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• Marco Rubio, “Faith,” and the Coming Religious Wars -- Steven Jonas, MD, MPH for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Pragmatic Racism -- Robert C. Koehler for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• VIDEO: Paul Ryan Cracks Joke As 71 Year-Old Citizen Is Forced To The Ground
• Romney Defends Not Mentioning War, Troops In Convention Speech
• Gallup: Obama Bounces Up to 52% After Convention
• 12 New GM Crops Up For USDA Approval
• Obama: I Should Make Bill Clinton "Secretary Of ‘Splaining Stuff"
• Judge Allows Arizona "Show-Your-Papers" Measure to Go Into Effect
• Voter Suppression, Then and Now
• Secret Service Investigates Ohio Teen's Tweet about Obama
• How Romney Learned The Hard Truth About Promoted Hashtags
• Smoking, Abortion, and the Right's Free Speech Lies: How a Potential Supreme Court Pick Is Undermining Informed Consent
• VIDEO: "Effective Evil" or Progressives’ Best Hope? Glen Ford vs. Michael Eric Dyson on Obama’s Presidency
• VIDEO: The Romney-Koch Handshake: Network TV Censors Revealing Moment
• Unhappy Anniversary: Republicans Have Blocked The American Jobs Act For One Year
• Mitt Romney Responds to Jobs Report with Glee
• Romney and Ryan’s Dangerous Tax Roadmap
• GOP Congressman Tells Voters That Comparing Immigrants To Dogs Was Really A ‘Compliment’
• Ohio Inmate Freed After Twenty Four Years On Death Row
• Media Not Concerned About the Very Poor
• Best Zingers from the Democratic Convention
• R.E.M. Orders Fox News to Stop Playing "Losing My Religion" During DNC
• SATIRE: Presidential Race Close Among Those with No Television
• Paul Ryan Acknowledges Requesting Federal Money From Program Funded By Obamacare
• Video: Jennifer Granholm Brings The House Down Defending Auto Rescue
• Kansas City Bishop Convicted of Shielding Pedophile Priest
• What are We Cheering For? "Don't let the conventions distract you from the real lesson of 2012: America is becoming increasingly undemocratic"
• US Judge Blocks New Restrictions on Guantanamo Lawyers
• NYPD Opens Branch in Israel
• Did Obama Phone It In?
• How the GOP Could Steal America's 2012 Election
• Peace in Afghanistan, the Civil Society Way
• "With superlative staging and red-blooded themes, the Obama re-election campaign has left its right-wing opposition writhing and whimpering and seeing red"
• GOP Suing to Keep Third Parties Off Ballot in November
• Todd "Legitimate Rape" Akin's TV Ad Buy Canceled — For Failure To Pay The Station
• Tom Petty Thrilled Song Was Showcased At Democratic National Convention
• America's Police State on Steroids at the Conventions
• THE CHOICE: When 16 Year-Old Alyssa Douglas Calls For The President's Assassination on Twitter
• Romney Camp To Air 15 New Ads In 8 Battleground States
• Michael Moore | "President Romney" – How to Prevent Those Two Words From Ever Being Spoken
• Argentine Judge Orders Arrest of Credit Suisse Executive
• VIDEO: 8 Arrested in Wisconsin Capitol for Holding Signs
• The Fate of Medicaid Hangs on the Election: "Medicare has drawn more attention lately, but Medicaid is the only safety net for millions of people in need of long-term care."
• Health Care System Wastes $750 Billion a Year, Report Says
• California Spending More On Prisons Than Colleges, Report Says
• Obama Acceptance Speech Goes Vague Instead of Getting Tough
• August Payroll Employment Rises (+96,000); Unemployment Rate Edges Down (8.1%)
• Transcript: President Obama's Convention Speech
• Adventures In Analysis: ‘Checking’ Of Democratic Speeches Lacked Relevant Facts
• Crist, former Republican governor of Fla., blasts GOP ticket
• Biden Accepts Nomination, Turns to Making Case: "Don't Ever Bet Against the American People"
• "President Obama will argue he’s led the country through the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression when he accepts his party’s nomination Thursday night and asks voters for a second term. Obama will invoke Franklin Roosevelt — the last sitting president to win reelection with employment over 8 percent — as he argues his path is not “quick or easy” but is the right one for the country."
• John Kerry: 'Ask Osama bin Laden if he's better off than he was four years ago'
• Business Owners Line Up For Obama In Charlotte
• Michelle Obama's DNC Speech Written at 7 Grade Levels Above Ann Romney's
• WATCH: Sandra Fluke Explains The Republican War On Women In 144 Seconds
• What Obama and Bill Clinton Offer Each Other
• "The Hollywood quotient at this last evening of the convention was filled by a pair of actresses: Scarlett Johansson and Kerry Washington."
