It’s not often that Jon Stewart aims his wrath at President Obama. The president has been a guest on The Daily Show. Stewart has called him “dude.” But on Wednesday, Stewart took aim at a Senate defense spending bill that would allow indefinite military detentions of terror suspects. And he was shocked Democrats and Republicans each had 30 minutes to lay out their arguments for or against the bill. “For the debate on eliminating one of the most basic protections of citizenship, we require at l...

PETER J. BOYER: In high school in 1960, Newt's brainy political precocity had limited value. Jim Tilton convinced him to go out for football. JAMES "BUBBA" BALL, High School Football Coach: Newt was a boy that came in that had never played football and really wasn't given a lot of athletic talent. But he came onto the field, wanted to play football. And we had a little trouble getting a helmet that would fit him. Auburn didn't have one. Tech didn't have one, Alabama, Troy State. So we had to ca...

Air Force dumped ashes of more troops’ remains in Va. landfill than acknowledged This week, after The Post pressed for information contained in the Dover mortuary’s electronic database, the Air Force produced a tally based on those records. It showed that 976 fragments from 274 military personnel were cremated, incinerated and taken to the landfill between 2004 and 2008. An additional group of 1,762 unidentified remains were collected from the battlefield and disposed of in the same manner, the...

December 08, 2011 06:00 AM Everybody Hates Newt Romney By Cliff Schecter Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney--the perfect dynamic duo for our times, if not end times. A Batman and Robin for the 1 percent. Defenders of truth, justice, and a Gulag Archipelago filled with child janitors and the fandango of the foreclosed. If you're rooting for President Obama, or just plain enjoy the guilty pleasure of watching a Real Housewives of the Neo-Confederacy, your dream contest has arrived. Even before the ne...

Source: Talking Points Memo .......................... Yes, that John Bolton. In his speech, Gingrich took aim at Obama’s State Department, claiming under the command of Hillary Clinton it’s become an agency focused on “appeasing our opponents.” Gingrich said Bolton be charged with cleaning that problem right up. “I will only appoint him if he will agree that his first job is the complete and thorough transformation of the State Department and the replacement of the current foreign service ...

My Occupy LA Arrest, by Patrick Meighan TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2011 My Occupy LA Arrest, by Patrick Meighan My name is Patrick Meighan, and I’m a husband, a father, a writer on the Fox animated sitcom “Family Guy”, and a member of the Unitarian Universalist Community Church of Santa Monica. ........................... It was horrible to watch, and apparently designed to terrorize the rest of us. At least I was sufficiently terrorized. I unlinked my arms voluntarily and informed the LAPD office...

New optical-scan voting devices confused New Yorkers and led to tossing of 60,000 votes Election gizmos had many residents overvoting, or picking two candidates for one office BY REUVEN BLAU NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Monday, December 5 2011, 11:08 PM (Image) It wasn’t voter fraud that caused 60,000 ballots to be tossed from the 2010 election in New York – it was poorly designed voting machines. According to a study from the New York University’s Brennan School for Justice, (Link)/ the new optica...

Source: This Day Live/AFP Greenpeace Activists Break into French Nuclear Plant AFP Activists from environmental group Greenpeace managed to sneak into a nuclear power plant near Paris on Monday in a move they said highlighted the dangers posed by France's reliance on atomic energy, reports AFP. Police confirmed the intrusion and said activists had tried to break into two other nuclear sites in the south of France. French energy giant EDF, which runs the nuclear plants that France relies on...

"My mommy -- Miss Bachmann, my mommy's gay but she doesn't need fixing," Elijah said to Bachmann, after some lighthearted coaxing. A dumbfounded Bachmann then shoots the boy's mother an icy look before the pair walk away. (Link)

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MON DEC 05, 2011 AT 01:31 PM PST Successful adult takes—and bombs—10th grade standardized test byLaura ClawsonFollowforDaily Kos Labor “I won’t beat around the bush,” he wrote. “The math section had 60 questions. I knew the answers to none of them, but managed to guess ten out of the 60 correctly. On the reading test, I got 62% . In our system, that’s a “D”, and would get me a mandatory assignment to a double block of reading instruction. He continued, “It seems to me something is seriously w...

Source: Examiner Who really profits big from food stamps?: JPMorgan & Walmart Newt Gingrich has recently alleged that food stamp recipients have used their EBT (Electronic Benefits Transfer) cards to pay for trips to Hawaii. ............ Because of increasing numbers of Americans falling into poverty, and qualifying to receive food stamps, JPMorgan Chase has seen increased profits from its public-sector benefit payments business, in part from punitive fees charged poor Americans using the b...

Alan Grayson Former U.S. Congressman from Florida's 8th District The Fed Bailouts: Money for Nothing Posted: 12/ 5/11 02:54 PM ET I think it's fair to say that Congressman Ron Paul and I are the parents of the GAO's audit of the Federal Reserve. And I say that knowing full well that Dr. Paul has somewhat complicated views regarding gay marriage. Anyway, one of our love children is a massive 251-page GAO report technocratically entitled "Opportunities Exist to Strengthen Policies and Processe...

