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  • Campaign fatigue.

    Number of comments: 8
    I have campaign fatigue.  I have been bludgeoned by the 24/7 news cycle that fills the air with nonsense, speculation and misinformation.  Chris Matthews is a fool and Olbermann a spittle laden blowhard.   There is so little left to ponder about politics that I am close to shutting Rachel Maddow, the smartest [...]
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    Posted: October 28, 2008, 7:20am EDT
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  • Endorsing Obama

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    The New York Times editorial page endorses Barack Obama.  The Times support for Obama follows many similar endorsements at newspapers across the country.  But all the ringing endorsements mean little since we do not have a national election or popular vote in this country; rather we have a state by state election.  We cannot [...]
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    Posted: October 24, 2008, 7:24am EDT
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  • Ten Questions to ask Sarah Palin.

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    Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s personal finances, and those of the city and state that she has run, have received little scrutiny from reporters, writes David Cay Johnston.  Obvious issues have not been examined, including two items on her 2006 and 2007 tax returns that suggest the Palins cheated [...]
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    Posted: October 23, 2008, 2:12pm EDT
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  • Direct Democracy or Sheer Chaos?

    Number of comments: 4
    Voters in Connecticut are being asked to call a constitutional convention with the intent of bringing “direct democracy” to that state.  In this instance, “direct democracy” means initiatives and referendums.  Some call it “sheer chaos.” In fact, Rick Green, a columnist for the Hartford Courant, views this so-called move for “direct democracy” [...]
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    Posted: October 23, 2008, 6:58am EDT
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  • SARAH!

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    We travelled home this morning from the Navajo National Monument to Santa Fe to end our three week camping trip that took us from Santa Fe to Santa Barbara, CA and Morro Bay, CA and back through Las Vegas and then east through Indian Country.  We ignored news and politics for the [...]
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    Posted: October 21, 2008, 7:08pm EDT
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  • Establishment Terrorists

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    Here I am in Barstow, California on my way to Santa Barbara.  We drove six hours today, from Flagstaff through the fierce winds and heat of the Mohave Desert and ended up here in Barstow at a KOA with wifi.  I had not been in touch with the outside world [...]
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    Posted: October 05, 2008, 6:14am EDT
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  • New Mexico First!

    This November, New Mexico will send three new members of Congress to Washington. What do you want to know about the candidates? What issues should they address?  What are you - as New Mexicans - most concerned about before you go to the polls?       Ask Congressional Candidates YOUR Questions…       New Mexico First [...]
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    Posted: October 01, 2008, 7:43am EDT
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  • Shotgun wedding coming up.

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    Apparently the McCain campaign is pushing for a shotgun wedding to take the heat off of his failing campaign.  Bristol Palin, the pregnant and unmarried daughter of  Republican Vice Presidential nominee and religious fundamentalist (sorry for the redundancy), Sarah Palin, will be married to the father of her baby before [...]
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    Posted: September 30, 2008, 4:41pm EDT
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  • Does John McCain nap?

    Number of comments: 3
    John McCain, at 72 years of age, is elderly.  A poster here wonders if McCain naps.  Most elderly do take  naps during the day.   These are either planned naps or the elder doses during conversations.  These are called cat naps. We don’t know if the Republican nominee for President, John McCain, [...]
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    Posted: September 30, 2008, 4:30pm EDT
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  • What if McCain has picked …

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    What if McCain had picked a female vice presidential nominee with stature, intellect, dignity, depth of experience, and class.  He  chose not to do that.  McCain chose Sarah Palin. In picking Sarah Palin, John McCain bypassed Republican women such as Olympia Snow who have all the above qualities and because of [...]
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    Posted: September 29, 2008, 5:19pm EDT
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  • The surge is over. What next, McCain?

    Number of comments: 3
    Biden knows his stuff.   Posted in politics   Tagged: Bush Doctrine, Election 2008, Joe Biden, John McCain, the surge, War in Iraq    [...]
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    Posted: September 27, 2008, 9:08am EDT
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  • McCain the captive.

    Number of comments: 7
    Last night’s debate moderator, Jim Lehr, was like a therapist trying to get the warring couple on the couch to talk to one another.  In the first minutes of last night’s debate Lehr prodded the couple before him to talk to one another, look at one another. Barack Obama was at ease looking [...]
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    Posted: September 27, 2008, 6:12am EDT
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  • She’s a disaster. Time for Palin to go.