• Congressman Lewis Warns Delegates of Dangers of New Voter Laws
• Gabby Giffords Leads DNC In Pledge Of Allegiance
• Washington Post Current Projection of National Senate Races
• Nun: Romney-Ryan budget fails moral test
• Celebrities turn out for the DNC
• The Big Dog, Bill Clinton, to Hit Campaign Trail for Obama
• Illinois: Drew Peterson guilty of murder in ex-wife's death
• "The DNC looked like America in 2012. The RNC looked like America in 1912."
• Robert Reich: The Real Importance of Bill Clinton’s Wonderfully Long Speech
• Elizabeth Warren: People Have Hearts; Corporations Don't -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
• What Clinton Left Out Last Night -- William Rivers Pitt for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• The RNC Deletes America, the DNC Deletes God: Guess What Got the Most Attention? -- Dee Evans for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• What Does "Independence" Mean for Labor? -- Mark Vorpahl for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• US Hiring Surged In August With 201,000 New Jobs
• VIDEO: No Papers, No Fear at the Democratic Convention
• How A Republican Appeals Court Just Made Citizens United Even Worse
• "Republican weather conspiracy theory disproven ... by the weather"
• Following Clinton, Dems Prep Attack On Romney Plan To Slash Medicaid
• "Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD) said that federally-issued student loans were unconstitutional and that it was a first step down a "slippery slope" toward something like the Holocaust"
• Clinton’s Masterful Attack on Paul Ryan’s “Brass”: With a single euphemism, the former president gutted Paul Ryan -- and unmasked the right's nervy lies
• DOJ Approves New Florida Early Voting Plan
• What Bill Clinton Wrote vs. What Bill Clinton Said
• The Widespread War on Reproductive Rights
• The NRA Lobbies for Gunmakers, Not Gun Owners
• Clinton Touts Welfare Reform. Here's How It Failed.
• SATIRE: Reince Priebus — Etiquette Expert?
• CBS Hires Frank Luntz, The Man Who Reportedly Shepherded The Plan To Defeat Obama
• Most US Farmland Still in Drought, Even After Storm
• Journalists in Need of a Safety Net
• For Anti-Choicers, It Really Doesn't Matter What Happens After You Are Born
• Fortune: Is Wall Street Being Bamboozled by Romney?
• Russia Warns Israel, US Against Attacking Iran Over Nuclear Fears
• Tom Hayden | Saving Obama, Saving Ourselves
• Romney Cedes Ohio TV Airwaves to Obama (at least for now)
• Romney, Ryan Double Down On False Welfare Attack Clinton Decried
• A Tale of Two Conventions
• Who is Held to Account for Deaths by Drone in Yemen?
• Marijuana Fights Cancer and Helps Manage Side Effects, Researchers Find

• Conservatives Bash Sandra Fluke’s Convention Speech, Parroting Limbaugh’s Sexist Attacks
• Rep. Keith Ellison: GOP is "Basically a Bigoted Party"
• You Can't Ever Stop Being Vigilant: The Role of Alternative Media in Protecting Democracy
• Missing Latino Voices: Excluded from the newsroom, absent from the conversation
• Undercover Agents Assault Journalists at Democratic Convention in Charlotte
• Tomgram: John Feffer, The Dumbing Down of American Foreign Policy
• ALEC Member "American Chemistry Council" Drops $649K on Wisconsin U.S. Senate Race
• Associated Press "Fact Checks" Clinton’s Speech By Bringing Up Monica Lewinsky
• VIDEO: Elizabeth Warren to Romney: 'Corporations Are Not People'
• Obama Campaign Responds to Team Romney on Cancellation of Stadium Speech: "Two Words: Ford Field"
• Election 2012: The Year of the Man
• The Real Invisible Obama Shows Up on Race and the Economy
• VIDEO: Mitt Romney’s Psychopathic Rage Should Frighten Everyone
• Many Financial Advisors are not Telling Clients the Advantages of Waiting to 70 to Collect Social Security
• VIDEO: Bill Clinton's Best Zingers from the DNC
• Bill Clinton Forms Barack Obama's More Perfect Union
• Reports: Jobs, Unemployment Show Signs Of Improvement In August
• In the Twilight of Empire
• In non-Charlotte News, Paul Ryan Amazing Hypocrisy Watch
• In Case You Missed It: Best Moments from Bill Clinton’s DNC Speech
• Voter Suppression: The Unraveling of American Democracy
• "Are You Better Off Than You Were Four Years Ago?"
• Romney: No 'Bailouts' for Threatened Homeowners
• Glenn Greenwald | Obama Campaign Brags About Its Whistleblower Persecutions
• Bill Clinton Brings Down the House in Charlotte, Makes a Rousing Case for Obama's Re-election
• Libyan Alleges Waterboarding by CIA, Human Rights Watch Report Says
• SATIRE: Paul Ryan Responds to Bill Clinton’s ‘It Takes Some Brass’ Comment
• Rush Limbaugh is Losing His Mind
• Birther Madness Still Infects World Net Daily News, Dispatches From Mars -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Bill Clinton: ‘What kind of country do you want to live in?’
