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Week of December 21, 2009
- Senator Amy Klobuchar
- Wayne Slater, senior political writer with the Dallas Morning News and co-author of the book, "Bush`s Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential"
- Josey Packard - master bartender at Drink in Boston
- and the FDNY
From the Web
- John Stanton, reporter for Roll Call
- Ana Marie Cox, national correspondent and host of "Inside Story" for Air America Radio
- Dr. Howard Dean, former DNC Chair, former governor of Vermont
From the Web
- Here 'Til Christmas? Republicans Differ On Whether To Run Out The Health Care Clock
- JOHN F. KENNEDY at MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
- Teabagger Nearly Has Stroke Scrawling This Four-Page Threat, Which He Faxed Upside Down
- The Inside Story with Ana Marie Cox
- Applause, boos greet lawmaker
- Palin welcomes Griffith
- RNC STATEMENT ON ALABAMA CONGRESSMAN PARKER GRIFFITH JOINING THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
- BREAKING: Rep. Parker Griffith switches to GOP
- Hail Mary: Racist E-Mail Doc Reaches Out To Liberal Critics, Quoting Dean, Greenwald, Ed Schultz
- Ugandan president committed to blocking anti-gay bill: officials
- Real-life high school musical smackdown!
- The Shorewood Lip Dub
- Shorecrest's Hey Ya music video
- Reverse singing is tricky but not impossible.
- John Stanton, reporter, Roll Call
- Ezra Klein, blogger, Washington Post
- Thomas Friedman, columnist, New York Times and author, "Hot, Flat & Crowded 2.0"
- Aram Roston, Playboy magazine contributor and author of The Man Who Pushed America to War
From the Web
- Here 'Til Christmas? Republicans Differ On Whether To Run Out The Health Care Clock
- John Stanton: Senate GOP Will Continue to Draw Out Health Debate
- John Stanton: GOP Considering Throwing in Towel in Health Fight
- FireDogLake: Kill the Senate Health Care Bill. Sign the Petition.
- Senate plan would tax tanning services
- Ezra Klein: A picture is worth a thousand blog posts
- Ezra Klein: Jane Hamsher's 10 reasons to kill the bill
- Ezra Klein: The mandate and backlash
- Record-Breaking Republican Obstructionism
- The Real Story Of The 110th Congress: The Right-Wing Block-And-Blame Game
- Thomas Friedman: Off to the Races
- Thomas Friedman: Going Cheney on Climate
- Glitch in C-Span posting of 2002 Senate session
- Remarks by Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge at a Press Conference Announcing the Raising of the National Threat Level (12/21/03)
- Aram Roston: The Man Who Conned the Pentagon (NOTE: Playboy.com link. No visible boobies at this time but still probably NSFW.)
- Democratic Senator Mark Begich of Alaska
- Andrea Mitchell, chief foreign affairs correspondent, NBC News
- Thomas Frank, author, What's the Matter with Kansas?
From the Web
- Flashback: McCain Refused To Grant 30 Seconds Of Time During Iraq War Debate
- Mr. DAYTON. I ask for unanimous consent that I have 30 seconds more to finish my remarks.
Mr. McCAIN. I object. - Jim Inhofe gets cool reception in Denmark
- Inhofe Arrives To Crash Party
- Thomas Frank: Newsrooms Don't Need More Conservatives
- John Birch Society: "Invictus" and the Truth About Mandela
- Republicans: No Comfort for Birchers (Dec. 24, 1965)
- Bob Dylan- Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues (Freewheelin' Out-take)
- Washington City Paper Best Bartender
- Derek Brown: Where Do Crazy Drink Names Come From?
