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Cousin Says Suspected Fort Hood Gunman Feared Impending War Deployment

The man suspected of a deadly rampage Thursday at Fort Hood was a military psychiatrist whose had turned against the wars in Iraq... more

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show throw at former Austrailian PM

An angry man threw a boot at former Australian prime minister John Howard during a debate at Britain's Cambridge University... more

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Don't repeat Vietnam in Afghanistan Pt.2

Daniel Ellsberg: The counter-insurgency plan in Afganistan is similar to Viet Nam Pt2

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ITALIAN COURT CONVICTS 23 CIA KIDNAPPER/TORTURERS!

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/5/italian_prosecutor_in_case_against_cia In a landmark case, twenty-three Americans, mostly... more

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Highest Unemployment in 26 years.... Stimulation not working...

U.S. Unemployment Rate Hits 10.2%, Highest in 26 Years The United States economy shed 190,000 jobs in October, and the... more

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Nothing resolved in Honduras

Widely-celebrated, US-brokered agreement looks to have strengthened coup instead of reversing it

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Obama's Resolve

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_fort_hood "We will make sure that we get answers to every single... more

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Student Stuns Iran By Criticizing Supreme Leader To His Face

BEIRUT — An unassuming college math student has become an unlikely hero to many in Iran for daring to criticize the... more

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Lieberman 9 Arrested in D.C. Senate Office: Raw Video

Over 50,000 die every year for lack of health care and more for denial of care despite having health insurance. That's well... more

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UPDATE....US army base shooter alive. Previously reported as dead!

An Army psychiatrist who opened fire at Fort Hood, Texas, killing 13 people and wounding 31 others, was shot but captured alive,... more

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In Guantanamo Film Premieres on BitTorrent

With support from the three largest BitTorrent sites and many other well known file-sharing partners, the VODO project offers a... more

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Alan Grayson Reads Names Of Dead In Republican Districts (VIDEO)

Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) took to the floor Wednesday night to read the names of those who had died from lack of health insurance... more

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Warning sign for Democrats? They're losing Independents

President Barack Obama and the Democrats have a problem heading into next year's elections for control of Congress — they're losing independents to the Republicans and parts of their own Democratic base to apathy.

Strong majorities of independents turned away from Democrats and voted Republican in both Virginia and New Jersey on Tuesday, a key defection signaling that they could be up for grabs heading into the 2010 elections. They went for the Republican gubernatorial nominee in Virginia by a margin of 66 percent to 33 percent, and in New Jersey by 60 percent to 40 percent, according to exit polls.

Magnifying the challenge, the swing isn't limited to those two states. A new McClatchy-Ipsos poll found that independents have pulled away from Obama steadily for months and have turned sharply against his highest domestic priority, the plan to overhaul the nation's health care system.

Democrats also face challenges energizing their base in the 2010 elections when 36 senators and the entire House of Representatives will be up for election. In Virginia on Tuesday, for example, voters under age 30 made up just 10 percent of the vote, less than half the 22 percent they comprised last year when Obama won the Old Dominion, the first time it voted for a Democrat for president since 1964.

The new poll this week found independents nationally turning ever more skeptical toward Obama, helping drive his job approval rating to 53 percent, the lowest of his presidency.

Only 45 percent of independents now approve of how Obama's doing his job, down 12 points from August and 25 points from the start of his term. Disapproval among independents has more than doubled in his first 10 months, to 41 percent from 19 percent.

Independents also have turned sharply against the health care plans being pushed by Obama and Democrats in Congress, the McClatchy-Ipsos poll found. After narrowly supporting the proposals by a margin of 39 percent to 37 percent in late August, independents now oppose it by 53 percent to 29 percent. Democrats and Republicans were virtually unchanged over the same period.

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http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/78362.htmlPresident Barack Obama and the Democrats have a problem heading into next year's elections for control of Congress —... more

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Michele Bachmann Tells Supporters To "Scare" Congress At Protest

UPDATE:Thousands arrived to rail against health care reform on Capitol Hill Thursday. Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) shook hands... more

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Republican screws up the Pledge of Allegiance

Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) had the honor of leading the anti-health care protesters on Capitol Hill today in the Pledge of Allegiance.... more

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Daily Show takes on Maine's Anti-Equality Vote on Marriage

Can't Get Queer From Here "Maine voters want to be tolerant of gays, but unfortunately, they weren't born that... more

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Stephen Colbert takes on the Mormon Church's Anti-Gay Ways

Nailed 'Em - Mormon Church Trespassing The Mormon Church arrested Derek Jones and Matt Aune for criminal trespassing, not... more

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The Great Teabag Disaster in New York

On a night when conservatives expected a landmark victory in New York’s 23rd congressional district, the movement’s anointed candidate, Doug Hoffman, instead went down in a startling defeat to Democrat Bill Owens. The official Republican candidate, Dede Scozzafava, had dropped out days before and thrown her support to Owens after the conservative movement backed Hoffman in a campaign to destroy her, attacking her as a closet socialist with a cynical, hidden agenda—the same terms they have used to demonize President Barack Obama.

Hoffman’s rejection by rank-and-file voters in a solidly Republican district dampened the conservatives’ mood on an otherwise upbeat night and raised serious questions about the movement’s attempt to purge moderates from party ranks. Now, many of Hoffman’s right-wing cheerleaders are struggling to explain their dubious gambit, while others fear repercussions for their zealotry.

With endorsements from the National Rifle Association, the National Republican Congressional Committee and Republican Party elders Newt Gingrich and New York Rep. Peter King, Scozzafava was assured an easy victory. Then Hoffman declared his candidacy on the Conservative Party line. Hoffman was a lawyer and Tea Party activist who did not live in the district and, according to the local Watertown Daily-Times, “showed no grasp of the bread-and-butter issues pertinent to district residents.” Offered as his only selling point: ideological purity.

Hoffman instantly became the point man for the national conservative movement, dedicating himself to fulfilling the right’s dream of a complete purge of moderate elements in the GOP. Campaigning in a local constituency of mostly Republican regulars, Hoffman behaved as though he were running in a presidential primary. He slammed Scozzafava for supporting abortion rights and gay marriage, substituting the hot button issues that had electrified the national Tea Party movement rather than the bread and butter concerns of the working class district he campaigned to represent.

Hoffman’s appeals to cultural resentment attracted zealous support from a who’s who of far-right icons, from Fred Thompson to Glenn Beck, from Rush Limbaugh to Sarah Palin. The former Republican vice presidential nominee recorded a robocall for him a week before Election Day. Tim Pawlenty, the Republican governor of Minnesota, sought to establish his conservative credentials in advance of an expected 2012 presidential run by endorsing Hoffman. The National Organization for Marriage, an anti-gay religious right group, commissioned a poll supposedly proving Scozzafava’s support for gay marriage had doomed her (the sample size was only 318 likely voters). Meanwhile, cash poured into Hoffman’s coffers through conservativeoutfits from the Club For Growth to the American Conservative Union.

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http://maxblumenthal.com/2009/11/the-great-teabag-disaster-in-ny-23/On a night when conservatives expected a landmark victory in New York’s 23rd congressional district, the movement’s... more