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Vanity Fair publishes piece quoting "top aides" to the McCain campaign who worried about Sarah Palin's "mental state." Republicans respond by eating their own

http://snipurl.com/lev2a [news_yahoo_com]

White House reporter Helen Thomas, along with other WH reporter, unloads on Press Secretary Gibbs about Obama's lack of openness and transparency.

http://snipurl.com/lewbz [www_youtube_com]

Jonah Goldberg and the NRO discover that the dictionary and thesaurus both reflect reality's well-known liberal bias

http://snipurl.com/ley8n [corner_nationalreview_com]

Obama uses the appeal to emotion fallacy, provides few details in his latest explanation for his healthcare plan

http://snipurl.com/lf0in [fe12_story_media_ac4_yahoo_com]

Is Obama Really Hypocritical on Signing Statements? Yup.

http://snipurl.com/lf1l9 [opiniojuris_org]

Republicans outraged that Obama will not compromise with them anymore after his previous concessions earned him no votes from Republicans

http://snipurl.com/lfapy [www_dailykos_com]

Republican Congressional strategy now officially: Be against whatever Obama wants

http://snipurl.com/lf2do [www_washingtonpost_com]

Public health insurance option would destroy private insurance, just like Social Security annihilated private pensions and FHA vanquished private mortgate lenders

http://snipurl.com/lf3bf [www_tnr_com]

Thune To Conservative Activists: ‘We Need You’ To Help Obstruct Sotomayor

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/30/thune-sotomayor/

DOJ Tells UBS They Must Release Names Of 52,000 U.S. Tax Cheats

http://snipurl.com/lfelk [crooksandliars_com]

Government

GOP governor's aide: GOP shouldn't open itself 'like a whorehouse' to new voters. So much for the big tent.

http://snipurl.com/ik2ng [rawstory_com]

Republican Congressman: "Some things are worth fighting for, and this is one of them." Is he talking about a) National security b) Economic prosperity or c) Preventing gays from getting hitched

http://snipurl.com/ik49t [www_politico_com]

Republicans threaten to bog down proceedings by forcing clerks to read entire 900-page energy bill. Henry Waxman responds by hiring a speed-reader.

http://snipurl.com/ik0zg [wonkette_com]

Jesse Jackson Jr. pays wife hundreds of thousands from campagin fund

http://snipurl.com/ik2f9 [news_yahoo_com]

When it comes to the war on terror, Obama is so Bush-like he should be vacationing in Texas and choking on pretzels

http://snipurl.com/ik2oi [www_washingtonpost_com]

Reactionary cult is terrified of change

http://snipurl.com/ik2ta [townhall_com]

GOP confirms they're terrified of a bunch of rag tag people they've mistreated the past 8 years. But enough about the voters, let's talk about Gitmo

http://www.miamiherald.com/457/story/1060128.html

Cheney's speech contained omissions, misstatements. Some folks call those "lies."

http://snipurl.com/ik3m0 [www_miamiherald_com]

Eleven Democrats crossed the aisle to support a GOP-sponsored resolution blocking any future funding for Jack Murtha’s lushly appointed and under-used airport in Johnstown, Penn.

http://snipurl.com/ik3q8 [www_politico_com]

Texas mayor resigns to move to Mexico with his illegal alien male lover. Why yes, he is Republican.

http://snipurl.com/ik3t7 [www_chron_com]

Supposed super socialist Obama goes libertarian for state sovereignty.

http://snipurl.com/ik3wa [www_washingtonpost_com]

Texas Senate votes to let college kids carry concealed handguns on campus. Because if anyone should be carrying a concealed weapon, it's the kid who thinks he needs to be packing heat in class.

http://snipurl.com/ik489 [wonkette_com]

Illinois senate unanimously passes "Elected Officials Misconduct Forfeiture Act" to prevent government officials from cashing in on their infamy.

http://snipurl.com/ik56q [www_suntimes_com]

Nancy Pelosi, 2008: We need to get to the bottom of the CIA's use of waterboarding. Nancy Pelosi, 2009: Never mind

http://snipurl.com/ik5c3 [www_breitbart_com]

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) released a comprehensive list of members of Congress under investigation.

http://snipurl.com/ik5nr [www_citizensforethics_org]