• Elizabeth Warren’s speech at the Democratic National Convention
• Elizabeth Warren: ‘The Game Is Rigged’ Against Working People
• New Hampshire Voter ID Suppression Law Is Approved by Justice Department? Alas, Yes.
• Obama Counts on Clinton to Help Sway Independents
• What Ryan's marathon 'Oops' tells us
• Emanuel Takes On New Role as a ‘Super PAC’ Fundraiser for Obama
• Gallup Poll: Bill Clinton Has a 69% Favorability Rating
• President Obama's Speech Will Be Moved Indoors Due to Weather Concerns
• Tens Of Thousands Of Feminists Call On CNN To Fire Sexist Contributor Erick Erickson
• Laid-Off Workers At Bain-Owned Companies Slam Romney
• Transcript of Deval Patrick’s remarks to the DNC
• The Speech Obama Should Deliver: "I'll Be Damned if I Let Them Do That Again!" -- Hugh Conrad for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Democrats update platform with Jerusalem, God reference
• Are Conservative Documentary Films on the Rise? -- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Democratic Platform Supports Amending Constitution to Reverse Citizens United
• Democrats Embrace Obama Health Law
• Yes We Are! (Limerick)
• Tea Party's wrong about big government
• Obama's convention speech being moved indoors
• Ten Undocumented Protesters Arrested At Democratic National Convention
• "President Barack Obama’s explicit warning that he will not accept a unilateral Israeli attack against Iran may force Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to step back from his ostensible threat of war."
• Rahm Emanuel to seek big-dollar donations for Democrats
• Bernie Sanders: Six Ways President Obama Can Win Support from the Middle Class
• Rising Democratic star Julian Castro defended President Obama's economic record in his keynote address to the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday night.
• Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick: "It Is Time for Democrats to Grow a Backbone"
• Paul Ryan requested Obamacare funding for his district
• Caravan for Peace with Justice and Dignity marches to end failed war on drugs
• Teachers aren’t the problem
• Islamophobia and why the Western world is experiencing a resurgence of anti-Islamic sentiment.
• Colombian Ex-Workers Suspend Hunger Strike as Mediation Begins with General Motors
• The Best of Reproductive Rights At the Democratic National Convention
• War Photographer Trains Her Lens on Military Suicide at Home
• Amy Poehler: Support the CA Domestic Workers Bill of Rights
• Foxconn moves into Indonesia, worrying labor groups
• AS an Israeli-American who cares deeply about the survival of Israel and the future of the Jewish people, I will be voting for President Obama in November. Here’s why.
• Democrats face tough decision on whether to move Obama speech
• Wendell Potter: The illusory promise of free-market health care miracles
• Four Signs Republicans Are Getting Desperate
• Ghost Of Ted Kennedy Haunts Mitt Romney At DNC (VIDEO)
• Storm Poses a Threat to a Second Convention
• Charlotte speech increases rumors Kerry is up for Hillary Clinton’s job
• "My name is Stacy Lihn. I'm from Phoenix, Arizona, and the Affordable Care Act is saving my daughter's life."
• It’s being sold as a cleaner way to wage war. But unmanned military drones are wreaking havoc in Pakistan, Afghanistan and elsewhere.
• Barclays makes £500m betting on food crisis
• As Goes the South: Your convention guide to Southern politics 101
• The Importance of Rick Warren's Waistline
• A Morsel To Chew On (Limerick)
• Pentagon Report Finds Military Voting Efforts Underfunded, Ineffective
• Women Spend 40 Billion Hours Collecting Water
• Thin Lizzy Singer Would Have Objected to GOP Using Band's Music, Mom Says
• Ex-RNC chief rips current chairman for comments on Obama
• Six Reasons We Need to Protect America from Texas Politicians
• Ten Undocumented Protesters Arrested At Democratic National Convention
• Republican Governors Messin' with Romney's Gloom and Doom Narrative
• Sears Drops Rush Limbaugh
• Gays, lesbians comprise record-high 8 percent of delegates at Democratic convention
• News Media Blind (Again) to GOP Racism
• Finally, the Democrats Learn How to Fight
• US Ready to Cut Egypt’s Debt
• Shooting incident mars win for Quebec separatists
• The GOP's Disgusting New Southern Strategy: Take the Vote Away from Blacks, Roll Back the Civil Rights Movement
• Ten True Facts Guaranteed to Short-Circuit Republican Brains
• Ex-RNC chief rips current chairman for comments on Obama
• Transcript of Michelle Obama's Speech
• The first lady thrilled the convention with a speech that melded politics and the personal. Howard Kurtz on a well-choreographed night for the Democrats.