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NEW YORK (CBS) ― The 21st Century has seen the rise of an increasingly powerful political force, one whose influence stems from its diversity of opinions and experiences.

The Blogosphere is a virtual community of millions of web logs - websites run by everyday people from around the world, posting their opinions on a litany of topics online.

And it is a vibrant one, with bloggers of a great variety of backgrounds, educations, and specializations. It is within this community that college professors and soldiers, musicians and engineers, teachers and journalists, and others meet and discuss political news every day.

Politicians have taken note.

Every week, WCBSTV.com will post articles from around the Blogosphere.

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If you find a blog or blog posting that you find interesting, we'd like to know.

What The Bloggers Are Saying:

Protein Wisdom: "Planned Parenthood's plan to survive the recession… go out and drum up those abortions! This director said "no thanks" and quit."
(posted 11/3, 7:31 pm)

Michelle Malkin: "Ballot Watch: Waiting for the results that everyone tells us mean nothing"
(posted 11/3, 7:30 pm)

Right Wing News: "Corzine Tries to Win Ugly* in New Jersey"
(posted 11/3, 7:29 pm)

Riehl World View: "Hey Ma, I Made The NYT's Without A Mugshot!! With an extensive post quote - not an easy thing for an actual conservative to do without a mugshot, if I may say. Ha!"
(posted 11/3, 7:28 pm)

DANEgerus: "Hillary gets honest"
(posted 11/3, 7:16 pm)

Cold Fury: "Being Called "Stalinists" by the NY Times is Like Being Called, Well, Stalinists by the NY Times"
(posted 11/3, 7:14 pm)

Blackfive: "Military Motivators For Valour-IT - USAF Nancies in the crosshairs"
(posted 11/3, 7:13 pm)

A Western Heart: "Law to save Australian meat pies drafted by politicians"
(posted 11/3, 7:11 pm)

Ace Of Spades: "On the Scene at Hoffman HQ"
(posted 11/3, 7:10 pm)

Baldilocks: "VALOUR-IT is the Soldier's Angels project formed to raise money to purchase special voice-operated laptops, Wii Video Game Systems and personal GPS devices for our heroes who have been wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan. This is the program's fourth year. Four of the services—the Air Force, the Army, the Navy and the Marines—have, as is usual, split into fund-raising teams and of course that knuckle-dragging Army team, lead by Blackfive, is taunting the Air Force."
(posted 11/3, 7:08 pm)

Crooks And Liars: "Michele Bachmann Urges People to 'Pay a House Call' on Congress to Protest Health Care Bill"
(posted 11/1, 11:22 am)

Protein Wisdom: "Parents are being banned from playing with their children in council recreation areas because they have not been vetted by police. Mothers and fathers are being forced to watch their children from outside perimeter fences because of fears they could be paedophiles."
(posted 10/31, 9:34 am)

Gateway Pundit: "White House "Created or Saved" a Million Jobs & Lost 3.3 Million Since Stimulus Passed"
(posted 10/31, 9:30 am)

Ace Of Spades: "Flashback: Bush's Economy Posts 7.2% Quarterly Growth, and CNN Wonders: But Where Are the Jobs? Of course, of course. This post is, I guess, so obvious as to be pointless, but let's just note it for the sake of completeness."
(posted 10/31, 9:22 am)

Sweetness & Light: "1 In 6 'Stimulus Jobs' Does Not Exist"
(posted 10/31, 9:20 am)

Blackfive: "I taunted the UN Rapporteur yesterday for mouthing off and whinging about the fact that we are gleefully killing terrorists using drone strikes in Pakistan. I avoided the actual legality of such action basing my approval on the concept that if bad guys are trying to kill us or other innocents, then we have an inherent right to kill them first. Simple self defense. Well a smart lawyer guy who does know about these things agrees with me."
(posted 10/31, 9:18 am)

Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: "Obamandias Finally Scores a Win…albeit a deeply embarrassing one, if you happen to be somebody respecting the rule of law, democracy and our glorious history of defending those concepts."
(posted 10/31, 9:16 am)

InstaPundit: "STIMULUS BACKER WALKS BACK SUPPORT after miserable failure at job-creation."
(posted 10/21, 3:02 pm)

