: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce must be stopped. Here's how to do it.
- Terrorists: Stop calling us terrorists!
- IAVA's Women Warriors Center
- "Week of the Women Warriors": Launch of Groundbreaking Report on Female Troops and Veterans
- "It was a low-flying poop detector."
- Even Rabbit Droppings Count in Nuclear Cleanup
- Senator Amy Klobuchar
- Eugene Robinson, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, Washington Post
- Tim Phillips, president, Americans for Prosperity
- Dexter Filkins, foreign correspondent, New York Times - Joining us from Istanbul, he's the reporter whose lengthy profile of America's top commander in Iraq and the challenges that face him there is the cover story of the New York Times Sunday Magazine this weekend. He's also the author of "The Forever War."
From the Web
- The OMG! CAIR secret muslim intern spy strategy memo.
- Eugene Robinson: Obama's High Bar
- Dexter Filkins: Stanley McChrystal’s Long War
- IAVA's Women Warriors Center
- "Week of the Women Warriors": Launch of Groundbreaking Report on Female Troops and Veterans
- Alison Stewart, guest host
- Wendell Potter, former head of public relations for Cigna turned health insurance industry whistleblower
- Richard Trumka, president, AFL-CIO
- Congressman Barney Frank, Democrat of Massachusetts, Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee
- David Weigel, reporter, The Washington Independent
- Sarah Haskins, Target Women, Current TV
From the Web
- Maddow EP Bill Wolff strategizes with MSNBC media relations
- Group Drops Limbaugh as Investor
- Health Care Action: Union Activists Visit Congress, Deliver Letters from Consumers
- GOP ridiculousness of the day: Pour Rock Salt on Snowe
- Lindsey Graham Faces Tea Party Fury: "Traitor," "Democrat In Drag," "Half-A-Sissy" (VIDEO)
- David Weigel: Ron Paul vs. Lindsey Graham
- David Weigel: Tea Party Patrons Point New Recruits Toward 2010
- Wall Street On Track To Award Record Pay
- Open Letter From Bush 41 to Aggie Family
- Photos of Military Deaths in Afghanistan Banned
- YouTube 'happy splashing' video driver charged
- Photoshop Disasters: Ralph Lauren: The Hits Keep On Coming
- Sarah Haskins' Target Women
- Funny or Die: Nicole Eggert is BACK IN BAYWATCH!
- Alison Stewart, guest host
- Dr. Howard Dean, former DNC chair, Vermont governor
- Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) Finance Committee
- Bill Nemitz, The Portland Press Herald
- Wayne Slater, senior political writer, Dallas Morning News, co-author, Bush's Brain: How Karl Rove made George W. Bush presidential
- Bill Nye, The Science Guy, scientist, engineer and Emmy-winning television personality. Also, author, "Bill Nye The Science Guy's Big Blue Ocean"
From the Web
- Phil speaks out against billion dollar stimulus on MSNBC
- Cedartown receives federal stimilus funds for Streetscape project - "U.S. Rep. Phil Gingrey presented a $625,000 check to the City of Cedartown Monday."
- Bill Nemitz: The centrist of the storm doing it her way
- Bill Nemitz 9/25/09: Snowe has her defining moment
- Wayne Slater: Texas Gov. Rick Perry's secession talk triggered calls of "good riddance"
- Gov. Perry replaces head of agency investigating Texas arson findings
- Rick Perry's Willingham scandal could cost him his job
- White House Talks DADT With Lieberman
- Jailbreak Toys: Meet Michelle
- Missing from GOP.com: Future
- Nye Labs
- Giant, Mucus-Like Sea Blobs on the Rise, Pose Danger
- PHOTOS: Giant Sea "Mucus" Blobs on the Rise
- Rep. Flake's survivalist vacation in the tropics: Diary and photos
- Congressman Anthony Weiner
- Chris Kofinis, Democratic strategist
- Lieutenant Colonel Victor Fehrenbach
- Gordon Goldstein, a former intarnational security adviser to the United Nations and author of the book, "Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the path to war in Vietnam."
