New Woman Accusing Herman Cain Of Sexual Harassment Hires Gloria Allred  —  A new woman alleging sexual harassment by presidential hopeful Herman Cain will break her silence at a news conference with her powerhouse attorney Gloria Allred Monday afternoon in New York City, RadarOnline.com is exclusively reporting.

Independents and moderates agree: GOP deliberately sabotaging Obama's jobs policies  —  Ever since Obama began aggressively calling out the GOP for obstructing his jobs policies, insisting that Republicans are “putting party before country,” pundits have ominously warned that he risks alienating …

Conservatives Launch ‘Not Mitt Romney’ Campaign, Warn Of Dire Consequences If Romney Is The GOP Nominee  —  A coalition of conservatives have launched a campaign against Republican front-runner Mitt Romney's candidacy to prevent him from becoming the GOP nominee next year.

On electoral map, Obama still has routes to victory in 2012, despite low ratings  —  There's no question that President Obama faces one of the most challenging political environments in modern memory as he prepares to try to win a second term next November.  —  But with one year …

Here Comes the Sun  —  For decades the story of technology has been dominated, in the popular mind and to a large extent in reality, by computing and the things you can do with it.  Moore's Law — in which the price of computing power falls roughly 50 percent every 18 months …

Michele Bachmann: ‘If Anyone Will Not Work, Neither Should He Eat’  —  GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann promised to significantly lower funding to social safety net programs during a speech at the Family Research Council this morning, going so far as to suggest that people who can't work should not eat.

Victims speak out about North Carolina sterilization program, which targeted women, young girls and blacks  —  By Michelle Kessel and Jessica Hopper  —  Elaine Riddick was 13 years old when she got pregnant after being raped by a neighbor in Winfall, N.C., in 1967.

SB 5 headed for big defeat  —  Labor is poised for a big victory in Ohio Tuesday.  PPP's final poll on Issue 2 finds 59% of voters plan to reject Senate Bill 5, with only 36% voting for approval.  —  What might be most remarkable about the 23 point margin in this poll is that it's exactly identical …

IAEA says foreign expertise has brought Iran to threshold of nuclear capability  —  Intelligence provided to U.N. nuclear officials shows that Iran's government has mastered the critical steps needed to build a nuclear weapon, receiving assistance from foreign scientists to overcome key technical hurdles …

Living a lie  —  Joe Paterno issued a statement yesterday regarding the apparent fact that for 43 years Paterno's PSU program harbored a serial child rapist (Jerry Sandusky joined Paterno's staff in 1966 and was running football camps at PSU for ten-year-old boys as late as 2009).  Here it is in full:

Bill Clinton's back, with a plan to help the economy  —  A few dozen ideas, in fact, about ways large and small to get unemployed Americans back to work — from granting property tax breaks for investments that create jobs to painting every flat tar roof in U.S. cities white for the energy savings.

Judge blocks graphic images on cigarette packages  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — A judge on Monday blocked a federal requirement that would have begun forcing tobacco companies next year to put graphic images including dead and diseased smokers on their cigarette packages.

Obama 2012: Imagine Where You Would Be Without Him!  —  The Obama campaign's new web video warns, “one year from now, all of our progress could be erased.”  —  One is tempted to ask, what “progress” are they talking about?  —  The 9 percent unemployment?  The $3.43 per gallon gas in November?

Nothing to see here... just the collapse of the euro... and maybe the entire global economic system  —  Hey, remember my last bloggingheads, when I went to the 1930s analogy to describe the current problems in the global political economy?  Well, that was a few days ago, and my …

Noam Chomsky Versus Me  —  I was a bit surprised to learn that while on vacation, Noam Chomsky took a shot at me during his Acceptance speech for the 2011 Sydney Peace Prize.  I'm especially surprised to see the particular shot he took, since I actually took myself to be making a Chomskyish point at the time.