Little Green Footballs: "Robert Bernstein, a former chairman of Human Rights Watch, had an extraordinary op-ed in the New York Times yesterday, blasting his former organization for its overwhelming bias against the state of Israel"
(posted 10/21, 2:20 pm)

Hot Air: "Video: Time for another Mao-quoting Obama aide"
(posted 10/21, 2:14 pm)

Right Wing News: "BBC Notices There Has Been No Warming For 10 Years. One of the biggest British cheerleaders for climate alarmism (and, remember, the BBC gets a pretty decent worldwide audience) finally comes clean: What happened to global warming?"
(posted 10/21, 2:13 pm)

DANEgerus: "Robert Reich admits to death panels"
(posted 10/21, 2:08 pm)

Blackfive: "Really... Taking money meant for bullets and fuel for soldiers risking their lives in battle so you can build monuments to yourselves... Have you no shame?"
(posted 10/21, 2:05 pm)

Ace Of Spades: "The twisted farce that is President Obama's Department of "Justice" recently used the Voting Rights Act to force a small North Carolina town to include party affiliation on ballots for local offices. The DOJ's excuse is that Democrats are less likely to be elected if they aren't identified as Democrats on the ballot and blacks want Democrats—and only Democrats—to be elected."
(posted 10/21, 2:01 pm)

The Huffington Post: "A Florida woman, who is a victim of sexual abuse, claims that rape was called a "pre-existing condition" by several health insurance companies, which would have disqualified her for care. Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/21/insurance-companies-rape-_n_328708.html"
(posted 10/21, 1:59 pm)

Crooks And Liars: "Lou Dobbs Emulates Glenn Beck With Attack on "Czar" Ron Bloom for Quoting Mao-tse Tung"
(posted 10/21, 1:57 pm)

Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: "Those that insist on claiming that Obamacare will improve healthcare for we the unwashed masses, need only throw a glance over to Merry Old England to get a gander of what is really in store for us if the Government is the one making the decisions as to what drugs and medications you are allowed to have if your life is hanging by a thread."
(posted 10/21, 1:52 pm)

Baldilocks: ""Peace" Before its Time (UPDATED): So if President Obama wins the Nobel "Peace" Prize for 2009 but the decision was supposed to have been made only twelve days after the president's inauguration, what does that mean?"
(posted 10/12, 4:02 pm)

Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: "Great Moments in Nationalized Hellcare. You'd think that using a pair of cancer-ridden lungs for a transplant would be enough to earn a place in the Gallery of Nationalized Hellcare Malignant Stupidity, and you'd be right. But wait, there's more. When the patient, a 31-year-old veteran of the Queens Royal Lancers, then requested that they replace the killer organs they'd just implanted in him… No, you're really not going to believe it"
(posted 10/12, 2:40 pm)

Ace Of Spades: "The Empire Strikes Back. Health Insurance Industry Group Attacks Baucus Bill. The thing about health care reform is a lot of people like the concept, in theory. Once you start discussing specifics people and groups who agreed on the general idea are suddenly at each other's throats. To date, the White House and congressional leaders have kept insurers on board or at least at the proverbial table. After studying the Baucus plan, they just jumped off the bandwagon."
(posted 10/12, 2:39 pm)

RWN: "BBC Notices There Has Been No Warming For 10 Years.  One of the biggest British cheerleaders for climate alarmism (and, remember, the BBC gets a pretty decent worldwide audience) finally comes clean: What happened to global warming?"
(posted 10/12, 2:37 pm)

Ace Of Spades: "Obama And McChrystal Have Spoken One Time Since McChrystal Took Command In Afghanistan"
(posted 9/29, 2:10 pm)

Victor Davis Hanson: "We can learn a lot about our present dilemmas through looking at the past. This month I'm teaching an intensive class on World War II, and again reminded how history is never really history. One lesson: do not judge past decisions by present considerations or post facto wisdom from a Western point of view, but understand them given the knowledge and thinking of the times from an enemy perspective."
(posted 9/28, 10:19 am)

