“Lost in the back and forth between the Obama and Romney campaigns over who’s the real Medicare cutter is a critical difference between visions: President Obama’s plan is to make the program solvent by reducing payments to health care providers, while Rep. Paul Ryan achieves his savings by transforming Medicare …

Will President Obama choose Erskine Bowles to be Treasury Secretary if he wins a second term, despite the fact that Bowles adores the ‘amazing’ budget slasher Paul Ryan? The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur explains. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/08/10/will-erskine-bowles-be-our-next-treasury-secretary/ Support The Young Turks by Subscribing http://bit.ly/TYTonYouTube Like Us on Facebook: Follow Us on …

“Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has made a name for himself as a birther and an immigration hardliner. A new ad from his Democratic opponent, Paul Penzone, goes at him for something else: his office’s mishandling of 400 sex crimes…”.* Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss on The Young Turks. …

“Mary Gonzalez broke barriers when she became her state’s only openly lesbian lawmaker when she was elected to the Texas House of Representatives. Now, however, Gonzalez is going even further, telling the Dallas Voice that she instead identifies herself as “pansexual.” As ThinkProgress notes, Gonzalez’s admission makes her perhaps the …

Few people in this world know there is a dark, dark side to Ellis Hamburger. What began as any other pre-taping rehearsal soon took a bleak turn. As with any of the prep work we do, host and writer lock themselves in a sound proof room and go through the …

Today I made Adventure Time cupcakes! I really enjoy making nerdy themed goodies and decorating them. I’m not a pro, but I love baking as a hobby. Please let me know what kind of treat you would like me to make next! Order The Nerdy Nummies Cookbook here: http://www.nerdynummiescookbook.com FOLLOW …

As the World Cup Qualifiers draw near, USA faces Mexico in a friendly match. The match will be at Estadio Azteca where the U.S. has never beaten Mexico. Ryan Rosenblatt of SB Nation Soccer previews the game and offers up his analysis on whether the US will snap its 23 …

“Emails obtained via a hack of intelligence agency Stratfor have shed light on a secret, comprehensive U.S. surveillance effort led by Virginia-based TrapWire. The details were released by whistleblower site Wikileaks, but an ongoing distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against Wikileaks.org has made it difficult to access the TrapWire …

“The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand .” That’s freshly minted GOP vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan talking — statements he would eventually recant — at a party celebrating what would have been …

“George R.R. Martin, author of “A Game of Thrones”, has slammed “Republicans and their Teabagger allies” in so-called swing states for what he calls “voter suppression.” In a recent blogpost on Martin’s website, he refers to recent voter purges in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida, Iowa, saying that “The people behind these …