    Number of comments: 10
    Ed Schultz is reporting his sources within the Republican establishment as saying that Sarah Palin (Hockey Mom-Alaska) is “clueless.” Schultz is a former Republican who couldn’t stand the hypocrisy of his party any longer and is now one of its biggest critics.  So, conservatives will blow him off on his contention that his [...]
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    Posted: September 26, 2008, 4:42pm EDT
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  • Over her head.

    All the cramming and she still doesn’t get it.  Gov. Sarah Palin (Pitbull-Alaska) will tell Katie Couric on CBS News tonight that we should not “retreat” from Iraq.    So, again, I believe that… a surge in Afghanistan also will lead us to victory there as it has proven to have done in Iraq.   [...]
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    Posted: September 25, 2008, 1:19pm EDT
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  • “wooo hooo witchy woman, see how high she flies …”

    Number of comments: 7
    Max Blumenthal writes about Sarah Palin (Pitbull-Alaska) and the church she belonged to, the Wasilla Assembly of God.  The video above shows Palin being prayed over by Pastor Muthee, an African preacher who takes pride in identifying witches in Kenya and driving Satan out of them or having them killed.  From this [...]
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    Posted: September 25, 2008, 6:59am EDT
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  • McCain and Bush to the “rescue.”

    Number of comments: 2
    As he suspended his campaign to rush off to Washington to save us all from the economic collapse he had a hand in,  Senator McCain blows off  Letterman but agrees to an interview by Couric.  Appearing on Letterman would be unseemly in a time of crisis.  Perhaps they would laugh about something.  [...]
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    Posted: September 25, 2008, 6:39am EDT
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  • McCain bails out.

    Number of comments: 9
    Ok, then let Sarah Palin and Joe Biden debate this Friday night.  Surely she is ready for prime time?  Right? Posted in politics   Tagged: Election 2008, Joe Biden, John McCain, political posturing, Sarah Palin    [...]
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    Posted: September 24, 2008, 4:43pm EDT
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  • Creationism: your questions answered.

    Film critic, Roger Ebert, asks the questions and answers them. Posted in politics, Religion   Tagged: Creationism, Election 2008, right wing fundamentalism, Sarah Palin    [...]
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    Posted: September 24, 2008, 6:22am EDT
    by katestone

  • Sweet deals: convicted felons and mortgage fraud.

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    The Miami Herald has done an intensive investigation into the mortgage melt down in Florida where state regulators allowed up to 3000 convicted felons to close deals with unsuspecting new home owners. Posted in politics   Tagged: business, Election 2008, financial crisis, Florida, investigative reporting, mortgage fraud, real estate    [...]
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    Posted: September 24, 2008, 5:25am EDT
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  • Obama waffles on civil rights for homosexuals.

    Number of comments: 8
    Focusing on the bitter.  The Christian Broadcasting Network is reporting that the Obama campaign next week will kick off “Barack Obama: Faith, Family, and Values Tour,” designed to woo the votes of left-leaning Catholics, progressive Evangelicals, and some conservative mainline Protestants. Homosexuals may be reminded of the South Carolina gospel tour the [...]
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    Posted: September 22, 2008, 2:04pm EDT
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  • John McCain and Sarah Palin are anti-homosexual.

    Number of comments: 9
    On Friday,  Mike Rogers of BlogActive presented Mark Buse with the Roy Cohn Award.  Mark Buse is John McCain’s chief of staff and has been a close and loyal friend of the McCain family for twenty years.  Buse is a homosexual.  Rogers has been presenting Roy Cohn Awards to homosexuals who [...]
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    Posted: September 22, 2008, 1:28pm EDT
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  • Ratcheting up the racism. Blaming Clinton and multiculturism for the economy.

    Number of comments: 4
    The Republicans are blaming Clinton for the financial meltdown.   The Republicans would have us believe that Clinton transpired to have mortgage brokers force W-2s and give minorities bad mortgage loans to bring down the economy.  Newscasters are so stupid they mouth Republican talking points faxed to them each morning.  One lie [...]
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    Posted: September 19, 2008, 5:15pm EDT
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  • McCain. War hero?

    Number of comments: 5
    Sydney Schanberg takes a look. Posted in politics   Tagged: Election 2008, John McCain, POWs, Vietnam, war hero    [...]
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    Posted: September 19, 2008, 2:21pm EDT
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  • Viva Obama! NM will go blue.