Frank J: "Advice to liberals about how to calm down those dangerous, racist, angry, fire-breathing right-wingers."
(posted 9/28, 10:03 am)

Instapundit: "AND DON'T LET US CATCH YOU BEING NEIGHBORLY AGAIN: State bureaucrats threaten to fine, jail a Michigan woman for watching her neighbors' kids. If people are neighborly, they need the state less. This cannot be permitted."
(posted 9/28, 9:59 am)

Daily Mail: "O gives CNN the Fox News treatment"
 (posted 9/28, 9:57 am)

NRO: "Obama will buck public opinion if it is for a liberal-base issue, such as health care and cap-and-trade. But his problem on Afghanistan is that it is both unpopular with the public and an anathema to his base. Moderates and conservatives will support him on Afghanistan, since they think stabilizing the country is necessary, humane, and doable, but they are those whom he has so far ostracized and caricatured on other issues, and may not wish to reach out to."
(posted 9/28, 9:53 am)

Gateway Pundit: "Jon Stewart Skewers State-Run Media For Ignoring ACORN Scandal (Video)"
(posted 9/16, 2:23 pm)

RWN: "ACORN LOL-Updated: This video is so ridiculously funny, it should be a movie. But it's real. Still, life is funny. And I'd be laughing harder if my taxes weren't paying this woman's salary."
(posted 9/16, 2:19 pm)

RWN: "An Interview With Congressman Joe Wilson"
(posted 9/12, 8:49 am)

Gateway Pundit: "Busted. Van Jones Linked to 9-11 Truther Movement Back in **January 2002**"
(posted 9/4, 12:22 pm)

The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: "Elsewhere, Il Douche Continues to Support Fellow Communist Dictators"
(posted 9/4, 12:16 pm)

AMERICAblog: "This is good news that the administration is finally defending the stimulus package. But unless we get some answers as to why this wasn't done earlier, we risk the White House making the same mistake in the future, and losing control of the message on issue after issue, like we're now seeing with health care. It's time we were told who is advising the president on these matters. Who didn't think it was important to defend the stimulus package until now, seven months after it was passed, when the Republicans were berating it from day one?"
(posted 9/4, 12:14 pm)

Matthew Yglesias: "Welcome to the Jobless Recovery"
(posted 9/4, 12:02 pm)

Daily Kos: "Jobless Queue Lengthens Again. Official Rate Now 9.7%"
(posted 9/4, 12:00 pm)

Pandagon: "Why are progressives so stuck on the public option?"
(posted 9/4, 11:58 am)

Oliver Willis: "You understand that this shows us that the right is even crazier than we thought, right? For all we on the left disliked, heck, hated about George W. Bush, nobody freaked out like this over a pro-education speech (at worst we joked about the irony)."
 (posted 9/4, 11:55 am)

Hot Air: Obama Official: I signed 9/11 Truther paper, but I don't agree with it
(posted 9/4, 11:49 am)

Little Green Footballs: "Hamas: Teaching About the Holocaust is a 'War Crime'"
(posted 9/1, 6:42 am)

Bill Whittle: "The Power & Danger of Iconography: The Resistance Steals Obama's Weapons"
(posted 8/30, 10:30 am)

Baldilocks: "Citizen: 'This used to be America.' Cop: 'Well it ain't no mo', okay?'"
(posted 8/30, 8:40 am)

Pajamas Media: "Morale at CIA Plummets as Panetta Makes a Bad Situation Worse"
(posted 8/25, 3:30 pm)

Cold Fury: "Brace yourselves for gang hacky-sack, giant puppet heads, drum circles, Bush=Hitler signs, and tons of weedy, seedy, smelly America-haters cavorting en masse all over Ground Zero on their 9/11 Celebration of Specialness– with plenty of union goons on hand to deal out the beat-downs to any racist hatemonger who dares to show up waving an American flag."
(posted 8/25, 3:12 pm)

Ace Of Spades: "Obama Administration to Adjust Projected Deficit; $7 Trillion 10-Year-Defict to Become... $9 Trillion From $7 trillion to $9 trillion is a change, you have to admit."
(posted 8/22, 2:05 pm)

Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: "83% state that lawmakers should be forced to go on public option if it stays in the proposal."
(posted 8/22, 2:03 pm)

Think Progress: "In a recent interview with the editorial board of a local Montana paper, Senate Finance Committee chair Max Baucus (D-MT) continued his advocacy for a "bipartisan" approach to health care, arguing that "it's better for the country." Yet, he also admitted that the GOP leadership is putting "intense political pressure" on his committee colleagues Olympia Snowe, Chuck Grassley, and Mike Enzi to defeat any health care bill"
(posted 8/22, 2:00 pm)

The Huffington Post: "The right has risen up with increasing virulence, and its ability to turn out some loud shouters at town hall meetings around the country came in recent days to dominate the media narrative about health care reform. It's far from likely that their angry rejectionism, resonating with ridiculous charges of socialism, communism, fascism, you name the -ism, and tinged in too many places with the familiar -ism of racism, will carry the day, that it represents more than a vocal disaffected fringe, or that it won't boomerang against them, as so much of the right's reaction to candidate and President Obama has. But at the moment it seems to have left a mark, and shifted the story line to 'health care in trouble'."
(posted 8/22, 1:59 pm)

AMERICAblog: "As I've mentioned numerous times, the concerns of the "left of the left" have now gone mainstream. Team Obama can no longer claim that only "fringe" Democrats are concerned about the president's leadership, and worse, his character. We should not be seeing stories, only eight months into Obama's presidency, questioning whether he's "soft." The man won by a hearty margin, he was soaring in the polls just months ago, and now he's down to 50% and dropping."
(posted 8/22, 1:48 pm)

Corrente: "Who knew the NEA was full of racist teabaggers? There couldn't be any other reason to doubt Obama, could there?"
(posted 8/22, 1:46 pm)

Hullabaloo: "I don't think Obama can count on all of his base sticking with him through thick and thin. Watching a Democratic president and a large Democratic majority unwilling to pass decent legislation in the face of the dysfunctional, impotent clownshow that currently calls itself the Republican Party is about the most depressing thing I've seen in all my years observing politics. I can't even imagine how I would feel if I were 20 years younger and a lot less cynical."
(posted 8/22, 1:44 pm)

Matthew Yglesias: "Democrats Losing Faith in Obama, Congressional Democrats (posted 8/22, 1:43 pm)

Daily Kos: "New research in the infant field of paleotempestology finds signs of a spike in tropical cyclones beginning around 1000 AD similar to what we may be experiencing now"
(posted 8/22, 1:40 pm)

Victor Davis Hanson: "Strange things are happening to the Obama administration and quickly so. His polls are diving and may not stop at 50/50, the most precipitous drop in approval of a first-year President since Bill Clinton in 1993 (cf. Hillary care). First, here are some of the problems the President faces:"
(posted 8/22, 1:34 pm)

Pajamas Media: "British Conservatives Tangle Over Their National Health Service"
(posted 8/22, 1:33 pm)

Little Green Footballs: "Scottish officials said they were releasing Lockerbie terrorist Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi for "compassionate reasons." Well, that ... and those Libyan oil contracts"
(posted 8/22, 1:30 pm)

Riehl World View: "ABC: Americans Losing Confidence In Obama"
(posted 8/21, 3:37 pm)

Baldilocks: "Obama: We are God's partners in matters of life and death"
(posted 8/21, 3:33 pm)

Oliver Willis: "PUBLIC OPTION: 77% Support Public Option. What, but Fox… I mean, Rush said… OMG!!"
(posted 8/21, 2:58 pm)

Four Right Wing Wackos: "The American people know that the same people who wanted to pull the tube from Terri Schiavo want to be trusted not to pull the plug on grandma. Which is why they are appropriately skeptical of any hint that Obamacare would leave any power in federal hands to make those decisions."
(posted 8/17, 1:33 pm)

Confederate Yankee: "Obama Administration Distances Itself, From Itself, On Health Care 'Public Option'"
(posted 8/17, 1:32 pm)

Protein Wisdom: "Britain defends NHS … er, Britain's political leaders defend NHS"
(posted 8/17, 1:31 pm)