Source: Independent UK The City of London Police force was facing criticism last night after including the Occupy London demonstration in a letter warning businesses about potential terrorist threats. The letter, a "Terrorism/Extremism Update", lists al-Qa'ida, the Colombian dissidents Farc, and Belarusian terrorists who bombed the Minsk underground. It also lists Occupy London under the heading "Domestic". It states: "It is likely that activists aspire to identify other locations to occupy, ...

US Lets President Lock Up "Terrorists" While London Police Identify Occupy as "Terrorists" Revealed: secret police memo labels #occupy ‘terrorists’ (Link) A secret memo issued by the City of London police has labelled #occupyLSX protesters as ‘domestic terrorists’ alongside Al-Qaeda and Columbia’s FARC. The memo was handed to members of #occupyLSX over the weekend by a local businessman and confirmed as genuine today. (Link) The memo (below) starts off by describing international threats fro...

Critics: 'Tough' Sheriff Botched Sex-Crime Cases Sheriff Joe Arpaio: The Biggest asshole in the United States. "The 13-year-old girl opened the door of her home in this small city on the edge of Phoenix to encounter a man who said that his car had broken down and he needed to use the phone. Once inside, the man pummeled the teen from behind, knocking her unconscious and sexually assaulting her. Seven months before, in an apartment two miles away, another 13-year-old girl was fondled in the mi...

Imagine Newt Victorious by BooMan Mon Dec 5th, 2011 at 01:17:22 PM EST I'm trying to picture the Newt Gingrich victory speech on the night of the Iowa Caucuses. I can't get past the need for him to have throngs of supporters waving flags in delirious joy while chanting "Newt! Newt! Newt!" That simply isn't going to happen. Is it? Or, writ larger, imagine his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention. Can you do it? I can't. It still belongs, for me at least, in the unfathomable c...

MON DEC 05, 2011 AT 07:30 AM PST They Found Yellowcake... byRichard SvendsenFollow ...at the Grand Canyon. (Link) In October, the Obama Administration announced plans to ban new yellowcake uranium mining for 20 years on one million acres of taxpayer-owned lands around the Grand Canyon. As the owner of a bed and breakfast in Flagstaff, AZ, I know I speak for others in the tourism industry when I thank Interior Secretary Ken Salazar for taking this important step in the right direction. MORE:...

The rigging was still there, of course, it's just that the loss was so big it couldn't be thoroughly disguised: (Image) Western Monitors Criticize Russian Elections (Image) MOSCOW — Western election monitors said on Monday that they had observed blatant fraud, including the brazen stuffing of ballot boxes, in the parliamentary elections that delivered surprisingly big losses to United Russia, the party led by Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin. .......................... Petros Efthymiou, wh...

Source: Talking Points Memo Despite some unfavorable polling, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi still thinks the Occupy movement has been politically helpful to Democrats. In an interview with TPM on Friday, she said there’s no recent precedent for the sort of election House Democrats are going into. In 1994 and 2010, Congressional Republicans ran against Washington controlled by Democrats. In 2006, Congressional Democrats ran against Republican corruption and President George W. Bush. This t...

* In Gingrich surge, GOP reaping what it sowed: E.J. Dionne makes the key point about the panic in GOP establishment circles about Gingrich’s sudden frontrunner status: (Link) The Republican establishment, such as it is, is essentially powerless. It sold its soul to the Tea Party, sat by silently as extremist rhetoric engulfed the GOP and figured that swing voters would eventually overlook all this to cast votes against a bad economy. That’s still Romney’s bet; yet his failure to break through ...

Pelosi didn’t go into detail about Gingrich’s past transgressions, but she tipped her hand. “One of these days we’ll have a conversation about Newt Gingrich,” Pelosi said. “I know a lot about him. I served on the investigative committee that investigated him, four of us locked in a room in an undisclosed location for a year. A thousand pages of his stuff.” Pressed for more detail she wouldn’t go further. “Not right here,” Pelosi joked. “When the time’s right.” MORE: (Link) .....................

Zuccotti Park owners Brookfield Properties owe city $139G in back taxes Heineken, WNBA and Philadelphia Eagles also on debtors list BY ERIN EINHORN NEW YORK DAILY NEWS ......................... | It turns out that the owners of Zuccotti Park — the historic site of Occupy Wall Street — have been engaged in some of the very same tax-dodging that many of the protesters were enraged about. The “city Finance Department says park owner Brookfield Properties and its parent company, Brookfield US Co...

Huntsman, appearing on Fox News this morning, responded to Trump. “I’m not going to kiss his ring, and I’m not going to kiss any other part of his anatomy,” Huntsman said. “This is exactly what is wrong with politics. It’s show business over substance. … The presidency of the United States of America is more important than these silly game shows and reality shows.” (Link)

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A closer look at Mitt Romney's job creation record The Republican presidential contender says he learned about expanding employment during his time heading a private equity firm. But under his leadership, Bain Capital often maximized profits in part by firing workers. (Image) More: (Link)

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(Image) “We do not need someone like Alex Jones or a popular “anti-greed” movement or any conspiracy theorists to tell us what the USA is up to or what it has done to this world and it’s people. We know because we are facing it’s terrorism and bullying right now. We know it’s hunger to control the resources in our parts of the world. We know because we are the victims. We are rest of the world. We are against this establishment. We are Anonymous. - This is a message to the Occupy crowd, please...