JULY 22ND, 2011

Several People Reportedly Dead After Explosion in Downtown Oslo, Attack on Children's Summer Camp
By AlterNet Staff
Cruel and Unusual: In Sweltering Heat, Chicago Hyatt Turns Heat Lamps on Picketing Workers
By Laura Clawson | Daily Kos
TSA "Porno-Scanners" Will No Longer Show You Naked
By Lauren Kelley | AlterNet
Jon Stewart: Congresswomen Tell Sexist Allen West That "As Women, He Can Suck Their &#!@"
By Lauren Kelley | AlterNet
Heat Wave Madness: Right-Wingers Call it a Liberal Conspiracy, States Cut Programs That Help People Keep the AC On
By Joe Romm | ThinkProgress
At Last, Rick Santorum Gets Publicly Angry About Being "Google-Bombed" by Dan Savage
By Lauren Kelley | AlterNet
In Debt Talks, Obama's Only Won Half the Battle -- And It's the Half That Doesn't Matter As Much
By Steve Benen | Washington Monthly
What To Do If Social Security Checks Are Stopped
By Steven D | Booman Tribune
Has California’s Prison Hunger Strike Really Ended?
By Jamilah King | ColorLines
Will the Obama Administration Prosecute Murdoch?
By Adele M. Stan | AlterNet
Gay ‘Barbarians’ Descend on Bachmann Clinic, Demanding to be "Disciplined"
By Zack Ford | ThinkProgress
Ralph Reed's Anti-Union Wisconsin Gambit
By Adele M. Stan | AlterNet

_PROGRESSIVE WIRE
Gay Ghanaians Face Possible Expulsion
By Rose Afriyie | The Loop 21
Vargas loses his driver’s license, increasing risk of his deportation
By Nicolas Mendoza | Washington Independent
US execution filmed for first time in 20 years
By Agence France Presse
Somalis Stream Into Kenya, Fleeing Famine
By NPR Online
NH GOP Politician to Unions: 'Better Not F#%k with Me,' or I'll Shoot
By Andy Kroll | Mother Jones Online
_BEST OF THE WEEK
1. Why the Wealthiest Americans Are the Real 'Job-Killers'
By Joshua Holland | AlterNet
2. The Scary Religious Ideology Behind Michele Bachmann's Anti-Gay Crusade
By Adele M. Stan | AlterNet
3. 7 Winning Issues for Democrats (If They Only Had the Guts to Fight)
By Sarah Jaffe | AlterNet
4. The Real Reason Big Macs Are Cheaper Than More Nutritious Alternatives
By David Sirota | Salon
5. The Alarming Revival of Ayn Rand: The Right's Weirdest Idol of Them All
By Hal Crowther | Progressive Populist
6. Would We Be Better Off If John McCain Were President?
By Fred Branfman | AlterNet
7. 6 Secrets About Men's Sexual Needs and Desires
By Scott Alden | How About We