War on Terror, Iraq'd, Darth Cheney, Heritage Flounder-ation, M.I.C., Guns; NSA Spying, Surveillance and Privacy, Police State, Your Rights Online, Free Speech, Whistleblowing, Facebook, Tech Tracking, Haxx0red

War on Terror

• How the 'War on Terror' Became a War on the Constitution—"Since 9/11, power-hungry political leaders have eviscerated the First Amendment—and we've allowed them to do it."
• A federal judge will review US 'secret court' rulings to see if they were improperly kept under wraps
• Appeals court reverses decision in Chicago terrorism case—"An appeals court has overruled a groundbreaking decision by a Chicago judge to let lawyers for an alleged terrorist see classified surveillance evidence."
• CIA hatched plan to make demon toy to counter Osama bin Laden's influence WaPo
• 'Extremely disturbing' force-feeding tapes cited in Gitmo abuse case
• UK: Student Stabbed To Death On Essex Footpath 'Targeted For Muslim Dress'
• Man says apartment complex called his US flag a 'threat to Muslim community'
• The Colbert Report: Arrest of Benghazi Terror Mastermind

Iraq'd

• No More Mr. Naïve Guy—"On the future of Iraq, President Obama is a cold-blooded realist."
• Eric Alterman Warns: Pundits and Partisans Are Up to Old Tricks in Iraq
• He blew it on Iraq, but makes sense now: Peter Beinart's thoughtful lessons—"If there's one Iraq war hawk worth listening to today, it's this one who's truly grappled with his mistake." Salon
• Karl Rove Unintentionally Predicted the Current Chaos in Iraq
• Petraeus: U.S. Must Not Become the Shia Militia's Air Force
• Iraq crisis: Britain and US must not meddle in Iraq, warns Saudi Arabia—"Saudi Arabia will oppose any US and British or regional intervention in Iraq against the jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, the country's ambassador to London tells the Telegraph."
• 1,000,000 Iraqis have fled their homes as ISIS continues armed siege
• The War Nerd: Here's everything you need to know about "too extreme for Al Qaeda" I.S.I.S.
• The Fall of Iraq - What You Aren't Being Told
• Blast from the Past: Dahr Jamail on what happened in Fallujah in 2004: U.S. War Crimes in Iraq

Darth Cheney

• Maybe listening to Dick Cheney on Iraq isn't a good idea WaPo
• Blow: The Gall of Dick Cheney NYT
• Dionne: Dick Cheney, did you really want to go there? WaPo
• The Ed Show: Dick Cheney is still wrong on Iraq
• Watch: Fox's Megyn Kelly tells Dick Cheney, history 'has proven you got it wrong'
• Dick Cheney Should be Rotting in The Hague, Not Writing Editorials
• Interview with Dick Cheney (1994)

Heritage Flounder-tion

• WaPo's Dana Milbank Bombarded For Column On Benghazi Panel That Turned Ugly—Milbank fires back.
• The right's hateful freak show: Dana Milbank vs. Heritage Foundation's abuse Salon
• Why We Shouldn't Be Surprised By Heritage Foundation Event's Islamophobia
  

M.I.C.

• Congress prepares to renew $40bn bill terrorism insurance law—"The Terrorism Risk Insurance Act has never covered a single company from terrorism costs and has earned $40bn in revenue for insurance companies. But Congress is too afraid to end it."
• South Dakota has Raked in $100 Million in Homeland Security Grants Despite No Known Terrorist Threats… Ever
• $40-billion missile defense system proves unreliable
• Golden Hammer: Pentagon sank $3 million in boats that never made it to Afghanistan
• House votes again to prevent retirement of A-10—"The U.S. House today overwhelmingly adopted an amendment to the 2015 defense appropriation bill that would prohibit the Pentagon from spending any money to retire the A-10 Thunderbolt II close-air support jet, a mainstay of Davis-Monthan Air Force Base."

