Coakley adviser memo: D.C. Dems ‘failed’ Coakley  —  The Coakley campaign is bridling at finger-pointing from the White House and Washington Democrats, and an outside adviser to the campaign has provided to POLITICO a memo aimed at rebutting the charge that Coakley failed and making the case that national Democrats failed her.

Dem GOTV picking up Brown supporters  —  Stunned?  Seriously, the Dems crashed and burned by picking Obama and Pelosi to run their agenda.  —  What a grossly biased and misleading headline versus the story  —  LOL I assume they are interested in the Democratic process and giving ALL voters a ride.

VIDEO: Why is this woman handing out blank absentee ballots?  —  These appear to be blank absentee ballots being handed out in Lawrence, MA.  Developing....

After the Massachusetts special election  —  I don't know who will win today's special election in Massachusetts.  But I do know what should happen — and what can happen — after the votes are counted and the winner is seated: Democrats should pass health-care reform.

So What Does Massachusetts Mean?  —  Assuming a huge Brown victory tonight, as I do, I've been trying to sort through the many layers of what it might really mean.  The FNC/RNC machine will describe it as a crushing referendum on health insurance reform and Obama, period.

FBI broke law for years in phone record searches  —  The FBI illegally collected more than 2,000 U.S. telephone call records between 2002 and 2006 by invoking terrorism emergencies that did not exist or simply persuading phone companies to provide records, according to internal bureau memos and interviews.

Olbermann Blasts “Homophobic, Racist” Scott Brown; Scarborough Fires Back  —  Keith Olbermann unleashed a super-aggressive, borderline-absurd last minute “quick comment” about GOP Massachusetts U.S. Senate candidate Scott Brown, highlighting some of the story lines that have been put …

The day I decided to stop being gay  —  Twenty years after he came out, Patrick Muirhead, 41, explains why he is suddenly feeling the appeal of the opposite sex  —  A minor incident in a barber's shop last week has helped me to realise that I may no longer be gay.

US accused of ‘occupying’ Haiti as troops flood in  —  France accused the US of “occupying” Haiti on Monday as thousands of American troops flooded into the country to take charge of aid efforts and security.  —  The French minister in charge of humanitarian relief called on the UN to …

Weird Ballot In Cambridge?  —  Note to readers: Please let me know what you're seeing in the field today in Massachusetts.  —  A software engineer in Cambridge says he was handed a fishy ballot at the polling station in a local firehouse — it already had the bubble next to Scott Brown's name filled in.