    Daily Kos is reporting that this week’s SurveyUSA poll shows Obama up in New Mexico and a lot of that has to do with the support he has among Latino voters here — 41 percent more than McCain. A commenter on Daily Kos reminded us of the support of Obama among Latinos with this [...]
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    Posted: September 18, 2008, 12:38pm EDT
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  • Palin Peaks.

    Number of comments: 6
    Sen. John McCain is taking his apprentice, Sarah Palin, to New York today to meet heads of state in the hope that this will give her solid foreign policy experience.   We know that McCain’s foreign policy experience has been greatly deepened from Arizona’s proximity to Mexico.  Oh, and he spent five years [...]
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    Posted: September 18, 2008, 6:37am EDT
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  • Bob Barr and Ron Paul.

    Number of comments: 4
    Former Republican Congressman, Bob Barr of Georgia, is running as the Libertarian candidate for President.  Yesterday, a judge in Pennsylvania ruled that Barr should be on the ballot in that state.  The addition of Pennsylvania to the Libertarian column puts Barr on most state ballots.  Last week Barr asked Republican Congressman, Ron [...]
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    Posted: September 17, 2008, 12:21pm EDT
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  • Manji and Ali.

    Irshad Manji and Ayaan Hirsi Ali are going to speaking on October 9 at the Lensic in Santa Fe.  I urge all my readers to go to this event. I have heard Manji twice.  She is a knowledgeable, energetic, and bold speaker.  Believe me, you will not fiddle with your watch [...]
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    Posted: September 17, 2008, 11:51am EDT
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  • Palin name generator.

    Number of comments: 3
    All those babies.  All those names.  Trig, Willow, Track, whatever.  Now you can find out what Palin would name you. I would be Flex Gunship Palin.  I would go by F. Gunship Palin.  it speaks to my steely side. [...]
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    Posted: September 15, 2008, 3:16pm EDT
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  • McCain without Palin.

    Number of comments: 4
    Today. [...]
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    Posted: September 15, 2008, 2:41pm EDT
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  • Setting the record straight.

    The Daily Howler reminds of us how the press wrote about one woman, Hillary Clinton, and how the press views Sarah Palin. [...]
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    Posted: September 15, 2008, 2:32pm EDT
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  • Tying McCain to Bush doesn’t work.

    Number of comments: 10
    We don’t hear many White House daily briefings nowadays, do we?  Oh, Dana Perino came on the other day and implied that Osama Bin Laden wasn’t as smart as George W. Bush told us he was.    Apparently, Mr. Bush caught the real mastermind behind 9/11, Sheik Khalid Muhammad and brought him [...]
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    Posted: September 15, 2008, 12:05pm EDT
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  • Crooked Talk Express.

    Number of comments: 4
    Americablog sums it up. [...]
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    Posted: September 15, 2008, 6:01am EDT
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  • Clinton-Palin Press Conference

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    Posted: September 14, 2008, 6:27am EDT
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  • This little piggy …

    Number of comments: 3
    Just a sample of McCain’s pork for Arizona: In 2006, John McCain teamed up with fellow Arizona senator Jon Kyl (R) to funnel $10 million toward the University of Arizona for an academic center named after the late Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist. Even Arizona lawmaker, Rep. Jeff Flake (R), said [...]
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    Posted: September 13, 2008, 7:54am EDT
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  • George W. Bush puts lipstick on 9/11.

    Number of comments: 6
    When the first plane hit, three quarters of a mile south of me,  I had just stepped into my office on Broadway.   I was late for a board meeting and rushed in to take my seat.  Five minutes later a secretary came in and told us  that a plane had hit the WTC.  [...]
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    Posted: September 11, 2008, 1:07pm EDT
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  • How McCain will win.

    Number of comments: 5
    John McCain will be helped to win the general election by a compliant media, the 24/7 news cycle, shabby reporting, sloppy editing, and a voting public that sees the electoral process as a blood sport: The Daily Howler County Fair Neiman Watchdog Election fraud mismanagement [...]
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    Posted: September 11, 2008, 7:05am EDT
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  • About that luxury jet …

    Number of comments: 10
    The corporate media has been cowed into submission by the McCain campaign.  After being called sexists and not showing enough “deference” to the Republican vice presidential nominee the corporate media has all but quit asking questions about Sarah Palin.  Charlie Gibson of ABC gets to do a two parter with Palin and we [...]
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    Posted: September 09, 2008, 6:56am EDT
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  • Women as political pawns.

