• The Tea Party Cost us $24 Billion for What??
• William Gladstone, The Power of Twelve: Everything You Know is Wrong...about the # 12?
• Mike Papantonio, Ring of Fire Radio: What madness lurks in the Tea Party brain?
• Professor Peter Morici, Newsmax: the debt deal winners & sore losers...
• Geeky Science - where would we be without plants?

• Dennis Prager: The Tea Party...definitely not your parent's GOP
• Tommy Christopher, Mediaite.com: Will Obama 'Delay Obamacare for a Year If Republicans Would Agree to Delay Heart Attacks for a Year?

Yesterday, majority rule finally returned to the U.S. Senate. After five years of Republican obstruction, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid invoked the so-called “nuclear option,” with 52 Democrats voting to reform the filibuster. Since President Obama took office, Republicans have used the filibuster more than any other time in our history.

Yesterday, the Supreme Court issued their first ruling of the term, refusing to block a new abortion law in Texas. That law imposes strict building standards on abortion clinics, blocks abortions after 20 weeks, and requires doctors that perform the procedures to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of their facilities.