Bill contains public health-ins plan. Passed by 220-215 wi steep concessions to BlueDogs irking prog lawmakers & activists. More on what's in it & likely battles to arise in committee, here & in "5 Key Fights We Face Against the Insur Ind" in comments.

Hospitalized Beck tweets in praise of "AMAZING drs/nurses" who've cared for him since 11/4 emergency removal of inflamed appendix. Has it occurred to him to link kind, efficient nurses to dastardly SEIU he's been busy smearing wi his usual verbal feces?

Class action suit named as defendants then-AG J Ashcroft, FBI head, ex-INS Cmmr & Brooklyn DetentionCenter officials. With no evidence of any connection to terrorism, 100s of Muslims, Arabs, Asians detained on basis racial profiling & abused by prison gua

The shocking transfer of public wealth to Wall St pockets vividly illustrated by recent events in AL: billionaires&banks squeezing locals so hard they're literally going bankrupt just flushing the toilets; violence & threat of it reaching boiling point..

Will was in Mexico to film widespread protests & political violence. >12 others were killed & scores more illegally detained & ill-treated. Amnesty says truth has not come out: the authorities've found ideal scapegoat, but evidence against him is flawed.

Officer boarded flight full of deported asylum seekers at Baghdad airport & ordered UK immigration officials not to send anyone back by force again, says refugee org that monitors expulsions. UK policy in clear breach of UNHCR on safe repatriation

287(g) under intense criticism: >500 orgs, inc ACLU & CongressionalHispanicCaucus, have called on Obama to end it. Many agencies involved accused of racial profiling -NC, GA come ominously close to JimCrow-1 being investigated by Justice Dep

JPMorganChase, GoldmanSachs + more report massive 3rd/4 profits. Record bonuses come <a yr after taxpayer bail-out of many of same financial corps. Foreclosures up 23%- 940,000! Lawmakers slow to implement any meaningful reform: business lobbying against!

Howard Zinn, whose classic work, People's History of the US, introduces John Brown's address to Virginia court that ordered his hanging. James Earl Jones reading Frederick Douglass: John Brown began the war that ended US slavery& made this a free republic

Explosive French documentary, 'Waste: A Nuclear Nightmare," is claiming that French energy giant, EDF, is using Siberia to dump nuclear waste. Depleted uranium is being stored in metal drums in an open-air parking lot visible/shown via satelite images.