Arizona:

• ACT ARIZONA — Universal Health Care Reform that Serves Everyone in Arizona

Defense:

• Project for Nuclear Awareness

• Redefining deterrence: How the Obama administration should handle RRW

• Clinton’s Goals Detailed

• Rules of the Game

• Arms control to start U.S.-Russia thaw

• With Obama in White House, North Korea Steps Up Big Talk

• SCENARIOS-Will North Korea launch a war?

• Russia welcomes Barack Obama call to cut nuclear weapons

• National Security Infrastructure – A National Security Legacy of Failure

• A Foreign Affairs Budget for the Future

• The Other Federal Deficit

• Hawks Urge Boosting Military Spending

• Don’t Believe Spending Cut Rumors

The uniformed services are trying to lock in the next administration by creating a political cost for holding the line on defense spending. Conservative groups are hoping to ramp up defense spending as a tool to limit options for a Democratic Congress and president to pass new, and potentially costly, social programs, including health care reform.

• Shot arms dealer ‘knew too much’

Economy:

• Obama’s rescue plan buoys bank shares

• To Pay for Health Care, Obama Looks to Taxes on Affluent

• Nationalization: It’s Not Scary, It’s All Around You

• Schumer to GOP Govs: No A La Carte

• Mish’s Global Economic Trend Analysis

• USA and the Global Systemic Crisis 2008-09 ~ A Collective Discussion

• Bernanke: Recession Should End in 2009, 2010 “Will Be A Year Of Recovery”

• Freeganism

• Swap & Trade Books, Trade Music, Swap Video Games, DVD & Movie Exchange – SwapTree

• Death To Zombies: Nationalize Banks Now

• Democrats and Republicans Line Up to Do Battle Over Results of Stimulus Package

• Dean Baker: President Obama should reassure America’s baby boomers that their payments are secure |

• Jerome Corsi Is a Twitchy Liar

• It’s Time to Treat America’s Homeowners as Well as We’ve Been Treating Wall Street’s Bankers

• MPR: Panel warns of looming financial crisis in U.S.

• Senate Passes Stimulus Plan

• WhileRomeBurns.org

• Accountability Campaign– NACA

• THE PRESIDENT VS. CONGRESS– IS BIPARTISANSHIP THE CURE OR THE PROBLEM?

• No consensus on restoring trust in business

• I have fallen into recession’s web of fear

• The Other Federal Deficit

• Center for American Progress

• Myths and falsehoods surrounding the economic recovery plan

• Media reports on CBO’s initial “analysis” of economic recovery plan falsely claimed it analyzed the entire package

• Barack Obama and Joe Biden: The Change We Need

• Economic Stimulus Bill: Sound Policy vs. D.C. “Bipartisanship”

• REPORT: Under Lobbyist Pressure, Obama to Gut “Buy America”

Environment:

• Exxon’s influence and information wars continue today, building on lessons they learned from Valdez disaster

• Finally a Solar-Powered Air Conditioner: 6 Tons of A/C Using 4 Solar Panels

• The BRAD BLOG Goes GREEB!! ‘Green News Report’

• Who’s Who on Obama’s Green Team: Lisa Jackson, Administrator of the EPA

Justice

• Mexican Gov Denounces “Toughest Sheriff in America”

• Sheriff Invites Critics to Investigate Personally

• 93-year-old man freezes to death indoors

• Op-Ed Columnist – Bleeding Heart Tightwads

• A Nation of Givers

Media:

• ‘Liberal bias?’ IU professors find network TV election coverage favors Republicans

• Confronted with the truth, Hannity refused to back down from debunked mouse, LA-Vegas rail falsehoods

• MSNBC’s Brewer, Watson aired Gingrich’s gratuitous Twitter attack on Pelosi

• O’Reilly latest to advance UAW pay falsehood

• Fox & Friends’ Carlson allows guest to misrepresent speech to claim Obama engaged in “class warfare”

• O’Reilly advanced falsehood that “the Democrats in charge of the finance committees” resisted regulating mortgage industry

• Obama’s high-stakes speech to press broader agenda

• Wallace says mouse falsehood “supposedly … debunked” — so where are the Fox News corrections?

• Wash. Times falsely claimed CBO “estimated that the full cost of” recovery bill “will reach $3.2 trillion by 2019″

• Media start timers on stimulus, Obama “honeymoon period”

• Media Covers Raw Politics, Not the Policies of Recovery Package

• Putting the “partisan” in “bipartisanship”

• Of mice and misinformation: Sammon joins other Fox News personalities in spreading stimulus falsehood

• Broadcast stations: covering news is a requirement on our public airwaves

• US lawmaker injects ISP throttle into Obama rescue package

• Limbaugh repeats health IT falsehood from Bloomberg “commentary” on House recovery bill

• Declaring GOP winner in “stimulus message war,” media oblivious to their cohort’s role in skewing debate:

Summary: Many in the media have proclaimed the GOP the winner in the “stimulus message war” over President Obama and congressional Democrats. But they often do so with no self-reflection or acknowledgment of their cohort’s role in advancing the Republicans’ side in the debate through the credulous repetition of falsehoods and other Republican talking points.

• Newsweek’s Dan Gross “bust[s]…myth” that the government doesn’t create jobs

• Morning Joe crew distorts New Deal unemployment figures in continued assault on recovery plan

• ABC’s Gibson stated that “a lot of people” say spending in recovery bill isn’t “stimulus” — but CBO director says “most economists” disagree

• Blacklisting Progressives: The Untold Story Beneath the Daschle Headlines:

  And that’s the big story here: Leo Hindery, one of the few business leaders to use his wealth to challenge deregulation, corporate trade deals and anti-worker policies was blacklisted by the Obama administration well before the Daschle flap ever happened – and he was blacklisted because he dared to clash with the same Wall Street Democrats whose corporate-backed policies destroyed the economy.

Politics

• Palin to pay Alaska for kids’ trips

• Crossing the Line: Fetal Cemeteries

• Ideology is More Than Skin Deep: Why I Can’t Get Along To Go Along

• The Seven Intellecutal Underpinnings of the Obama Code: George Lakoff

• Myth Of The Filibuster: Dems Can’t Make Republicans Talk All Night

• Michael Fauntroy: The Meaning of Michael Steele

• Simon Rosenberg: Steele, the GOP and Confronting the Southern Strategy

• Eric Greenberg:

  

• Generation We Listen Closely – It’s the Sound of Your World Changing Forever

• Obama to the Millenials « Follies of Youth

• Obama and the Post-Partisan Vote

• The Millennials: America’s First Post-Ideological, Post-Partisan, and Post-Political Generation

• Eric Greenberg

Reading:

• The Second Civil War

Religion:

• It’s Bring Your Gun to Church Day

• I Am Not A Number: Gays and Lesbians and Opinion Polls