- Government shutdown didn't save money. It cost $2 billion, report says.—"From a budgetary perspective, the government shutdown was a lose-lose scenario, with federal employees sitting at home getting no work done but then later getting paid for it."
- Obama Job Approval Sinks To Bush Levels In New Poll
- Poll: Can Congress go lower? Yes! Politico
- House Republicans Say: What GOP Crisis?
- Let's Face It, Bloomberg's Legacy Is Terrible
- Rand Paul-footnotes: Kentucky Republican's speech at The Citadel had 33 footnotes
- Which of the 11 American nations do you live in? WaPo
- GOP Escalates Nuclear Showdown By Filibustering Another Top Obama Judge
- Patrick Leahy Slams GOP For Blocking Another Nominee, Demands Filibuster Reform
- Court nominees: Battleground for partisan politics
- A Bizarre and Telling Book Excerpt From 60 Minutes' Bogus Benghazi Source
- 7 Questions CBS Is Dodging on Its Bogus Benghazi Story
- '60 Minutes' and the Benghazi Scandal Trap—"There are two charges against CBS: that they were duped, and that the segment itself was an example of misinformation, confusion, and intense partisanship."
- How can CBS possibly not fire Lara Logan?—"This was a screw-up just as bad as 'Rathergate,' but the reporter responsible probably won't suffer the same fate.'" Salon
- Jon Stewart Lights Into '60 Minutes' For Their Benghazi Disaster
- We Have a Dumb Religion Problem -- Not a Political Problem
- The Fall of the House of Moon—"Sex rituals, foreign spies, Biden offspring, and the Unification Church's war-torn first family."
- Pastor loses bus driving job for praying with students—'Captive audience', indeed.
- American Theocracy?: Lawsuit Alleges Utah and Ariz. Towns Enforce Religious Edicts As Law
- Fla. teacher suspended for forcing 4th-grader to participate in Pledge of Allegiance
- Republicans Just Changed The Rules AFTER A Virginia Election To Change The Outcome
- Virginia: Democrat Herring widens lead in AG race—Down to the wire.
- TX Republican Election Head Blames Wendy Davis for Voters Actually Voting
- NRO: One Of The Most Restrictive Voter ID Laws In The Country Is "A Good Thing"
- How Republicans Rig the Game—"Through gerrymandering, voter suppression and legislative tricks, the GOP has managed to hold on to power while more and more Americans reject their candidates and their ideas."
- Harry Belafonte Calls Koch Brothers 'Men Of Evil,' Compares Them To KKK
- Richard Cohen Defends Column: 'The Word Racist Is Truly Hurtful'—He says, "The column is about Tea Party extremism and I was not expressing my views, I was expressing the views of what I think some people in the Tea Party held." The view being: "People with conventional views must repress a gag reflex when considering the mayor-elect of New York — a white man married to a black woman and with two biracial children." Gag-worthy projection and scapegoating.
- The Right's Slavery Obsession—"'This isn't racist,' but the federal debt is as bad as slavery, says Alaska's ex-governor. Nothing about that statement is accurate—and it only minimizes real suffering."
- Colorado Lawmaker Jokes Obama Was Born In Kenya
- White supremacist Craig Cobb told he is 14% African in televised DNA test
- Clinton: Obama Should Let People Keep Their Health Plans—Democrats scrapped the federal public option and single-payer trying to appease Republicans, and now we have this fucked up "marketplace".
- Calif. Insurance Commissioner: More Than 1M Californians Having Insurance Cancelled Due To ACA
- It's Good That You Can't Keep Your Insurance Plan—"Obama was wrong to mislead people but right to scrap dysfunctional insurance products."
- Troubled Obamacare website enrolled fewer than 50,000 in Oct -WSJ
- Come back! HealthCare.gov invites 275,000 to try again
- The right's most outraged Twitter responses to a new, millennial-focused Obamacare ad—"The people who brought you "brosurance" are back and trolling the right all over again." Salon
- Sarah Palin Struggles To Explain Her Obamacare Alternative
- The original NSA whistleblower: "Snowden is a patriot"—"You likely haven't heard of Perry Fellwock, the first whistle-blower to go to the press about NSA 30 years ago." Salon
- The edge of the abyss: exposing the NSA's all-seeing machine
- White House considers appointing civilian NSA chief amid calls for reform—"Administration also pondering plan to disaggregate embattled agency from new military command created around it."
- NSA leaks on Canadian surveillance coming, Greenwald says—"Reporter in Edward Snowden NSA leaks says there are many documents about Canada."
- ProPublica Motion Seeks Release of Court Rulings on NSA Spying
- EFF: NSA's Vast Surveillance Powers Extend Far Beyond Counterterrorism, Despite Misleading Government Claims
- Severing Ties with the NSA
- After the NSA revelations, who will listen to America on human rights?—"The US was once in a position to promote human rights abroad. That was undermined under Bush, and the damage continues."
- Cost-benefit analysis and state secrecy: Foiled plots and bathtub falls
- Patriot Act Author Tells EU Parliament That U.S. Needs to Reform Surveillance
- ACLU to law enforcement: Tell us how you get users' search history, data—"More questions: Are warrants required? Can you intercept searches in real time?"
- UK spies continue "quantum insert" attack via LinkedIn, Slashdot pages—"Targets included engineers at Global Roaming Exchange providers and OPEC." GCHQ sez: Nothing to see here, jog on.
- Surveillance Leaves Writers War—"A survey by the writers' organization PEN American Center has found that a large majority of its members are deeply concerned about the extent of government surveillance of email and phone records." Chilling effect achievement unlocked. NYT
- Privacy Pretense: How Silicon Valley Helped the NSA
- In Lavabit Appeal, U.S. Doubles Down on Access to Web Crypto Keys—"A U.S. email provider can promise its users all the security and privacy it wants; it still has to do whatever it takes to give the government access. That';s the gist of the Justice Department's 60-page appellate brief in the Lavabit surveillance case, filed today in the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia."
- Op-ed: Lavabit's founder responds to cryptographer's criticism
- Hoping to avert "collision" with disaster, Microsoft retires SHA1—"After 2016, Microsoft will stop accepting the collision-prone crypto algorithm."
- Don't expect data on P2P networks to be private, judge rules—"Defendants claimed that searching for files on their computers violated Fourth Amendment rights."
