- $40 for a Case of Bottled Water? 'Preying' on Oklahoma Tornado Victims
- Beware of fraud after Oklahoma tornadoes, feds warn
- Oklahoma Senate Votes To Defund Planned Parenthood Two Days After Tornado
- "The Jester" trolls Westboro Baptist Church with hilarious hack
- Alex Jones Explains How Government "Weather Weapon" Could Have Been Behind Oklahoma Tornado
- Gov't obtains wide AP phone records in probe—"The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a 'massive and unprecedented intrusion' into how news organizations gather the news."
- Here's Why the Government Went Ballistic Over the AP Leak
- Obama DOJ formally accuses journalist in leak case of committing crimes—"Yet another serious escalation of the Obama administration's attacks on press freedoms emerges."
- Obama's media shield law makes prosecuting journalists even easier
- Are Justice Department leak probes causing a chill?
- The New Yorker: Strongbox—"A new way to share information with The New Yorker's writers and editors, designed to provide a greater degree of anonymity and security than conventional email."
- UK: Police to be forced to declare friendships with journalists
- AP Probe: Our Government is Becoming Less Transparent Than Ever, But We Can Fix It
- Most Transparent Administration in History Releases Completely Redacted Document About Text Snooping—Morbidly funny.
- Blast from the Past: Judge rules FBI can't keep Cheney interview buried
- ABC News And CBS News Officially Normalize Fabricated Reporting—ABC's Jonathan Karl stands by the lies he was fed.
- Jon Stewart destroys what's left of Peggy Noonan's credibility
- Fox and Furious Friends Wanted DOJ to Prosecute the New York Times—"Throughout the tenure of George W. Bush, many of us to the left of center warned that unchecked presidential power was putting Americans' civil liberties in jeopardy."
- 'We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks': movie review
- Supreme Court of Iceland rules firm must process donations for WikiLeaks—"Assange warns other companies involved in so-called blockade: 'you're next.'"
- WikiLeaks Donations Down to a Trickle
- Poll: Obama at 53 percent approval after week of controversies
- Meanwhile, The GOP's Favorability Ratings Have Tanked To Their Lowest Point Ever—Unless something major happens, they're safely gerrymandered away.
- President Obama’s Burgeoning Scandals—Benghazi, IRS, and AP’s Telephone Logs—Are All Smoke and No Fire
- IRS Official Lois Lerner Will Plead The 5th Amendment—And gets kicked off the job.
- Profiling Is Great ... Except When You Do It to Me—"Will the IRS's scrutiny of Tea Party groups convince conservatives that all kinds of profiling are wrong?"
- Scandal Within A Scandal: IRS Misconduct Unfolded In Murky World Of Election Spending
- This Is Important. Give It a Read—"[I]f you care about the integrity of elections and people actually being able to vote, the supposed cures for vote fraud are vastly more destructive than the problem."
- Ohio GOP: Oops on bill to curb student voting
- Against the odds: Could Democrats regain the House?—"Could Democrats regain the House in 2014? History says no, but DCCC chairman Steve Israel says it's possible — if the economy improves and the GOP ignores the lessons of 1998. Oh, and Obamacare goes well, too."
- The Bush Tax Cuts Didn't Work
- Bernanke to Congress: Seriously, guys, what are you doing?—"Ben Bernanke testifies before Congress today for the first time in three months, and the Federal Reserve chairman has a message for lawmakers: You're the reason the economy isn't taking off more."
- I-5 bridge collapses over Skagit River; possibly triggered by truck—"Washington state was given a C in the American Society of Civil Engineers' 2013 infrastructure report card and a C- when it came to the state's bridges. The group said more than a quarter of Washington's 7,840 bridges are considered structurally deficient of functionally obsolete."
- Obstruction will ruin GOP Salon
- Hatred of Obama could lead to GOP overreach
- Reid To McConnell: Yes, You Are Abusing The Filibuster
- McCain Responds To 'Nuclear Threat,' Criticizes Tea Party Senators
- Lock Up Washington—"So where are we today in Washington? What will people hundreds of years from now think of our national governance with all its blaming, nastiness and negativity? It looks as if our country is being run by thugs and liars motivated by revenge and pettiness beyond description."