    Number of comments: 9
    Throughout this long campaign for the presidency I have spent a fair amount of time commenting on the misogyny of the male left and of the male right towards Hillary Clinton.  Hillary Clinton was depicted by men and some women as too manly, probably a lesbian, shrill, manipulative, polarizing, dishonest, [...]
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    Posted: September 08, 2008, 4:54pm EDT
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  • The boys get their hands slapped.

    Number of comments: 6
    Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews of MSNBC will not be anchoring the presidential debates.  Why were Olbermann and Matthews pushed down the media host food chain? According to today’s New York Times the shift came “After months of accusations of political bias and simmering animosity between MSNBC and its parent network [...]
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    Posted: September 08, 2008, 6:42am EDT
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  • She’s someone you can have a mooseburger with …

    Number of comments: 3
    Sam Harris warns that wanting an average person as President is like wanting an average neurosurgeon for brain surgery:  potentially dangerous. Let me put it plainly: If you want someone just like you to be president of the United States, or even vice president, you deserve whatever dysfunctional society you get. [...]
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    Posted: September 07, 2008, 6:32am EDT
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  • Praying away the gays.

    Number of comments: 4
    Here’s what passes for community service at Sarah Palin’s church:  praying away the gays.  How do  Republicans live with themselves?   I’m sure the November release of ‘Milk’ starring Sean Pean as Harvey Milk will have the pentecostals speaking in tongues and handling snakes. [...]
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    Posted: September 06, 2008, 4:15pm EDT
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  • The Republicans get it wrong again.

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    Posted: September 05, 2008, 12:52pm EDT
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  • John McCain as victim. Palin as liberator.

    Number of comments: 4
    John McCain was a prisoner of war for five years.  We have heard McCain’s story of that time over and over and over.  In point of fact, McCain’s consistent reminders that he was a prisoner of war — including his riposte to reporters that although he owns seven houses now he [...]
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    Posted: September 05, 2008, 8:54am EDT
    by katestone

  • What next for the Democrats?

    Number of comments: 1
    Once again the Republicans are reaching to the bottom to get to the top.  Last night the  convention  featured speakers who lie, distort, mock, and debase their opponents.  Tonight, John McCain will proclaim that he is above negativity even when it is clear his campaign staff, allies, and vice presidential pick [...]
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    Posted: September 04, 2008, 12:40pm EDT
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  • Sarah Palin: just another hockey mom.

    Number of comments: 9
    Last night Sarah Palin, Republican vice-presidential candidate, delivered her acceptance speech to the RNC.  Amid shouts of “Drill Baby Drill” and “USA” Palin read the words of speech writers aimed at throwing red meat to an enthusiastic crowd of middle aged white people.  I am a middle aged white person so I know them when [...]
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    Posted: September 04, 2008, 5:54am EDT
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  • Madam Vice President

    Number of comments: 7
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    Posted: September 02, 2008, 5:03pm EDT
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  • High minded or high handed? You choose.

    Number of comments: 8
    Barack Obama gets consistently high marks for being high minded, as in thoughtful and pragmatic.  One recent example of Obama’s high mindedness is his response to the news that Sarah Palin’s daughter, Bristol, at 17 is pregnant, and unmarried.  Obama forcefully told reporters that family matters were off limits.  He would not discuss Sarah [...]
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    Posted: September 02, 2008, 2:14pm EDT
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  • Vetting Sarah Palin.

    Number of comments: 5
    Since the McCain camp never vetted Sarah Palin the mainstream and traditional media get to do the job for him. (1) Does Sarah Palin hate America? (2) Was Palin against the “bridge to nowhere”" (3) Did Palin direct her staff to fire a man involved in a custody battle with her sister? Just asking. [...]
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    Posted: September 01, 2008, 9:26am EDT
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  • Sarah Palin’s “executive experience.”

    Number of comments: 3
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    Posted: September 01, 2008, 6:37am EDT
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  • McCain picks a woman as his vice-president.

    Number of comments: 10
    John McCain has picked Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska, as his running mate.  Palin, a former beauty queen,  is a gun toting hunter, a Christian conservative opposed to a woman’s right to make her own health care decisions regarding pregnancy and, it is claimed,  she is a government reformer.  Considering [...]
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    Posted: August 29, 2008, 10:11am EDT
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  • Day Four: Barack Obama

    Number of comments: 1
    His name is now a household word.  The name, Barack Obama, has been repeated so often how could anyone think it is different?  We can expect to hear his name, Barack, over and over and over again as mothers and fathers across this country proudly name their sons Barack. The boy, [...]
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    Posted: August 29, 2008, 6:34am EDT
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  • Day Three: Bill Clinton

