Angle: “I'm not sure I can win” if Ashjian's in, nat'l GOPers “have lost their principles,” need to “leave me alone”  — Team Angle on tape: Shows she is ‘blunt, plain spoken’ leader: Team Reid: ‘supreme hypocrisy’ by trying to make deal  —  That's just some of what GOP Senate nominee Sharron Angle …

Interest-group spending for midterm up fivefold from 2006; many sources secret  —  Interest groups are spending five times as much on the 2010 congressional elections as they did on the last midterms, and they are more secretive than ever about where that money is coming from.

Fear and Favor  —  A note to Tea Party activists: This is not the movie you think it is.  You probably imagine that you're starring in “The Birth of a Nation,” but you're actually just extras in a remake of “Citizen Kane.”  —  True, there have been some changes in the plot.

Chasing Fox  —  The loud, cartoonish blood sport that's engorged MSNBC, exhausted CNN—and is making our body politic delirious.  —  In the spring of 2006, a year and a half after he was hired to run CNN/U.S., Jonathan Klein went to his boss Jim Walton with an idea.  CNN was in trouble.

How the Roberts Court disguises its conservatism.  —  It's dark and silent.  Reporters trickle into the grand ceremonial room from a door on the left; like everyone, they've been instructed that no recording devices of any sort are allowed.  A clutch of spectators, some of whom have been waiting for hours, enters at the rear.

AS THE WORLD BURNS  —  How the Senate and the White House missed their best chance to deal with climate change.  —  On April 20, 2010, Senators John Kerry, Lindsey Graham, and Joseph Lieberman, along with three aides, visited Rahm Emanuel, President Obama's chief of staff, at the White House.

Ominous new Gallup findings for Democrats: Blacks still love Obama, others not so much  —  The good news for President Obama is his popular support among blacks is holding steady at 91%.  —  The bad news is no other group of potential voters likes him that much.

Busted- High School Students Admit They're Getting Class Credit to Attend Leftist One Nation Rally (Video)  —  How sad.  This leftist rally was a complete astroturfed sham.  —  No justice.  No Peace.  —  Not only were thousands of supporters given free rides by unions and the NAACP to the rally …

Trump says he's not behind mysterious NH poll  —  (CNN) - Business mogul Donald Trump is making clear he had nothing to do with a mysterious poll in New Hampshire that, accordant to TIME Magazine, asked Granite State voters about a potential Trump presidential bid.

Tennessee County's Subscription-Based Firefighters Watch As Family Home Burns Down  —  As ThinkProgress has noted, there are currently two competing visions of governance in the United States.  One, the conservative vision, believes in the on-your-own society, and informs a policy agenda …

Gay skydive teach axed for ‘gal grope’  —  Tweet  —  A skydiving instructor who joked with a female student that he couldn't be falling for her because he's gay has filed a discrimination suit, claiming he was cut loose from his job because of the quip.  —  Donald Zarda was strapped tightly …

No More Minumum Wage?:  Alaska Republican Says Feds Overstep Constitution  —  GOP Senate Candidate Hopes to Scale Back Federal Government's Power  —  Alaska's Joe Miller now has the solid support of the Republican establishment, but in an exclusive interview with ABC News …

Democrats seize on signs of hope  —  Once-despondent Democrats now believe that they may be able to avert a total midterm wipeout, as a series of important states now appears to be trending in their direction or growing more competitive.  —  The bad news: In a sign of how hostile …

Netanyahu: Israel, U.S. working quietly to resolve peace talks deadlock  —  Netanyahu's comment came as an Asharq al-Awsat report claimed the Prime Minister had agreed in principle to extend Israel's freeze on settlement construction by 60 days.  —  Israel and the United States are holding behind …

Tom Friedman Hates Democracy.  —  I thought Atrios had the right take on Tom Friedman's latest, “Tom Triedman wants a third party with no constituency to enact his preferred agenda.  [I] have only seen that column written 3 trillion times before:” … That Friedman believes the “far left” …