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Al Gore Has A New Girlfriend

The Reliable Source — Fri, 18 May 2012 06:56:19 +0000

It’s never easy to re-enter the dating pool after years away — probably especially so if you’re one of the most famous men in the...

Romney’s Weird Campaign Event To Nowhere

Mollie Reilly — Fri, 18 May 2012 04:01:00 +0000

Mitt Romney will campaign Friday in New Hampshire, looking for his own "bridge to nowhere." The Romney camp thinks they have found it in a...

House Votes To Continue The War In Afghanistan

AP — Fri, 18 May 2012 03:50:58 +0000

WASHINGTON -- The House endorsed the continued war in Afghanistan on Thursday despite acknowledgment from Republicans and Democrats that the American people are war-weary after...

Open thread for night owls: Preying on the poor

Jed Lewison — Fri, 18 May 2012 03:30:04 +0000

This piece made it as a post to the Rec List today, but I wanted to underline it to encourage those who haven't read it to do so. Barbara Ehrenreich, who has written about class and poverty for more than 30 years, is the author, among other books, of ...

Robert Koehler: Violence and Greeting Cards

Robert Koehler — Fri, 18 May 2012 03:01:52 +0000

"We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies . . ." My thanks to Medea Benjamin for her recent Common Dreams essay putting...

Another Birther Rumor Foiled As Literary Agent Comes Forward

Mollie Reilly — Fri, 18 May 2012 02:54:00 +0000

Barack Obama birth certificate conspiracy theorists have been foiled again. Conservative-leaning Breitbart.com on Tuesday published a copy of a promotional booklet from Obama's former literary...

Conservatives Slam Boehner Over Healthcare Strategy

Politico — Fri, 18 May 2012 02:48:18 +0000

Thirty minutes. That's the roughly time it took for conservatives to jump all over Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and his leadership team after the GOP's...

Obama remembers Donna Summer

Byron Tau — Fri, 18 May 2012 02:30:17 +0000

(Singer Donna Summer | Reuters) In a statement, President Obama marked the passing of singer/songwriter Donna Summer. "Michelle and I were saddened to hear about the passing of Donna Summer. A five-time Grammy Award winner, Donna truly was the...

Simon Johnson: Geithner to Dimon: Resign From the Board of the New York Fed

Simon Johnson — Fri, 18 May 2012 02:27:28 +0000

In the diplomatic language of Treasury communications, Mr. Geithner has just told Jamie Dimon to resign from the New York Fed board. It looks bad -- and it is bad -- to have him on the board of this key part of the Federal Reserve System at a time when his bank is under investigation with regard to its large trading losses and the apparent failure of its risk management system. If Mr. Dimon resigns, that is a major humiliation and recognition -- at the highest levels of government -- that even the country's best connected banker has overstepped his limits. If, as seems more likely, Mr. Dimon stays in place, that would be a great victory for the big banks -- and a reminder of who is really in charge of the country.

Paul Krugman: The Euro Can Still Be Saved

The New York Times — Fri, 18 May 2012 02:21:02 +0000

Suddenly, it has become easy to see how the euro — that grand, flawed experiment in monetary union without political union — could come apart...