Senator John Cornyn says that Dick Cheney's recent media appearances have been very helpful for the GOP. Almost as helpful as the ones by Rush Limbaugh, Sarah palin, and Joe the Plumber

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/22809

Republican Congresswoman joins Facebook group calling for impeachment, or death, of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

http://snipurl.com/ik5x3 [www_mydesert_com]

Terrorist: I was mad over the US occupation of Afghanistan. Mayor Bloomberg: See, they want to blow up our freedoms

http://snipurl.com/ik608 [www_cnn_com]

John Boehner sets impressive "talking out of both sides of his mouth" standard discussing the CIA and whether they lie to House members or not

http://snipurl.com/ik64h [videocafe_crooksandliars_com]

Four arrested in terrorist plot to attack New York

http://snipurl.com/ik6e5 [cityroom_blogs_nytimes_com]

Gingrich: Pelosi has disqualified herself as Speaker by throwing a tantrum on Air Force One, shutting down the government, providing inaccurate information in an ethics investigation, and obsessing about Whitewater. Oh, wait, that was me

http://snipurl.com/ik6i3 [blogs_abcnews_com]

Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman was one of the few Republican governors to accept Stimulus money. It was just him and, well, all the others. Every....single....one

http://snipurl.com/ik6ll [mediamatters_org]

Bachmann calls for federal funds to be withheld from any group that has or has had indicted members. Barney Frank points out that the Republican Party fits that definition

http://snipurl.com/ik72m [tpmdc_talkingpointsmemo_com]

GOP leader attacks Obama, calls Democrats "liberal hate-mongers", insults blue-collar workers, plays the race card, announces that the GOP comeback is "well underway"

http://snipurl.com/ik7du [www_google_com]

Jesse Ventura: "This country will impeach a President for cheating on his wife, but we won’t impeach a President for lying to us and taking us to war where thousands are killed. Something is wrong with that" [video]

http://snipurl.com/ik83q [www_prosebeforehos_com]

Coleman Owes Franken $94,000!

http://newspirates.com/?p=3595

After Promising To Have Waxman ‘By The Nuts,’ Joe Barton Whines About Getting Beat ‘Time After Time’

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/22/joe-nuts-barton/

Evan Bayh votes against a national renewable electricity standard that even Republicans supported.

http://snipurl.com/ika70 [thinkprogress_org]

RNC Attacks Obama For Criticizing Slavery

http://snipurl.com/ikb3x [mediamattersaction_org]

After Voters Reject Rescue Plan, California Tax Cuts to Slash Vital Services

http://snipurl.com/ikbto [crooksandliars_com]

Courts and Justice

Senate Republicans block vote on Obama judicial nominee.

http://snipurl.com/ik9nh [www_bloomberg_com]

Domestic Programs

Democratic strategist Paul Begala “is circulating a point-by-point rebuttal of GOP consultant Frank Luntz’s widely read strategy memo on health care.” The memo urges “congressional Democrats to push back hard against ‘Republican Orwellian rhetoric.’”

http://snipurl.com/ik9wx [www_politico_com]

Ted Kennedy Throws His Support to Public Plan Option for Health Care Reform

http://snipurl.com/ikbog [thehill_com]

U.S. directs $1 billion for new swine flu vaccine

http://snipurl.com/ikc6p [www_alertnet_org]

Iraq

Iraqi relatives decry life for U.S. rape soldier

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LM544214.htm

“[t]hree American soldiers were killed and nine others wounded” after a bomb exploded as the soldiers “patrolled near a popular outdoor market.”

http://snipurl.com/ikae7 [apnews_myway_com]

Security developments in Iraq, May 22

http://snipurl.com/ikck9 [www_alertnet_org]

IRAQ: News website latest target in government’s offensive against independent media

http://uruknet.info/?p=m54483&hd=&size=1&l=e

Afghanistan

Taliban forces using U.S. made weapons to kill U.S. and coalition forces. This is not a repeat from the 1980's

http://snipurl.com/ik3nr [www_timesonline_co_uk]

Afghan, U.S. forces kill 34 militants in drug raids

http://snipurl.com/ikcfe [www_alertnet_org]

