The Hill: Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and his Senate Conservatives Fund, which funneled several million dollars to Tea Party-backed Senate candidates this cycle, is ready to help Joe Miller fight Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s high-flying legal team in Alaska. The political action committee is currently exploring exactly how it can assist Miller, the Republican nominee, on [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Employers added the most jobs in five months in October, with the education and health care sectors leading the way. But the unemployment rate, measured by a separate survey of households, remained stuck at 9.6 percent for the third straight month. The Labor Department said Friday its survey of employers showed a [...]
The Hill: Speaker Nancy Pelosi is seriously considering a bid for House minority leader, a campaign that could divide her decimated caucus. It would also upend predictions that she would step aside after her caucus suffered deep losses on Election Day. The Speaker has been calling lawmakers to gauge support, and she said Thursday she [...]
Poltico: MSNBC host Keith Olbermann made campaign contributions to two Arizona members of Congress and failed Kentucky Senate candidate Jack Conway ahead of Tuesday’s election — a potential violation of NBC’s ethics policies. Olbermann, who acknowledged the contributions in a statement to POLITICO, made the maximum legal donations of $2,400 apiece to Conway and to [...]
Politico: In the anthology of Barack Obama quotations, one of the classics came just hours before the event that made him the hottest property in American politics. As Obama walked toward the arena at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston, where he gave an electrifying keynote address, a Chicago Tribune reporter noted that he [...]
The Daily Mail: AFTER learning positive lessons from the past conflicts, especially World War I and World War II, in the modern era of new trends like renunciation of war as a state policy, peaceful settlement of disputes and economic development, it is expected that unlike the non-state actors, state actors will behave with responsibility [...]
Washington Times: Battered Democrats claimed a couple of consolation prizes Thursday from the midterm elections, as their candidates hung on for cliffhanger wins in Illinois and Washington state while nearly a dozen other races were still to be decided. President Obama avoided an embarrassing loss in his home state as Democratic incumbent Illinois Gov. Pat [...]
I was saying the same thing on Twitter last night. My post in the Featured Posts section featuring the above photograph went up at around 6 AM this morning. It made my point without having to say a word. Several hours later, Glenn used words.
Geekosystem: Before Tuesday’s midterm elections, 95 House and Senate candidates took a pledge called the Net Neutrality Protector’s Pledge
Politico: Democratic strategists say President Barack Obama needs to act fast
Los Angeles Times: Saying sex offenders are being forced to choose between prison and homelessness, a Los Angeles judge issued an opinion this week blocking enforcement of provisions a state law restricting how close those offenders can live from parks or schools. Superior Court Judge Peter Espinoza issued the 10-page ruling after four registered sex [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – AARP’s endorsement helped secure passage of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul. Now the seniors’ lobby is telling its employees their insurance costs will rise partly as a result of the law. In an e-mail to employees, AARP says health care premiums will increase by 8 percent to 13 percent next year [...]
