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31 August, Friday

1:49 PM Bloomberg Exclusive: Inside Karl Rove's Billionaire Fundraiser

12:43 PM Paul Ryan’s bogus budget rules

10:57 AM Mitt Romney Is Lying. Again.

10:07 AM Inside the RNC's Poshest Pit Stop: The Adelson Lounge

30 August, Thursday

10:34 PM Low-Paying Staples Is Romney's Go-To Example of "Success"

8:11 AM #GOP2012 Republican National Convention Schedule, Day 4: We Believe We Can Lie

29 August, Wednesday

6:37 PM Hoards of policemen, FBI, and servicemen in riot gear bring an eerie, oppressive air to the RNC convention

12:56 PM Gold medalist Gabby Douglas speaks out, gets smacked down

12:30 PM Twitter Fights Back to Protect ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Protester

12:06 PM Montana Rep. Denny Rehberg Claims Corporations and Lobbyists Are the ‘Solution’

11:36 AM Two people removed from RNC after throwing peanuts at black CNN camera operator

8:48 AM Christie Leaning on Tax Subsidies in Hunt for Jobs

28 August, Tuesday

12:11 PM Coal miners lost pay when Mitt Romney visited their mine to promote coal jobs

27 August, Monday

11:24 PM US troops escape criminal charges for incidents that outraged Afghanistan

7:18 PM CNN Hosts Confront Director Of Anti-Obama Film About Falsehoods In Movie

7:11 PM Five more corporations abandon the ‘bill mill’ ALEC

2:25 PM Making the Election About Race

2:07 PM All Empire State Bystander Shooting Victims Were Shot By Police

1:03 PM Sources: Chris Christie decided against running with Romney because he thought they’d lose. Not “worth the gamble.”

12:47 PM Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain fire up tea party faithful ahead of RNC

12:15 PM HuffPost: Romney asserted active role in Bain to claim half-million dollar tax deduction in 2010

11:57 AM Romney Spokesperson Demoted for Blocking Questions about Abortion; Helped Scott Walker in the Recall

11:20 AM Brazil orders Nestlé to label GM products

8:26 AM MSNBC's Chris Matthews Just Went Ballistic On The RNC Chairman For Playing The 'Ethnic Card' With Obama

26 August, Sunday

12:34 PM WikiLeaks Bypasses Financial Blockade With Bitcoin

11:59 AM Sher Valenzuela, GOP's 'We Built It' Speaker, Received Millions In Government Loans

11:23 AM Romney says Obama to blame for sparking campaign spending war

11:16 AM Romney's Racism: In the Gutter with Gingrich

10:04 AM Ecuador: UK Wikileaks' Julian Assange 'threat' over

25 August, Saturday

3:50 PM How To Fix The Economy... In One Simple Chart

3:43 PM Media Wars: Question More on RT America

3:34 PM Video and Story - First Lady Michelle Obama Hosts First-Ever Kids' State Dinner

3:22 PM Misinformed USA: Why average Americans vote for Republicans

2:59 PM REPUBLICAN VOTER REGISTRATION FIRM TURNS IN THOUSANDS OF FAKE REGISTRATION CARDS

2:12 PM Bernie Sanders: Deficit hawk hypocrites

9:59 AM Deadly poverty

8:37 AM University of Colorado allows students to carry guns

6:44 AM VIDEO: Romney Busted On Chinese Slave Labor Camps

24 August, Friday

6:28 PM Empire State Building shooting victim says NYPD fired 'randomly' into street

3:02 PM Do These Antibiotics Make Me Look Fat?

2:17 PM Bernanke says Fed has scope to provide more stimulus

2:12 PM JP Morgan faces class-action suit

1:28 PM 19 People Shot in Chicago

10:24 AM Imagine You Were Raped. Got Pregnant. Then Your Rapist Sought Custody

9:19 AM Elisabeth Murdoch Takes Aim at News Corp.

