Took a bit of a hiatus....and moved the team to D.C.  Seriously. 

If you are looking for the 50 page, massive election campaign library-like opus that used to live here, it's archived and will be reposted soon. 

Meanwhile, hello again, and as 2010 rambles on...we prepare for the next elections!!

WASHINGTON -- As of Thursday early afternoon, nine senators had signed a letter urging passage of the public health insurance option through reconciliation.  Make it ten.

Sen. Bernie Sanders's (I-VT) spokesman Michael Briggs confirmed to Raw Story that he will join Democratic Sens. Michael Bennett (CO), Kirsten Gillibrand (NY), Jeff Merkley (OR), Sherrod Brown (OH), Al Franken (MN), Pat Leahy, John Kerry (MA), Sheldon Whitehouse (RI) and Roland Burris (IL) in a last-ditch push for the provision.

Defenders of "enhanced interrogation techniques" -- they're just techniques, after all -- have continually insisted that the treatment does not cross the line into the forbidden land of torture. Crtics have relied on history -- the US used to prosecute people for waterboarding. Now we have some hard evidence, in the form of rulings by US federal judges.  In Hatim's case, the Justice Department did not dispute his contention that he was tortured in U.S. custody and that he made his admissions only to avoid further mistreatment.

Keith Olbermann on video discussing the GOP's hypocritical stance on the stimulus aka Economic Recovery Act.

WASHINGTON -- One year after being swept into the White House and bestowed huge majorities in Congress, Democrats have seen their towering lead over Republicans evaporate. Why? According to previous DNC chairman Howard Dean, they're just not tough enough.

WASHINGTON (IANS)  "If you are a multinational and you are investing in India, and your workforce is in India, and your plants and equipment are in India, but your headquarters are here, you are taking deductions on all the expenses in India, but you are keeping your profits outside the United States, that just doesn't seem entirely fair," Obama said.," he said in an Oval office interview with Bloomberg/Businessweek.