Health care...jobs...the economy. These are the issues that you and other Working America members have told us you care most about. We're always looking for ways to take action with you on those issues, and one of the most important elements of taking action is having information you can trust, information from someone who's on your side. You can't know how to change things without knowing what's going on.

That's why we'd like to introduce you to our new Main Street blog. It's a source of information on the issues you care about-not just health care and jobs but education, the mortgage crisis and retirement too-and coming from Working America, you know that that the focus will always be on what will benefit working families. We won't waste time crying that a Wall Street millionaire might have to sell his third vacation home.

Instead, we'll put the challenges working families face into the context of the broader economy. The Main Street blog is where working people come to learn and talk about "the economy," which isn't distant or abstract, but something we all deal with every single day, at work or in the search for work, in the aisles of the grocery store, and at the kitchen table.

Forty-nine states have had two votes in the Senate for months. How much longer will Minnesota have to wait for its second Senate vote?

Minnesota's recount process has examined every vote and given all parties a chance to be heard—61 percent of Minnesotans think the recount has been "fair, impartial and accurate." Yet we still are waiting to have a second senator to represent the interests of our citizens.

Sign the petition urging Gov. Tim Pawlenty and Secretary of State Mark Ritchie to certify the election and give Minnesota its full Senate representation as soon as the Supreme Court rules on the recount!

SIGN THE PETITION!

Unemployment at 8.5 percent. Record new unemployment claims. Hardworking families are struggling to get by. That's where the Unemployment LifeLine comes in. It's a one-stop guide to the resources in their area. Check it out

I don't want to go to your poorly designed, ad ridden, ajax ruined websites. I want to read your news by RSS. I want to READ your news via rss, not just read the title and the first sentence.

I'm sure you do this to try and force us back to your site so you can bombard us with ads. Let me explain something to you. I, like most smart internet users, use AdBlock, so I never see your annoying ads. Second I'll use a different news source's RSS if you keep your crappy format.

See I don't need you anymore. Information is no longer in the strangle hold of the MSM. There are 1000's of news sources who will filter out your corporatist crap and present me only what I want in my news, information!

See I don't support you because, well honestly I think you suck and have long out lasted your usefulness.

In other words, change or be chastised.

I recall the story of the philosopher and the theologian. The two were engaged in disputation and the theologian used the old quip about a philosopher being like a blind man, in a dark room, looking for a black cat—which wasn't there. "That may be," said the philosopher; "but a theologian would have found it."

—Julian Huxley

via Lost and Found

This is old news but I've never written about it.

A few months ago Pete Stark "came out of the closet" as an nontheist. He is a Democratic Representative from California's 13th.

From Wikipedia:

Stark is the first openly nontheistic member of Congress, as announced by the Secular Coalition for America.[1] Stark, who has represented San Francisco's East Bay since 1973, acknowledged his nontheism in response to an SCA questionnaire sent to public officials in January 2007. In a statement, Stark said he is a "Unitarian who does not believe in a supreme being. I look forward to working with the Secular Coalition to stop the promotion of narrow religious beliefs in science, marriage contracts, the military and the provision of social service."

I'm not one to think we should impeach people lightly, or for political reasons, but this is clearly an instance where it is necessary. He has really messed up, and clearly broken the law.

Sign the petition to impeach Gonzales.