Security developments in Afghanistan, May 22

http://snipurl.com/ikcga [www_alertnet_org]

UK backs Afghan efforts to reintegrate Taliban

http://snipurl.com/ikche [www_alertnet_org]

Obama's War: Drunk, Bored Trigger Happy Mercenaries Kill Afghan Civilians

http://uruknet.info/?p=m54479&hd=&size=1&l=e

Central Asia

Pakistan crisis full coverage

http://snipurl.com/ikc4n [www_alertnet_org]

US Afghan surge could push militants into Pakistan

http://snipurl.com/ikchz [www_alertnet_org]

Israel and Palestine

UN inquiry into possible war crimes to proceed despite Israel's refusal to cooperate.

http://snipurl.com/ik3cg [news_bbc_co_uk]

The U.S. administration of President Barack Obama will not force Israel to state publicly whether it has nuclear weapons

http://snipurl.com/ik5s6 [www_reuters_com]

Israel destroying Gaza's farmlands

http://uruknet.info/?p=m54480&hd=&size=1&l=e

Foreign Affairs

Kuwait elects first women MPs

http://snipurl.com/ik3h3 [english_aljazeera_net]

U.N. chief names Bill Clinton as envoy to Haiti

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30814013/

Tiananmen anniversary unimportant to China's youth

http://snipurl.com/ik8nd [www_latimes_com]

President Obama said he wants to convene a “Muslim summit.” “I think that I can speak credibly to them about the fact that I respect their culture,” Obama said, “that I understand their religion, that I have lived in a Muslim country, and as a consequence I know it is possible to reconcile Islam with modernity and respect for human rights and a rejection of violence.”

http://snipurl.com/ik9s3 [www_foxnews_com]

Fighting kills at least 45 in Somali capital

http://snipurl.com/ikc37 [www_alertnet_org]

Iran to host 'Afghanistan' summit on May 24

http://uruknet.info/?p=m54487&hd=&size=1&l=e

Environment

House Panel Passes Limit on Greenhouse-Gas Emissions

http://snipurl.com/ik1or [www_washingtonpost_com]

Utah's Likely Next Governor, Republican Greg Herbert, Doesn't Believe in Human Causes of Global Warming

http://snipurl.com/ik95s [redgreenandblue_org]

The Senate confirmed David Hayes as Deputy Interior Secretary last night. Initially, Sens. Robert Bennett (R-UT) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) had blocked Hayes’s nomination because Secretary Ken Salazar “had canceled oil and gas leases.”

http://snipurl.com/ikabm [www_washingtonpost_com]

Civil Liberties

39% of Americans say the U.S. legal system is too concerned with individual rights

http://snipurl.com/ik5yg [www_rasmussenreports_com]

Black churches that supported civil rights when it was against segregation aren't quite as thrilled with civil rights when the issue is gay marriage

http://news.pinkpaper.com/NewsStory.aspx?id=965

Gibbs Refutes Pentagon: Obama Working On Don't Ask Don't Tell

http://snipurl.com/ikaue [www_huffingtonpost_com]

Human Rights

Defense Secretary Robert Gates says that Guantanamo Bay has become a taint on the reputation of America.

http://snipurl.com/ik1l9 [www_huffingtonpost_com]

Maddow Calls Out Obama On His "Prolonged Detention" Policies

http://snipurl.com/ik31r [www_youtube_com]

The One Case of Torture Obama Doesn't Want You to Learn About

http://snipurl.com/ik6c7 [www_washingtonsblog_com]

When the procedure stopped, Mancow was momentarily speechless, soaked with water, and very visibly shaken. He lasted for an estimated 6 to 7 seconds.

http://snipurl.com/ik90o [www_nbcchicago_com]

McCain: Waterboarding Is Torture, NOT Enhanced Interrogation. Torture is an effective recruiting tool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNeqKl8oUWk&eurl=

Dear Dick Cheney: No amount of trolling Obama about torture will make us forget your true legacy: "John Yoo publicly argued there is no law that could prevent the President from ordering the torture of a child of a suspect in custody – including by crushing that child’s testicles."

http://www.mathaba.net/0_index.shtml?x=504353

Cheney: Concern About Torture Is ‘Contrived Indignation And Phony Moralizing’

http://snipurl.com/ika8a [thinkprogress_org]