- Jim Tankersley, L.A. Times energy and environment reporter who first reported the Justice Department probe into Gail Norton.
- Dave Zirin, The Nation
From the Web
- CountdownToHealthcare.com
- Health Insurance Lobby Release Report on Baucus Bill
- Full AHIP report (pdf)
- AHIP’s “August Recess Talking Points”
- Ed Schultz interviews couple with uninsurable baby
- Former Interior Secretary Gale Norton is focus of corruption probe
- Subpoenas issued in probe of ex-Interior secretary
- The NFL Must Flush Rush
- Dave Zirin: “Why I Support the National Equality March”: NFL’s Scott Fujita Speaks Out for Gay Rights
- Sportswriter Dave Zirin on Obama’s Olympic Error
- Senator Barbara Boxer
- Richard Engel, chief foreign correspondent, NBC News
- Xeni Jardin, editor and partner, BoingBoing.net
From the Web
- Richard Engel reports: Tip of the Spear
- Daily Kos: Rangel needs to step down
- Cheney's Daughter Starts Firm Of Her Own
- Ralph Lauren opens new outlet store in the Uncanny Valley
- The criticism that Ralph Lauren doesn't want you to see!
- Searching for the skinny on Ralph Lauren ad (UPDATE: "We are responsible," says Ralph Lauren)
- Ralph Lauren's Ridiculous Photoshop; More Ridiculous Rage
- Photoshop Disasters
- Chilling Effects Clearinghouse
- Joe Trippi, political strategist
- Melissa Harris-Lacewell, associate professor of politics and African-American studies at Princeton University
- Megan Carpentier, Editor of News and Politics, Air America
- Caroline Moore, the amateur astronomer recently honored by President Obama as the youngest person to ever discover a supernova
From the Web
- FiveThirtyEight.com: Question Order May Bias Fox News Health Care Polling
- Obama Impeachment Suggested By GOP Dirty Trickster
- Progressive Change Campaign Committee: PETITION TO SENATE MAJORITY LEADER HARRY REID
- New Oklahoma abortion law (pdf)
- New Abortion Law Challenged in Oklahoma
- Talking Points Memo: Pro-Biz Group Pays 'Uncle Sam' To Wander Around DC With Anti-Debt Sign
- Talking Points Memo: Rent-a-Baggers Hit DC
- NBC's Richard Engel on Morning Joe
- Caroline Moore previously on TRMS (June 19, 2009)
- Saying Goodbye to a Really Amazing Spacecraft (and Team)
- Public events to view the LCROSS impact
- NASA TV - The space agency will broadcast the action live from the Moon, with coverage beginning Friday morning at 3:15 am PDT (10:15 UT). The first hour or so, pre-impact, will offer expert commentary, status reports from mission control, camera views from the spacecraft, and telemetry-based animations. The actual impacts commence at 7:30 am EDT (11:30 UT).
- LCROSS Viewer's Guide
World Net Daily's top hits:
- Is this really smoking gun of Obama's Kenyan birth?
- Bill creates detention camps in U.S. for 'emergencies'
- Obamacare to be 1 big 'death panel'
- On Facebook, MySpace? Obama's got your e-mail
- Parents rebel against Obama TV speech to schools
- Is it time to whisper the word 'impeachment'?
- Howard Fineman, senior Washington correspondent and columnist, Newsweek; msnbc contributor
- Frank Rich, columnist, New York Times
- Senator Kirsten Gillibrand
- Sarah Vowell, author, journalist, humorist
From the Web
- Fineman: Obama channels Ali in health care prize fight
- Frank Rich: The Rabbit Ragu Democrats
- Frank Rich: Obama at the Precipice
- The right time to repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell is now (Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand)
- Senator Gillibrand's "Repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell" petition
- Ensign Says He Won’t Step Down : "Interviews and documents, however, show that Mr. Ensign had lunch in the Senate dining room in March with Mr. Hampton and executives from Allegiant Air to discuss aviation issues."