9:07 AM The Party of No: New Details on the GOP Plot to Obstruct Obama

8:23 AM 23 Numbers to Know About the 2012 Republican and Democratic Conventions

6:26 AM Scared of Anonymous: Tampa police prepare for mass arrests during Republican convention

23 August, Thursday

9:35 PM The Bain Files: Inside Mitt Romney’s Tax-Dodging Cayman Schemes

8:09 PM A storm the GOP didn’t expect

7:30 PM An open letter to the people who hate Obama more than they love America

12:53 PM Greece may sell off islands amid privatization scheme: report

9:42 AM Risk of Voter Suppression Resurfaces: Wisconsin Attorney General Seeks to Reinstate Voter ID Law

22 August, Wednesday

6:28 PM The Fanatical GOP

2:12 PM Report: GOP’s Rivera Ran Democratic Primary Shadow Campaign

11:51 AM Michael Steele: GOP plank not ‘mainstream’

8:58 AM Guns Enthusiasts Keep Starting Wildfires in Utah

2:23 AM TrapWire tied to anti-Occupy Internet-spy program

1:49 AM Bloomberg TV: Niall Ferguson on Obama's Record, Romney-Ryan

21 August, Tuesday

3:42 PM #TPC Romney Said He Paid 13% in Taxes, But He Strategically Avoided Saying Income Taxes

12:49 PM Food Industry Ditches Trans Fats, Kids' Cholesterol Levels Drop

9:32 AM Mike Huckabee Would Like to Remind You That Rape Has Created Some Extraordinary People

7:28 AM WikiLeaks and Free Speech by Michael Moore and Oliver Stone

6:56 AM Inside ALEC's Powerful, Right-Wing Indoctrination Machine

20 August, Monday

9:59 AM US drone strikes target rescuers in Pakistan – and the west stays silent

8:43 AM Cautious Moves on Foreclosures Haunting Obama

19 August, Sunday

8:09 PM Let's Help #WikiLeaks Liberate the Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiating Text #Assange

7:24 PM Is the pick of Paul Ryan Mitt Romney's concession?

2:13 PM Did Team Ryan try to get all those Florida Republican seniors drunk enough to cheer his speech?

12:47 PM Ex-Fox's Major Garrett: Never Knew Romney Caught Lying On 1999-2001 Tax Returns

12:10 PM 5 steps Obama can take to avert a strike on Iran

11:51 AM Tom Morello: 'Paul Ryan Is the Embodiment of the Machine Our Music Rages Against'

11:33 AM #TPC Video- Stephanie Cutter: Giuliani Should Consider Palin Endorsement Before Attacking Biden

10:55 AM Racists Create Their Own Super PAC to Accuse Obama of Racism Against Whites

10:24 AM Iraq is helping Iran stand up to sanctions

9:49 AM Rick Santorum says Biden played the ‘race card’

18 August, Saturday

4:44 PM In Weak Economy, College Grads 'Surge' Into Military

4:21 PM IMF Says Bailouts Iceland-Style Hold Lessons in Crisis Times

4:08 PM #TPC Video Spill, baby, spill: Enbridge, the company with a “pattern of failure,” avoids federal oversight of oil pipeline plans

2:55 PM #TPC VIDEO: 92-year-old World War II veteran recites his deliciously “derogatory” creation, “Wherefore Art Thou, Mitt Romney-O”.

1:44 PM Game of Thrones Author Rips Republicans for Voter Suppression

11:51 AM 5 myths Paul Ryan told seniors about Medicare in Florida today:

11:31 AM Iran’s President Calls Israel ‘an Insult to Humankind’

11:21 AM How Republicans and the media wildly overstated the threat of military budget cuts.

10:35 AM Top Fundraiser For Rep. Michael Grimm Arrested By FBI

10:13 AM #TPC Video- Jimmy Fallon To Nancy Pelosi: ‘Have You Ever Seen Paul Ryan With His Shirt Off?’

