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Listen to liberal commentators opine about the recently enacted debt ceiling deal, and you might hear a common theme: Republicans took the government hostage. (more)

Was MSNBC’s decision not to make former 6 p.m. host Cenk Uygur’s role at the network permanent a product of the cable outlet’s desire to protect President Barack Obama at all costs? On Sunday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Reliable Sources,” Uygur suggested that was certainly a possibility. (more)

The Rev Al Sharpton is marking the 20th anniversary of his Harlem based organization by teaming up with President Barack Obama and his top officials to grapple with issues affecting black Americans. (more)

President Obama is making his second visit to the city in as many weeks – and is calling upon an unlikely ally to shore up the support of his political base. (more)

Some are now saying that President Obama should get involved in the NFL strike talks, which raises an interesting question: How would Obama handle the NFL strike talks? (more)

The conservative chairman of the black leadership network Project 21, Mychal Massie, did not mince words Monday afternoon as he spoke at the empty chairs of his three would-be sparring partners — Al Sharpton, National Urban League President Marc Morial and former D.C. Congressional Delegate Walter Fauntroy — all of whom had been scheduled to debate him about the alleged racism in the Tea Party. (more)

Conservative Mychal Massie, chairman of the black leadership network Project 21, is calling on liberal African American leaders to back up their charges of racism against the Tea Party. (more)

It’s clear that the civil rights establishment, knee-jerk toward what it perceives to be discrimination, turns a blind eye to intolerance and incivility directed at conservatives — even when the victims are black. (more)

Matt Labash is the author of “Fly fishing with Darth Vader: And Other Adventures with Evangelical Wrestlers, Political Hitmen, and Jewish Cowboys,” now available in paperback. (more)

The Rev. Al Sharpton, who has vowed to clean up his fiscal house, has a new tax lien to pay. (more)

Some have insisted the chance for the renewal of the Fairness Doctrine is a straw man argument perpetrated by conservatives to stir emotions so that they are able to exploit it politically and that this really isn’t a threat from legislators. (more)

Lucky Luciano would be rolling in his grave. Frank Costello would be appalled. Bugsy Siegel would be disgusted. John Gotti would be ready to kill somebody. (more)

Filling in for Joe Scarborough on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Donny Deutsch wondered on Monday if Arizona had seceded from the union because the state refused to recognize Martin Luther King Day, despite the fact that the Grand Canyon State recognized the holiday in 1992. (more)

This is footage Rev. Al Sharpton probably hoped would have been lost over the years. (more)

An upcoming documentary about the late Morton Downey, Jr., the acerbic, chain-smoking talk show host, promises a meditation on the progenitor of trash TV, whose eponymous 1980s program was filmed in Secaucus, New Jersey and whose audience was filled with current and future probationers. (more)

If the left can’t get Rush by reviving the Fairness Doctrine, maybe the race card will work . . . (more)

When I first became involved as an attorney and public advocate for the for-profit career colleges who are the target of the Department of Education’s “gainful employment” (GE) regulations, I believed — as a liberal Democrat — that there was a basis for reasonable regulation of excessive student debt and abuses. (more)

Embattled Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Michael Steele has often turned to the subject of race in his nearly two-year tenure. (more)

As I wrote on September 23 in this space, here, the Department of Education’s (DOE) attempt to put more stringent regulations on for-profit colleges is an example of good intentions gone awry. Rather than expanding college opportunities and fighting fraud, the proposed new “gainful employment” (“GE”) rules would instead limit college access (especially for minority students), raise taxpayer costs, and create new obstacles for employers eager to hire qualified workers. (more)

The nation’s biggest, richest and most powerful labor unions spent months organizing the “One Nation Working Together” rally at the Lincoln Memorial Saturday. With midterm elections approaching, they hoped to put on a show of political strength to energize struggling Democratic candidates. But even after giving it everything they had, they still weren’t able to draw as many people as Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally in August. Why not? (more)