- Cautious Hopes for a Cocaine Vaccine
- Franken Wins Bipartisan Support For Legislation Reining In KBR’s Treatment Of Rape
- Meet The Senators Who Voted Against The Franken Amendment
- John Winthrop's City upon a Hill, 1630
- The History of the Arms and Great Seal of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
- Here's a big picture of what Sarah Vowell and Rachel were talking about.
- Connie Schultz, columnist, Cleveland Plain Dealer
- Rick Berman, Washington, D.C. lobbyist, Berman and Company
- Melanie Sloan, executive director, CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington)
From the Web
- Betsy McCaughey: The 'kill granny' bill
- Weiner And McCaughey Go Head-To-Head In Health Care Debate
- Weiner and McCaughey debate on msnbc
- Mad As Hell Doctors
- Stacie Ritter visits the home of CIGNA CEO Edward Hanway
- Stacie Ritter at CIGNA CEO Hanway's house
- Stacie Ritter sets out to confront CIGNA's Ed Hanway
- Connie Schultz: Why do pollsters get such joy out of dividing women?
- CNN: Ensign says he did not breach ethics rules
- CREW files supplements to complains against Senator Ensign
- NASA: LCROSS Frequently Asked Questions
- Twitter: #Conservabible
- David Weigel, reporter, The Washington Independent
- Chris Hayes, Washington editor, The Nation
- Jon Ralston, columnist for "The Las Vegas Sun" and the host of "Face to Face with Jon Ralston"
- Senator Bernie Sanders
From the Web
- David Weigel: David Koch at Defending the American Dream Summit
- David Weigel: Tea Party Patrons Point New Recruits Toward 2010
- Christopher Hayes: ACORN and Accountability
- Las Vegas Sun: Cleaning up a mess - New details about Ensign’s affair warrant consideration by Senate ethics committee
- United States of America v. Robert W. Ney (pdf)
- The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009 jointly to Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak for the discovery of "how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase."
- Rep. McCollum counters ACORN vote
- Congresswoman Betty McCollum's ACORN Act (pdf)
- Government: Dear Colleague: Become an Original Co-Sponsor of the ACORN Act
- Chris Hayes: "Just so it's clear, Mark Kirk is *not* going to Honduras. Got my wires crossed. That'll teach me to rock the Don Johnson look #miamvicefail"
- Congressman Danny Davis
- Jeff Sharlet, contributing editor Harper's Magazine
- Heather Sherba, one of the victims at Pennsylvania LA fitness club shooting rampage
From the Web
- Coburn blasts 'untruths' from Ensign mistress' husband
- Tulsa World: "We take Sen. Tom Coburn at his word when he says he did not advise Sen. John Ensign to pay off his married mistress."
- New York Times: Mr. Hampton came back with a lower number — about $2 million, which Mr. Coburn passed on. Mr. Ensign flatly rejected the proposal. “That’s a joke; forget it,” Mr. Coburn recalled Mr. Ensign saying.
- Heather Sherba car wash story, Rachel Maddow Show September 1, 2009
- GOP War Over Palin! Limbaugh Blasts McCain Team As “Losers” Over Criticism Of Sarah
- Last chance to see
- Fry finds 'funniest ever' mating ritual
- Eric Lipton, reporter, New York Times
- Steve Clemons, The Washington Note
- Dawn Rizos, owner, The Lodge Gentlemen's Club
From the Web
- New York Times: Senator’s Aid to Mistress’s Husband Raises Ethics Flags
- Ensign case documents
- Steve Clemons: Jim DeMint's Coup?