9:52 AM Family Research Center's Tony Perkins Blames Shooting On President Obama

17 August, Friday

2:47 PM My Open Letter to Karl Rove by David Shuster

12:59 PM Pa. drops plans for 2 online initiatives to boost voting

12:45 PM MSNBC President Phil Griffin: CNN Is A ‘Desperate’ Network

12:26 PM U.S. court says Florida's early voting rules discriminatory

12:07 PM Social Security Administration Explains Plan to Buy 174,000 Hollow-Point Bullets

11:51 AM Does Joe Biden's Secret Service Detail Hate Him?

11:35 AM Rep. Ryan’s Undeserved Reputation for Fiscal Responsibility

11:25 AM Paul Ryan Slams Obama For Not Saving Auto Plant That Closed Under Bush

11:02 AM Binyamin Netanyahu’s aides launch stinging rebuke to Israeli president Shimon Peres

10:49 AM THE GUARDIAN ONLINE: Pussy Riot jailed for two years - live updates

16 August, Thursday

9:15 PM #TPC Video- Fox Showers Paul Ryan With Same Praise It Heaped On Palin

3:17 PM FINANCIAL TIMES INVESTIGATION: Romney linked to union suppression ruling

3:02 PM NBC: War is Not A Game! Cancel Stars Earn Stripes!

1:12 PM Rare virus causes Yosemite visitor's death

12:15 PM Romney Would Eliminate Funding For Amtrak Despite Record-High Ridership

11:53 AM Two Deputies Killed, Two Wounded In Louisiana Shootings

11:08 AM Even with asylum, Assange exit from embassy tricky

11:00 AM No Criminal Case Is Likely in Loss at MF Global

10:30 AM 20 Prominent Republicans Who Want Romney To Release More Tax Returns Right Now [UPDATED]

10:24 AM As the White Protestant Vote Recedes, the GOP Turns to ‘Voter Fraud’

9:55 AM Premiere: Jack White Jams in the Woods at Outside Lands

9:48 AM Taliban claims it downed Black Hawk helicopter in Kandahar province, killing seven US troops and four Afghans

7:47 AM Matt Taibbi: Goldman Non-Prosecution: AG Eric Holder Has No Balls

2:28 AM Bomb threat grounds NYC to Moscow flight in Iceland

15 August, Wednesday

7:17 PM Elton John's bass player found dead

5:56 PM Megadeth Frontman Tells Concert Audience: Obama Staged Aurora And Sikh Temple Shootings

5:18 PM US Air Force Sonic boom surfer crashes after 31 seconds

4:16 PM Elizabeth Warren Runs As The Left's Answer To Paul Ryan

12:53 PM Flashback: 2010 Obama-Ryan exchange foreshadowed current Medicare debate

12:21 PM GM workers in Colombia sew mouths shut in protest

10:58 AM New wave band Devo will release a song about Mitt Romney’s dog

10:11 AM So You Thought You Knew A Thing Or Two About #Trapwire ? Think Again...

5:55 AM The Case For More Taxes #p2

14 August, Tuesday

10:29 PM Ayn Rand's Long Journey to the Heart of American Politics

10:08 PM Romney to Obama: ‘Take your campaign of division and anger and hate back to Chicago’

9:37 PM Judges for Sale

9:23 PM Obama Makes Surprise Stop for Breakfast

4:29 PM Ryan Sponsored Abortion Bill That Would Make Romney's Kids Criminals

4:09 PM Florida newspapers: Romney is in big, big trouble

3:12 PM Julian Assange will be granted asylum, says official

3:00 PM Work Friends vs. Real Friends

1:44 PM Steve Doocy: David Brock’s ‘American Bridge’ Research Group Has ’290-Page Bag Of Dirt’ On Paul Ryan

1:29 PM Chalk a Sidewalk, Go to Jail

12:54 PM Zimemrman's Lawyer Says He Doesn't Need 'Stand-Your-Ground' to Win

12:09 PM Report: Fukushima disaster ’caused mutant butterflies’

11:47 AM Just How Libertarian Is Paul Ryan?

