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During Monday’s transmission of MSNBC‘s “The Beat With Ari Melber,” the host touched on last week’s Alex Jones Sandy Hook lawsuit verdict that resulted in a jury issuing a $50 million fine against the Infowars founder. Melber’s segment explained the precedent set by the Jones trial will now be used to take out other media personalities and outlets countering establishment narratives, which will be a death blow to the First Amendment. “This is actually a larger warning for other liars and conspiracy theorists in our society and our politics,” the MSNBC host said. “It’s a rebuke and a punishment that...

Ed Rollins, former campaign manager and current "informal adviser" to Rep. Michele Bachmann, told MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell moments ago that Bachmann doesn't have the "ability or the resources" to go beyond Iowa. Rollins stopped working for the campaign day-to-day earlier this month in a staff shakeup, and criticized her comments on the HPV vaccine last week. Rollins said Texas Gov. Rick Perry's entrance into the race undercut her campaign, and that she was unprepared for the national stage running as a congresswoman.

I didn't see a thread- it's live now on C-Span 3. Geithner isn't appearing, Frank has said "we" should bring a lawsuit against AIG.

Amid anguished cries, lawmakers make some tough choices while ducking others - California's Legislature has done such a fine job of creating diminished expectations that the emergency budget cuts it approved Friday actually resembled responsible governance.Lawmakers had to act. If they hadn't, the state was in danger of running out of money in this fiscal year. Thus the Assembly and Senate approved $1 billion in spending cuts and payment deferrals to ensure the state remained solvent through July.There was great gnashing of teeth in the Senate Friday as lawmakers mulled the options. Some Republicans sounded like Democrats, decrying cuts to...

IBM dismisses OpenOffice as child's play By Ashlee Vance in Chicago Posted: Ashlee Vance at 02:26 GMT IBM claims to have put more than $1 billion behind open source software, but the company is failing to pay even a modest amount of lip service to one of free software's most needed products. Karen Smith, vice president of Linux strategy and market development at IBM, has been telling a number of publications that no open source equivalent of Microsoft Office exists. Lest you think Smith has been living in a cave, rest easy. She does appear to be acquainted with OpenOffice...