Little Green Footballs: "Human Rights Watch Author Supported Munich Massacre"
(posted 8/17, 1:30 pm)

InstaPundit: "POLL: 57% DON'T SEE STIMULUS WORKING."
(posted 8/17, 1:29 pm)

Cold Fury: "FLASH: RIGHT-WING EXTREMIST BRUTALLY ASSAULTS GRASSROOTS OBAMACARE SUPPORTER! Uhh, not exactly"
(posted 8/17, 1:26 pm)

Blackfive: "We are about to enter an information battle almost identical to the one we fought about Iraq in 2006 & 2007. The cries then were that Iraq was lost and we should leave as soon as possible. They were echoed and amplified by the media and led to a very pitched argument about whether to reinforce our new counterinsurgency strategy or to cut & run. Thankfully the arguments of Gen. Petraeus and the fortitude of President Bush prevailed and instead of defeat at the hands of al Qaeda and Iranian proxies, we won. Now we face an eerily similar choice in Afghanistan, and the cut & run chorus has begun the siren song that we cannot achieve victory."
(posted 8/17, 1:23 pm)

Ace Of Spades: "WH Retreats from Retreating on Public Option"
(posted 8/17, 1:22 pm)

Doubleplusundead: "I doubt any of what I am about to write is truly original or insightful(not that that's stopped me before), but the recent admissions by key Democrats that the "death panels" and "public option" will be/are dropped from the Health Care Reform Debate brings to mind a few points"
(posted 8/17, 1:19 pm)

Ace Of Spades: "The Beginning Of The End? Leading Senate Democrat Says Public Option Doesn't Have The Votes"
(posted 8/16, 3:56 pm)

Crooks And Liars: "Britons Unite To Defend Their National Health Service"
(posted 8/16, 3:54 pm)

Pajamas Media: "The Iranian Torturers and America's Dishonor"
(posted 8/16, 3:52 pm)

InstaPundit: "RETREAT? White House Appears Ready To Drop "Public Option." I suspect it's a Parthian retreat."
(posted 8/16, 3:50 pm)

Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: "C-SPAN Caller Blasts Media's Coverage of Town Hall Protests"
(posted 8/10, 2:18 pm)

InstaPundit: "BRITISH HEALTH CARE: 'A MUM suffering chest pains died in front of her young son hours after being sent home from hospital and told to take painkillers. Debra Beavers, 39, phoned NHS 24 twice in two days before getting a hospital appointment. But a doctor gave what her family described as a cursory examination lasting 11 minutes, before advising her to buy over-the-counter medicine Ibuprofen'."
(posted 8/10, 11:20 am)

NRO: "Gotta love this "post-racial America": Democrat union heavies can beat up a black guy using racial epithets and leave him in a wheelchair unable to speak — and happily (unlike, say, a black professor being asked for picture ID) it's not "symbolic" of anything at all. Not a Sharpton in sight to speak up for him: Mr. Gladney's only shot at fame is an entry in The Guinness Book of Records under "Least Famous Black Hate-Crime Victim In America."
(posted 8/10, 11:18 am)

Ace Of Spades: "Unemployment, Part II: Rate Goes Down Only Because 300,000 People Exited the Workplace (That Is, Gave Up Looking for Work); "Discouraged Workers" Meme No Longer Operative"
(posted 8/7, 2:38 pm)

Little Green Footballs: "Video: Fights Break Out at Tampa Town Hall"
(posted 8/7, 2:36 pm)

The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: "Obama passing new law to allow searching of PC's, Laptops, and media devices"
(posted 8/7, 2:35 pm)

ALLAHPUNDIT: "Obama: 'I don't want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking'"
(posted 8/7, 2:33 pm)

Talk Left: "On The Stimulus: The Question Is Not Did It Help, But Was It Big Enough?"
(posted 8/7, 2:30 pm)

AMERICAblog: "Wash. Post columnist: Attacks by GOP leaders on heath care reform have been 'misleading' and 'disingenuous' and 'flat-out lies'"
(posted 8/7, 2:29 pm)

