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Success of lone gunmen may shift al-Qaida strategy

Posted 56 minutes ago

Terror group may now be favoring smaller, simpler attacks, as long as they still sew "fear" [Link]

Glenn Beck and the war on progressives

Posted 3 hours ago

A generation after Democrats fled from the term "liberal," the right is going after "progressive," too [Link]

How Your Twitter Account Could Land You in Jail

Posted 3 hours ago

On the afternoon of September 24, 2009, Pennsylvania State Troopers, their guns drawn, broke down the door of room 238 of the CareFree Inn on the outskirts of Pittsburgh. The troopers were acting on a search warrant related to protests planned for the G20 summit —a meeting of the heads of … [Link]

Usain Bolt, Serena Williams win Laureus Awards

Posted 14 hours ago

Ironically, both Bolt and Williams won awards with "sportsman" in the title [Link]

Greg Palast: We kicked butt; new boots needed

Posted 17 hours ago

A week ago Friday, the day after BBC Television broadcast of our investigative report on Liberia vultures , Britain's Parliament voted to put an end to the creepy business of financial "vultures" who siphon off aid money through manipulating Third World nations' debt. And our … [Link]

How Corporations Hide Election Spending

Posted 19 hours ago

This story first appeared on the ProPublica website . The Supreme Court recently freed corporations to spend more money on aggressive election ads. But if businesses take advantage of this new freedom, the public probably won't know it, because it's easy for them to legally hide their … [Link]

Premature Withdrawal

Posted 20 hours ago

This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. Hubris? We're bigger than that! We've now been at war with, or in, Iraq for almost 20 years, and intermittently at war in Afghanistan for 30 years. Think of it as nearly half a century of experience, all bad. And what is it that … [Link]

John Yoo's Email Fail

Posted 28 hours ago

The Justice Department report released last month on the crafting of the so-called torture memos contained a number of eyebrow-raising revelations—but none perhaps as intriguing as the disclosure that many of John Yoo's emails had been irretrievably destroyed . Given that the former … [Link]

Was Waxman-Markey A Waste of Energy?

Posted 2 days ago

In early March, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) dropped some surprising news: The effort to tackle global warming via a cap-and-trade scheme is officially "dead." Graham, John Kerry (D-Mass.), and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) will soon release details of an alternative plan for a bill to curb … [Link]

65-year-old woman arrested for hoarding 60 dogs

Posted 3 days ago

Animal control found the dogs inside crates stacked two-high in Alice Via's apartment [Link]

Math and English classes could be standardized

Posted 3 days ago

Texas and Alaska have already chosen to opt out of the newest incarnation of education reform [Link]

Slide show: Glenn Beck, professional time-waster

Posted 3 days ago

Gold, Nazis, bald Communists and stand-up comedy: Let us count the ways that Glenn Beck has wasted people's time [Link]

House rejects call for withdrawal from Afghanistan

Posted 3 days ago

The bill, asking for troops to leave by the end of the year, never left the starting gate [Link]

Pro-Census campaign takes to smart phones

Posted 3 days ago

"Be Counted, Represent" to offer free music and concert tickets to try to boost Hispanic participation [Link]

Wife of House Judiciary chairman jailed for bribery

Posted 3 days ago

Judge denied Monica Conyers' request to change her guilty plea and sentenced her to 37 months [Link]

The New Jim Crow

Posted 3 days ago

This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. Ever since Barack Obama lifted his right hand and took his oath of office, pledging to serve the United States as its 44th president, ordinary people and their leaders around the globe have been celebrating our nation's "triumph over … [Link]

New York City can keep "Tavern on the Green" name

Posted 3 days ago

Creditors of iconic, bankrupt Central Park restaurant had hoped to gain ownership [Link]

Female WWII aviators honored with gold medal

Posted 3 days ago

200 former "WASPs" thanked by Pelosi at ceremony: "We are all your daughters" [Link]

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