    Number of comments: 4
    Former President, Bill Clinton, gave a ringing endorsement of Barack Obama.  There should be no question in anyone’s mind now that both Clinton’s are fully on board with the Democratic choice for President, Barack Obama.  With that behind us we can now move forward and help Obama win a tight [...]
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    Posted: August 28, 2008, 5:48am EDT
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  • Day Two: Hillary Clinton

    Number of comments: 10
    Hillary Clinton’s speech to the Republican National Convention last night conveyed two important themes:  her campaign was historic and her supporters need to follow her lead and vote for Barack Obama.  Sandwiched in between those two points was the predominant issue:  the country cannot afford another four years of Republican rule and everyone must [...]
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    Posted: August 27, 2008, 6:21am EDT
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  • Party Unity My Ass.

    Number of comments: 5
    The MSNBC media pool spent an inordinate amount of  time last night talking about Hillary supporters who refuse to budge and throw their support to Barack Obama.  The NBC political director, Chuck Todd, noted that the press was probably making more of this group, PUMAs, than they deserved and yet [...]
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    Posted: August 26, 2008, 12:37pm EDT
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  • Day One: Michelle Obama

    Number of comments: 4
    Michelle Obama’s speech before the Democratic National Convention last night was aimed at those American’s who doubt her credentials as the product of a family with American values.  Michelle Obama can give a speech.  She was poised, articulate, warm, gracious and embracing and despite the treakle I listened to all of it.  If doubts [...]
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    Posted: August 26, 2008, 6:27am EDT
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  • Cindy McCain’s Big Daddy

    Number of comments: 3
                  “He was a young husband and father before he went off to war. Wounded in combat, he returned home a hero, but stunned his wife by divorcing her to marry another woman. The warrior in this case was not Cindy McCain’s husband, but her father, James W. Hensley.” Not that there [...]
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    Posted: August 23, 2008, 10:37am EDT
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  • Status quo.

    Number of comments: 4
    Barack Obama has chosen Senator Joe Biden as his running mate.  No surprise there although some were hoping for a more inspired choice. Senator Biden has been inside Washington for 35 years.  The New York Times calls Biden “an old hand.” Obama ran against the old hands in Washington but when it was [...]
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    Posted: August 23, 2008, 5:58am EDT
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  • Straight to video.

    Number of comments: 10
    This Veep pick drama the Obama campaign is playing out is turning out to be a stale mystery and is going to go straight to video if he doesn’t make his choice known today.  This is Obama’s description of his choice: Obama said he wanted somebody who is “prepared to be president” [...]
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    Posted: August 22, 2008, 6:43am EDT
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  • “She can make him or break him.”

    Number of comments: 10
    Chuck Todd, political director of NBC, pronounced on Keith Olbermann last night that based on his examination of the entrails of a recent NBC/WSJ poll showing 13 percent of undecided Democratic voters are Clinton supporters, she could “make or break” Obama at the convention in Denver “depending on what she says.” Todd is reflecting the typical [...]
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    Posted: August 21, 2008, 5:11am EDT
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  • The Branding of Barack Obama.

    Number of comments: 10
    Mother Jones asks a question of politicial thinkers - Is Barack Obama exaggerating when he compares his campaign to the great progressive moments in US history? Most of the responders say that Obama is exaggerating his claim that his campaign is a progressive moment in US history.  Most are ambivalent about him.  Most [...]
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    Posted: August 19, 2008, 6:20am EDT
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  • Christian Nation

    Number of comments: 10
    I’ve been camping a lot this summer and it is always interesting to return home to the radio and television and internet and cell service to see what happened while I was gone. This week I was camping near Raton, NM and was out of reach of anything remotely electronic.  I knew [...]
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    Posted: August 18, 2008, 7:08am EDT
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  • Women Battering

    Number of comments: 9
    Taking the lead of repressive regimes around the world the Bush administration (DHHS) is seeking to define contraception as abortion.  In the perfect world of George W.  Bush and his religious fanatic supporters women will never have sex unless they plan to get pregnant, stay pregnant and have babies.  Peggy Simpson over at [...]
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    Posted: August 11, 2008, 8:33am EDT
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  • The Perfect Woman

    Number of comments: 2
    Jesse Epstein makes documentary films.  This one, 34×25x36, is the third segment about physical perfection and is getting a lot of play on YouTube. [...]
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    Posted: August 11, 2008, 6:41am EDT
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  • Opening of Olympic Games.

