DG. I would suggest to try turning off your tv and going freepnews for a week. Lots of news and commentary, youtube links are right here. Dive in.
I really like sunkenciv’s GGG ping list. Pinging him as a courtesy.
I haven’t joined the “cut the cord” group just yet.
I still enjoy some TV.
GGG is history/archaeology. For mostly political / current news topics, probably this is best:
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/*/index?tab=articles
FReepers remain the best aggregators on the web. For a taste of ‘Civ, try this:
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:sunkenciv/index?tab=comments;brevity=full;options=no-change