- Calling Radicalism by Its Name--"President Obama’s fruitless three-year search for compromise with the Republicans ended in a thunderclap of a speech on Tuesday, as he denounced the party and its presidential candidates for cruelty and extremism." NYT
- Bill Maher: The Republican Party Is ‘At War With Common Sense’
- GOP freshman class turned into ‘a monster’ for Boehner, other House leaders
- Democrats condemn GOP's plot to obstruct Obama as 'appalling and sad'
- Let’s just say it: The Republicans are the problem
- Religious Leaders Slam Ryan For Using Catholic Faith To Justify Cutting Programs That Help The Poor--Don't they know that Jesus is Republican?
- Catholic groups spar with Paul Ryan over budget--""We would be remiss in our duty to you and our students if we did not challenge your continuing misuse of Catholic teaching to defend a budget plan that decimates food programs for struggling families, radically weakens protections for the elderly and sick, and gives more tax breaks to the wealthiest few."
- Analysis: Paul Ryan's not-very-Catholic Catholic budget
- Dionne: The right's stealthy coup
- Real Romney: real scary--"Beneath the moderate veneer, a right-wing agenda lurks."
- Shocker: One of CA's most promising young Republicans abandons GOP in midst of heated SD mayoral race
- Tea party support stable, but interest is waning
- Blue Dog Democrats face extinction in next election--"Two years after the 2010 midterm elections decimated their ranks, the coalition of conservative Democrats is poised to get pummeled again in November — moving the Blue Dogs dangerously close to extinction."
- The Righteous Mind NYT
- Red States Have Most Gay Porn & Bestiality Searches
- Study tracks how conservatives lost their faith in science
- US conservatives' trust in science has fallen dramatically since the '70s
- It's Not Your Imagination: Republicans Really Don't Like Science
- Michigan GOP circumvents democracy with shady vote corner-cutting
- Michigan, this is your democracy--"The Michigan Board of State Canvassers today rejected a petition drive that would have put the state's emergency manager law on the November ballot." Republicans "cited the wrong font size on the title of the petitions circulated by Stand Up For Democracy, a coalition of groups that launched the petition campaign, as the reason for not approving the initiative for the ballot.
- Cops Confiscate Cameras at Ohio Congressman’s Town Hall
- Georgia: Senate Votes to Cut Jobless Benefits
- Wisconsin lost more jobs than any state
- Arizona close to passing anti-UN-sustainability bill
- Waterbury Mayor Reverses Promise, Takes $91,000 Pension
- "Mitt Romney's contemptuous attitude toward the importance of public disclosure is increasingly troubling."
- Liberating America's secret, for-pay laws
- DOJ OIP Director Pustay testifies that "people misinterpreted," "misconstrued," "didn’t necessarily understand," FOIA regulations allowing DOJ to lie to requesters. Issa report gives DOJ a "D" on FOIA.
- House approves transparency bill, citing GSA scandal--They threw an $800,000 party.
- Blast from the Past: Helen Thomas hits White House for lack of transparency
