How should police handle a distraught young mother after the shooting death of her baby? They should try to soothe and calm her, call psychological specialists to her side, and perhaps offer her a cup of water, right? Louisiana police TASERED her!

The Obama Defense Department Counsel says that the president has the power to detain someone even after they have been tried and acquitted. Meaning they're pushing the Bush policy that says the president can lock up anyone indefinitely for any reason.

Legislators in more than a half-dozen states, their revenues evaporating in the recession, frantically worked to stave off government shutdowns and devastating service cuts. CA didn't meet midnite deadline last night!

California will begin issuing IOUs instead of cash due to a budget crisis. Sadly, but not surprisingly, politicians and judges will continue to get greenbacks, while the poor, elderly, and disabled will be stuck with California's new "currency."

Already in trouble "inciting violence," urging audience take up arms. Nation: Hannity offered radio show as regular forum for Turner's racist over-top rants. 2 major tragedies spotlight dangers of right-wing extremism: Holocaust Museum shooting &..

Aussie investigative journalist: "What is it about US legislators that they appear to be so in bed with such powerful interests, such as the insurance companies, that they can't represent their own people's needs, their own people's basic human rights."

"We are not a people who fear the future. We are a people who make it," Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the global recession, and a package of problems "we have kicked down the road for far too long."

Nasty mailer just hit Philadelphia-area in-boxes sent by GOP group called Republican Jewish Coalition, suggests a vote for Obama could lead to another "tragic outcome" for the Jews; hits Obama over allegedly anti-Israel advisers; weak & naive to meet...

Here's how the right's big 11th-hour smear on Obama was carried out. 1st Murdoch-owned Times of London reported Obama's aunt living in Boston public-housing complex. Story quickly taken up by right-wing echo chamber- Fox News(also Murdoch-owned)...

The men, whose detention since 2002 long at center of contentious legal battle, to be brought to his courtroom (per habeas corpus) Friday for release into care of US supporters. Ruling has set the stage for confrontation between courts & the adm.