Guns

• Supreme Court rules that 'straw' purchases of guns are illegal
• BLM Shooting Suspect Is Anti-Government Conspiracy Theorist With Pending Gun Charge
• Open-Carry Activists Return to Target With Assault Rifles—"The retailer is in the crosshairs of an escalating fight over Texas gun laws."
• Video Captures MI Police Struggling To Respect Gun-Toting Ranter's Open Carry Rights
• Deadly Brawl Tests "Make My Day" Self-Defense Laws
• Florida dad killed by neighbor's stray bullet as family welcomes home newborn
• Man accidentally shoots himself in penis

NSA Spying

• House votes 293-123 to cut funding for NSA spying on Americans—"The amendment would also stop 'backdoors' from being built into tech products."
• Inspired by Edward Snowden, Lawmakers Want Missouri to Stand Against NSA Surveillance
• More Snowden Effect: Grayson amendment protects security standards from NSA
• New Ruling Shows the NSA Can't Legally Justify Its Phone Spying Anymore
• Citing "Intense Public Interest and Concern" Over Mass Surveillance, Judge Orders DOJ to Turn Over Secret Legal Opinions for Court to Review
• Court Overturns Sharing Of FISA Surveillance With Defense Lawyers
• How Secret Partners Expand NSA's Surveillance Dragnet
• U.S. officials scrambled to nab Snowden, hoping he would take a wrong step. He didn't. WaPo
• Petition with 150,000 signatures calls on France to grant Snowden asylum
• New Snowden Revelations on NSA Spying in Germany—"An analysis of secret documents leaked by Edward Snowden demonstrates that the NSA is more active in Germany than anywhere else in Europe -- and that data collected here may have helped kill suspected terrorists. "
• Interview with Ex-Stasi Agent: 'The Scope of NSA Surveillance Surprised Me'
• EU states let NSA tap data cables, Danish media say
• NSA helps foreign governments conduct mass surveillance at home
• NSA Can Neither Confirm Nor Deny It Uses The Phrases It Used On A Leaked Slide

Surveillance and Privacy

• Mike Rogers Says Google Is Unpatriotic For Not Wanting NSA To Spy On Its Users
• Apple, Cisco, AT&T join Microsoft in fight against global search warrant
• Canada: Supreme Court Delivers Huge Victory for Internet Privacy & Blows Away Gov't Plans for Reform
• Hackers reverse-engineer NSA's leaked bugging devices—"Using documents leaked by Edward Snowden, hackers have built bugs that can be attached to computers to steal information in a host of intrusive ways."
• LinkedIn must face privacy lawsuit over contact reminder emails, says judge—"A federal judge said on Thursday that LinkedIn must face a lawsuit by customers who claimed it violated their privacy by accessing their external email accounts, downloading their contacts' email addresses and soliciting business from those contacts."
• Following TrueCrypt's bombshell advisory, developer says fork is "impossible"—"TrueCrypt developer withholds permission, suggests 'starting from scratch.'" Something is very fishy—or canary-ish—about this.
• eBay pulls sales of Chinese 'spyware phones'

Police State

• Judge allows US Marshals' seizure of stingray records, dimisses lawsuit—"What began as request for info on cell tracking records turns into surreal tale."
• Cops hid use of phone tracking tech in court documents at feds' request—"ACLU uncovers e-mails regarding Stingray devices borrowed from US Marshals Service."
• Stingray Documents Show Law Enforcement Using 'Terrorism' To Obtain Equipment To Fight Regular Crime
• Legal experts: Cops lying about cell tracking "is a stupid thing to do"—"Deception in legal filings could lead to bad consequences for police, attorneys."
• State Legislators Discussing Laws That Will Put Law Enforcement Surveillance Cameras Inside Private Businesses
• When the Pentagon Wants to Predict Unrest, It's Time to Be Unpredictable
• How an FBI Informant Helped Orchestrate the Hack of an FBI Contractor
• Removal of border agency's internal affairs chief raises alarms—"James F. Tomsheck's removal was designed to sooth critics who say the agency has been too soft on misconduct, abuse and corruption. But his supporters say he is a scapegoat for a broken and byzantine hierarchy."
• UK: Green party peer put on database of 'extremists' after police surveillance—"Political movements of Jenny Jones and Green party councillor Ian Driver were recorded, though neither have a criminal record."

