In many ways, the hearing led by Senate Democrats on Tuesday was the dramatic antithesis of one House Republicans held earlier this month on homegrown Islamic radicalism.

The complaint -- which was also posted earlier by Greg Sargent -- alleges that several violations of the law occurred on the call: That Walker attempted to coordinate third-party campaign spending, when he told "Koch" that there would need to be messaging in support of Republican …

Yesterday, the Ohio Senate passed by a single vote a radical bill that would strip most of the state's public employee unions of their collective bargaining rights. [...]

Last week, legislators in Tennessee introduced a radical bill that would make "material support" for Islamic law punishable by 15 years in prison. The proposal marks a dramatic new step in the conservative campaign against Muslim-Americans.

Anonymous,' the group of online hacker activists that rose to prominence for laying cyber siege to a number of parties who opposed WikiLeaks, has launched its latest attack on the Americans for Prosperity website, a conservative organization funded by the billionaire Koch brother …

Fabulous photos from yesterday's massive protest, march, and rally in Madison, Wisconsin.

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here's Boehner's absurd criticism of Obama: "A spokesman for Boehner's office criticized the administration change of position.

Anti-choice lawmakers' attacks today are just plain irresponsible. Cutting funding for Planned Parenthood and other health centers would leave at least five million women and men without access to basic health care. Where will these people go for critical services?

UPDATE: Local media report that the Dems may return to work on Saturday. Stay tuned.... UPDATE: The Dems have left the Illinois hotel they where they were "found" by media this afternoon; no reports as to their current whereabouts

It's comforting to know that at least some Republicans are standing up to the newly-established orthodoxy, as Daniels here shows by calling for a "truce" in the culture wars so that government can deal with the financial crises we are all facing....

An overview of the trial of Shawna Forde in Tucson tells us little we don't already know.... I kept missing the fact that she was a beautician....

...if Republican elected officials* in Iowa get their way:

The show at the Capitol yesterday sounds hysterical alright: everyone from the most ardent advocate of children's rights to the most extreme right-wing nativist! The only thing to which I can imagine comparing it is the endless array of comments at the end of the article....

Contrary to what I'm sure you're going to hear this weekend: Reagan was not one of our most popular presidents, both during his reign & for the first decade after it (how quickly we forget!);

The survey, in the form of a "pop quiz," asked Americans whether they thought a series of 10 provisions were included in the new law. Five items (ie.

A brilliant academic piece which shows that not only will rescinding birthright citizenship create a massive new bureaucracy at a time when we need to streamline but it would deprive us of the crucial resource of young people who are paying taxes, fulfilling civil & military serv …

Here come the states!

"Count to ten; & take a deep breath!"

Another brilliant piece on the rising anti-immigrant states-rights extremists being accepted into the mainstream discourse of American politics just as they are being elected into the mainstream offices of American jurisprudence (however unprudently) leaves me wondering if the Ut …

The understatement of the year went completely unnoticed: Obama set a new record for deportation, even bending the rules & breaking the law to do so!

Let's hope that noone protests at the funerals!

I can't believe that "no state or federal judge has ever been impeached to punish a judicial opinion" yet in the history of our country: unfortunately these Family Leader folks dont' seem to be weary of "dangerous" roads....

Apparently, House Republicans are not reading the same briefs on the topic as we are....

yesterday, in a last minute effort to derail the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) tried to subvert today's great civil rights achievement.

POll Did the world come to and end today or is this just the calm before the storm?

DADT done and dusted.

Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal is on a glide path to passage. With Olympia Snowe joining Scott Brown and Lisa Murkowski as fully supportive of the standalone bill, at least 61 votes are in hand, and Harry Reid filled the amendment tree to minimize any possibility of amendments.

TPM: "If Don't Ask, Don't Tell is going to be repealed by Congress this year, it will be because the Senate found the time to do it.

Congress has passed a groundbreaking child nutrition bill that "expands the school lunch program and sets new standards to improve the quality of school meals, with more fruits and vegetables," according to the New York Times.

When a majority of troops told Pentagon interviewers this summer they didn't care if gays were allowed to serve openly in the military, it represented a sharp break from the past when America's fighting forces voiced bitter opposition to accepting racial minorities and women in t …

Looking forward to changes to the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell policy?” Don’t hold your breath. The Wall Street Journal’s Laura Meckler reports today that the drive in Congress to repeal the policy appears all but lost for the fores …

"According to a CNN exit poll, more self-identified lesbians, gay men and bisexuals voted for Republicans in the midterm election than ever before.

We are One Nation, born from many, determined to build a more united America – with jobs, justice and education for all.

