Benghazi Bombshell: Clinton State Department Official Reveals Details of Alleged Document Review  —  As the House Select Committee on Benghazi prepares for its first hearing this week, a former State Department diplomat is coming forward with a startling allegation: Hillary Clinton confidants …

Bill Clinton: Republicans ‘trying to get you to check your brain at the door’  —  Former President Bill Clinton railed against Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Sunday and framed the midterm elections as more broadly about defining “the terms in which we will relate to each other and relate to the rest of the world.”

Have Nerds Betrayed the Left?  —  Thomas Frank has identified the enemy of true populism: political science.  —  Shares  —  A couple of weeks ago, Tom Frank, author of What's the Matter With Kansas?, sympathetically interviewed academic-activist Cornel West, both of whom agreed that Barack Obama has betrayed the left.

Urban Outfitters Features “Vintage” Red-Stained Kent State Sweatshirt  —  The “vintage Kent State” sweatshirt is for sale in the women's section of the Urban Outfitters' website.  —  urbanoutfitters.com  —  It can be found through a quick search on the website:

Lindsey Graham Worries Islamic State Will Destroy Americans, Wipe Out Mankind  —  WASHINGTON — Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Sunday slammed President Barack Obama's strategy for combating Islamic State militants and said the president needs to significantly step up military action …

Multiculturalism and Rape in Rotherham  —  LONDON — A man recently came to visit the member of Parliament for Rotherham, Yorkshire, and he had a question.  Now in his late 50s, he had arrived from Pakistan three decades earlier.  After a lifetime of hard work, he could not understand …

Dem Sen. Harkin: Hillary Clinton's fingerprints ‘all over’ ObamaCare  —  Hillary Clinton played a crucial role in making President Obama's healthcare law a reality, a retiring Democratic senator told a crowd in Iowa on Sunday.  —  Clinton's “fingerprints are all over” the Affordable Care Act …

Senate has a secret book of rules  —  WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate has for years lived by a secret book of rules that governs everything from how many sheets of paper and potted plants each Senate office is allotted to when Senators can use taxpayer money to charter planes or boats.

Arizona GOPer: Women On Welfare Should Be Sterilized  —  Former Arizona state Sen. Russell Pearce (R) resigned his position as first vice chairman of the Arizona Republican Party on Sunday amid criticism by prominent Republican candidates of Pearce's recent comments on sterilization and poor women.

Senate Update: Alaska, A Frontier For Bad Polling  —  The Senate race in Alaska is as important as any in the country.  As we've described previously, Republicans can win a Senate majority by winning the race there along with those in five other deeply red states: Arkansas, Louisiana, Montana, South Dakota and West Virginia.

Turning Tables, Democrats Use Cultural Issues as a Cudgel  —  RESTON, Va. — After a generation of campaigns in which Republicans exploited wedge issues to win close elections, Democrats are now on the offensive in the culture wars.  —  Democrats see social issues as potent …

Coca Cola, Heinz And Other Major Food Companies Warn Climate Change Threatens Business  —  Back in March, popular burrito chain Chipotle made news when ThinkProgress reported that climate change could threaten its guacamole supply.  That report was based on a statement Chipotle …

School's strict dress code nets 200 detentions, parent rebellion  —  Tottenville High School has implemented a strict dress code that's landed 200 kids in detention — and incited rebellion among the kids.  —  A strict dress code introduced by a Staten Island public high school principal …

POLITICO promotes two amid expansion in Europe, U.S.  —  POLITICO announced on Tuesday they will be expanding to other states and announced that Danielle Jones and Miki King have been named Executive Vice President for Expansion and Executive Vice President for Operations, respectively.

Backing for Condoleezza Rice to take over scandal hit NFL  —  High powered backing for former Secretary of State to rescue America's most popular sport  —  Support is growing for a campaign to draft Condoleezza Rice as Commissioner for the troubled National Football League (NFL).