Casey Anthony Wants $1.5 Million For Interview

Networks deny bidding war…

The Sheer Absurdity Of Continuing To Subsidize Big Oil

By Yashwanth Manjunath

Over the last ten years the the Big Five oil companies, BP, Exxon, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, and Shell have made over $900 billion in profits (in 2011 dollars). But despite that unprecedented financial success, those same companies still insist on receiving $77 billion in subsidies from the federal government over the next ten years to incentivize oil and gas exploration. Because nearly a trillion dollars is not enough of an obscene profit motive on its own.

In 2005 George W. Bush, arguably the biggest shill for the oil and gas industry in American history, said:

I will tell …

Michele Bachmann Skips 37% Of Votes Since Launching Bid

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Significantly higher than other House members running for president…

Fired-Up Pelosi: Republicans Want To Undermine Government And Destroy Your Rights

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Speaking to union workers, Nancy Pelosi went on a tear.

“This isn’t just about them saying we should reduce the deficit,” she said, adding: “This is an excuse. The budget deficit is an excuse for the Republicans to undermine government plain and simple. They don’t just want to make cuts, they want to destroy. They want to destroy food safety, clean air, clean water, the department of education. They want to destroy your rights.”

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CIA Believes Al-Qaeda On The Verge Of Extinction

Seven years of drone strikes have al-Qaeda on the brink of collapse.

The assessment reflects a widespread view at the CIA and other agencies that a relatively small number of additional blows could effectively extinguish the Pakistan-based organization that carried out the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks — an outcome that was seen as a distant prospect for much of the past decade…

the top U.S. national security officials now allude to a potential finish line in the fight against al-Qaeda, a notion they played down before bin Laden was killed by U.S. forces in a May 2 raid …

Republicans To Rewrite Budget Plan After CBO Says It Cuts Less Than Promised

Boehner scrambling to keep promise and count votes

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While Blasting Obama For Having A Teleprompter, Bachmann Shows Why She Needs One

She refers to herself as “President Obachmann.”

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On Tuesday’s Radio Show…

• Alan discusses the debt battle with former Gov. Gary Johnson (R-NM), who is seeking the Republican nomination for president.

• The author of the California Dream Act, Assemblyman Gil Cedillo (D-Los Angeles), explains why undocumented students should have access to financial aid.

• A serious candidate? Alan examines Michele Bachmann’s latest campaign missteps.…

ATF Official Apologizes For “Fast And Furious”

William McMahon (pictured, center), head of the ATF’s Western region, says the agency meant well.

Appearing before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, McMahon said he was committed to dismantling criminal networks on both sides of the border and that “in our zeal to do so, and in the heat of battle, mistakes were made. And for that I apologize.”

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Pat Buchanan: Norway Terrorist Anders Breivik “May Be Right”

Conservative Pat Buchanan comes out defending the views of terrorist Anders Breivik. First he claims, Breivik doesn’t represent the real threat. It’s the Muslims, stupid.

…native-born and homegrown terrorism is not the macro-threat to the continent.

That threat comes from a burgeoning Muslim presence in a Europe that has never known mass immigration, its failure to assimilate, its growing alienation, and its sometime sympathy for Islamic militants and terrorists.

And because, in Buchanan’s view, the West is losing its Christian heritage, Breivik has a point.

As for a climactic conflict between a once-Christian West and an Islamic world that is …

Michele Bachmann’s $4,700 Hair And Makeup Bill

And John Edwards’ haircut cost jut $400…