- Eugene Robinson, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the Washington Post
- Noah Shachtman, contributing editor for Wired Magazine and editor of Wired.com's Danger Room blog
From the Web
- PrayerCast videos
- We Were Framed: Business Lobby Groups Claim Ignorance On Ads Offering Rewards For Political Action
- SkyGrabber
- Insurgents Hack U.S. Drones
- Not Just Drones: Militants Can Snoop on Most U.S. Warplanes (Updated)
- Insurgents Intercept Drone Video in King-Size Security Breach (Updated, with Video)
- Jack Bauer interrogates Santa
- McCain: 'We are all Georgians'
- Chuck Norris facts
- Mark McKinnon, Republican strategist who's advised the campaigns of John McCain and George W. Bush
- Chris Hayes, Washington editor, The Nation
- Dave Weigel, reporter, The Washington Independent
From the Web
- Senator DeMint on Twitter
- Health Care PrayerCast
- Mark McKinnon: The Return of Mitt Romney
- Mark McKinnon: The GOP Frontrunner Curse
- Chamber of Commerce Campaign: Fight Health-Care Reform -- And Win A Trip To Hooters!
- Surgeons groups want names pulled from ad
- The letter the surgeons groups did sign (pdf)
- Dictionary.com: ersatz
- The new NBC/WSJ poll (pdf)
- David Weigel: Nervous About Health Care, Tea Partiers Look to 2010
- Dick Armey Discusses Tea Party Movement at Dec. 15 Luncheon (actually, no he doesn't)
- The Fellowship (aka The Family) Opposes Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill: Guest post by Jeff Sharlet
- GOP.am, Making long URLs conservative (and sometimes funny)
- Best Boss Ever? Michael Steele & The RNC Interns
- Top Arizona Republican Accused of Using Voter Database to Stalk Woman
- RNC-er On Ally Who Allegedly Used Voter List To Stalk Woman: 'We Can Do What We Want With The List'
- Bob Dylan's "Must be Santa"
- Senator Tom Harkin
- Senator Arlen Specter
- Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky
- Congressman Barney Frank
From the Web
- Biden: 'Awful lot of gamesmanship' on health care
- Lieberman: 'Medicare buy-in didn't make sense'
- Tea Party Patriots to Storm Senate Offices
- VIDEO- Tea Party Rally: Dick Armey attempts to diss Rachel Maddow
- 'Meet the Press' transcript for August 16, 2009
- Can banks increase lending? (that lending chart shown on the show)
- REVIEW: Cameron’s ‘Avatar’ Is a Big, Dull, America-Hating, PC Revenge Fantasy
- An Apology: Avatar Amazingly Does Not Suck
- Senator Ron Wyden
- Steve Benen, reporter, Washington Monthly
- Meredith Fuchs, general counsel, National Security Archive
- Katy Parker, legal director, ACLU of North Carolina
From the Web
- Joe Lieberman Not The Man He Used To Be On Medicare Buy-In
- VIDEO: Watch Lieberman Endorse Medicare Buy-In Three Months Ago
- Steve Benen: White house inclined to pay Lieberman's ransom...
- Steve Benen: Trying to understand Joe....
- Harkin considers raising bill to end filibuster
- Time to Retire the Filibuster (Published: January 1, 1995)
- National Security Archive and White House Reach Agreement for Restoration of Missing Bush White House E-mails
- Blair's Iraq war comments 'surprised' defence secretary
- Blair Iraq war admission sparks fresh outrage
- British involvement in Iraq war blamed on Blair’s ‘sycophancy’
- Anti-gay bigots plunge Africa into new era of hate crimes
- Senator’s Inhofe, Brownback and Ensign on Uganda
- Article 6 in the North Carolina State Constitution (see section 8)
- Article 6 of the U.S. Constitution
- Clever octopus builds a mobile home
- Dan Porter, CEO, OMGPOP
- Chris Kofinis, Democratic strategist
- Jon Ralston, a columnist for The Las Vegas Sun and host of Face-to-Face with Jon Ralston
- Evan Kohlman, terrorism analyst, NBC News
From the Web
- Tiger Woods taking hiatus from golf
- Don't Trust Bill in the Philadelphia Enquirer
- That clip from the Irish Parliment. NOTE: Uncensored. This one has the big fat F bombs.
