Conservatives are starting to talk like the conclusion of every ‘Scooby Doo’ episode and saying they’d get away with it if it wasn’t for those meddling liberals.

Styx – Come Sail Away and Doobie Brothers – China Grove

Now that the head of Rupert Murdoch’s British tabloid and the head of his American business daily flagship have both resigned, with the titian-haired one under arrest in Britain, is it time to look at the man GHWBush calls “our man Ailes” and his techniques that FOX News Channel may have used to make the news?

One of the more constant critiques of this Presidency is that Barack Obama has failed to teach a generation of willing listeners a story about his beliefs and his values, something that will outlast his term in office and provide a blueprint for the future. This isn’t true. He’s teaching a fundamental lesson. It just may not be one that progressives value.

Updating news of the one boat of the Flotilla II that has managed to head for Gaza with expected arrival overnight. Reports of a French Navy vessel in the area raise question of whether France will protect its citizen’s ship or bow to Israeli blockade? Haaretz reporter Amira Hass amongst those on board along with an Al Jazeera crew. Share the news as it happens with us.

Andrew Breitbart sics his crack team of citizen journalists/unemployable temps/blood and semen selling “entrepreneurs” on Conor Friedersdorf’s story about Sarah Palin’s unattended Undefeated movietoon. The Most Amusing Spin award goes to Larry O’Connor, wherein O’Connor points out that he attended a showing the next morning and, Ha!, people were so too there for that one.

For the past months, I have hosted a show called “This Week in WikiLeaks,” where I bring a guest on to talk about a WikiLeaks-related story or to talk about the latest news and updates on WikiLeaks, an organization that provides a lens for understanding so much about how the press, policy and politics, the national security state, etc.

This week, Trevor Timm, the person behind the Twitter account @WLLegal, joined the program to talk about the latest news on WikiLeaks. Timm has been a regular legal correspondent on the show.

Making history, 200 LGBT servicemembers — reserve, active duty, and veterans alike — marched openly in the San Diego Pride Parade yesterday. This marks the first time in America a contingent of serving military members participated openly in a gay pride event.

As you can see in the video, the Honoring Servicemembers contingent of 200 military men and women from all branches of the US military received almost universal approval and recognition from the crowd of San Diegans out on yet another lovely parade day (one does wonder why San Diego doesn’t simply have parades every single day, looking at that weather).

Threat Matrix is a “biography” of the FBI’s development of counter terrorism capabilities from the days of state sponsored terrorism through the rise of domestic terrorism and to the new world of NGO
(non-governmental organizations) terrorism.

An alleged 2003 News of the World phone hack of actor Jude Law and his personal assistant Ben Jackson while the duo were in New York is the first specific case of Rupert Murdoch’s law-breaking reporters operating in America.