11:20 AM Anti-Medicaid states: Earning $11,000 is too much

7:55 AM Mitt Romney couldn't have chosen a better example of the fakery at the heart of today's GOP

7:42 AM Inside Paul Ryan’s Plan To Privatize Social Security

13 August, Monday

11:45 PM Why the Romney VP App Wasn't a #Fail

7:58 PM Host for Romney event is a convicted drug dealer

6:00 PM The Rise Of The 'More Radical' Protester

5:52 PM Designers Target Toddlers Who Have $10,000 to Spare

4:47 PM Romney: Shootings Should Prompt ‘Thoughtful Consideration’ — Not Gun Control

4:00 PM GOP memo: ‘Don’t say entitlement reform’

2:42 PM Insane Clown Posse is suing the FBI

2:09 PM THE GUARDIAN ONLINE: Syrian rebels 'shoot down' fighter jet

1:06 PM Can This Be True? 'Breaking' DOJ and CIA dealing drugs in America

11:47 AM Issa Sues Holder Over Fast And Furious Documents

3:51 AM The One Housing Solution Left: Mass Mortgage Refinancing

1:51 AM UK Olympics under influence of Zionism

0:06 AM WIKILEAKS: Surveillance Cameras Around The Country Are Being Used In A Huge Spy Network

12 August, Sunday

11:10 PM FORBES: Who Is The Smallest Government Spender Since Eisenhower? Would You Believe It's Barack Obama?

8:45 PM Paul Ryan Only Passed 2 Bills Into Law In More Than A Decade

8:00 PM WikiLeaks: Our Site's Been Hit By Weeklong Denial-Of-Service Attack

4:35 PM Police Shoot Man in Midtown, and Tourists Reach for Cameras

4:21 PM You can fool some of the people all of the time

2:43 PM Yes, the Romneys Converted Mitt’s Dead Atheist Father-in-Law to Mormonism

2:20 PM Paul Ryan: "I’m Never Going To Not Vote Pro-Life"

11 August, Saturday

9:36 PM #TPC Rachel Maddow on Meet the Press, but it’s still Media Bias (GOP) Sunday

9:21 PM Witness films deadly NYPD shooting

6:44 PM Under Romney-Ryan plan, Mitt Romney would pay 0.82% tax rate

5:17 PM Robert Reich: The Ryan Choice

2:14 PM BUSTED: Watch TARP Republican Paul Ryan Begging Congress To Vote For The Bailout

1:29 PM Stephen Colbert showered with adoration at seaworthy StePhest romp

12:53 PM Judgment time for ‘America’s Toughest Sheriff’ Joe Arpaio

12:29 PM Mad Hatters Tossed from Tea Party Convention and Extravaganza

11:50 AM Paul Ryan has got plenty of friends on K Street

11:15 AM Romney VP Paul Ryan Had People Arrested and Kicked out of Town Hall for Asking Questions

9:03 AM Twelve Things You Should Know About Vice Presidential Candidate Paul Ryan

10 August, Friday

4:24 PM THE GUARDIAN: What makes our NDAA lawsuit a struggle to save the US constitution

3:52 PM TSA harassment sends rape victim to emergency room

3:18 PM TIME’s Fareed Zakaria Hit With Plagiarism Charge

2:51 PM Alter doubles down on Romney death charge

2:06 PM Jon Huntsman Sr. Calls On Romney To Release His Tax Returns

12:58 PM Hey DOJ! Here's a link to 635-page Levin-Coburn report on financial crisis

12:36 PM American paediatrician 'waterboarded his own daughter'

12:28 PM In Israel, new modesty glasses for Orthodox Jewish men blur women out of their line of sight

12:10 PM Dick Morris' Crazy New Book is Full of Baseless Fear Mongering

11:42 AM Biden: McConnell decided to withhold all cooperation even before we took office

10:48 AM Academi: Company previously known as Blackwater agrees to $7.5 million fine in arms smuggling case

10:19 AM The Great Wall of China collapses after heavy rains

8:23 AM It's Jon Huntsman Sr, right Harry?

