The fallout from the worst idea ever for an exclusive interview while under indictment continues. Just what Jerry Sandusky admitted to Bob Costas on national television, all of which is admissible as evidence, is enough to put him in jail for up to five years

Bloomberg has a great story about how Newt lobbied shilled for the institution he blames for the financial crisis — to the tune of $1.6M.

In seven states (California, Iowa, Maine, Minnesota, New York, Rhode Island and Washington), the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) has tried to conceal its donors by claiming said donors would be threatened and intimidated by gays. In those seven states, four federal judges and three state boards have declared NOM’s claims to be highly vapid.

An article planted by Republican operatives looking to absolve their party of blame for failure on the Super Committee suggests that the rank and file are being persuaded to accept tax increases as part of an overall deal. The entire premise of the article is wrong, because it posits as a “tax increase” a deal that would cut taxes by $3.3 trillion

This could be the moment when the Euro union begins to collapse. Greek bonds are trading at astronomically high yields, and the yields on Italian bonds are nearing the danger zone. But bond yields for every country in the Eurozone spiked yesterday, including countries in no real fiscal danger. The bond market is in full feeding frenzy.

Journalists have been increasingly targeted at Occupy protests, especially during police operations to evict occupations. The eviction of Occupy Wall Street featured a number of egregious incidents, where NYPD not only did not allow the press to cover the eviction but arrested reporters and photographers for being on the scene. In fact, the day was the worst day for members of the press since Occupy Wall Street began.

Cherubic torture fanboy Marc Thiessen does not like people talking smack about his weekend hobby and he uses the valuable space given to him by genocidal maniac enabler Fred Hiatt to continue to argue that even though “waterboarding can cause extreme pain, dry drowning, damage to lungs, brain damage from oxygen deprivation, other physical injuries including broken bones due to struggling against restraints, lasting psychological damage and death” it’s totally cool when we do it because …. U-S-A! U-S-A!

Dayen’s News Roundup from Tuesday, November 15. Lots of stuff on Occupy, Penn State, foreclosures, inequality, Syria and Afghanistan, and the GOP clown car, and much more.

• Live, from the SCOTUS?
• Labor should tell Biden where to go.
• No one’s buying it, Mr. Beki-beki-beki-stan.
• The Feds turn to Happy Valley.
• Oh, my.

Who could have anticipated Republicans on the Super Committee basing their no-compromise position upon past Democratic performance?   Republican co-chair Jeb Hensarling…claimed that if the committee recommended even a dollar of new net tax revenue — the kind of revenue Dems are demanding — it would constitute a step in the wrong direction. He said [...]