Your Rights Online

• Facebook and the First Amendment: Supreme Court to Consider Online Threats
• The senate is still trying to jam through its hugely controversial cybersecurity bill
• Social media mass surveillance is permitted by law, says top UK official—"Charles Farr's statement marks first time government has commented on how it exploits the UK's legal framework to operate mass interception."
• Google will be forced to make a company disappear—"Inspired by the 'right to be forgotten,' a Canadian court has ordered Google to delete links to a company."
• How to Anonymize Everything You Do Online

Free Speech

• Appeals court throws out $340,000 online libel ruling—"CDA Section 230 prevents 'the speech-chilling threat of the heckler's veto.'"
• How your inbox looks after becoming Internet Enemy #1—"The mayor of Peoria, Illinois, meets anonymous online commenters."
• US Secret Service wants software to "detect sarcasm" on social media

Whistleblowing

• Julian Assange Asks The US To Drop Wikileaks Investigation—"Julian Assange has asked the US Attorney General Eric Holder to respect the principles of free speech and dissolve the Grand Jury investigation into Wikileaks, or resign."
• G20 whistleblower protection laws lacking—"The majority of whistleblower protection laws in G20 countries fail to meet best international standards despite a public pledge to shield whistleblowers from retaliation, a new report has found."
• US Circuit Court Questions Whether Whistleblower Protections Apply Abroad—"A circuit court on Monday probed whether whistleblower protections apply abroad during oral arguments of a case where a former staffer is suing Siemens AG over alleged retaliation." WSJ
• Polish authorities search premises of weekly that revealed tape scandal —"Polish authorities searched the premises of Wprost, the news magazine that published tapes of officials' conversations that have embarrassed to the government, the prosecutor's spokeswoman said on Wednesday."
• Passport Office orders inquiry over photographs leaked to Guardian—"MPs and unions say inquiry is heavy-handed and a waste of money after photographs show stacks of passport applications."

Facebook

• Facebook Is Now Using Your Browsing History to Target Advertising—Also: Facebook Lets Users Opt Out of Targeted Ads
• Facebook will track users outside of the site, says 'people want more targeted advertising'—Riiiight.
• Creepy Facebook personality test could be dream for advertisers, nightmare for privacy WaPo

Tech Tracking

• Why online tracking is getting creepier—"Online marketers are increasingly trying to track users offline as well."
• Ars tests Internet surveillance—by spying on an NPR reporter—Also: Listen to the results of our Internet spy project
• Resistance Is Futile: Apple And Google Are Going To Track Your Location No Matter What
• Android no longer reveals app permission changes in automatic updates
• iOS 8 strikes an unexpected blow against location tracking
• How Nest Is Already Using All That Data From Its Army of Smoke Alarms

Haxx0red

• AT&T Waits a Month to Notify Customers of Data Breach—"Hackers breached AT&T Mobility and stole social security numbers and call records. AT&T won't say why it waited a month to notify affected customers, and that's a major concern, according to CIO.com blogger Bill Snyder."
• Nokia paid millions of euros in ransom—"MTV News Investigative Team reveals that Nokia became a target of extortion and ended up paying several millions of euros in ransom. The case is unsolved."
• Domino's Pizza blackmailed over mass data leak
• Hacker infects Synology storage devices, makes off with $620,000 in Dogecoin
• Teens Hack Into ATM Just to Let Everyone Know They Can—White-hats.

War on Terror, FBI Entrapment, Domestic Terror, Israel and Palestine, NYT Fraud; Surveillance and Privacy, Whistleblowers, Tech Tracking, Your Rights Online; Net Neutrality, Comcast vs. Netflix; Haxx0red

War on Terror

• Supreme Court rejects hearing on military detention case—"The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday handed a victory to President Barack Obama's administration by declining to hear a challenge to a law that allows the U.S. military to indefinitely detain people believed to have helped al Qaeda or the Taliban."
• US senators remove requirement for disclosure over drone strike victims
• Judge Dismisses Case Against Blackwater Defendant
• State Department Gives 87% of Afghan Funds to Only Five Recipients
• Nursing mom wins $75K settlement from TSA over airport incident

FBI

• Dzhokhar bombshell: FBI pressed Tamerlan to become informant
• At the Tribeca Fest: Two bold documentaries expose FBI spying and entrapment
• FBI knew of zero-day attack on websites, let hackers use it—"NY Times reports Sabu directed attacks with Plesk exploit after arrest."

