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 …

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.

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.”

Kirsten Gillibrand: I Couldn't Tell My Harasser ‘To Go F*** Himself’  —  Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) said Monday that when a male labor leader harassed her about her weight several years ago after she'd had a baby, she had a few choice words she couldn't say at the time.

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 …

New accusations: Peterson injured another son while disciplining 4-year-old  —  The four-year-old is by a different mother than the alleged victim in the Montgomery County case, in which Peterson is charged with felony injury to a child.  —  CONNECT  —  Photos and text messages obtained …

TwitLonger  —  Urban Outfitters sincerely apologizes for any offense our Vintage Kent State Sweatshirt may have caused.  It was never our intention to allude to the tragic events that took place at Kent State in 1970 and we are extremely saddened that this item was perceived as such.

Limbaugh on Sexual Assault: “No Means Yes If You Know How to Spot It”  —  The sweaty armpit of talk radio now fancies himself to be a “seduction” expert.  On his show today, Rush Limbaugh decried Ohio State's new policy instructing students to get explicit, verbal consent before having sex …

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 …

Please—Let's Not Destroy ISIS  —  Obama's mission is hard enough without him stating a clearly unachievable goal.  Why do presidents feel they have to sound like John Wayne?  —  Americans should support this mission against ISIS.  One may well choose to do so warily, because …

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.

Republicans to limit Obama's aid to moderate Syrian rebel forces  —  House Republicans expect to unveil legislation Monday evening that would give President Obama the authority to arm and train moderate Syrian rebels, but with some limits on that authority.  —  The House Armed Services Committee …

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.

US Labor Board Orders CNN to Rehire Fired Workers  —  The National Labor Relations Board ruled against the CNN cable television network on Monday in an 11-year-old labor dispute, ordering the network to rehire or compensate about 300 former workers.  —  The NLRB agreed with a November 2008 ruling …

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.

Lobbyist, lawyer Thomas H. Boggs Jr. dead at 73  —  Thomas H. Boggs Jr., who sat for years at the epicenter of Washington legal and political circles as the city's marquee name in lobbying and political fund-raising, died Sept. 15 at his home in Chevy Chase.  He was 73.

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 …