    Number of comments: 1
    A combination of Leni Reisenthal and Cirque du Soleil. [...]
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    Posted: August 09, 2008, 6:30am EDT
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  • Ya Da Ya Da Ya Da

    Number of comments: 3
    John Edwards, Bill Clinton, David Vitter, Barney Frank, John F. Kennedy, Dwight D. Eisenhower, New Gingrich, Rudy Guiliani, John McCain, FDR, Larry Craig, Mark Foley, Don Sherwood, Dan Burton, Dan Crane, Henry Hyde, Ken Calvert, Strom Thurmond, Bob Barr  and that Livingston guy … and that is just for starters.  When [...]
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    Posted: August 08, 2008, 6:46pm EDT
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  • Liberal schmiberal

    Number of comments: 10
    If Barack Obama answered the Nation’s slap on the hand would he say this? Just saying. [...]
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    Posted: August 07, 2008, 6:17am EDT
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  • McCain: A man’s man.

    Number of comments: 4
    Why would a woman vote for John McCain?  Because she has bought the lie that she is a lesser human being than a man. I could not have said this better:  Jezebel’s Megan Carpentier: “Miss Buffalo Chip isn’t a beauty contest in the traditional sense — it’s a relatively debauched topless (and sometimes [...]
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    Posted: August 06, 2008, 12:49pm EDT
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  • Good Blog Down

    Number of comments: 1
    Skimble closes his blog with this – Outrage fatigue. I have ceased to care about McStupid’s Britney video and Obama’s acting presidency. Or the New Yorker cover. Or Cindy McCain’s 20 painkillers a day. Or the endless hand-wringing about the fucking narrative. The 24/7 minutiae of yet another artificial campaign horserace cannot captivate [...]
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    Posted: August 06, 2008, 11:13am EDT
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  • Note to Pelosi.

    Number of comments: 3
    Just thought I would bring this to your attention, Ms. Pelosi.  If a military dictator can’t leave home because he faces impeachment why is it that impeachment of the Bush/Cheney dictatorship is off the table in a democracy? [...]
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    Posted: August 06, 2008, 9:32am EDT
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  • Smear Machine

    Number of comments: 10
    Barack Obama is going to be perceived as an uptight policy wonk  if he does not start fighting back against the Republican smear machine.  That smear machine now has pretty much effectively described Obama as arrogant, elitist, an inexperienced empty suit, a radical black guy who is unpatriotic and has a [...]
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    Posted: August 04, 2008, 5:38pm EDT
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  • Buyer’s remorse?

    Number of comments: 10
    The Nation frets.  [...]
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    Posted: August 03, 2008, 10:11am EDT
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  • McCain Bites the Upper Hand.

    Number of comments: 10
    Race.  Racism. We are fully into it once again.  After the traditional media, professional cable pundits and progressive bloggers maimed the Clintons as racists during the primaries they are now calling McCain a racist for a recent ad showing Paris Hilton and Britney Spears in an ad referencing Obama’s European tour, a [...]
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    Posted: August 02, 2008, 11:20am EDT
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  • “Drill here, drill now, pay less.”

    Number of comments: 5
    Sen. Obama recently “reached out” to evangelicals who are clear in their direct message from God that women should not make their own decisions about reproduction and are equally candid on the evilness of gay men and lesbians and their agenda to take over the world.   Sen. Obama, ever the [...]
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    Posted: August 02, 2008, 7:18am EDT
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  • Chill

    Number of comments: 1
    It is hot here in Santa Fe.  It has been hot for months.  Now with the monsoon season upon us it is hot and humid, a combo I don’t tolerate well.  I haven’t been blogging much because I keep taking off for higher  mountain ranges to the north where the temperature is [...]
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    Posted: July 27, 2008, 3:09pm EDT
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  • Obama Has Always Been a Centrist So STFU!

    Number of comments: 9
    Sen. Obama has invited a religious organization, Faith In Public Life, to co-sponsor the first Obama-McCain political debate.  Teleprompter Evangelist, Rick Warren, is closely involved in the sponsorship.  Although Rick Warren is fervently against a woman’s right to make her own private decision regarding whether or not she will remain pregnant and [...]
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    Posted: July 27, 2008, 3:06pm EDT
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  • The Golden Age of Television.

    No teleprompters, no spin,  no script, no rehearsal.  Just get out there and do it.  Sid Ceasar and Nanette Fabray.    [...]
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    Posted: July 25, 2008, 6:24pm EDT
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  • Obama in Berlin.