Domestic Terror

• Why it's time to take domestic terrorism seriously
• Minnesota militia member facing jail despite failure to prove terror plot
• Reports Back Op-Ed Linking Vets to Hate Groups
• Concerns growing about militia members at Bundy ranch

Israel and Palestine

• Abbas denounces murder of Jews in Holocaust as 'most heinous crime in modern era'
• Israeli push for visa-free travel to US faces test—"A campaign to allow Israelis to enter the United States without a visa is gaining steam in Congress, but is still running into a brick wall with the Obama administration over the U.S. government's most elementary demand: that the Jewish state provide the same treatment at its borders to all Americans, even if they are Arab or Muslim."
• MKs pan Kerry for saying Israel could become 'apartheid'—"Anti-Defamation League also slams Washington's top diplomat, who warned of aftermath of talks' collapse." Kerry goes oooops [Politico] but gets his message across.

NYT Fraud

• 'New York Times' Admits It Agreed to 'Gag Orders' in Israel
• New York Times Admits It Pushed Fabricated Evidence about Iraq, Syria and Ukraine
• In 'A Fragile Trust,' Jayson Blair Tries to Give Answers—"Samantha Grant's documentary, 'A Fragile Trust,' comes a decade after the fraud scandal at The New York Times perpetrated by the reporter Jayson Blair." NYT

Surveillance and Privacy

• Surveillance court rejected Verizon challenge to NSA calls program—"A ruling said that another judge's criticism of the NSA's data collection had been considered and rejected." WaPo
• Telecom firm fails in first known FISA court surveillance challenge—"Unnamed company challenged metadata surveillance in court for the first time but lost, an unsealed order reveals."
• Where's the White House on Warrantless Email Snooping?
• Mathematicians at the NSA and GCHQ: Is it ethical to work for spy agencies?
• DC thinks it can silence a new Snowden, but the anti-leak hypocrisy is backfiring—"The Obama administration's latest secrecy guidelines would make Deep Throat spin in his grave. Good thing the floodgates are about to open on drones"

Whistleblowers

• Pentagon Papers Whistleblower Says Americans Have 'Lost the Republic'—"Daniel Ellsberg says that whistleblowers are the last people able to stand up to the federal government."
• The glamorous life of a whistleblower: Working a dead-end job for minimum wage—"Long before Snowden made headlines, Peter Van Buren shined light on the State Dept. Then the other shoe dropped..." Salon
• Hillary Clinton Mocks Snowden, Displays Her Ignorance When It Comes to Whistleblowers

Tech Tracking

• The White House Wants to Issue You an Online ID
• Verizon's mobile advertising will now use your desktop browsing habits
• Reddit Frontpage Ads Get Location Targeting

Your Rights Online

• Brazilian Congress passes Internet bill of rights
• Russia Internet sovereignty: Vladimir Putin is tightening his grip on the Internet
• Weibo: We can't censor our users enough to satisfy the Chinese government Salon

Net Neutrality

• If John Kerry Thinks the Internet Is a Fundamental Right, He Should Tell the FCC
• Congress screwed up net neutrality, not the FCC
• Obama Has Not Kept His Promise to Enforce Net Neutrality
• Internet service providers charging for premium access hold us all to ransom—"An ISP should give users the bits they ask for, as quickly as it can, and not deliberately slow down the data."
• Could new net neutrality rules fuel piracy?
• The Costs of Internet 'Fast Lanes'
• FCC Offers E-mail Address to Field Neutrality Complaint
• Turncoat? FCC says new Internet 'fast lane' rules won't kill net neutrality
• FCC chairman says he won't let ISPs snuff out the next Google or Amazon—"'I won't hesitate' to declare ISPs common carriers, Wheeler writes."

Comcast vs. Netflix

• Comcast Has About 76 Lobbyists Working Washington On The Time Warner Cable Merger. This is Why.
• Comcast sells 1.4 million customers to Charter ahead of Time Warner Cable merger
• Comcast accuses Netflix of lying as public feud escalates
• After Comcast, Netflix signs traffic deal with Verizon

Haxx0red

• U.S., UK advise avoiding Internet Explorer until bug fixed
• Zero-day Flash bug under active attack in Windows threatens OS X, Linux too—"Adobe issues emergency update for exploits targeting Syrian dissidents."
• After Heartbleed, NSA reveals some flaws are kept secret—"The White House explains the government's process when deciding whether to withhold knowledge of a security vulnerability -- 'There are legitimate pros and cons to the decision to disclose.'"
• Tech giants, chastened by Heartbleed, finally agree to fund OpenSSL —Thousands of sites and devices still vulnerable.
• Easter egg: DSL router patch merely hides backdoor instead of closing it—"Researcher finds secret 'knock' opens admin for some Linksys, Netgear routers."
• You've Got Hacked: AOL Confirms 'Significant Number' of Mail Users Hit