09 August, Thursday

8:36 PM Did We Just Find Someone to Take On the Banks?

7:33 PM Brown Questions Role of Warren’s Daughter in Voter Registration Effort

10:15 AM Portman's Shaker Problem

9:42 AM High Frequency Traders Are “Parasites” That Erode Investor Confidence: Polcari

9:11 AM Wealthy GOP donor Adelson files libel suit in NY

8:28 AM Too little too late? US to clean up Agent Orange in Vietnam

08 August, Wednesday

7:08 PM Apple's $88 Million Tax Break Doesn't Compute for Nevada

5:19 PM #TPC @GottaLaff - GOP Voter Fraud Hucksters Latest Lie: Felons Made Franken U.S. Senator

5:00 PM News Corporation posts $1.6bn loss as phone-hacking legal fees stack up

3:58 PM Romney Spokeswoman Promoted Climate Denial on Behalf of Exxon

3:28 PM Did Romney enable Marriott International's abusive tax shelter?

3:15 PM What Is The Calculation Behind Romney's Campaign Of Lies?

10:37 AM Pharma giant Pfizer fined for bribing officials in Eastern Europe and China

10:32 AM Mitt Romney Started Bain Capital With Money From Families Tied To Death Squads

9:26 AM Deficit-Reduction Package That Lacks Significant Revenues Would Shift Very Substantial Costs To States And Localities

6:38 AM Chairman Bachus Seeks Public’s Input on Volcker Rule Alternative

07 August, Tuesday

4:04 PM Trailer for Osama bin Laden Manhunt Flick 'Zero Dark Thirty' Released

2:37 PM Ohio Man Arrested With Backpack Full of Weapons at 'Dark Knight Rises' Screening

2:25 PM NEW YORK TIMES ONLINE: Russian Booster Rocket Fails to Deliver Satellites

2:16 PM A Robin Hood Tax will stop the machines wiping out the market

12:15 PM James Holmes’ Psychiatrist Contacted University Police Weeks Before Shooting

11:17 AM Can Current TV Reinvent Itself - Using Lessons Learned From Ex-Host Keith Olbermann?

10:50 AM Here's How Mitt Romney Might Have Paid No Taxes

10:11 AM Dad of the century mods Power Wheels into legit ride

9:40 AM How to Spot Romney's Vice President Pick in Advance

9:24 AM YouTube Gets An Investigative News Channel

0:47 AM On Fox, Cheney Cites Fraudulent Ed Klein Book To Claim Obama "Doesn't Believe In" What "Most Americans Do Believe In"

06 August, Monday

7:59 PM Another hate crime? Mosque burned in Joplin Hours after the shooting in Wisconsin, a mosque burns to the ground in tornado-ravaged Joplin,

11:46 AM FBI: Seeking second 'person of interest' in Oak Creek Sikh Temple shooting

10:54 AM JPM Chase Manipulates The Price Of Silver And This Is What Happens

10:20 AM Mitt Romney gets protective press pool

3:00 AM Bomb blast rocks Syrian TV station, multiple injuries reported - state TV (PHOTOS)

2:25 AM 7 Dead at Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, Wis.; Officials Believe 'White Supremacist' Behind 'Domestic Terrorism'

1:10 AM David Krone, Harry Reid's chief of staff, denounces GOP ‘cowards’

05 August, Sunday

11:25 PM REUTERS: Romney, Republican Party raise $101.3 million in July

9:30 PM NY TIMES: Times Photographer Is Arrested on Assignment

11:24 AM BLOOMBERG: Macau Police Raid Casinos, Hotels After Deadly Attacks on Guests

