A Gatesgate At Henry Gates' “Bogus” Charity?  —  Henry Louis Gates, Jr controls a tax-exempt, non-profit charity, Inkwell Foundation, Inc, that managed to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars in direct support in one year, yet only gave out $27,500 in grants, the bulk of which went to Gates' employees and Harvard colleagues.

CBO deals new blow to health plan  —  For the second time this month, congressional budget analysts have dealt a blow to the Democrat's health reform efforts, this time by saying a plan touted by the White House as crucial to paying for the bill would actually save almost no money over 10 years.

Palin: “Bigger” Than Obama, or Quitter?  —  GOP Operatives in Heated Exchange, on “The Early Show Saturday Edition”  —  (CBS) Is Sarah Palin still a star, or a fading quitter?  What does the future hold for her?  —  If a three-way discussion among Republican pundits on …

FRED BARNES DOESN'T KNOW WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT.... Conceit is nearly always unseemly, but it takes a smug fool with misplaced arrogance to be truly offensive.  —  The Weekly Standard's Fred Barnes devotes his latest column to bashing President Obama's economic policies.  That, in and of itself, is unremarkable.

Bush Weighed Using Military in Arrests  —  WASHINGTON — Top Bush administration officials in 2002 debated testing the Constitution by sending American troops into the suburbs of Buffalo to arrest a group of men suspected of plotting with Al Qaeda, according to former administration officials.

Man Bites Dog: U.S. Navy Commander Files Sex Complaint Against Female Miami Herald Journo  —  FishbowlDC Exclusive: US Navy Commander Jeffrey D. Gordon has filed a sexual harassment complaint against the Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg.  —  FishbowlDC obtained a copy of the July 22 …

Gatesgate  —  I have been reluctant to really delve into the Gates story because well ... it just seems so obvious.  And it's clear that it's just taking the wingnut bait.  But since I write often about police abuse of power, particularly with tasers, some readers seem to be interested …

Bachmann Sees Health Care Debate In Political Terms: ‘We Can Take Heart’ Obama's ‘Dropping Like A Rock’  —  Yesterday, The Conservative Women's Network hosted Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) for a discussion on critical legislation before Congress.  ThinkProgress attended the event and recorded Bachmann's remarks.

A Class of Generals  —  The cadets of 1976 graduated from West Point at a low moment for the Army and its storied training ground.  But that year produced the generals running the nation's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as their key deputies.  What happened?  —  Printer  —  Friendly

An Early-Warning System, Run by the Fed  —  THE Federal Reserve has long been the odd man out in the American system of government — powerful, yet designed to be nonpolitical and neither checked nor balanced.  Now two contradictory crosscurrents are swirling in Washington …