Best sources for news on the internet

Here on some of my favorites

http://www.rawstory.com/

http://news.yahoo.com/

http://thehill.com/

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/

http://www.csmonitor.com/

Regional newspapers to get the news from a region

http://www.refdesk.com/paper.html

News Blog

http://www.dailykos.com/

I tend to favor news over opinion.

only because it is strictly regulated. Still something seeps through from time to time, but that is what alert is for.

in the sense that I very careful as to what I accept as fact. If it sounds too good to be true I Google research it and I always verify a headline to see that the article supports it (you would might be surprised how often the headline is not supported by the article).

538
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/


The Democratic Strategist
http://www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/

He's a Political Animal & a Goldmine..& he's fair to the President:patriot::bounce:

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January 14, 2010

"OBAMA MORE EFFECTIVE ON SPENDING CUTS".... When George W. Bush was in the White House, he'd do what lots of presidents would do: talk about cutting federal spending. Of course, there's a big difference between talking about something and actually doing it.

President Obama notched substantial successes in spending cuts last year, winning 60 percent of his proposed cuts and managing to get Congress to ax several programs that had bedeviled President George W. Bush for years.

The administration says Congress accepted at least $6.9 billion of the $11.3 billion in discretionary spending cuts Mr. Obama proposed for the current fiscal year. An analysis by The Washington Times found that Mr. Obama was victorious in getting Congress to slash 24 programs and achieved some level of success in reducing nine other programs.

Among the president's victories are canceling the multibillion-dollar F-22 Raptor program, ending the LORAN-C radio-based ship navigation system and culling a series of low-dollar education grants. In each of those cases, Mr. Obama succeeded in eliminating programs that Mr. Bush repeatedly failed to end.

"This is a very strong beginning for the president's efforts to shape a budget that invests in programs that work and that ends programs that don't," said Tom Gavin, a spokesman for the White House budget office. "The Congress has approved more than 60 percent of the president's proposals, and that's a high mark, that's a strong beginning."

It obviously helps that we have a Democratic president working with a Democratic Congress, but note that when there was a Republican president basically telling a Republican Congress what to do, GOP policymakers didn't cut spending as much as Obama did last year.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/

I started posting links to his site on Monday and plan to continue in the bog until whenever..