Interesting article on NPR: 

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Over at the ACS blog, a post that summarizes the "Yoo memo" that has surfaced most recently:

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Signaling increased cooperation amongst low-wage workers, cleaners from five U.S. cities traveled to Indianapolis to pledge support for Indianapolis janitors who are fighting at the bargaining table for the good jobs with health care that Indianapolis needs.

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In response to several of you who asserted that these were, in fact, progressive values, I've added the following categories:

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TPM is reporting on a new InsiderAdvantage poll of Pennsylvania showing this primary down to a dead heat: Clinton 45%, Obama 43%. The poll gives some measure of corroboration to yesterday's Public Policy Polling (D) survey, which put Obama nominally ahead by two. From the internals: Clinton leads only 49%-40% among whites, while Obama is ahead 56%-29% with black voters.

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The airlines are clearly struggling. House members are trying to figure out how Southwest Airlines could have for so long violated safety rules and how the FAA, the agency responsible for oversight, could have missed these safety violations.

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There's one living Democratic former President (which also makes him a Superdelegate) left who has not yet voiced his support for one candidate or another. While in Nigeria, President Jimmy Carter said this in a newspaper interview:

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