Take advantage of Cyber Monday with a few handy iOS apps (Appolicious)

Cyber Monday, the biggest online shopping day of the year, is currently upon us.

But don?t panic! Unlike Black Friday, just because you weren?t up at 4 a.m. waiting in line at the local Wal-Mart doesn?t mean you?ve missed out on all the best deals. With Cyber Monday, all you need is an Internet connection and a few seconds and you can take advantage of some deals.

And with an iPhone or an iPad, things are even easier. There are a number of great iOS apps that can help you capitalize on the Internet?s giant blow-out sale that?s running for the rest of the day. Just be aware, as PCWorld reports, that iPad shoppers tend to buy items twice as often as users shopping on computers or Android devices.

Start with Amazon

The biggest retailer on the Internet is offering lots of its Lightning Deals all day today, and has been running them all weekend. Deals span all categories and hundreds of items, but they?re all time-sensitive. This means you need to be paying attention, or you could miss the opportunity to purchase and end up on a dreaded ?wait list.?

Fortunately, Amazon has an app just dedicated to its Lightning Deals. Aptly named Amazon Deals, it allows you to tie into your Amazon account, scan through all the Lightning Deals going on during Cyber Monday?s madness, and make purchases with as little as one click. Even though the deals are all only on for a limited time, Amazon Deals keeps you tied in no matter where you are or what you?re doing. Perfect for a little impulse-buying.

You can also find handy deals through services such as eBay and get in on big sales through primary apps for big online retailers. Best Buy?s app will tie you into its Cyber Monday sales, as will apps like Buy.com. If you have a favorite retailer, search iTunes for their native mobile app ? chances are good you?ll find great ways to save thanks to them.

Hit Up Google

There?s also the good ol? fashioned way of finding Cyber Monday deals: a Google search.

Grab the Google Search app and a quick ?Cyber Monday? search can put you on to all kinds of new deals, even if you?re out riding the bus or waiting in line at the bank. You can also use a search to find Cyber Monday ads, which can make it easy to find deals from retailers you might not expect, like Target, Sears and Wal-Mart ? all of which also have online deals but aren?t really known as online retailers.

And then there are a few more dedicated apps that can help you find deals a little more close to home. PriceGrabber allows you to comparison shop among several different sites and deals, and Shopping by The Find lets you see local inventory at stores near you, in case you need to brave a brick-and-mortar location to pick up your products (Best Buy, for example, does a lot of in-store pickup).

The best way to go about getting best prices on Cyber Monday, though, is just to be persistent. Use all the tools available to you, ranging from retailers? apps to searches and even just word of mouth from friends and co-workers. You?ve got the rest of the day to capitalize on deals, so act fast and keep checking!

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The return of Van Jones (Politico)

As an unabashed and high-profile liberal on President Barack Obama?s White House staff, former ?green energy? czar Van Jones was to Republicans what a red cape is to a snorting bull: an irresistible target.

So when he resigned in 2009 under withering fire from the right ? triggered by a video of him disparaging the GOP, followed by revelations of a tenuous connection to Sept. 11 conspiracy theorists ? few doubted Jones was finished in Washington. He acknowledged as much a year later, writing in The New York Times that politics has become ?a combination of speed chess and Mortal Kombat: one wrong move can mean political death.?

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What a difference two years can make.

While still a high-value target for conservatives, the charismatic Jones has rebounded from his messy departure to become a superstar of the resurgent left, founding ? with MoveOn.org ? the American Dream Movement, a grass-roots political force modeled after the tea party. His issue is no longer just green jobs, but to push back against the right?s domination of economic policy and social issues that he dates to the 2010 election.

?I thought progressives were too quick to go from hopey to mopey? during the past two years, Jones told POLITICO in a recent interview. ?They skipped the fight in the middle.?

The tea party, he said, impressed him by ?the way they were able to gather so many organizations and individuals under an open-source brand. There just wasn?t a voice on the economy for progressives and moderates that was coherent and passionate like them. I thought that was really fascinating, so I studied them.?

Jones helped organize a September summit, ?Take Back the American Dream,? drawing more than 200 progressive organizations, and worked with groups in Ohio to defeat a bill which would have tightly restricted unions? collective-bargaining power. And the themes of jobs and economic equality pushed by ?Rebuild the Dream? ? as the umbrella organization is known ? dovetail with the economic message of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

To his supporters, Jones?s combative stance personifies the uncompromising liberal they wish Obama would be. But Jones credits the vocal right and the relative inaction of liberals more than he blames Obama for the predicament in which the left finds itself.

?I?m not mad at the tea party for being so loud,? he said. ?I?m mad at the progressives for being so quiet the past couple of years and not having that fire and that intensity at the grass-roots level to give both parties something to respond to that?s not just cut, cut, cut.

?You hear people talking about a disappointment [in Obama] and this kind of thing. I?m still of the view it was never, ?Yes, he can.? It?s supposed to be, ?Yes, we can.? And the ?we? was not evident in a couple of those years.?

But with issues ranging from Code Pink?s end-the-war stance to Planned Parenthood?s fight to protect Roe v. Wade and labor?s battles for preservation of its rights, unifying the left is a tall order. And until recently, ?Rebuild the Dream? seemed to be gaining little traction. Jones? summit drew a few thousand participants and scant media attention, and only a few hundred of them attended a ?Jobs, Not Cuts? rally on Capitol Hill.

Allies, however, insist Jones?s message is resonating with frustrated liberals and that the Occupy Wall Street movement presents him with an opportunity to elevate his message.

?We?re tired of people rigging the game. That?s the message of this movement,? Jones said in an interview on MSNBC, commenting on OWS?s ?day of action? that it now ?it?s time to turn the anger into answers.?

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Gingrich coup: Endorsement from NH's largest paper (The Arizona Republic)

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