http://www.washingtonpost.com…
hat tip: John Aravosis at AMERICAblog, who says:
A real tour de force here. You may recall that Parker was one of the first, and only, conservatives to come out an admit that Sarah Palin was an embarrassment. Here she takes on quite possible the GOP’s biggest sacred cow, the religious right. She calls it “armband [...]

1. More and more of the lunatic fringe are losing it.…
Do you see a pattern here?

2. 2 Held in Election Night Beating of Black Youth…
The police said on Saturday that two 18-year-old men were arrested on Friday for the beating. The men, Ralph Nicoletti, of 35 Wadsworth Avenue, and Bryan Garaventa, of 169 Maryland Avenue, [...]

http://www.alternet.org…
By George Monbiot, Monbiot.com
Posted on October 31, 2008, Printed on October 31, 2008

How was it allowed to happen? How did politics in the United States come to be dominated by people who make a virtue out of ignorance? Was it charity that has permitted mankind’s closest living relative to spend two terms as president? How [...]

http://ap.google.com…
By PETE YOST – 21 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — Freddie Mac secretly paid a Republican consulting firm $2 million to kill legislation that would have regulated and trimmed the mortgage finance giant and its sister company, Fannie Mae, three years before the government took control to prevent their collapse.

http://www.atlargely.com…
Posted by Larisa Alexandrovna on October 19, 2008 at 06:04 PM
I wrote this a few days ago, but forgot to post it as I was traveling. So for what it is worth, have at it.
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There is horror and panic on the far right, alarm bells are ringing, screams, hair-pulling, cats and dogs sleeping together, panic, [...]

http://www.nytimes.com…
Op-Ed Columnist
By PAUL KRUGMAN
It’s 3 a.m., a few months into 2009, and the phone in the White House rings. Several big hedge funds are about to fail, says the voice on the line, and there’s likely to be chaos when the market opens. Whom do you trust to take that call?

The chairman of the Republican Party in Macomb County Michigan, a key swing county in a key swing state, is planning to use a list of foreclosed homes to block people from voting in the upcoming election as part of the state GOP
’s effort to challenge some voters on Election Day. Yet another dirty tactic [...]

http://rawstory.com…
Republican convention features ominous 9/11 ‘tribute’
By David Edwards
When Rudy Giuliani — who went from middling near-retirement pol to Republican Party superstar following the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 — strode to his party’s convention stage Wednesday night, viewers expected a reprise of his famous rhetorical displays once described as “a noun, a verb and 9/11.”

http://www.nytimes.com/…
Gov. Charlie Crist of Florida won widespread praise earlier this year when he announced that new rules that he had put in place had restored voting rights to more than 100,000 former inmates. But the numbers now turn out to have been an illusion.

http://dyn.politico.com/…
By: Ben Smith
August 9, 2008 07:51 AM EST
When the North Caucasus slid into war Thursday night, it presented Senators John McCain and Barack Obama with a true “3 a.m. moment,” and their responses to the crisis suggested dramatic differences in how each candidate, as president, would lead America in moments of international crisis.