9/11, Surveillance, Liberty at Risk, War on Terror, Torture, Incarceration, Bin Laden, Domestic, Drones, Military Industrial Complex

9/11

• The Deafness Before the Storm--" The Bush administration was told, as early as May 2001, about the threat of an attack by Al Qaeda." NYT
• Did the U.S. Overreact to the 9/11 Attacks?
• Have you heard of 9/11?--"In the West we take it for granted that everybody knows about the events of September 11th. But is this really the case, especially in some of the places that have been most affected by its consequences?"
• 9/11 cancer victims to have treatment funded--The kind which Paul Ryan had voted against multiple times.
• Blast from the Past: The 9/11 Report: A graphic adaptation by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón.

Surveillance

• House to Vote on FISA Amendments Act Wednesday
• White House Preparing Executive Order As A Stand-In For CISPA
• NSA Whistleblower Details How The NSA Has Spied On US Citizens Since 9/11
• Court ruling that NSA spying violated 4th Amendment remains secret--"EFF sues US to uncover details of court decision on phone and e-mail spying."
• FBI launches $1 billion face recognition project

Liberty at Risk

• Due process under duress: Detaining citizens under NDAA
• Greenwald: Obama campaign brags about its whistleblower persecutions--"Excuse me if I don't join in Democrats' sycophantic cheerleading for an Obama presidency that has shredded laws and liberties."
• Police seizure of text messages violated 4th Amendment, judge rules

War on Terror

• Why was a Navy adviser stripped of her career?
• Canada closes embassy in Iran, expels Iranian diplomats
• Marines punish nine for urinating on Taliban corpses; punishment due soon in Quran burning
• Taliban Ready to Negotiate Ceasefire; Willing to Severe Al-Qaeda ties
• Facebook Terrorism? Ex-Marine arrested, 9-11 conspiracy posts ruled 'terrorist in nature'--And then it gets weird.
• The sham "terrorism expert" industry Salon
• What terrorist threat?

Torture

• Greenwald: Obama's justice department grants final immunity to Bush's CIA torturers--"By closing two cases of detainees tortured to death (NYT), Obama has put the US beyond any accountability under the rule of law."
• Torture Without Accountability--"Why hasn't the Obama administration tried to prosecute any Bush-era torture crimes?"
• Torture now legal in the US, just another policy issue being voted on

Incarceration

• 9/11 hearings: Hear no evil
• Sami al-Haj: 'I lived inside Guantánamo as a journalist'--"Al-Jazeera's Sami al-Haj, the only journalist to have been detained in Guantánamo, talks about media coverage of the issue and how his life has changed."
• Human rights are meaningless words in United States: Mir-Qolikhan--"Iranian national Shahrzad Mir-Qolikhan has been released after five years in US detention.... [She] talks about what she has gone through during her incarceration in US jails."

Bin Laden

• CIA balked at chance to kill bin Laden in '99, Polish ex-spy says
• Save the Children foreign staff ordered out of Pakistan--"[T]he move is thought be fall-out from the operation that killed Osama Bin Laden." The doctor speaks out.
• Panetta angry at ex-SEAL's bin Laden book--It apparently 'contradicts official account.'
• Greenwald: Democrats parade Osama bin Laden's corpse as their proudest achievement
• Ohioans confused about bin Laden's death--"According to a PPP poll of likely Ohio voters, 15 percent of Republicans in Ohio think Romney is 'more responsible' for bin Laden's death than Obama, while 47 percent of Republicans are 'not sure' whether Obama or Romney deserves more of the credit." Ohio is totally bizzaro. Salon

Domestic

• Why the Reaction Is Different When the Terrorist Is White
• Top Ten differences between White Terrorists and Others
• The benefits of hindsight: The need for more monitoring of domestic terrorism
• Terror From the Right: Plots, Conspiracies and Racist Rampages Since Oklahoma City
• NYPD: Muslim spying led to no leads, terror cases--"In more than six years of spying on Muslim neighborhoods, eavesdropping on conversations and cataloguing mosques, the New York Police Department's secret Demographics Unit never generated a lead or triggered a terrorism investigation, the department acknowledged...."