After a series of jokes about conservative that sounded -- and were received -- more like a stand-up act then a political speech, Coulter told the assembled (and predominantly wealthy) conservative gay crowd why they should oppose same sex marriage, adding, "I should warn you: I' …

Social conservatives tend to talk about issues like abortion and gay rights, stem-cell research and the role of religion "in the public square"

Unencumbered by any moral imperative to be truthful, some anti-immigration activists and politicians have no qualms about demonizing immigrants with half-truths and outright lies.

Gawker: "...................ISP was "United States Senate," and it appeared to come from the Atlanta office of Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Georgia). Now the Atlanta Journal Constitution has confirmed that Sen.

The Montana Republican party recently adopted an official platform. Whoops, look at that: A 12-year-old commitment to making homosexuality illegal slipped in there. As far as Montana Republicans are concerned, being gay should be a crime.

Former Democratic U.S. senator and presidential candidate John Edwards is a "faggot," according to conservative provocateur and author Ann Coulter some years back.

"Muslims are calling for the executions of homosexuals in America," Dean said on YCR's May 15 radio show on AM 1280 the Patriot.

Any week that coughs up WWE starchild Linda McMahon as a major-party candidate for the United States Senate totally affixes the propeller to the American political beanie

GOP Rep. Bob Inglis slams Republican demagoguery, bemoans anti-Semitic tea party conspiracy nonsense, decries Sarah Palin's ignorance, and looks for a job. It was the middle of a tough primary contest, and Rep.

The latest plot against America, we're told, is smoldering in the ashes of 9/11. A Muslim organization wants to build a "community center," including a mosque, two blocks from the site of the fallen World Trade Center.

Rep. Anthony Weiner was apoplectic that Republicans didn't pass a bill to help 9/11 first responders Thursday. But the full story suggests that both parties share blame – and sheds light on why only 11 percent of Americans have confidence in Congress.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) announced Wednesday night that he is considering introducing a constitutional amendment that would change existing law to no longer grant citizenship to the children of immigrants born in the United States.

This morning, the white supremacist political party American Third Position (A3P) proudly announced its donation to the fund recently established by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer to defend that state's controversial new immigration law.

The lack of support for legalizing gay marriage amongst conservatives is surprising because the push to legalize gay marriage serves conservative aims.

There is compelling new evidence that Republicans will rue the day that they allowed their virulent anti-immigrant wing to grab the controls of the Republican Party.

What moved GOP Governor Jan Brewer to sign the Soviet-style show-me-your-papers law is the exploding number of legal Hispanics, US citizens all, who are daring to vote -- and daring to vote Democratic by more than two-to-one.

The Nevada Senate candidate says abortion is always wrong because there is a divine purpose to all pregnanciesSharron Angle may be giving the press the silent treatment now, but she hasn't always been so tight-lipped.

"We've got one raghead in the White House, we don't need a raghead in the governor's mansion."

Last week before the House passed an amendment to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT), the policy that bars gays and lesbians from serving openly, Republicans took to the floor to rail against repeal, calling it a "social experiment," un-patriotic and an "insult …

This morning on ABC's This Week, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele had to address Kentucky GOP Senate candidate Rand Paul's recent comments that private business owners should be allowed to discriminate against people of color or anyone else they choose.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty isn't seeking reelection. He is seeking the Republican Party's 2012 presidential nomination.

Minnesota House Republicans rolled out their own brand of Arizona-inspired immigration legislation Thursday, which they said was necessary to deal with the estimated 100,000 illegal immigrants in Minnesota.

So I have a question for Lindsey Graham, John McCain, Peter King, Joe Lieberman, John Cornyn, John Kyle and all of the other idiots who want to simply disregard the Constitutional rights of criminal Defendants when it comes to those who are charged with acts of terrorism.

Rep. Connie Mack (R-Fla.) ripped into the new Arizona immigration law today, comparing it to Nazi Germany.

"This law of 'frontier justice' – where law enforcement officials are required to stop anyone based on 'reasonable suspicion' that they may be in the country illegally – is reminiscent of a time during World War II when the Gestapo in Germany stopped people on the street and asked for their papers without probable cause," Mack said in a statement.

Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony lambasted legislation passed Monday by Arizona lawmakers that would crack down on illegal immigrants, likening it to "German Nazi and Russian Communist techniques" that compelled people to turn each other in.

"The Arizona legislature just passed the country's most retrogressive, mean-spirited, and useless anti-immigrant law," he wrote on his blog. "The tragedy of the law is its totally flawed reasoning: that immigrants come to our country to rob, plunder, and consume public resources. That is not only false, the premise is nonsense."