California Councilman: "I'm a Proud Racist"
By Andrea Nill / ThinkProgress
Santa Clarita councilman Bob Kellar made the remark at an anti-immigration rally, but insists he did not mean to "express animosity towards non-whites."
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California School District Bans Dictionary Over Phrase "Oral Sex"
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Health Insurers Spent $38 Million Lobbying Congress in 2009
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5 Out of 5 Gasbag News Commentators Agree: Obama's a Failure, Not Republican Enough
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Will the Citizens United Ruling Give Unions As Much Political Power As Corporations? Don't Bet On It.
By John Nichols / TheNation.com
Football Player Tim Tebow on What Should Happen in Your Womb
By Tana Ganeva / AlterNet
Uganda's "Kill the Gays" Movement Organizing in Newark, NJ
By Bruce Wilson / AlterNet
Osama Bin Laden as Che Guevara, and Other Dumb Narratives
By Joshua Holland / AlterNet

A Rumble with Wall Street ... That's a Fight We Should Welcome
By Isaiah J. Poole / Campaign for America's Future
Really Simple: We Need to Get Rid of the Perverse Notion of "Corporate Personhood"
By Joshua Holland / AlterNet
New All-White Basketball League: Not Racist at All!
By Amanda Terkel / ThinkProgress
Why Scott Roeder's Defense in Tiller Murder Case Won't Hold Water
By Lindsay Beyerstein / Majikthise
How Political Parties Deal with Set-Backs
By Steve Benen / Washington Monthly

Is Glenn Beck Just Paranoid, or Is Sarah Palin Really Trying to Steal His Show?
By Oliver Willis / Oliver Willis.com
Conservatives Made the GOP Toxic and Now They're Killing the Democratic Party
By Joshua Holland / AlterNet
Israel Deports American Journalist for "Anti-Israeli" Political Views
By Staff / AlterNet

Laura Flanders GritTV: Can We Scan Ourselves to Safety & Massachusetts Election?
By Laura Flanders / GRITtv
Tea Party Money-Bomb Elects Scott Brown, Blows-Up Obama's Health Care Reform
By John Stauber / PR Watch
The Lesson of Scott Brown's Mass Victory? Progressives Need to Go Populist
By Katrina vanden Heuvel / The Nation
'Ghettotainment'? Pay $65 and Take a Bus Tour Through Gang-Ridden L.A.
By Tara Lohan / AlterNet
Brown's Victory Validates Everything I've Been Saying
By Joshua Holland / AlterNet
Scott Brown Wins MA Senate
By Staff / AlterNet

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