- Health Insurers Caught Paying Facebook Gamers Virtual Currency To Oppose Reform Bill
- Internet users lured to voice views on health bill
- Dan Porter's OMGPOP
- Mafia Wars on Facebook
- John McCain slams 'horrendous' climate bill
- Dozens more [ponzi schemers] accused in other cases
- Interrogation Report: Profiles of the Foreigners held (pdf)
- Noah Shachtman, contributing editor for Wired Magazine and editor of Wired.com's Danger Room blog
- Dr. Howard Dean, former Vermont governor and DNC chair
- Evan Kohlmann, terrorism analyist, NBC News
From the Web
- C.I.A. Said to Use Outsiders to Put Bombs on Drones
- U.S. Military Joins CIA’s Drone War in Pakistan
- Blackwater Guards Tied to Secret Raids by the C.I.A.
- DR. RICK WARREN LAUNCHES ‘PURPOSE DRIVEN LIVING’ IN UGANDA CAMPAIGN
- Rick Warren Supports Ugandan Bishops' Lambeth Boycott
- Pastor Rick Warren Responds to Proposed Antigay Ugandan Legislation
- Rick Warren: LETTER/VIDEO STATEMENT TO UGANDAN CHURCH LEADERS
- The ‘Catalyst’ Behind Warren’s About Face on Anti-Gay Ugandan Law
- Jane Hamsher: Obama fail
- MoveOn.org: Reform MUST include a public option
- Daily Kos: Idiocy
- House Republicans Huddle With Lobbyists to Kill Financial Reform Bill
- Evan Kohlmann's GlobalTerrorAlert.com
- Congressman Anthony Weiner
- Jeff Sharlet, contributing editor to Harper's Magazine and author of "The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power"
- James Oberg, NBC space analyst, former NASA mission controller
From the Web
- Uganda to Drop Death Penalty, Life in Jail for Gays
- Globalizing the Culture Wars: U.S. Conservatives, African Churches, & Homophobia
- Scott Lively's Quotes
- Groundbreaking PRA Investigation Exposes Influence of U.S. Religious Conservatives in Promoting Homophobia in Africa
- State Department (Sorta) Fires 101st Tequila Brigade
- State Department Can’t Find Supervisors for Its Guns-for-Hire
- Taliban shadow officials offer concrete alternative
- The Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational surf contest
- Eddie's spirit strong at epic surf meet
- Light show sparks UFO buzz
- Cool photos in the Daily Mail
- Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell
- Mark Benjamin, national correspondent, Salon.com
- Richard Cohen, author, "Coming Out Straight: Understanding and Healing Homosexuality"
From the Web
- THE ANTI HOMOSEXUALITY BILL. 2009. (pdf)
- Grassley asked to denounce anti-homosexuality bill
- Tell Sen. Grassley to denounce Anti-Homosexuality Bill
- International Healing Foundation
- Insufficient evidence to support sexual orientation change efforts
- INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE THAT SEXUAL ORIENTATION CHANGE EFFORTS WORK, SAYS APA
- Mark Benjamin: Turning off gays
- "In connection with the motion he is moving, we have in the gallery ... Stephen Langa, Family Life Network"
- Democratic Senator Ron Wyden
- Melissa Harris-Lacewell, associate professor of politics and African American studies at Princeton University
- Melanie Sloan, Executive Director, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
From the Web
- Gang of Four, Damaged Goods
- And as long as we're exploding musical references, Gang Starr or here.
- Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine
- Medicare Eligibility Tool
- Senate Dems May Open Up Medicare To Pacify Progressives
- Connecticut FOR LIEBERMAN - AllAboutJoe.org
- I guess they're racist.
- Melanie Sloan: Ex-Bush Staffers Still Influencing Debate on Climate Change
- CREW: Smoke Screen: How Bush Insiders Distorted – And Still Influence – America’s Debate Over Climate Change (pdf)
- Wicker joins Inhofe's 'truth squad'
- White House: July 2011 Is Locked In for Afghanistan Withdrawal
- U.S. Forecasts Smaller Loss From Bailout of Banks
- Richard Cohen's de-gaying techniques
- DARPA Network Challenge: We have a winner!
- Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner of New York
- Melissa Harris-Lacewell, associate professor of politics and African American studies at Princeton University
- New York Times columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winner, Nicholas Kristof
- MSNBC's David Shuster
From the Web
- C.I.A. Expanding Drone Assaults Inside Pakistan
- Aetna Forcing 600,000-Plus To Lose Coverage In Effort To Raise Profits
- THE ANTI HOMOSEXUALITY BILL. 2009. (pdf)
- Inhofe, aderholt issue statement on world aids day as they depart for codel to Africa
- Nicholas Kristof: Johnson, Gorbachev, Obama
- Melissa Harris-Lacewell: On the New York Senate Marriage Equality Vote
- Rise of an Epithet
- Dominoes Techno Chicken
- Guest list will be late today. Check @MaddowGuestList.
From the Web
- The Jobs Imperative
- Inhofe's Trips To Africa Since '99 Cost $187K
- AIDS in Africa--a Betrayal
- Tycoon, contractor, soldier, spy
- Jeremy Scahill: The Secret US War in Pakistan
- C.I.A. Expanding Drone Assaults Inside Pakistan
- DARPA announces new challenge competition (pdf)
- DARPA Network Challenge
- BALLOON HUNT GOES VIRAL
- Susan Rice, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations
- The Interview: John Bellinger, former legal adviser to Condi Rice and Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations
- Postponed: Andrew Marin, founder, The Marin Foundation and author, "Love is an Orientation"
From the Web
- Richard Engel: So what is the actual surge strategy?
- The full presentation that includes the Spirograph strategy map (pdf) (page 22)
- Biden hails new report on stimulus
- Estimated Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on Employment and Economic Output as of September 2009 (pdf)
- Also see the Director's Blog
- THE ANTI HOMOSEXUALITY BILL. 2009. (pdf)
- Richard Engel, Chief foreign correspondent, NBC News - watched the President's speech with American troops at Camp Eggers in Afghanistan
- Ron Suskind, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
- John Nagl, President, The Center for a New American Security
- Ezra Klein, Washington Post blogger
From the Web
- That troop level chart
- Afghan Security Concerns Rise With Strife, Poll Finds
- Senate report: Bin Laden was 'within our grasp'
- Dick Cheney slams President Obama for projecting ‘weakness’
- An Analysis of Health Insurance Premiums Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (pdf)
- See also CBO Director's blog
- Coburn: Democrats' Health Care Plan Will Make Seniors 'Die Sooner'
- Dan Rather, managing editor and host of Dan Rather Reports on HD Net.
- George Lewis, correspondent, NBC News
- Jeff Sharlet, contributing editor to Harper's Magazine and author of "The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power"
- Dave Zirin, sports writer, The Nation
From the Web
- Army Data Show Constraints on Troop Increase Potential
- TORA BORA REVISITED: HOW WE FAILED TO GET BIN LADEN AND WHY IT MATTERS TODAY (pdf)
- Dan Rather in Afghanistan - Base Fired Upon
- Pastor Rick Warren Responds to Proposed Antigay Ugandan Legislation
- Uganda Talks
- Records show feds used ultra-right radio host for years
- Jason Chaffetz: Bring home Afghan troops
- Dave Zirin: Tiger Woods Deserves Your Scrutiny
- Salahis sought gala access through a Pentagon door
- Animal Guardians of America
- Something to be thankful for: Newt’s Nook
- Independent Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont - He's a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee.
- Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner of New York
- Colonel Jack Jacobs, MSNBC military analyst
- Eliot Spitzer, former Attorney General and former Governor of New York
- Chris Kofinis, Democratic strategist
From the Web
- The Wages of Failure: Executive Compensation at Bear Stearns and Lehman 2000-2008 (pdf)
- Eliot Spitzer: Geithner's Disgrace: The new AIG report reveals how the Treasury secretary—and U.S. taxpayers—were fleeced by Wall Street banks.
- Senator Sherrod Brown
- Jane Hamsher, FireDogLake.com, Act Blue
- Jon Ralson, columnist, Las Vegas Sun and host of "Face to Face with Jon Ralston."