- Businessmen in Honduras Offer Plan to End Crisis
- DeMint Trip to Honduras Back On? Travel Authorized after Senate Leadership Intervenes
- The Logan Act (18 U.S.C.A. § 953)
- Pawlenty preps 2012 campaign team
- Chinese "miniskirt militia march" | See also
- The Lodge actually scores really well on Yelp
- Democratic Congressman Alan Grayson of Florida
- Melanie Sloan, executive director, CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington)
- Sam Stein, political reporter, The Huffington Post
From the Web
- CREW files bar complaint against Sen. Vitter (includes links to complaint)
- BermanExposed.org
- Jindal holds off on Vitter
- Dr. Nancy debunks corn syrup claim
- USGS Recent Earthquakes
- Updates on the Tsunami in Samoa
- The American Red Cross
- Nelson Supported Reconciliation For Bush Tax Cuts, But Not Health Care
- Harkin Hangs Tough: We Still Can Get 60 Votes For A Public Option
- Lynn Vincent - Author and co-author of dramatic nonfiction and memoirs
- Senator Charles Schumer
- Howard Dean, former Vermont governor, former chairman of the DNC
- Peter Dreier, professor of politics at Occidental College in Los Angeles and co-author of a study on ACORN.
- Jeanne Devon, blogger, TheMudflats.net
From the Web
- Nelson: Health Care Reform Needs 65 Votes To Be Legitimate
- ACORN attack misses the mark
- The LivingWage Resource Center
- Peter Dreier: First They Came For ACORN
- SEIU's Good Obama Bet
- Getting Leveraged on Heath Care
- Jackie Chan Guojia (country) Music Video 2009
- Call of the year
- Palin's 'going rogue,' McCain aide says
- Jeanne Devon: The Real Story Behind the “Rogue” in Sarah Palin’s New Book
- David Iglesias, the former U.S. Attorney for New Mexico who was fired for failing to help Republicans by prosecuting ACORN'S alleged instances of voter fraud. He is also the author of "In Justice: Inside the Scandal That Rocked the Bush Administration."
- Senator Bernie Sanders, Independent from Vermont. He's a member of Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.
- Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of State. Her new book is called "Read my Pins: Stories from a Diplomat's Jewel Box"
From the Web
- Report Shows White House Engineered U.S. Attorney Firings
- DoJ: An investigation into the removal of nine U.S. Attorneys in 2006 (pdf)
- David Weigel: Regrets? Joe the Plumber Has a Few
- Microman USA
- Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine
- As Seen On TV! Birthermercial Asks, Where Was Obama Really Born?
- TRMS, August 14, 2009: Lying right targets vets
- Smoking lettuce popularized by the Gregory Brothers' Auto-Tune the News
- Jeffrey McMurray, A.P. Correspondent
- Ron Mott, NBC News
- Jeremy Scahill, author of the New York Times best-seller, "Blackwater: The Rise Of The World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army."
- Health Reform, bill, Congress
- Andrea Mitchell, chief foreign affairs correspondent, NBC News
- Sandra Bernhard, comedian, actress and singer. Sandra's new album, "Whatever it takes" is out now.
From the Web
- AP: Witness: Census worker's hanging body naked, bound
- Jeremy Scahill: Is the Hypocritical War Against ACORN Unconstitutional?
- Jeremy Scahill: Where is the Defund Blackwater Act?
- Ross sold pharmacy for more than apparent value - "Ross on Thursday again defended the sale, which was first reported by the Web site ProPublica. The Democratic congressman called the story part of a 'left-wing, special interest conspiracy against me.'"
- CooperUncovered.org: Who does Jim Cooper really represent?
- What a sound cannon sounds like at the G-20 in Pittsburgh
- Identifying Iranian nuclear sites (pdf)
- Empire State-gate: The Empire State Building lighting schedule on the day of the Iranian protest. Green, Green, Green.
- SandraBernhard.com
- Senator Charles Schumer
- Gilbert Acciardo, retired Kentucky State Trooper
- Peter Dreier, professor, Occidental College
- Ken Burns, documentarian. His mini-series "The National Parks: America's Best Idea" starts Sunday at 8 pm Eastern on PBS.
