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  • Dadgummit, Bobby's out

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    You might say he's lost his touch. You might say the academic fraud scandal will tarnish his legacy. You might say he just wasn't the guy to reverse the team's recent dip into mediocrity. And you're probably right about all of that.But on the eve of his likely retirement as [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2009, 11:40pm EST
    by Alabamian

  • College football preview: November edition

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    It's a sports cliché to say that even two months into the college football season, we don't really know anything. It's also wrong. What do we already know for certain about how things will shake out before Daylight Saving Time comes to a close?Texas will play for the national title.' [...]
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    Posted: November 01, 2009, 11:50pm EDT
    by Alabamian

  • Way to take a stand there, liberal media

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    Actual, can't-make-this-up headline on CNN.com right now: "Obama as witch doctor: Racist or satirical?"Should posters portraying a black president as a witch doctor with a bone through his nose be considered racist? We'll hear from both sides, next! [...]
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    Posted: September 18, 2009, 11:50pm EDT
    by Alabamian

  • Do banjos count?

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    Kentucky law still requires elected officials, in 2009, to swear that they haven't challenged anyone to a duel before they can take office. The state constitution says so.I suppose I should take some small comfort in the knowledge that Alabama's constitution isn't the only one plagued by antiquated, embarrassing, downright' [...]
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    Posted: September 01, 2009, 2:00am EDT
    by Alabamian

  • He also doesn't know Batman

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    Buried in the middle of this article is an amusing report on the interaction between U.S. Rep. Bobby Bright, D-Montgomery, and some elementary school children in Prattville last week. During his visit, Bright presumably talked about what being in Congress is like -- the coverage is scant on that point [...]
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    Posted: August 24, 2009, 9:20pm EDT
    by Alabamian

  • G-strings, pasties, and the Alabama Legislature

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    Alabama's legislators did what they were asked to do in this week's special session. They pulled Jefferson County back from the brink of immediate financial disaster. They used federal money to extend unemployment benefits for the growing rolls of jobless Alabamians. And they made it easier for school districts to [...]
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    Posted: August 15, 2009, 7:40pm EDT
    by Alabamian

  • Kicking the can ever so slightly

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    Well, that's done.Alabama legislators, resisting the urge to lock down in tedious filibuster exchanges, got in and got out in five days this week for a special session to save Jefferson County from immediate financial disaster. They reauthorized an occupational tax that accounted for a fourth of the county's budget. [...]
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    Posted: August 15, 2009, 6:25pm EDT
    by Alabamian

  • A session more special than the rest

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    I can think of no finer way to drop $110,000 of public money than to convene a special session of the Alabama Legislature.It can be productive. It offers loads of largely unintentional entertainment. And it's a second chance to go gavel-to-gavel without marijuana-related drama, or flooding of epic proportions, or [...]
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    Posted: August 01, 2009, 11:00pm EDT
    by Alabamian

  • I should pay closer attention to the hashtags

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    I somehow missed the news about how President Obama became our supreme religious authority and brutally cracked down on almost all forms of communication, leaving Republicans with no other choice but to express their outrage with a repressive, theocratic regime 140 characters at a time.Then I read tweets from a [...]
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    Posted: June 17, 2009, 7:15pm EDT
    by Alabamian

  • It's a sad sort of perspective

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    Alabama chronically underfunds all sorts of things: schools, health care, courts, public safety, prisons. You name it, we probably don't support it like we should.But at least we're not California. Its budget deficit for next year is about twice as large as our General Fund budget, federal money and all. [...]
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    Posted: June 01, 2009, 11:50pm EDT
    by Alabamian

  • Have they no sense of timing, at long last?

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    Happy April Fools' Day, everyone. Maybe the Republicans' next attempt to unveil their much-ballyhooed alternative budget (version 2.0 drops today!) will include some actual budget-type content this time instead of proposals to slash rich people's taxes some more and just hope everything works out OK.And if it doesn't, it's probably' [...]
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    Posted: April 01, 2009, 12:15am EDT
    by Alabamian

  • Funny how these things work

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    Remember, kids: It's beyond the pale of human decency even to consider refusing millions of dollars in bonus money to white-collar AIG workers for no good reason other than that their company would have collapsed into the abyss without hundreds of billions of federal dollars. They had contracts, after all.On [...]
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    Posted: April 01, 2009, 11:45pm EDT
    by Alabamian

