Georgia Woman Claims 13-Year Affair with Herman Cain  —  Ginger White's exclusive interview with the I-Team  —  ATLANTA, Ga. - An Atlanta businesswoman is breaking her silence, claiming she has been involved in a 13-year-long affair with Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain.

Secret Fed Loans Gave U.S. Banks Undisclosed $13B  —  The Federal Reserve and the big banks fought for more than two years to keep details of the largest bailout in U.S. history a secret.  Now, the rest of the world can see what it was missing.  —  The Fed didn't tell anyone which banks …

Report: Explosion rocks Iran city of Isfahan, home to key nuclear facility  —  Semi-official Fars news agency says blast heard distinctly in several parts of the western Iran city; a uranium conversion plant near Isfahan went online in 2004.  —  An explosion rocked the western Iranian city …

Gingrich Says He's ‘Conservative Alternative’ to Romney  —  Newt Gingrich, who not long ago was urging his fellow Republican candidates to avoid tearing one another apart in pursuit of the party's presidential nomination, took a new approach on Monday by explicitly declaring …

The Future of the Obama Coalition  —  For decades, Democrats have suffered continuous and increasingly severe losses among white voters.  But preparations by Democratic operatives for the 2012 election make it clear for the first time that the party will explicitly abandon the white working class.

Barney Frank Will Not Run Again—So Which Dem Will Run Financial Services?  —  Barney Frank announced today that he was stepping down.  He gets a lot of criticism from the right, and to be sure, some of his more spectacular personal pecadillos, and some of his policy decisions on the banking industry, are ripe for criticism.

Inequality: A winning issue for Dems in 2012  —  It's become an article of faith among Republicans, and even some neutral commentators: By embracing the larger message of Occupy Wall Street, and by pushing issues of income inequality and tax fairness to the fore, Democrats risk alienating swing voters …

Outrage!... After Demanding Refund From City, Richmond Tea Party Gets Letter - “You're Being Audited”  —  The City of Richmond charged the local tea party $10,000 to hold three rallies at the Kanawha Plaza ... But, the #Occupy squatters were allowed to set up a tent city on the plaza for free.

Arrest over video of ‘racist rant’ on Croydon to Wimbledon tram  —  The clip shows a woman swearing at passengers on the tram  —  A woman has been arrested after an online video apparently showed a woman abusing ethnic minority passengers on a packed south London tram.

Barney Frank not seeking re-election in 2012  —  Washington (CNN) - Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank, a prominent 16-term liberal Democrat and arch-enemy of political conservatives nationwide, will announce Monday he does not intend to seek re-election in 2012, according to a statement from Frank's office.

Congress is close to destroying the internet (no hyperbole)  —  Big Pharma and the recording and movie industries are on the verge of passing a bill that could very well destroy the social web, including Daily Kos.  —  This is no hyperbole.  Watch the video above.

The Race-IQ ‘Blackout’  —  Andrew asserts that “pc egalitarianism” is strangling research into IQ.  To buttress this observation he points to a piece in Alternet that basically asserts the same.  The piece contains no numbers to back up the claim, and quotes only one scientist to evidence this scourge of manners.

Radiation Covers 8% of Japan, Fukushima Crisis “Stunting Children's Growth” … Fukushima, like most international stories, has a very short half life in the U.S. media — a lot shorter than that of radioactive cesium.  As the NY Times noted back in March, “Over the long term …

DNC to Romney: There you go again - Steve Schwarzman backs Mitt - POLITICO behind-the-scenes eBook on 2012 debuts Wed.: The old Newsweek project, IN REAL TIME — NYT debunks dumb law  —  Good Monday morning.  BRUTAL VIDEO: The DNC, working to define Mitt Romney even before Republicans have a nominee …

How Brooklyn Got Its Groove Back  —  In 1982, I moved with my husband and our two young children into a partly renovated brownstone in Park Slope, Brooklyn.  Last year, New York pronounced the area “the most livable neighborhood in New York City,” but in those days, real-estate agents …