Media

RNC ad features someone taking shots at Pelosi, blood running down the screen

http://snipurl.com/ikbpo [crooksandliars_com]

Actual photo caption: "President Obama enjoys his new Steelers jersey after making children cry"

http://snipurl.com/ik2cc [www_nbcwashington_com]

Bill Maher: Don't blame Arnold for California's financial problems. Blame yourselves for electing an action hero and expecting him to do the impossible when we say "More services but don't raise my taxes

http://snipurl.com/ik30e [www_latimes_com]

Rachel Maddow demonstrates the difference between MSNBC and Fox News

http://snipurl.com/ik31r [www_youtube_com]

National "tea party" organizer was a no-show at a Tennessee tea party after a blogger revealed he has over $100,000 in tax liens

http://snipurl.com/ik457 [www_rutherfordcountydemocrats_org]

Rush Has a Butt Fixation

http://snipurl.com/ik54f [www_newser_com]

Media Finally Recognizes GOP Full Of Crap On Pelosi/CIA - Just In Time To Stop Investigations

http://snipurl.com/ik66z [www_dailykos_com]

Jesse Ventura offers to waterboard 'enhanced interrogation' apologist Brian Kilmeade.

http://snipurl.com/ik6sl [www_newshounds_us]

Focusing on the most pressing issues facing us, right wing media outlet to bring conspiracy theory to a billboard near you

http://snipurl.com/ik780 [www_worldnetdaily_com]

Bill Mann: Here's Why the Right Wing Dominates Talk Radio Today

http://snipurl.com/ik98c [www_huffingtonpost_com]

Sarah Palin's Book Collaborator Penned Hard-Right Book Ripping Democrats For "Sex" and "Crime"

http://snipurl.com/ikb00 [www_huffingtonpost_com]

Brzezinski's reading of CNN's Cheney poll contradicts CNN polling director

http://snipurl.com/ikbae [mediamatters_org]

Media uncritically aired Cheney claim that "EITs" were used after other techniques failed

http://snipurl.com/ikb74 [mediamatters_org]

Conservatives repeat inane claim that CO2 can't be a pollutant because "we breathe" it

http://mediamatters.org/research/200905210011

Coulter revives campaign falsehood about IL "Born Alive Act"

http://mediamatters.org/research/200905210033

ABC News dutifully ignores facts in Pelosi story

http://mediamatters.org/blog/200905210010

New York Times Falsifies Obama-Netanyahu Meeting

http://uruknet.info/?p=m54475&hd=&size=1&l=e

Group linked to Israeli lobby, neocons releases another Islamophobic film

http://uruknet.info/?p=m54467&hd=&size=1&l=e

US Colonel Advocates US 'Military Attacks' on 'Partisan Media' in Essay for Neocon, Pro-Israel Group JINSA

http://uruknet.info/?p=m54466&hd=&size=1&l=e

Corporate America

Verizon refuses to help locate missing man via his cell phone until authorities pay $20

http://snipurl.com/ik86s [www_timesreporter_com]

Less than two weeks have passed since much of the medical-industrial complex made a big show of working with President Obama on health care reform — and the double-crossing is already well under way.

http://snipurl.com/ik8ep [www_nytimes_com]

Fissures Grow In Right-Wing Business Lobby As Caterpillar Speaks Out In Favor Of Clean Energy Legislation

http://snipurl.com/ika4p [thinkprogress_org]

Militarization

The Senate yesterday passed a supplemental budget measure “which will provide about $85 billion to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through Sept. 30 and including the addition of an extra 21,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan.”

http://snipurl.com/ika2c [thehill_com]

Obama Signs Bill To Curb Wasteful Defense Spending

http://snipurl.com/ikb1t [www_huffingtonpost_com]

Church and State

Liberty University disbands College Democrats club on campus - says you can't be a Christian and a Democrat.

http://snipurl.com/ik8uk [www_newsadvance_com]

Is America becoming more pro-life? A new poll by Gallup says so... thrilled the anti-abortion movement—and offered Republicans their first glimmer of hope in months. *But the poll is wrong. Worse, it’s misleading*"

http://snipurl.com/ik8wh [www_theweek_com]