  • The snow-nado means business

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    Tornado warnings and snowstorms all in the same day. Gotta go with my gut and say that's distinctly not normal. Also gotta use this as perhaps my only opportunity to have a plausible excuse to link to this awesome video.See you in March. I'll try to revive this place then.' [...]
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    Posted: March 01, 2009, 11:50pm EST
    by Alabamian

  • Now it's time to get to work

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    I'm not trapped in a St. Elsewhere-style dream sequence after all.Four years after signing on for another dose of overprivileged, ill-equipped, tunnel-vision leadership from George W. Bush, my country has inaugurated a worldly, intelligent, charismatic man from a modest background as its 44th president. It was a stunning about-face. It' [...]
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    Posted: January 21, 2009, 1:15am EST
    by Alabamian

  • I owe this post to the historical record

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    With the ad hoc once-a-month posting schedule I've informally and inadvertently adopted for much of this year, an increasing amount of my decreasing traffic has come from Google searches.People get here using all kinds of search queries -- check the series I used to do on the weirder ones if' [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2008, 1:00am EST
    by Alabamian

  • Not bad, as it goes

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    Barack Obama swept into the presidency in a powerful rejection of the Bush administration's failed policies and divide-and-conquer politics, even picking up an electoral vote in Nebraska.Fringe, the best new show on television, is getting a strong vote of confidence from network brass.After capping off a perfect 12-0 regular season' [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2008, 11:15pm EST
    by Alabamian

  • Playing out the string

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    Nothing has worked, my friends. Nothing.They've tried to point out what a terribly arrogant, egocentric celebutante this Barack Obama fellow is, only to find out that perhaps running ads full of thousands of Europeans joyfully waving American flags at the very mention of Obama isn't the best way to argue [...]
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    Posted: November 01, 2008, 11:55pm EDT
    by Alabamian

  • What matters most

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    Chalk up Sept. 2, 2008 -- two days before Republican presidential candidate John McCain gives his acceptance speech at the GOP convention -- as the day his campaign gave its concession speech on the things that actually matter.Proof? Let's go to an actual, live, on-the record statement from McCain campaign' [...]
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    Posted: September 03, 2008, 10:45am EDT
    by Alabamian

  • Lessons learned? Here's hoping

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    New Orleans couldn't afford another crushing blow. Fortunately, Mother Nature appears to have pulled its punches there this week.Hurricane Gustav was powerful and exacted a terrible death toll -- more than 70 people, including at least seven in the United States -- but in New Orleans, at least, it wreaked' [...]
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    Posted: September 02, 2008, 4:15am EDT
    by Alabamian

  • A great night for America

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    When it comes to politics, I can be quite cynical. But Thursday night, I got a reminder that politics still has profoundly good things to offer, still has moments that are deeply moving, still has the capacity to transform an entire nation of people for the better.I saw Barack Obama [...]
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    Posted: August 29, 2008, 2:30am EDT
    by Alabamian

  • Democratic veepstakes: 13th-hour edition

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    Near the top of the list of things I've meant to write for a few months now is a breakdown of the Democratic and Republican vice presidential contenders. Now that we seem to know the GOP's answer and are literally hours away from seeing Barack Obama standing next to his [...]
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    Posted: August 23, 2008, 7:00am EDT
    by Alabamian

  • Putting this place in perspective

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    One of Alabama's most influential, most consistent blogging voices has fallen silent. My best wishes go out to Dan, proprietor of the recently shuttered Daily Dixie and the not-so-recently shuttered Between the Links. I hope we haven't heard the last of him, in both the online and offline worlds.Bloggers, myself [...]
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    Posted: August 08, 2008, 2:10am EDT
    by Alabamian

  • Trying too hard to be cool is not cool

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    Look, kids, the Republicans know Paris Hilton and Britney Spears have enjoyed fame in the last decade! And they've seen those old Norm Macdonald sketches on Saturday Night Live where he talks about how much Germans love David Hasselhoff, too!Surely these ultra-clever pop culture references, along with John McCain's avowed [...]
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    Posted: July 31, 2008, 1:15am EDT
    by Alabamian

  • Yes, he can... make it a little closer

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    The news that Barack Obama has trimmed John McCain's lead to 15 points in Alabama's presidential polling -- cutting the previous lead in half -- raises three notable points:1) Despite all the caterwauling from pundits who really want a close race for the White House, this election is shaping up [...]
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    Posted: July 01, 2008, 9:15am EDT
    by Alabamian

  • They'll run out of TV money eventually, right?

