The Baucus Bill: The Worst Policy in the Bill, and Possibly in the World  —  Baucus's bill retains the noxious “free rider” provision on employers.  Rather than a simple employer mandate that forces every employer over a certain size to provide health-care insurance or pay a small fee …

Blowback in the ACORN Wars  —  Recent videos posted online and aired repeatedly on Fox News Channel that seem to show ACORN workers allegedly advising two 20-somethings dressed up as a pimp and prostitute on how to skirt the law, the community group has taken some major hits as of late.

Extremism in New Jersey  —  We've been uncovering a remarkable level of anger toward Barack Obama in a lot of our recent polling so for New Jersey we decided to go a step further in determining how extreme some people's feelings are about the President and asked respondents if they think he is the Anti-Christ.

Obama Admin: Cap And Trade Could Cost Families $1,761 A Year  —  Posted by Declan McCullagh The Obama administration has privately concluded that a cap and trade law would cost American taxpayers up to $200 billion a year, the equivalent of hiking personal income taxes by about 15 percent.

BREAKING: More ACORN Videos To Be Revealed  —  “There are more,” Mike Flynn, Editor-in-chief of new site BigGovernment.com, told HUMAN EVENTS in an exclusive interview this afternoon regarding the number of undercover films exposing ACORN.  Flynn would not reveal the location of the ACORN office …

Judge tosses out Army captain's complaint questioning president's birth; Orly Taitz on notice  —  U.S. District Court Judge Clay Land tossed out on Wednesday a complaint by an Army captain fighting deployment to Iraq by questioning the legitimacy of President Barack Obama.

Sword-wielding Hopkins student kills intruder  —  Intruder was repeat offender, released from prison Saturday  —  Hours earlier, someone had broken into John Pontolillo's house and taken two laptops and a video-game console.  Now it was past midnight, and he heard noises coming from the garage out back.

Election 2010: New Hampshire Senate  —  Ayotte Leads Hodes 46% to 38% in 2010 New Hampshire Senate Match-Up  —  Republican Kelly Ayotte leads Democrat Paul Hodes by eight points in an early look at New Hampshire's 2010 race for the U.S. Senate.  —  The first Rasmussen Reports survey …

Meet the man who changed Glenn Beck's life  —  On Saturday, I spent the afternoon with America's new breed of angry conservative.  Up to 75,000 protesters had gathered in Washington on Sept. 12, the day after the eighth anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks, sporting …

Reality Check: The Truth About “Czars”  —  Last week, when the President addressed the Joint Session of Congress in a speech on health reform, he referred to some of the untruths - okay, lies - that have been spread about the plan and sent a clear message to those who seek to undermine …

Waters: Probe ‘birthers and the teabaggers’ at rallies for racist views  —  The media should investigate the racial views of conservative activists like the ones who descended on Washington last weekend, one liberal congresswoman said Wednesday.  —  Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) …

Jon Stewart to media on ACORN: “Where the hell were you?”  —  Kudos to Jon Stewart, who doesn't sugar-coat the embarrassment at all — to the apparent delight of his audience, who get kudos of their own.  How can the national news media ignore the many allegations of corruption at ACORN …

‘Jackass!’  —  And here's that video, which shows, above all else, the president as a normal person — and moreover, a normal pol, utterly immersed in the cable-news frivolity he affects to disdain.  —  UPDATE: Not so much: Wiser heads than mine at POLITICO made the call to take down the video of the “jackass” moment.

Limbaugh Goes Full-On Racist During Rant About School Bus Beating  —  Rush Limbaugh has never hidden his bigoted beliefs, and on Tuesday he went on a racist rant about a highly disturbing incident on a school bus where a black student attacked a white student while other children cheered on.

Andrew Jackson's mother advises this response to Charles Johnson's lies … Charles Johnson's gutless passive-aggressive act — outrageously libeling me, trying to prevent me from reporting on the 9/12 March on DC, and then falsely claiming that I am attacking him — has been permitted to continue too long.

Duo who turned this trick  —  The two conservative activists who captured ACORN employ ees giving advice on the sex trade and money-laundering only play a pimp and prostitute on video.  —  In real life, Hannah Giles, 20, isn't a lady of the night.  She's a minister's daughter studying jour nalism at Florida International Uni versity.

(Updated & Bumped) Sources: Admin Officials Head to Poland, Czech Rep. to Kill Missile Defense  —  According to reliable sources, Obama administration officials are on their way to Poland and the Czech Republic to deliver very bad news.  The administration intends to cancel completely …

Paul Simon Chimes in on Health Care Reform  —  Singer Paul Simon Tries to Lend Harmony to Raucous Health Care Debate  —  Singer-songwriter Paul Simon tried to lend a little harmony to the raucous health care debate Wednesday by pushing for a health care overhaul with Democratic leaders of Congress.

ACORN says workers conduct ‘indefensible’  —  Suspends, plans audit, in wake of videos  —  UPDATED:  —  ACORN, calling the actions of some of its employees “indefensible,” has suspended advising new clients as part of its service programs and is setting up an independent review to see what happened.

Votes are lined up to appoint a senator  —  Top Democrats press for Mass. bill  —  Senate President Therese M. Murray has not pushed the bill.  —  Legislative leaders on Beacon Hill believe they have narrow majorities in both chambers to give Governor Deval Patrick the power to appoint …