    Number of comments: 8
    Obama has given a speech to an estimated 100,000 people in Berlin.  The speech blended many of the themes we are used to in Obama speeches:  it is our time, transformation will come, hope and change are before us.  This speech, though, wrapped his familiar themes around a larger one [...]
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    Posted: July 24, 2008, 1:40pm EDT
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  • PUMA Revenge!

    Number of comments: 10
    The PUMA Party (Party Unity My Ass) grew out of the frustration and anger Hillary Clinton supporters felt when she was unable to wrest sufficient electoral college votes to best Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.  Clinton supporters felt that she had the qualifications to be President and [...]
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    Posted: July 24, 2008, 9:36am EDT
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  • The Cover

    Number of comments: 9
    A number of years ago Vanity Fair published a cover of an Hasid tongue kissing a black woman.  I saw that cover and said “whoa” out loud.  People wanted the head of then VF editor, Tina Brown.  She said the cover was satire. The storm over that Vanity Fair cover [...]
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    Posted: July 14, 2008, 1:42pm EDT
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  • It’s not about race, Rev. Jackson.

    Number of comments: 4
    Jesse jackson is running his mouth again.  He disparaged Barack Obama for not being black enough nor man enough. The remarks came Sunday as Jackson was talking to a fellow interviewee at the Fox Network, UnitedHealth Group executive Dr. Reed V. Tuckson, a black man. An open microphone picked up Jackson whispering, “See, [...]
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    Posted: July 10, 2008, 6:12am EDT
    by katestone

  • Bring the surge home!

    Number of comments: 4
       More and more stories out of Iraq claim the “surge” there is working.  Despite the fact that the goal of the surge was to stabilize the Iraqi government so that they could stand up and we could stand down, Iraqis are still killing and maiming one another in large [...]
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    Posted: July 08, 2008, 1:26pm EDT
    by katestone

  • Pushing the conservative agenda through ballot measures.

    Number of comments: 4
    A quick look around at ballot initiatives popping up for November 2008 shows that conservatives are continuing to use these measures to reshape state and local politics.  In Oregon, for instance, there are a potential ten ballot initiatives a voter will have to consider in November:  Restrict the teaching of bilingual education [...]
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    Posted: July 08, 2008, 6:52am EDT
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  • Conspiracy Theories

    Number of comments: 1
    Larry Johnson over at NoQuarterUSA.net is spinning conspiracy theories.  Johnson had been an ardent supporter of Hillary Clinton and even though I didn’t often agree with him I read him — until he started the meme that Michelle Obama sat on a panel at Trinity Church in Chicago and yelled [...]
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    Posted: July 05, 2008, 6:49am EDT
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  • Red State Gives Obama a Thumbs Up

    Number of comments: 4
    None of the large ”progressive” blogs picked up on the story that Obama gave an interview to a Christian magazine that reshaped his previous views on late term abortions but the large conservative Red State blog sure did:  Obama’s stated model for Supreme Court justices (Souter, Ginsburg, and Breyer), pro-lifers should not [...]
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    Posted: July 04, 2008, 3:57pm EDT
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  • Oh, oh …

    Number of comments: 10
    Senator Obama tells a Christian magazine that he is opposed to abortion.  Then how did he get the full endorsement of Planned Parenthood and NARAL?  Why did he join with Clinton to co-sponsor the Freedom of Choice Act, which would nullify any state law interfering with access to abortion.  Obama was also the only [...]
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    Posted: July 04, 2008, 7:39am EDT
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  • Thanks for listening but …

    George W. Bush could never do what Barack H. Obama did yesterday:  acknowledge a problem and answer his critics.  The fact that Obama listened and responded yesterday to criticism of his position on the FISA Bill is a good indication that he does not take his supporters lightly and that an Obama [...]
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    Posted: July 04, 2008, 6:26am EDT
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  • Yup, he’s born again.

    Number of comments: 6
    Insightanalytical cuts through the nuance.  Barack Obama is a born again Christian.  There is no reason to believe Senator Obama will keep his private faith out of our public life.  He has made it clear he will not. In a story dated July 1 with the title “Barack Obama Radio Spot Hits [...]
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    Posted: July 03, 2008, 12:02pm EDT
    by katestone

  • Keeping Obama’s feet to the fire.

    Glenn Greenwald turns up the heat. [...]
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    Posted: July 03, 2008, 9:28am EDT
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  • Nuance and triangulation.