- Yvonne Wenger, state house reporter, Post and Courier
- David Weigel, reporter, the Washington Independent
From the Web
- Reid: Supporters Of Reform Can See The Finish Line But Much Work Lies Ahead
- Jane Hamsher: It’s Harry Reid’s Choice: Reconciliation = Majority Rule
- Jane Hamsher: Campaign Contributions From Insurance Companies to Senators Blocking the Public Option
- Jane Hamsher: The Future of the Public Option
- ActBlue.com
- Exclusive: Doug Hampton Speaks Out on Sen. Ensign's Affair With His Wife
- Senator’s Aid After Affair Raises Flags Over Ethics
- Jon Ralston: What might result from a national airing of Ensign’s dirty laundry
- Jon Ralston: Why having 10 candidates doesn’t help GOP
- Ethics panel: 37 cases of probable cause against Sanford
- Report lists 37 ethics charges against Sanford
- South Carolina state ethics complaint (pdf)
- Tea Party: The Documentary Film
- David Weigel: An RNC Purity Test?
- Eliot Spitzer, former governor, former attorney general of New York, columnist for Slate.com
- Ana Marie Cox, national correspondent and host of "Inside Story", Air America Radio
- Nate Silver, founder, FiveThirtyEight.com
- Jeff Corwin, conservationist, host, "100 Heartbeats"
From the Web
- Nate Silver: Dems Lucky There Aren't More Lincolns
- Nate Silver: 10 Reasons That Sarah Palin Could Win the Republican Nomination
- Woe, no Joe: Rachel has a 'point of view'
- Future Earth: 100 Heartbeats
- Small Town To Liz Cheney: We Want Gitmo Detainees, Not Your Fearmongering
- Conservative media frequently accuse progressives of "raping" Americans
- Eliot Spitzer: How Obama Can Bounce Back
- The Inside Story with Ana Marie Cox
- 2010 Arizona GOP Primary: McCain 45%, Hayworth 43%
- Spitzer V. Geithner
- Markup of “H.R. 515, the Radioactive Import Deterrence Act”
- Senator Amy Klobuchar
- Suhail Khan, Fellow for Christian-Muslim Understanding at the Institute for Global Engagement. He is a former senior political appointee in the administration of President George W. Bush.
- Michael Grunwald, national correspondent, Time magazine
- Phil Mellinger, amateur historian and former systems analyst for the National Security Agency
From the Web
- Cost Estimate for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as Proposed on November 18
- CBO letter to Senator Reid (pdf)
- President Harry S. Truman, November 19, 1945: Special Message to the Congress Recommending a Comprehensive Health Program
- Giving centrists very little to complain about....
- CIA-bashers gone mad.
- GoingRogueIndex.com NOTE: Automatically plays pretty obnoxious music (That music is Madonna in der Hölle by German pop star Udo Jürgens. Hear the studio version here.)
- New Republic Going Rogue index
- Slate's Going Rogue index
- Huffington Post Going Rogue index
- Statement by CafePress to TRMS regarding the appropriateness of Psalm 109:8 products
- Also Zazzle's Psalm 109:8 statement
- Katrina Canal Breaches Consolidated Litigation
- The November 18 ruling by the U.S. District Court Eastern District of Louisiana (pdf)
- National Archives Announces Plans to Test Haldeman White House Notes
- Senator Tom Harkin
- Steven Simon, Senior fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and co-author of "The Age of Sacred Terror: Radical Islam's War Against America"
- Spencer Ackerman, senior reporter at The Washington Independent
- Michael Grunwald, national correspondent, Time magazine
From the Web
- Judge: Corps' negligence caused Katrina flooding
- Exclusive: Attacks On Health Reform Orchestrated By Yet Another Shadowy Corporate Front Group — ‘CMPI’
- THE INFLUENCE GAME: Front group fights health bill
- The Tea Party's Favorite Doctors
- Truth, Fiction and Lou Dobbs (May 30, 2007)
- Rove, Cheney, Gingrich and Kristol Fail To Rally 9/11 Trial Foes
- Steven Simon: Why We Should Put Jihad on Trial
- Afghan minister accused of taking bribe
- Spencer Ackerman: Army Data Show Constraints on Troop Increase Potential
- Spencer Ackerman: Obama: I’ll Tell You How This War Ends
- Spencer Ackerman: Signs That We Won’t Get an Afghanistan Announcement This Week
- Corps' operation of MR-GO doomed homes in St. Bernard, Lower 9th Ward, judge rules
- Michael Grunwald: How years of misguided policies and bureaucratic bungling left New Orleans defenseless against Katrina — and why it may happen again
- Journalist Michael Grunwald on the hubris of the Army Corps
- Sliced Bread, The CIA, And Other Things Younger Than Robert Byrd (PHOTOS)
- Jimmy Fallon's copy of Going Rogue is going rogue
- Jeff Sharlet, contributing editor to Harper's Magazine and author of "The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power"
- 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.
