Before the deep freeze starts here in the East-
A brief summary of another bummer of a summer…

Not too long ago, we have received the support of three endorsements from the State of Florida for Kendrick Meek’s campaign for U.S. Senate. Al Gore has also had something to say.

I always read the papers with a yearning. The headlines, photos and lead paragraphs flicker on the screen under my stare, and I’m looking for something not there. I find myself looking at the table, the sun on the wall, then out the window into the trees.

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010. A gunman takes The Discovery Channel hostage, and Sarah Elizabeth Cupp reveals her bra size while implicating the Left.

By: Inoljt, http://mypolitikal.com/

Several days after the 2008 presidential election, the New York Times produced a famous map of voting shifts since 2004. Most politics buffs have seen this map; according to it, Appalachia “voted more Republican, while the rest of the nation shifted more Democratic.”

There is something else occurring here, however, which the map hides – and which almost nobody has perceived. This trend goes strongly, strongly against conventional wisdom.

To unearth this trend, let’s move back one election – to former Vice President Al Gore’s 2000 tie with former President George W. Bush. Before going below the fold, I invite you to guess – which states did Mr. Gore do better than President Barack Obama?

Americans are more likely than ever before to marry outside their race or ethnicity and get divorced after decades of being married.

must say that I was truly honored–humbled if you will–to have the former demi-term Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, contact me and ask me to write her speech for today’s family-friendly event–the NRA annual convention in Charlotte, North Carolina [it must be all the nice things I’ve said about her. She even agreed to allow me to share with you an early copy.

The keynote discussion Tuesday between George Bush and Bill Clinton at the Biotechnology Industry Organization convention was closed to media: a call for pirate recordings.

By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger

Climate skeptics found plenty of reasons to dig out their dreary critiques this week, between the continuing controversy over erroneous reports from the International Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) and the record-breaking snowfall on the East Coast. Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) and his family built an igloo which Inhofe then dubbed “Al Gore’s house” in the streets of Washington, D.C. The Virginia GOP ran ads attacking the state’s Democratic representatives for their support of cap-and-trade and urged voters to “tell them how much global warming you get this weekend.” And skeptics across the world claimed that the smaller mistakes in IPCC reports undermined the organization’s broad conclusions on climate change science.

Inspired by a diary about Mother Jones magazine at another liberal blog, I decided to put together a list of as many quality independent (and possibly progressive) media outlets I could think of. Follow me below the fold to see what they are and why independent media is important.

(It’s also important to remember that a lot of these outlets are non profits and rely on donations to stay afloat – so keep that in mind when you visit their websites.)