From the Web
- Video: William Sparkman commencement speech for Western Governors University
- Berman Exposed
- Meet Rick Berman, A.K.A. "Dr. Evil"
- Manipulating the Public Agenda: Why ACORN was in the news, and what the news got wrong | Occidental College link
- The National Parks: America's Best Idea
- Iranians blanket Brooklyn Bridge in green
- Empire State Building lighting schedule
- Devlin Barrett, reporter, A.P.
- Howard Fineman, MSNBC analyst and senior Washington correspondent and political columnist for Newsweek
- Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize-winning economist, a New York Times columnist, an economics professor at Princeton, and author of the book, "The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008."
- John Prendergast, co-chair of the ENOUGH Project
- Tracy McGrady, co-founder, Darfur Dream Team
From the Web
- Kent Conrad Hearts the French Health-Care System?
- Lessons From the French Health-Care System
- The Republicans' Deaf Ear Is a Preexisting Condition
- AP source: Census worker hanged with 'fed' on body
- While Aide Advised McCain, His Firm Lobbied for Georgia
- Excerpts of Sarah Palin’s Speech to Investors in Hong Kong
- Paul Krugman: How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?
- Paul Krugman: Reform or Bust
- Carly-fornia Dreamin'
- Video: Obama's speech to the U.N. General Assembly
- Darfur Dream Team
- John Prendergast: U.S. Diplomacy in Sudan: What's at Stake
- 3 Points: Peace, Protection, Punishment
- The Enough Project
- Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon: He sits on the Senate Finance Committee and has filed an amendment to the Baucus plan called The Free Choice proposal which would allow every American - including those covered by employers - to have access to plans in the Health Insurance Exchange.
- Thomas Oliphant, a former columnist for "The Boston Globe"
- Sam Stein, political reporter for the Huffington Post
From the Web
- Rep. Mike Ross Raises Eyebrows With Healthy Haul
- Rep. Mike Ross statement on Pro Publica story
- Razorbacks in NYC? Try the Mad Hatter Saloon
- Senator Ron Wyden's Free Choice health care proposal (pdf)
- Richard Engel reports: Tip of the spear
- Sam Stein: Authors Of Iraq War Push Obama On Afghanistan
- Sam Stein: Prominent Hawk Defends Obama On Afghanistan
- Wendell Potter, former health insurance executive-turned-whistle blower. He was the head of public relations for CIGNA, one of the nation's largest insurers. He's now a senior fellow on health care at the Center for Media and Democracy.
- David Weigel, reporter, The Washington Independent
- Rajiv Chandrasekaran, reporter, The Washington Post
- Richard Trumka, president, AFL-CIO
From the Web
- Executive producer Bill Wolff highlights tonight's show (and street meat)
- Mike Ross’s District Supports a Public Option, Mike Ross Does Not
- Health care bill amendment: Hatch F7 (line 497) pdf - "Add transition relief for the excise tax on high cost insurance plans for any State with a name the begins with the letter "U""
- ConsumerWatchdog.org: Acne, Pregnancy Among Disqualifying Conditions
- David Weigel: Bill O’Reilly Bans the Press From His Values Voter Speech
- McChrystal: More Forces or 'Mission Failure'
- Leaked report pdf
- Rajiv Chandrasekaran and Karen DeYoung: Changes Have Obama Rethinking War Strategy
- A 2009 Chevy Malibu Destroys a 1959 Bel Air — Literally
- More Details About 1959 Bel Air Crash Test
- Extreme pain and stress can actually impair a person's ability to tell the truth.
- Frank Bites Back, Demands Retraction Of Blue Dog Comments In Politico
- Mark McKinnon, a former advisor to President George W. Bush and Senator John McCain. He's currently a contributor to the Daily Beast and Vice Chairman of the public relations group "Public Strategies."
- Eugene Robinson, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and associate editor for The Washington Post.
- Jane Hamsher, FireDogLake.com
- Bill Wolff, Sports Savant of the Rachel Maddow Show, executive producer and and the vice president of msnbc primetime
From the Web
- Values Voter Debate: Why Should God Bless America?
