Rep Anthony Weiner Says Lewd Photo Sent From His Account Was A Hack

Congressman Anthony Weiner says a lewd photo of a man in his underwear in an aroused state sent via yfrog on his Twitter account to a woman in Seattle is the result of his account being hacked. Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government website reported the story Saturday.

“This evening a photo surfaced on Congressman Weiner’s yfrog account and in his verified Twitter timeline of a man in his underwear with an erection,” Publius, the handle for the site’s editors wrote. “The photo was reportedly sent to a woman on Twitter. We’ve protected her name and her account, which was at …

Palin Announces Attendance At Rolling Thunder Event; Group Says She Wasn’t Invited, “A Distraction”

Rolling Thunder’s national legislative director, Ted Shpak, had no idea Palin was attending until it was posted on her web site: “She wasn’t invited. We heard yesterday she came out with a press release she was coming to Rolling Thunder….She’s not invited to speak. We’re not endorsing her … (but) we can’t stop her from coming to ride, if she wants to ride.” Rolling Thunder is a motorcycle group that raises awareness for prisoners of war and those missing in action.

Palin’s representatives say they were invited to Rolling Thunder – by a former board member who is emceeing the …

Butcher Of Bosnia Headed For The Hague

Right-wing groups out in support of Ratko Mladic…

Tim Pawlenty On Obama: “Any Doofus Can Go To Washington”

On Palin: The country “isn’t about bus tours”

On Obama:

“Any doofus can go to Washington and maintain the status quo and that’s what we’ve got in the White House and in Congress in terms of their attitude about their willingness to tackle these issues,” Pawlenty said. “If we’re not going to have leaders who are going to say that and do it and tell the American people, look them in the eye … then we’re all wasting our time.”

I guess that means everyone in Congress is a doofus, too. Only Tim Pawlenty stands above doofushood. And Pawlenty’s Tweet–“sorry …

Egypt Reopens Border With Gaza; No Longer Enforcing Israeli Blockade

“I feel this is the start of freedom”…

Gil-Scott Heron Dead At 62

Known for his spoken-word music laying the groundwork for rap

Scott-Heron was known for work that reflected the fury of black America in the post-civil rights era and also spoke to the social and political disparities in the country. His songs often had incendiary titles – “Home is Where the Hatred Is,” or “Whitey on the Moon,” and through spoken word and song, he tapped the frustration of the masses.

Also known for The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

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The Real Republican Budget Plan (Satire)

By Yashwanth Manjunath

The Paul Ryan budget plan passed recently by House Republicans has received a great deal of attention over the past few weeks for its radical transformation of the American social compact. Under Ryan’s plan, Medicare would be turned into a voucher program for private health insurance, and Medicaid would be turned into a block grant program. The trillions of dollars in savings from those benefit cuts would be used to cut taxes dramatically for the rich and corporations. Needless to say, the plan has turned out to be very unpopular.

However, it turns out …

President Obama And Deregulation

by Stuart Shapiro

Lost beneath the headlines this week was an announcement by President Obama’s Administrator of the Office Of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Cass Sunstein (pictured), about the initial results of an effort to review existing regulations that was begun in January.

Examples of agencies’ current work include 70 initiatives at Transportation, 50 reforms at the Health and Human Resources Department, and 12 short-term high-priority projects at EPA. The Treasury Department has a five-year paperless initiative that will save 12 million pounds of paper and $400 million, Sunstein said.

EPA recently decided that that classifying milk as an oil …

U.S. Adults Estimate That 25% Of Americans Are Gay

Highest estimates given by the less educated, women, and young people…

Wisconsin Man Arrested After Telling Police He Wanted To Kill Abortion Doctor

Ralph Lang drove to Madison, WI with the intention of killing an abortion doctor, and told police he was going to go to an abortion clinic in Milwaukee after that.

The complaint, filed in Dane County Circuit Court, charged Ralph W. Lang, 63, with attempted first-degree intentional homicide for allegedly attempting to kill an abortion doctor at Planned Parenthood in Madison…

Lang accidentally fired a bullet through the door of his room at Motel 6 on Wednesday night, then told Madison police of his plan to kill a doctor at the Planned Parenthood clinic on Thursday morning.

…after shooting …

Michele Bachmann’s Iowa “Disaster”

Cancels event at last minute

GOP officials call it “disaster”, “embarrassment”

More than 300 paid $75 a ticket and came from as far away as Norway…