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    What have we learned from the Republican primary race in our state's 2nd Congressional District? That we need to fight some vast, nebulous liberal conspiracy. That we must despise all taxes with every fiber of our being. And that we should feel outrage over the prospect that someone might speak' [...]
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    Posted: June 03, 2008, 9:05am EDT
    by Alabamian

  • The Alabama Legislature in 400 words or less

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    I haven't been around much lately, so I've missed most of the lively post material our esteemed Alabama legislators dished out generously this year. Fortunately, it's easy to tell the story of the last four months of Goat Hill action via the magic of bullet points.The Senate threatened to lock' [...]
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    Posted: June 01, 2008, 11:55pm EDT
    by Alabamian

  • It's the show that never ends

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    After six long weeks, Pennsylvania Democrats at last get to decide today what's a bigger deal-breaker: not wearing an American flag lapel pin at all times or getting schooled by Sinbad on your recollection of what happened on your trip to Europe.A serious prediction: Hillary Clinton will win by somewhere' [...]
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    Posted: April 22, 2008, 8:00am EDT
    by Alabamian

  • 4,000

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    That's the American death toll in Iraq, five years and five days into a war that President Bush has no idea how to end, and presumably no intention to do so even if he did.This war means 4,000 American families and untold thousands of Iraqi families will go to bed' [...]
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    Posted: March 24, 2008, 10:45pm EDT
    by Alabamian

  • Unintentional brilliance

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    CNN's Wolf Blitzer just noted that lingering GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee "captured Kansas decisively ... in Kansas."Yep, sounds about right.' [...]
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    Posted: February 09, 2008, 10:25pm EST
    by Alabamian

  • A tribute to Multiple Choice Mitt

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    The week shouldn't pass without a remembrance of Mitt Romney, the presidential contender who shared your values. Always.You guys are pro-choice? Hey, cool, so is he. Well, I mean, he was. Before he remembered he was passionately pro-life. After hyping his endorsement from a pro-choice group during his run for' [...]
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    Posted: February 09, 2008, 10:15pm EST
    by Alabamian

  • The Punch is spiked at last

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    Could it be? Could it be that Alabama has liberated itself from the viselike grip of the Punch Heard 'Round the World once and for all?State Sen. Charles Bishop, R-Jasper, told his colleagues Thursday that he'd accept his punishment for punching Sen. Lowell Barron, D-Fyffe, in the head last year [...]
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    Posted: February 09, 2008, 8:30pm EST
    by Alabamian

  • We'd never miss it, right?

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    "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or" [...]
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    Posted: February 07, 2008, 8:45am EST
    by Alabamian

  • Late observations on Super Tuesday

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    Round two of banter about projections, exit polls, momentum, delegate counts, and wall-to-wall television punditry:Barack Obama has won 13 states thus far to Hillary Clinton's eight, but she claimed a big prize today in California, where early returns indicate she's building a margin that's larger than expected. Still, as the' [...]
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    Posted: February 06, 2008, 11:55pm EST
    by Alabamian

  • Early observations on Super Tuesday

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    Scattered election notes, in no particular order...Alabama has done its part for Barack Obama. The Illinois senator leads Hillary Clinton 56 percent to 41 percent with 70 percent of precincts reporting. Though he dropped out late last month, John Edwards has more than 5,500 votes.The national media sure moved quickly [...]
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    Posted: February 05, 2008, 9:20pm EST
    by Alabamian

  • The Punch yet lives

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    Thought you'd heard the last of the Punch Heard 'Round the World when a Senate committee decided to drop the matter last week?Think again. Today, mere hours into Alabama's 2008 legislative session, 19 Democratic senators approved a resolution allowing the Senate to vote, if it later chooses, to require that' [...]
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    Posted: February 05, 2008, 8:10pm EST
    by Alabamian

  • Newspaper and blog endorsements galore

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    As I did for the 2006 general election, I've compiled a list of newspaper endorsements for today's Alabama presidential primaries. Unlike 2006, I also included links to the opinions of some major state bloggers, because there seems to be a wider array of views this year than in 2006. My [...]
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    Posted: February 05, 2008, 2:00am EST
    by Alabamian

  • The case for Barack Obama

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    When I started Red State Diaries more than three years ago, the political atmosphere was even more polluted than it is now.It was mere days after the 2004 presidential election, a hostile affair that had devolved on each end into barely contained hatred and thinly veiled contempt for the opposing [...]
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    Posted: February 04, 2008, 5:20am EST
    by Alabamian

