Maybe it's because I am just a couple of weeks shy of my 60th birthday, but this song resonates with me in a way it simply did not do when I was 20 or 30 or even 40.

Newt Gingrich's campaign is threatening to sue South Carolina and Florida television stations that air an ad by a pro-Romney super-PAC claiming Gingrich was "fined" $300,000 for ethics violations during the 1990s.

Gingrich campaign attorney Stefan Passantino called the commercial "a defamatory communication which exposes this station to potential civil liability" in a letter sent to television stations, NBC Politics reports.

Passantino goes on to demand that stations refuse and cease airing the advertisements.

I think we all know this is not going to happen.
what I would guess this is, considering the hand wringing in some republican circles about his attacks on Mitt, is so he can use Mitts ads as justification for airing his own.

go Newt

It's blowing up all over "the internet".

Any fears that TL might get shutdown?

At 3:29 seconds, Mr. Messina proudly announces that the money raised for both the re-election and Democrat National Committee was raised "globally".  This violates election laws which restrict campaign contributions from outside the United States

Link

Here's one that covers the 2008 election.

"Conservatives continue to make up the largest segment of political views in the country, outnumbering liberals nearly two-to-one, according to a new poll Thursday. The Gallup survey found that 40 percent of Americans consider themselves conservative; 35 percent consider themselves moderate; and 21 percent see themselves as liberal. The figures did not change from 2010."

Marc Rich (born December 18, 1934) is an international commodities trader and entrepreneur.[1] He is best known for founding the commodities company Glencore. He was indicted in the United States on federal charges of illegally making oil deals with Iran during the late 1970s-early 1980s Iran hostage crisis and tax evasion. He was in Switzerland at the time of the indictment and has never returned to the U.S.

He subsequently received a presidential pardon from U.S. President Bill Clinton on January 20, 2001, Clinton's last day in office.

Though disclosing it would probably ruin (what's left of) my pristine reputation here.  Mighty controversial left field source, well outside of the mainstream, the stuff of which angry mobs are formed.

I got a kick out of that! 99% of my friends are artists, art historians, theorists, curators, gallererists/dealers etc, so I know about guarding one's reputation! It takes work. Good luck!

I really enjoyed your comment about the peace symbol and googled it and visited some out of main stream sites myself. I was really surprised to learn of how the symbol was constructed using flag semaphore language. That seems like a really bad idea. For one thing it is not a common language - it is a learned visual alphabet and not a common one at that. The resulting image, however, DOES read in the common visual language. I thought of two references right away. 1) (the earlier) an upside down crucifixion (St Peter) and 2) the "Hanged Man" from the later Tarot. Maybe even Leonardo's "Vitruvian Man" inverted. In all cases the human figure is upside down. Hardly an image for "Peace" as we think of it now.