A news source for political newbies?

Or, on that note, people that can't tolerate the stuffy politics I get when I turn on CNN?  I'm not talking Daily Show-material, just something a little less dry than the "serious" sources.  The activity in Israel has gotten me interested in world politics, and I'd like to find a source that I would find interesting.  I don't know enough about political history to follow the professionals, etc. 

Not even necessarily "funny" sites, I would prefer it to be  serious, but something that is easy to understand to someone that isn't a longtime political follower would be nice for a change.  Anyone have any reccommendations?

www.factcheck.org (useful for realizing how poor America's political climate is)
www.c2ore.com (It has a few preachy moments, but it is an example of how deep and dirty history goes)
http://home.att.net/~mwhodges/debt_a.htm (This is a great study of how the most unfair and miserable situations caused by capitalism causes an even worse countereffect of socialism. Crazy.)
http://discuss.agonist.org/smf/index.php?PHPSESSID=dd7e999f5f77e515343e2185e925e8c0&topic=9288.0
(Nobody likes statistics, but we need them.)
http://coxandforkum.com/ (Editorial cartoons. They aren't always honorable or right, but they have a vey high accuracy level.)
http://discuss.agonist.org/ (Forums. The people in them are pretty hardcore on objectivity and making sense. A mature political forum.)

http://debka.com/ primary source of all israel related news.

the following can also be fun, but don't take them too seriously
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/
http://westernresistance.com/
http://michellemalkin.com/

whatever you do avoid taking sites like dailykos and indymedia seriously. they foster a retarded victim culture. read it and understand what they are, then move on

>>3 I just can't help but jerk my knees at Malkin... Shame on such a hot bit of human.
http://www.mises.org/ What all them kuh-raisee libertarians are about. They make sense most of the time.

>>1  Here's a bunch for you: 

http://www.lewrockwell.com/

http://www.self-gov.org/

http://www.lp.org/

http://www.nra-ila.org/

http://www.aclu.org/

http://www.gunowners.org/

http://www.jpfo.org/

http://www.vote-smart.org/index.htm

http://www.ontheissues.org/default.htm

http://www.constitution.org/

http://www.rlc.org/

http://www.cato.org/

http://www.counterpunch.com/

>>http://www.barnesandnoble.com/bookstore.asp?z=y

Your political party's much-lauded survery is shit.

hey guys lets phrase some tough issues the right way oh look everyone's a clost libertarian

>>http://michellemalkin.com/

fucking hell that chick's a shitty writer.

>>7 Populist fool, that one. The truth can't be found in books with titles such as "Bushwhacked", "Unhinged" or "Republicans are not good; How lalalala and lolololo hijacked x and raped America up the ass." It is found in old, non-partisan books with lots of stats, names, cross-referencing and boring stuff.

Wowww, amazing response.  You guys rock :D

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