Wilson took caffeine pills in 2007  —  Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.), who shouted “you lie!” at President Obama during his Wednesday night address to Congress, admitted to regularly consuming caffeine pills in 2007.  —  It is unclear if Wilson still takes NoDoz, a brand of pill that contains 200 milligrams …

Countdown: Special Comment About the Shout of “You Lie”  —  Keith lets Rep. “Wrong-Way” Wilson have it in this Special Comment.

John Stossel Leaving ABC For Fox  —  First on TVNewser: John Stossel, the longtime ABC News correspondent and co-anchor of “20/20,” is leaving ABC to join Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network.  TVNewser has learned Stossel will host a weekly, one-hour program for the 2-year-old business channel.

2 ACORN Employees Fired, Could Face Criminal Charges  —  The community organizing group ACORN has fired two employees at its Baltimore office who were seen on hidden-camera video giving advice to a man posing as a pimp and a woman pretending to be a prostitute, as some legal experts raise questions …

Yosi Sergant, Obama Aide, Asked To Resign: Glenn Beck Strikes Again  —  Glenn Beck has struck again.  —  Yosi Sergant, who recently popped up on Beck's radar for his involvement in a conference call on national service, has been asked to resign as communications director by the National Endowment …

Six New Companies, Including the USPS, Humana Pledge Not to Run Additional Ads on Fox News Channel's Glenn Beck  —  62 Companies Now Boycotting the Controversial Host  —  OAKLAND, Calif.—ColorOfChange.org today confirmed that six new companies whose ads aired recently during Fox News …

Semenya, forced to take gender test, is a woman ... and a man  —  (Photo by Lee Warren/Gallo ImagesGetty Images) Original Filename: 90065429.jpg  —  Tests show that controversial runner Caster Semenya is a woman ...and a man!  —  The 18-year-old South African champ has no womb or ovaries …

STEELE BLASTS KENNEDY LETTER IN SPEECH.... In his speech last night, President Obama noted there are countless Americans who've “shared their stories” with policymakers “at town halls, in e-mails, and in letters.”  One of those letters, the president said, came from Ted Kennedy, who had …

Al-Qaida faces recruitment crisis - anti-terror experts  —  Eight years after 9/11, Osama bin Laden is still at large but willing fighters and ideological support are in short supply  —  Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida is under heavy pressure in its strongholds in Pakistan's remote tribal areas …

The Politicization of 9/11  —  I finally understand what it really means when people say “no good deed goes unpunished.”  —  About seven years ago, the 9/11 community came together to support the wonderful idea that the anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks on America ought to become …

RED DAWN: GOP REVIVAL FOR 2010 HOUSE?  —  Republicans will pick up substantially, but fall short of full control  —  While the next slate of House elections does not occur until 2010, congressmen and their challengers certainly don't take off the “off-year.”

A Man on His Way to Bitterness  —  Blogs and Stories  —  Obama the candidate seemed to rise above his opponents.  The president Wednesday night was battling enemies, real and imagined.  —  This didn't look anything like the Barack Obama I remember from the campaign.

Unanimous on The View: GOP ‘Incredibly Disrespectful’ to Obama  —  The ladies on ABC's The View were unanimous on Thursday: the Republicans were rude to President Obama.  Sitting in Elisabeth Hasselbeck's chair was Meghan McCain, who said Rep. Joe Wilson's shout “makes all Republicans look bad.”

Thatcher told Gorbachev Britain did not want German reunification  —  Two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Margaret Thatcher told President Gorbachev that neither Britain nor Western Europe wanted the reunification of Germany and made clear that she wanted the Soviet leader to do what he could to stop it.

SCGOP calls for Sanford's resignation  —  OVER 2/3 OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE SAID DISGRACED GOVERNOR SHOULD GO  —  The tide of support from his own Republican Party officially turned against disgraced Gov. Mark Sanford Thursday as the South Carolina GOP called for his resignation.

Updated TV Ratings: SYTYCD vs. POTUS and Glee premieres nicely … Update: The presidential address was seen by 31.8 million across 10 networks in the final numbers.  —  Update: September 10, 2009 9:32a PDT, updated with some notes from FOX.  —  FOX easily won the night dominating the adults 18-49 and adults 18-34 demos.

Sector Snap: Insurers gain ground after speech  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Shares of health insurers gained some ground Thursday after President Barack Obama reaffirmed his commitment to reforming the health care system in a televised speech to a joint session of Congress.

HRC pushing to repeal marriage act  —  At a busy legislative moment, foes of the Defense of Marriage Act are re-starting the campaign against it.  Rep. Jerry Nadler is, I'm told, expected to introduce a bill that would repeal the legislation next week, and today Human Rights Campaign …

COVERAGE IN THE UNITED STATES: 2008  —  The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that real median household income in the United States fell 3.6 percent between 2007 and 2008, from $52,163 to $50,303.  This breaks a string of three years of annual income increases and coincides with the recession that started in December 2007.