- Naomi Klein, author of “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism” and columnist for “The Nation” magazine
- Ana Marie Cox, national correspondent, Air America Radio
From the Web
- ABC’s Nightline is on Ensign’s case
- One-man crusade taking toll on Ensign
- C Street House No Longer Tax Exempt
- The diplomacy of deference
- PRUDEN: Obama bows, the nation cringes
- Biblical anti-Obama slogan: Use of Psalm 109:8 funny or sinister?
- Frank Schaeffer: Organizing to Stop Far Right Violence
- Frank Schaeffer: It's Time To End (Deadly) "Religious Freedom"
- New Baghdad Airport Security Contractor Has Major Bagagge
- Transparency International: Corruption Perceptions Index 2009
- Naomi Klein: Copenhagen: Seattle Grows Up
- Naomi Klein: Obama's Bad Influence
- McCain: Palin legal bill was for “troopergate”
- Inside Story with Ana Marie Cox
- "Going Rogue": The 18 Biggest Falsehoods In Palin's Book
- Jason Chaffetz: Carrie Prejean has star quality
- Lynn Sweet, Washington bureau chief for the Chicago Sun-Times, PoliticsDaily.com
- Senator Sherrod Brown, Democrat of Ohio and member of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee
- Michael Beschloss, NBC News presidential historian
From the Web
- McCain camp: Palin account 'all fiction'
- Oprah's Interview with Sarah Palin: What You Didn't See
- NoTerroristsInIllinois.com
- Conservative Trio Supports Transferring Gitmo Detainees To Illinois
- Lynn Sweet: Hillary Clinton Looking Forward To Coffee With Sarah Palin
- ‘Death Panels’ Hypocrisy: RNC Health Insurance Provider Promotes End-Of-Life Counseling
- Cigna: Care at the end of life
- RNC to opt out of abortion coverage
- Reid Fixated on Health Timing
- Laura Rozen: Obama-Netanyahu Kaffeeklatsch
- Official White House Flickr stream
- Russia's Muz TV
- Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
- Michael Isikoff, investigative correspondent, Newsweek and MSNBC contributor
- Bill Nye, Science guy
- Ana Marie Cox, Air America Radio
From the Web
- RNC to opt out of abortion coverage
- Declassified blog: The CIA on Trial
- Declassified blog: Feds, NYPD Claim Security Preparations for 9/11 Defendants Are Already Well Advanced
- Video: Attorney General Eric Holder at Today’s Press Conference
- RETRACTED: Inside This Morning’s White House Afghanistan Meeting: Anger With Eikenberry, ‘Beef’ With McChrystal
- Columnist eats his words, literally, about Joakim Noah
- FACT CHECK: Palin's book goes rogue on some facts
- LCROSS Impact Data Indicates Water on Moon
- Jonathan Turley, professor of Constitutional Law, George Washington University Law School
- Gordon Goldstein, author, "Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam"
- Governor Ed Rendell, Pennsylvania
From the Web
- 10 U.S.C. § 918 : US Code - Section 918: Art. 118. Murder
- Hasan e-mails to cleric didn't result in inquiry
- JonathanTurley.org
- Did Hoekstra Compromise A Sensitive Intelligence Program?