- Story of Dumb Woman Not Winning Contest Becomes Tragic Tale of Political Oppression
- Mark McKinnon: Send Joe Wilson Home
- Mark McKinnon: Scarborough for President
- Mark McKinnon: Flunk the Far Right
- Video: Values Voter Summit - not so friendly to the media
- South Carolina: State of denial
- Eugene Robinson: The Favor Jimmy Carter Did Us All
- Eugene Robinson: No Way to Treat a President
- FDL Action: Tell Mike Ross and Blanche Lincoln To Act Like Democrats — Or We’ll Find Someone Who Will
- ChangeCongress.org
- Ezra Klein: What's Wrong With the Finance Bill? An Interview With Sen. Jay Rockefeller
- Former Iraq Security Contractors Say Firm Bought Black Market Weapons, Swapped Booze for Rockets
- OpenSecrets.org: Politicians Score Significant Cash From NFL Owners, Coaches and Players
- Republican disco football fight song! San Diego Super Chargers
- YouTube: awesome 80s video dating pickup lines 1
- Cleve Jones, activist
- Donald Fowler, former national chairman of the DNC
- Joe Cirincione, president, The Ploughshares Fund
From the Web
- Tea Party Protesters Protest D.C. Metro Service
- Call to Action, Health Reform 2009 (a.k.a. the Baccus plan) pdf
- Sex, Drug Use and Graft Cited in Interior Department
- Former Interior Secretary Gale Norton is focus of corruption probe
- Google: gail+norton+meth+toaster+oven+snorting
- Man charged with impersonating Manchin
- "If I don't see this classic West Wing clip on @msnbc today I'll be disappointed. http://bit.ly/2W8Pf1 @tamronhall @maddow"
- YouTube: West WIng Jed and Leo Charlie Brown
- Joe Cirincione: Rachel Maddow: Her Intelligence is Right.
- 2009 Values Voter Summit (and comedy show)
- Video: Obama awards first Medal of Honor
- Um.. he said what about a chicken?
- Reporter flipped by sled
- Frank Schaeffer, author of "Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of it Back" also a contributor to The Huffington Post.
- Chris Hayes, Washington Editor, The Nation
- Congressman Anthony Weiner
From the Web
- Court to Birther: "Unlike in Alice in Wonderland, simply saying something is so does not make it so." (pdf)
- "Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that a lawsuit challenging the constitutional eligibility of Hillary Clinton to be Secretary of State (Rodearmel v. Clinton, et al., (D. District of Columbia)) will be heard by a special three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia."
- Public Policy Polling: Obama popularity dropping in New Jersey (the Obama anti-Christ poll) (pdf)
- Frank Schaeffer: Glenn Beck and The 9/12 Marchers: Subversives From Within
- Frank Schaeffer: Remember What Civility Was? A Book to Remind Us
- Frank Schaeffer: Max Blumenthal vs. The Far Right "God" Of Dumb Hate
- The (OMG!) toaster oven report (OIG Investigations of MMS Employees) PDF
- FBI Most Wanted Terrorists: ADAM YAHIYE GADAHN
- Jumping robot video
- The robot menagerie of Boston Dynamics
- Iraqi baseball team finally in uniform, thanks to U.S. donors
- Iraq National Baseball 2009 Home Jersey from Ebbets Field Flannels
- Jonathan Alter, Newsweek senior editor and MSNBC political analyst
- Governor Ed Rendell, Pennsylvania
- Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, former National Security Advisor
From the Web
- WorldNetDaily Exclusive: With a rebel yell - 'You Lie!' on fire as it hits bumpers across America
- Jonathan Alter: Obama's Big Test - 5 reasons the president did well with his health-care reform speech.
- Obama on financial regulation (the on-the-record part of John Harwood's interview)
- Film crew opens doors to county jails
- Discuss on Newsvine: Feds Can't Enter County Jails, But Keanu Reeves Can
- Discuss Story On Newsvine
- Instant Message
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