    Number of comments: 6
    As Barack Obama wends his way towards the Democratic nomination for President he is being described as “nuanced and balanced” by his most ardent supporters and “triangulating” by supporters who are critical of some of his recent policy directions.   One major instance of the latter can be seen in the [...]
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    Posted: July 03, 2008, 8:42am EDT
    by katestone

  • Destroying Hillary Clinton.

    Number of comments: 3
    Melissa McEwan and Maureen McCluskey over at Shakesville have a piece up at the Guardian.  Worth a read.  [...]
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    Posted: July 02, 2008, 1:43pm EDT
    by katestone

  • It’s the economy, stupid.

    Number of comments: 10
    Job losses deepen, the mortgage crisis is not over, the stock market is roiling, speculators are driving the price of gas higher and higher, food costs are up, credit has tightened, and wages are stagnant.  What are Obama and McCain talking about? Faith based initiatives, patriotism, public service, and terrorism.  These are [...]
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    Posted: July 02, 2008, 9:02am EDT
    by katestone

  • Obama courts Evangelicals.

    Number of comments: 10
    Barack Obama has had to go a long way to prove he is a red-blooded all American Christian rather than a Muslim terrorist.  It is hard to tell how many small minds he is going to change in this ongoing endeavor but this is one person who is growing increasingly [...]
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    Posted: July 01, 2008, 7:07am EDT
    by katestone

  • “Obama is shifting towards the center.”

    Number of comments: 10
    So says the LA Times.  It appears that the mainstream media has bought the lie that Barack Obama is a progressive.  I guess they regularly read DailyKos and HuffPo diaries and comment sections to get their daily dose of Obamamania.  Barack Obama is a moderate and can suddenly swing conservative and [...]
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    Posted: June 29, 2008, 4:34pm EDT
    by katestone

  • What Hillary should have said …

    Number of comments: 2
    We had Unity in New Hampshire today. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton shared a stage and told the world they liked one another and everyone that liked her but didn’t like him should vote for him anyhow. Obama made a very important statement when he noted that it was because of [...]
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    Posted: June 27, 2008, 5:38pm EDT
    by katestone

  • I am so lucky …

    Number of comments: 8
    I am so lucky to be represented by Tom Udall in Congress.  On June 20 he had this to say on his no vote on FISA: “The FISA bill we considered today would compromise the constitutionally guaranteed rights that make America a beacon of hope around the world. Today’s vote was not easy. [...]
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    Posted: June 22, 2008, 6:27am EDT
    by katestone

  • Russert and Reality

    Number of comments: 10
    Tim Russert’s untimely death is filling cable news. A puffy Keith Olbermann is interviewing  anyone who had a personal or professional relationship with Tim Russert, the Washington Bureau Chief of NBC.  KO is calling Russert a “towering figure.” The Cocoon Set is out in full force.   There is Barbara Walters and  Jack Welsh and Doris Kearns [...]
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    Posted: June 13, 2008, 5:42pm EDT
    by katestone

  • Adios for now.

    Number of comments: 5
    Summer is nearly here and I am told the “wind event” of the last three months is about to end.  This means I can go out and enjoy the the wide open spaces that drew me here from New York two years ago without wearing goggles and a face mask.     I [...]
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    Posted: June 12, 2008, 6:15am EDT
    by katestone

  • Now that Hillary has dropped out …

    Number of comments: 1
    Now that Hillary has dropped out the pundits moved briefly to postmordems of her downfall and  rapidly moved on to Obama Veep speculation.  I really have come to despise cable and 24/7 infotainment/news.  What a bottomless pit of puerile poop.  I hope Obama avoids Jim Webb or Chuck Hagel or Sam Nunn or Hillary Clinton.   [...]
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    Posted: June 10, 2008, 12:25pm EDT
    by katestone

  • Is Obama a Lightworker?

    Number of comments: 3
    From the San Francisco Chronicle:   “Many spiritually advanced people I know (not coweringly religious, mind you, but deeply spiritual) identify Obama as a Lightworker, that rare kind of attuned being who has the ability to lead us not merely to new foreign policies or health care plans or whatnot, but who [...]
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    Posted: June 09, 2008, 9:55am EDT
    by katestone

  • ?These women are the backbone of the Democratic coalition.?

    Number of comments: 10
    While some bloggers can’t let Hillary Clinton leave the stage without kicking her in the butt on her way out, this group of “progressives” are having a second look.  Their objective analysis of Clinton’s candidacy comes late but I think she will come out of this run even more powerful than she [...]
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    Posted: June 06, 2008, 1:45pm EDT
    by katestone
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