Rethinking independent voters – Unions bash Dems

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THE US POLITICAL SYSTEM

Rethinking independent voters from Truthout

80% surveyed say Congress serves special interests

George Lakoff: ‘Rational reason’ doesn’t work in US politics

The US political system ‘sucks’ says John Podesta, Center for American Progress

ELECTIONS 2010

Will US Senate races be driven by money or issues?

1 in 10 Republicans calling it quits in November by Daniel Tencer

Is Gov. Crist, who joined Schwarzenegger in endorsing stimulus, about to switch?

Do Republicans really want to win in 2010? from Salon

REPUBLICAN PARTY, TEA PARTY

Republican of the people from Texas Observer

GOP’s path to the future runs through the past from Salon

The Tea Party takes aim at Ron Paul, ironically

The Tea Party’s radicalism by EJ Dionne Jr.

DEMOCRATIC PARTY, LABOR UNIONS

Unions bash Dems, warn of political fallout from Politico

Sanders: Obama is ‘wrong’ on the public option by Sam Stein

If Michael Moore would run for president by Robert Naiman

Colorado Supreme Court tosses Amendment 54 from Law Week

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Jon Stewart cooks Raw Story, Dial Up Rocks

Jon Stewart skewers headlines of lefty blogs

TOP STORIES

Obama wants TARP funds for small businesses

5 ways the Tea Party could fail from National Journal

Elliot Spitzer’s redemption strategy from Daily Beast

Daniel Ellsberg documentary attracts wide audience

DEMOCRACY & CAMPAIGN CASH

Bill Moyers: ‘Two parties, equal opportunity hypocrites’

Lobbyists retreat but never surrender from Truthout

Lawrence Lessig: How to get our democracy back from DN!

Donors reward Dems who pushed public option from Huff Po

FOREIGN POLICY & TERRORISM

Extraordinary Edition on US secret prisons in Afghanistan

Bush, Cheney and the great espace by William Rivers Pitt

Rep. Ron Paul: Stay out of Yemen! from Antiwar.com

The lynch mob mentality by Glenn Greenwald

MEDIA POLITICS

Times Square billboard from NORML denied by CBS

Focus on the Family buys more Super Bowl ad time

Can Obama overcome right-wing talk radio? by Sue Wilson

Paul Krugman & media deficit hawks from FAIR

JOURNALISM & THE FREE PRESS

New era for press after Citizens United from CJR

Ombudsman: ‘Critics are right’ NPR disrespected Zinn

O’Reilly blames Hannity, Beck for Fox News narrative

3rd Circuit Court hands down conflicting student speech ruling

TECHNOLOGY & PRIVACY

FBI wants records kept of websites visited from CNET

What do behavioral targeters know about you? from GigaOm

Springsteen demands ASCAP remove his name from lawsuit

Dial Up Rocks

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Obama’s Q&A ‘against the narrative’ so Fox cut away

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Jon Stewart: Fox saw Obama’s Q&A as ‘against the narrative’

TODAY’S TOP STORIES

Blair lied to public and misled parliament in build-up to Iraq War

NPR finds right-wing crank to spit on Zinn’s grave from FAIR

The creed of objectivity killed the news by Chris Hedges

Law would keep FCC off low-power radio from 10th Amendment Center

POLITICS POLITICS POLITICS

Supreme Court decision does not lift restrictions on nonprofits

Has the Democratic Party traded principles for power? from NOW

Dem ad slams GOP candidate as ‘architect of voter suppression’

What libertarians & the left have in common from Antiwar Radio

O BA MA

Obama doing another Q&A, with Senate Democrats Wed AM

Obama ignores another of his own pledges, increases drug war budget

Defying China, Obama to meet with Dalai Lama from AFP

Large percentage of GOP thinks president is racist, socialist, non-citizen

WORLD WIDE WEB

Short on cash, Wikileaks suspends operations from CNET

Everybody forgets readers when bashing news aggregators

Celebrity doppelganger Facebook photos could violate terms

Reuters pulls ‘backdoor’ tax hikes story from Raw Story

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Haiti crisis updates, Satan’s letter to Pat Robertson

Outside Haiti capital, much despair and little aid from AP

Haitians in mass exodus from Port-au-Prince from Reuters

Death of UN’s Haiti leadership confirmed from Haiti Tales

Consolidated information exchange on missing persons

Hillary Clinton lands in Haiti, Obama pledges $100m

Satan’s letter to Pat Robertson:

Dear Pat Robertson,

I know that you know that all press is good press, so I appreciate the shout-out. And you make God look like a big mean bully who kicks people when they are down, so I’m all over that action. But when you say that Haiti has made a pact with me, it is totally humiliating. I may be evil incarnate, but I’m no welcher. The way you put it, making a deal with me leaves folks desperate and impoverished. Sure, in the afterlife, but when I strike bargains with people, they first get something here on earth — glamour, beauty, talent, wealth, fame, glory, a golden fiddle. Those Haitians have nothing, and I mean nothing. And that was before the earthquake. Haven’t you seen “Crossroads”? Or “Damn Yankees”? If I had a thing going with Haiti, there’d be lots of banks, skyscrapers, SUVs, exclusive night clubs, Botox — that kind of thing. An 80 percent poverty rate is so not my style. Nothing against it — I’m just saying: Not how I roll. You’re doing great work, Pat, and I don’t want to clip your wings — just, come on, you’re making me look bad. And not the good kind of bad. Keep blaming God. That’s working. But leave me out of it, please. Or we may need to renegotiate your own contract.

Best, Satan

Haiti coverage sparks ‘pseudo-feud’ between Jon Stewart & Rachel Maddow

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Daily Show 2009 on the 4th estate

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News from November 11

Your decade in 7 minutes from Newsweek

Lou Dobbs: Explains decision to leave CNN; Most scandalous moments

BastaDobbs.com announces victory

Jon Stewart: Hannity faked protest footage; Breaks stories ‘real’ media can’t

Obama helping lobbyists weaken offshore tax crackdown by David Sirota

John Yoo’s lawyers warn of flood of political suits

Current TV cuts 80 workers, shifts programming

Can we trust Google’s WiFi gift? from The Big Money

Prosecutor pushes smear campaign against students from Salon

Rachel Maddow on child labor, slavery trade laws opponents

Google poised to become your phone company from Wired

Evolution of blogging: Interview with Charles Johnson

Black unemployment at 40%, where’s the jobs stimulus? by Jesse Jackson

Israeli Jews and the one-state solution by Ali Abunimah

Pharma deal with White House to net industry billions by Sam Stein

Lack of health care killed 2,266 US vets last year

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News from the 5th of November

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Glenn Beck’s hotline to nowhere by Thomas Frank

Pentagon pursuing new investigation into domestic propaganda

Israel preparing public for new Gaza war from Haaretz

State Dept fumbles Blackwater Iraq ouster from Newsweek

Guy Fawkes protesters finally celebrate right way by Allison Kilkenny

Obama’s negotiators collude with big business on copyright treaty

Utility regulators challenge Frontier-Verizon deal

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