Scarborough Attacks Palin, Agrees To Help Launch Centrist Civility Group  —  WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? … WASHINGTON — TV's Joe Scarborough, who today dismissed Sarah Palin as a symbol of “anti-intellectualism” with a “dopey dream” of being president, will help headline the launch next month …

WikiLeaks: Interpol issues wanted notice for Julian Assange  —  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange facing growing legal problems around world  —  The WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, is tonight facing growing legal problems around the world, with the US announcing that it was investigating whether he had violated its espionage laws.

Mullen Endorses Working Group's Report  —  The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff today fully endorsed the report of the working group that assessed the impact of a possible repeal of the law that bans gay men and women from serving openly in the military. ...

Judge upholds healthcare reform law  —  A federal judge in Virginia on Tuesday rejected a legal challenge to the healthcare reform law, the second time the law's mandate that people buy insurance has been ruled constitutional.  —  The lawsuit was brought by Liberty University …

GOP Reps Blast Smithsonian Exhibit Featuring Ant-Covered Jesus on Cross  —  An image with Jesus covered in ants from the video “A Fire in My Belly,” part of the ‘Hide/Seek’ exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery.  —  UPDATE: In a statement released on Tuesday, Martin Sullivan …

OFA Asks Supporters to Write a “Letter to the Editor” Praising Federal Worker Pay Freeze  —  We've officially gone around the bend.  —  OFA, the organizing arm of the DNC, originally began its life as an organization trying to get someone elected on the platform of hope, change, and progressive policies.

Family: New Jersey man serving 7 years for guns he owned legally  —  EVERYTHING Brian Aitken was or had worked for was wiped away one winter afternoon after his mother called the police on him.  —  Separated from his wife, the entrepreneur and media consultant, now 27 …

Hot mic picks up discussion on Senate floor: 'It's all rigged'  —  A hot mic left on during a Senate vote Tuesday morning on the Food Safety Act caught a senator complaining that process of setting the agenda during the lame-duck session is “rigged.”  —  “It's all rigged.

Retiring Congressman Loses Cool on House Floor  —  ABC News' John R. Parkinson reports:  —  Rep. Steve Buyer, a retiring nine-term lawmaker Republican from Indiana, became a little heated on the House floor today as the chamber prepared to consider a bill out of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

Patriotic ‘Hacktivist’ Claims He Took Down Wikileaks Site  —  Hacker-Activist ‘The Jester’ Says He Attacks Jihadist Websites Trying to Recruit Young Muslims  —  A computer hacker is claiming he temporarily disabled the Wikileaks site Sunday afternoon, right as the latest dump …

Here I am listening — for the first time — to Rush Limbaugh talking about me.  —  I've got the podcast of today's show, where he's reading from this blog post of mine:  —  And let me invite Rush to go on Bloggingheads.tv and diavlog with me about the so-called chickification problems that plague our world today.

Stuff White People Like  —  The departure of the only black senator prompts a revealingly clueless commentary.  —  The U.S. Senate now has no black members.  Illinois's Roland Burris, appointed to replace Barack Obama when the latter moved on to bigger if not necessarily better things …

Going deep on the Republicans  —  Our monthly look at the 2012 Republican Presidential field for November finds the same thing it it does every month- a very close four way race.  This time around it's Sarah Palin at 21%, Newt Gingrich at 19%, Mitt Romney at 18%, and Mike Huckabee at 16%.

Senate Passes Sweeping Law on Food Safety  —  WASHINGTON — The Senate passed a sweeping overhaul of the nation's food safety system on Tuesday, after tainted eggs, peanut butter and spinach sickened thousands of people in the last few years and led major food makers to join consumer advocates in demanding stronger government oversight.

Health Care Union Drops Coverage For Children  —  Perhaps you have to be familiar with New York politics to understand how truly bizarre this story is: 1199 is dropping its health care coverage for children.  1199 is the extraordinarily powerful local health care workers' union which has pushed …

Steve King: Black Farmers' Settlement Is ‘Slavery Reparations’ (VIDEO)  —  The Senate last week finally approved the multi-billion-dollar funding for the Pigford II and Cobell settlements, which will allow the government to pay out claims to African-American farmers and American Indians …

Huckabee calls for execution of person who leaked diplomatic documents to WikiLeaks  —  Florida resident and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee yesterday called for the execution of the person responsible for leaking hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables to the whistleblower website WikiLeaks.

Tea Party Nation President Says It ‘Makes A Lot Of Sense’ To Restrict Voting Only To Property Owners  —  Every week, the Tea Party Nation hosts a weekly radio program, calling itself a “home for conservatives.”  Two weeks ago, Tea Party Nation President Judson Phillips hosted the program …

Items Stolen John Conyers' Government-Registered Cadillac  —  Vehicle driven by Congressman's 20-year-old son  —  DETROIT (WJBK) - The son of Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., says items were stolen out of the government vehicle he was driving last Wednesday in downtown Detroit, FOX 2's Simon Shaykhet reports.

‘Nicolas Sarkozy is thin-skinned and authoritarian’  —  US embassy cables detail how staff and ministers fear ire of French president and warn of impact of personal lifestyle  —  Nicolas Sarkozy's advisers were so afraid of sparking his anger that they reportedly diverted his plane to avoid …

You Can't Overwork Yourself By Smoking Joints and Watching Too Many Episodes of Jersey Shore  —  Likewise the overconsumption theory of recessions makes no sense.  On a slightly different matter frequent commenter writes … If I am reading the commenter intention right then imbedded in his words is a common misperception.