- Inside This Morning’s White House Afghanistan Meeting: Anger With Eikenberry, ‘Beef’ With McChrystal
- Gates Says Afghan Plan Will Mix Various Proposals
- U.S. envoy resists increase in troops
- Stupak Warns Abortion Advocates Not to Remove Amendment From Bill
- Catholic Bishops: Proposed Amendment to Health Care Bill Creates ‘Money-Laundering System’ for Funding Abortion
- The Catholic bishops' double standard
- Republican Insurance Plan Covers Abortion
- The Tea Party Patriots vs. Tea Party Express
- Statement on Tea Party Patriots
- Pfizer Inc. Plans To Vacate Its R & D Center In New London
- 'Don't Ask' repeal may come in 2010 as amendment
- CBS: Questions rise over congressman's charity
- CBS: Can a Donation Buy Legislation?
- 2012: Beginning of the End or Why the World Won't End?
- Congressman Joe Sestak
- Seymour Hersh, staff writer, New Yorker magazine
- Dede Scozzafava, New York assemblywoman and former Republican congressional candidate
From the Web
- Obama won't take any current war options, official says
- 3 Obama Advisers Favor More Troops for Afghanistan
- Coburn named as senator holding up vets bill
- Reid: Coburn move 'illogical'
- Congressman Sestak: Our Veterans Deserve Our Thanks and Our Service
- Senate Vote on Conference Report: H.R. 1268
- Senate Vote on Conference Report: H.R. 4939
- Sy Hersh: Defending the arsenal
- County Republican Party leaders censure Sen. Graham
- Resolution By South Carolina Republicans Condemning Lindsay Graham
- National Journal Senate rankings
- GOP tries to recapture town hall anger
- Hoekstra, the human sieve...
- Michael Isikoff, investigative correspondent, Newsweek and MSNBC contributor
- Chris Hayes, Washington editor, The Nation
- Jeremy Scahill, author of the New York Times best-seller, "Blackwater: The Rise Of The World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army"
From the Web
- Anti-reform doctors seeking to rescind AMA endorsement are led by front group with insurer, GOP ties.
- EXCLUSIVE: Infamous Astroturf Lobbying Firm Behind New Anti-Health Reform Group
- Michael Isikoff: John McCain's choice to manage the GOP convention this summer is lobbyist Doug Goodyear, whose firm once represented Burma's repressive regime.
- From the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library: This fascinating pdf: "Twelve field coordinators will be deployeti in assigned regions with general responsibilities that include, but are not limited to : Executing tactical programs on federal, state or local issues ; developing a network of smokers' rights groups and other coalition partners within the region that will speak out on issues important to the Company ; implementing training and communication programs designed to inform activists and maintain their ongoing involvement in the grassroots movement."
- 2 dead, 2 wounded in Ore. office park shooting
- Fort Hood suspect warned of threats within the ranks
- Loose Lips Hoekstra: "Aulaqi responded to Hasan at least twice, according to Rep. Peter Hoekstra (Mich.), the ranking Republican on the House intelligence committee."
- Reyes Takes Shot At GOPer Over Criticism Of Obama On Fort Hood - "I am disappointed that some have rushed to the news media with unfounded information in order to gain headlines."
- Rep. Hoekstra Accuses Obama Admin Of Withholding Information On Hasan -- Sort Of
- Blackwater Said to Approve Iraqi Payoffs After Shootings
- Jeremy Scahill: Blackwater Attempted to Bribe Iraqi Officials
- Blackouts darken Brazil’s 2 largest cities
- Nelson: I'll Filibuster A Health Care Bill That Doesn't Include Strict Abortion Restrictions
- Boxer: Senate Has Votes To Block Stupak Amendment
- McCaskill on Morning Joe: Moderate Dems working on cost control
- Who owns the tea parties?
- Exclusive: Sanders Tackles Too Big To Fail In Two Pages
- Senate Plan Would Expand Regulation of Risky Lending
- From the I Shit You Not File: Business Aims to Relax Bans on Products Made with Child & Slave Labor
- Overcriminalized? Child Labor and War profiteering?
- Lover of Birds and Opera Leaves Millions to Both
- 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
- Discuss Story On Newsvine
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