David Miranda, schedule 7 and the danger that all reporters now face  —  As the events in a Heathrow transit lounge - and the Guardian offices - have shown, the threat to journalism is real and growing  —  In a private viewing cinema in Soho last week I caught myself letting fly …

Cruz will renounce Canadian citizenship  —  Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) announced Monday evening that he will renounce his Canadian citizenship, less than 24 hours after a newspaper pointed out that the Canadian-born senator likely maintains dual citizenship.  —  “Now the Dallas Morning News …

War on the Core  —  I respect, really I do, the efforts by political scientists and pundits to make sense of the current Republican Party.  There is intellectual virtue in the search for historical antecedents and philosophical underpinnings.  —  I understand the urge to take what looks …

Meet Sunny: The Obamas' New Puppy  —  Today the Obamas welcomed the newest member of their family - a little girl (puppy) named Sunny!  —  Sunny, the new Obama family dog, on the South Lawn of the White House, Aug. 19, 2013.  (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)  —  Pin

Biden's son evaluated at Houston hospital  —  (CNN) - Beau Biden, the attorney general of Delaware and the son of Vice President Joe Biden, was evaluated on Monday at a Houston hospital after an “episode of disorientation and weakness,” the vice president's office said.

This Video Of A Pro-Bob Filner Rally Has To Be Seen To Be Believed  —  The event was officially called “Time to Heal, Forgive & Get Back to Moving City Forward With Mayor Filner” according to a Facebook group organizing the event.  As of Monday, the San Diego Mayor has been accused …

LePage is heard to say Obama ‘hates white people’  —  Two Republican lawmakers confirm that the governor made the remark at a fundraiser last week.  —  Gov. Paul LePage last week told a group of Republicans that President Barack Obama “hates white people,” according to two state lawmakers who heard the remark directly.

Map: What Religion Does Your Member Of Congress Identify With?  —  A breakdown of Congress' religious makeup.  One nation, under God, with liberty and justice for all.  —  BuzzFeed has mapped out the religions of the 435 members of the U.S. House of Representatives by their districts …

MSNBC's Ed Schultz returns to weekdays, Chris Matthews's ‘Hardball’ to 7 p.m.  —  MSNBC's Ed Schultz will return to weekdays later this month after a brief hiatus as weekend host, signalling a reversal of fortunes for the bombastic television personality who has become a champion to union workers and blue-collar liberals.

School Has Become Too Hostile to Boys  —  And efforts to re-engineer the young-male imagination are doomed to fail  —  As school begins in the coming weeks, parents of boys should ask themselves a question: Is my son really welcome?  A flurry of incidents last spring suggests that the answer is no. In May …

The New Fad Taking The Country By Storm: “Overpasses For Obama's Impeachment”  —  The group “Overpasses For Obama's Impeachment” held rallies around the country this weekend calling for Obama's impeachment.  The group lists 12 reasons for Obama's impeachment on their website and has quite the following on Facebook.

Dems have an ace in the hole in coming battle  —  Most observers expect Congress will somehow pass a measure this fall funding the government temporarily at current levels, pushing the real fights over the sequester, spending and the size of government into the new year.

Are the Rich Getting Too Much of the Economic Pie?  —  Inequality explained in pie charts (made of actual pie)  —  When one of you asked, “Are the rich getting too much of the economic pie?” the team behind Economics in Plain English got pretty excited.  Because you said “pie.”

Democrats push back on voting rights  —  After crying foul over Republican efforts to modify election laws in key states, Democrats are launching their own wide-ranging push to change the way Americans vote, kicking off the latest battles in a fight over voting rights that's as old as the republic itself.

Public School Promotes 5 Pillars of Islam  —  Parents at a Wichita, Kan. elementary school were shocked to discover a giant wall display inside the building promoting the five pillars of Islam.  —  FOLLOW TODD ON FACEBOOK FOR CONSERVATIVE CONVERSATION!  CLICK HERE!

CIA Admits It Was Behind Iran's Coup  —  The agency finally owns up to its role in the 1953 operation.  —  Sixty years ago this Monday, on August 19, 1953, modern Iranian history took a critical turn when a U.S.- and British-backed coup overthrew the country's prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh.

Modern Vote Suppression Better Than Jim Crow, Still Pretty Bad  —  A pervasive sense of racial victimization has afflicted conservatives during the Obama years — the feeling that they are beset by a combination of false accusations of racism and actual anti-white racial animus that they dare …