10:18 AM Who had the worst week in Washington? The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

9:42 AM #TPC Video- RNC Chairman Reince Priebus Calls Harry Reid a “Dirty Liar”

9:33 AM Lollapalooza Expands to Israel Music festival will hit Tel Aviv in August 2013

9:09 AM Repeal of Glass-Steagall: Not a cause, but a multiplier

8:51 AM Jean-Claude Piris: VIDEO INTERVIEW - "Germany Will Die To Make Euro Live"

8:45 AM Israel upgrades missile shield over Iran, Syria fears

04 August, Saturday

1:08 PM U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. ‘completely debilitated by depression,’ wife says

12:57 PM NYPD, city lawyers at odds over Occupy suit... can you say Tony Bologna?

12:52 PM Daily Kos Staff: Saturday hate mail-a-palooza: Tinfoil edition

11:35 AM Congress Wants to See Obama's "License to Kill"

8:44 AM Ex-Lobbyist Convicted For Corruption Is GOP's New 'Voter Fraud' Expert

8:34 AM How Uncle Sam Helped Mitt Romney Build His Fortune

8:05 AM Esquire ONLINE: Americans Should Be Worried About (the Lack of) Leaks

03 August, Friday

2:53 PM Reuters blogging platform hacked, false Syria blog posted

2:48 PM BLOOMBERG: AIG Weighs Shutting Insurer’s Bank as Volcker Rule Looms

12:59 PM Knight Rises, but Many Customers Fail to Return

12:54 PM Daily Kos: Obama drinking Romney's milkshake on taxes is an UnMittigated disaster for the GOP

12:11 PM Warming and melting on top of the Greenland ice sheet

11:56 AM El-Erian: World in ‘Serious, Synchronized Slowdown’

11:51 AM Man sentenced to jail for collecting rainwater in Oregon

10:01 AM Steve LaTourette Calls Grover Norquist Tax Views 'Crap,' Congress 'An Alcoholic'

8:10 AM #Lollapalooza Rings in New Chicago Pot Policy

02 August, Thursday

10:12 PM North Korea to strengthen ties with China

6:52 PM #TPC GOP senators struggle to list Romney’s qualifications to be commander-in-chief. Al Franken: “I gotta hear this.”

2:48 PM #TPC Harry Reid doubles down on Mitt Romney “didn’t pay any taxes for 10 years” Bain investor quote

1:34 PM The United States is threatening nations who oppose Monsanto’s genetically modified (GM) crops with military-style trade wars

10:06 AM Spanish police arrest three Al-Qaeda suspects: court source

10:00 AM The Guardian: Chick-fil-A is where American politics really lives, so eat it

8:59 AM Romney Taps Former Paulson Aide, Fannie Mae Vet For Bain Rehab

2:50 AM Pro-Obama PAC Readies $30 Million Ad Blitz

01 August, Wednesday

9:21 PM Spain's Judge Garzon says United States secretly working to have Wikileaks founder tried there

8:17 PM Where's Assad? Mystery Deepens about Syrian Leader

7:33 PM War crime? Syrian rebels execute POWs (GRAPHIC VIDEO)

10:29 AM Study: Romney Plan Would Raise Taxes On 95% Of Americans

10:00 AM EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: London Mayor Boris Johnson stuck on zip wire

9:22 AM Esteemed son of the south pleads guilty in $90.1m silver Ponzi scheme

8:46 AM CURRENT TV VIDEO: Eliot Spitzer to consumers: Put your money where your mouth is

8:40 AM Spiegel ONLINE: Deepening Crisis Spain Reports Record Capital Flight

7:29 AM The Guardian: Leon Panetta meets Ehud Barak in Israel - video

31 August, Tuesday

7:18 PM Right Wing Billionaires Shudder as PolitiFact Confirms Bernie Sanders Speaks the Truth

3:32 PM U.S. judge orders Iran, al-Qaida, Taliban to pay $6 billion over 9/11

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