Drones

• Drone "blowback" is real--"A new analysis finds five ways drone strikes in Yemen are hurting American interests." Salon
• Hidden History: America's Secret Drone War in Africa
• Apple Rejects App That Tracks U.S. Drone Strikes--Drone attacks in Pakistan mapped
• Suspected U.S. drone strike kills civilians in Yemen, officials say
• Drone Hijacking? That’s Just the Start of GPS Troubles

Military Industrial Complex

• Science Teaching vs. Aircraft Carriers--"What's more dangerous: a nation full of science illiterates or a nation with one less aircraft carrier? Former New York City schools chancellor Harold Levy on the insanity of our budget priorities."
• U.S. Arms Sales Make Up Most of Global Market--"A worldwide economic decline had suppressed arms sales over recent years. But increasing tensions with Iran drove a set of Persian Gulf nations — Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Oman — to purchase American weapons at record levels." NYT
• Blackwater to pay fine to settle arms charges

Right-Wing Terrorism, Guns, Media, Voter Fraud, Voter Suppression, Campaign Ads, Elections 2012

Right-Wing Terrorism

• Joplin mosque razed in fire; 2nd blaze this summer
• Army Veteran Wade Page Identified As Sikh Temple Shooter--He was into hate-driven music (NYT).
• Fox News analyst: Sikh temple massacre 'not domestic terrorism'
• Right-wing extremist terrorism as deadly a threat as al Qaeda?
• DHS Crushed This Analyst for Warning About Far-Right Terror

Guns

• A Guide to Mass Shootings in America
• The NRA's big secret: Nobody is actually trying to take your guns
• NRA Sought Donations In Days After Colorado Shootings
• White House: Obama Supports Renewing Assault Weapons Ban — But Congress Won’t Act
• What they're saying: Gun control is irrelevant--"A conservative pretends gun massacres have nothing to do with guns." Salon
• Ohio police arrest man for bringing gun into 'Dark Knight' screening
• The Onion: 'Just Illegalize Us Already,' Nation's Assault Weapons Beg

Media

• Extremism normalized--"How Americans are efficiently trained to acquiesce to ideas once deemed so radical as to be unthinkable." Salon
• Infographic of the Day: Do the Mainstream Media Have a Conservative Bias?
• Harry Reid Is Vilified by a Press Corps That Tolerates Much Worse From the Right--How dare he make Mittens look bad!

Voter Fraud

• Repeat After Me: In-Person, In-Person, In-Person--Absolutely the only kind of voter fraud there can ever be, and anyone who says otherwise is a commie-loving hippie.
• Actual GOP voter fraud in Arizona
• Voter Fraud 'Study' Authored By Republican Who Pleaded Guilty In Abramoff Scandal

Voter Suppression

• Obama campaign sues Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted over early voting restrictions
• Justice Department Investigates Pennsylvania Voter ID Law
• The voter ID mess subverts an American birthright
• Chart of the Day: Voter ID and Racial Resentment
• Clarifying recent changes to our electoral system

Campaign Ads

• Lewis Black Takes Apart Dishonest Campaign Ads in Epic Rant
• The scandal behind Romney's new attack ad
• Veterans: Romney Lying About Obama Suit’s Effect On Military Voters--"Romney had claimed — falsely — that the Obama campaign opposed allowing members of the military and their families to vote in-person in the three days before the election. Actually, the Obama campaign wants all people in Ohio — including, for example, veterans, cops and firefighters — to be able to vote during that period."

Elections 2012

• A real corporate choice for VP: If corporations are Mitt Romney's peeps, why not pick one as his running mate?
• One Clue To Romney's Veep Pick: Whose Wiki Page Is Getting The Most Edits?
• Sen. Sherrod Brown's Wife Makes Conservative Blogger Look Silly--"Dear Ms. Shultz, We are doing an expose on journalists in the elite media who socialize with elected officials they are assigned to cover. We have found numerous photos of you with Sen. Sherrod Brown. In one of them, you appear to be hugging him. Care to comment?"
• New 'Twindex' plumbs voter mood by issue via tweet analysis
• Mitt Romney suspiciously gets 116K Twitter followers in one day
• A super PAC wake-up call for Dems Salon
• The Onion: GOP Trying To Keep Elderly Voting Base Alive Until November