The Moderate Voice: "HYPERVENTILATING OVER WORTHLESS POLLS: They're up, they're down, and they're all over the place depending upon who is doing the polling. And sadly they are completely meaningless. They reflect a fickle, highly divided and generally ignorant public that has the attention span of an American Idol Judge."
(posted 8/7, 2:28 pm)

Daily Kos: "The White House did major damage control with Dem Senators yesterday, after the blockbuster report from the NYT that the White House had cut a deal with drug makers to prevent further costs than the $80 billion they had committed to cutting."
(posted 8/7, 2:27 pm)

Atrios: "Job losses not so bad...Though still...losses!"
(posted 8/7, 2:26 pm)

The Huffington Post: "The window is closing on financial and health care reform. These are easily the biggest political tests of Obama's presidency, those that will determine whether his presidency is going to be a success."
(posted 8/7, 2:25 pm)

Crooks And Liars: "Are Republicans and their thugs killing off the Town Hall as a democratic forum?"
(posted 8/7, 2:23 pm)

Oliver Willis: "Eric Cantor Undermines U.S. Foreign Policy On Foreign Soil"
(posted 8/7, 2:20 pm)

ALLAHPUNDIT: "Awesome: Voters laugh out loud at Democrat's promise that ObamaCare will save money"
(posted 8/4, 2:10 pm)

Classical Values: "Rep. Tim Bishop (D) from New York is getting a lot of heat from voters in his district about Global Warming. After a run up starting with the Health Care Bill the Global Warming stuff starts at 3:50 in. A really well informed citizen starts speaking at about 5:00 in. He talks about carbon taxes sending jobs to China."
(posted 8/4, 2:08 pm)

Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: "Democrats are finding their normally tranquil Congressional breaks to be less than so, because we the unwashed masses are simply not leaving them alone and letting those poor hard working Pick Pockets relax and refresh themselves before heading back to Washington to add another wave to the Socialist avalanche they insist is only for our own good.Democrats are finding their normally tranquil Congressional breaks to be less than so, because we the unwashed masses are simply not leaving them alone and letting those poor hard working Pick Pockets relax and refresh themselves before heading back to Washington to add another wave to the Socialist avalanche they insist is only for our own good."(posted 8/4, 2:07 pm)

InstaPundit: "CROWD EXPLODES when Arlen Specter says 'do it fast.'"
(posted 8/4, 2:04 pm)

Michelle Malkin: "Obama-bots are in a tizzy over a silly poster of Dear Leader as The Joker. The BDS-infected Left may have wiped the violent imagery and assassination fascination targeting the president from their memories. I haven't:"
(posted 8/4, 2:02 pm)

Oliver Willis: "When President Obama came to Raleigh to talk health care, the conservatives were ready with their signs, and being conservatives what's a protest sign without a little racism?"
(posted 8/4, 2:00 pm)

Atrios: "No, Democrats aren't going for a government takeover of health care and I'm cautiously optimistic that whatever finally gets passed will be a nontrivial improvement over the status quo. Still, I don't think it's crazy for people to be concerned that whatever comes out of the sausage factory might be worse."
(posted 8/3, 3:16 pm)

Victor Davis Hanson: "I think the natural tendency of the US economy to rebound from recession, coupled with the enormous inflationary forces of borrowing another $2 trillion, will result in some sort of a brief economic recovery. But almost immediately we will be hit with a number of consequences that are now rarely voiced. Likewise the new 'reset' button foreign policy has a similar tab to come due. What to watch for the next year:"
(posted 8/3, 3:12 pm)

Ed Morrissey: "Video: Oregon says no to chemotherapy, offers assisted suicide instead"
 (posted 8/3, 3:09 pm)

ALLAHPUNDIT: "Video: Obama Admits Plan Will Eliminate Private Health Insurance
(posted 8/3, 3:07 pm)

Crooks And Liars: "Geithner Hints Dems Will Move Ahead On Health Care Without Republican Support - If They Must"
(posted 8/3, 3:03 pm)

Michelle Malkin: " Grass-roots revolt in Austin, TX: "Just say no!" to Obamacare; Pennsylvanians boo Sebelius & Specter, "How can you manage health care when you can't manage Cash For Clunkers?""
(posted 8/3, 3:00 pm)



 

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