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Barack Obama cautions progressives not to get bent out of shape about the center-right government the President-Elect is forming:

This is pretty cool. Mother Jones told us about The Typealyzer, which probes your blog and computes your Myers-Briggs type based on content:

Now that the Sarah Palin Redemption Tour is underway, I feel the need to remind folks of a few facts.

The “Sarah Palin doesn’t know Africa is a continent” story was broken by Fox News.

I walked a picket line with my daddy when I was 10 years old, and the old-timey labor movement -- the guys who bled and died to bring us the 40-hour work week and healthcare benefits -- are dear to my heart.

So I found this as powerful as anything I've seen this election season.

I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a 'community organizer,' except that you have actual responsibilities.

- - Sarah Palin, GOP convention speech

Slate and Politico are my two go-tos when it comes to political news. There's rarely the red meat you get from Olbermann, The Nation, Mother Jones, National Review, WSJ, or the Op-Ed page of the Times. There's several articles on Slate and Politico about the Palin pick. Apparently, it seems like anyone outside the National Review is befuddled by the pick.

Mother Jones with one of the better roundups I’ve seen on Obama’s VP Options.

Ron Wynn reviews Jim Hightower’s new book in anticipation of his visit to Nashville:

Former Republican congressman Bob Barr has announced that he will, in fact, seek the Libertarian nomination for President giving conservatives, libertarians, Ron Paul supporters and members of the “L