  • It turns out that they're just people, too

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    Interested in a little-known fact about each remaining presidential contender? Sure you are. These gems come from the bottomless wellspring of wonder and merriment that is Wikipedia.Hillary Clinton: She spent the summer of 1969 on a journey through Alaska, including stints as a dishwasher at Denali National Park and a [...]
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    Posted: February 04, 2008, 1:30am EST
    by Alabamian

  • Bite-sized presidential trail mix

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    Just because I haven't written about the presidential primaries here in a few weeks, that doesn't mean I haven't kept up with them. Here are a dozen full-blown posts I've neglected to write on a timely basis -- each conveniently condensed into a single (though occasionally long) sentence. Democratic delegates are [...]
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    Posted: February 04, 2008, 12:55am EST
    by Alabamian

  • I, I... I just saw that

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    Eli Manning just played in the Super Bowl. And was on the winning team. And was the MVP for the winning team. And deserved it. Because he led a two-minute drill to win the game of his life. Over the team of the decade. Which was an unprecedented 18-0 at [...]
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    Posted: February 03, 2008, 10:10pm EST
    by Alabamian

  • Things still happen in Alabama, too

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    As much attention as the presidential race has gotten this month -- and I'll be sure to pile on some more in the coming days -- it never hurts to take a quick look around the home front. Here goes. Crime and punishment: The two-year college scandal that led to a [...]
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    Posted: January 27, 2008, 5:00pm EST
    by Alabamian

  • A message for our times

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    "Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies -- or else? The chain reaction of evil -- hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars -- must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation." -- [...]
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    Posted: January 21, 2008, 1:55pm EST
    by Alabamian

  • Parking lot politics

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    State Sen. Charles Bishop, R-Jasper, is truly sorry about throwing the Punch Heard 'Round the World at his Democratic counterpart Lowell Barron last year. Kinda. From a highly recommended Daily Mountain Eagle story -- seriously, read the whole thing -- wherein Bishop refers to himself in third person more than [...]
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    Posted: January 16, 2008, 8:15am EST
    by Alabamian

  • Isn't this football great, football fan?

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    The main thing I'll take away from Monday night's letdown of a national championship game isn't the memory of LSU viciously power-bombing Ohio State through a ringside table. It's that the BCS games, if we have to continue to be subjected to them instead of getting a playoff, must be [...]
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    Posted: January 09, 2008, 12:30am EST
    by Alabamian

  • They're important because they say so

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    Real-life circumstances have bumped that promised Friday update on the Iowa caucuses back a few days, so let's make the discussion about Iowa and today's New Hampshire primaries. So far, it looks like the space-time hole that engulfed college football this year will spend its off-season dallying in presidential politics. Why [...]
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    Posted: January 08, 2008, 10:20pm EST
    by Alabamian

  • Getting a little musty in here...

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    Time to clear out some of the undiscussed clutter that's been accumulating around here over the last month: Must everyone treat tonight's Iowa caucuses as an end-all, be-all affair in presidential politics? It's a survey of maybe a couple of hundred thousand people in a state whose population is disproportionately rural [...]
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    Posted: January 03, 2008, 8:30pm EST
    by Alabamian

  • New year, same old me

    The bitter, blood-freezing winter wind that has crept stealthily to my home state has snapped me back into posting action after a month-long respite, just in time for those much-ballyhooed Iowa caucuses. More on those tonight, but until then, I'll be trying to warm back up, both on the site [...]
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    Posted: January 03, 2008, 8:40am EST
    by Alabamian

  • Saturday live blog, Vol. 9

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    The live blog has heard your rumors. It's watched you track those planes. It knows you've read every detail of its buyout. But the live blog wants to assure you that it's not planning on going anywhere. Well, at least not today. It's got some continual updating to do. 2:25 a.m. [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2007, 11:00am EST
    by Alabamian

  • The Republican debate live blog

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    I've slacked off on the political commentary, but I've churned out plenty of football live blogs lately. Here's hoping that live blogging translates to more than just the gridiron. I'll update continually throughout CNN's YouTube Republican debate. 9:15 p.m. Final thoughts: Huckabee gained the most from tonight. McCain regained (or at [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2007, 7:00pm EST
    by Alabamian

  • It's not just an abstract concept

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    If you were one of the people who voted last year for Alabama's constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, take a moment out of your day to visit Birmingham Blues and read this post. Ask yourself why our state's laws should treat a man in such a dehumanizing way when he's [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2007, 8:45am EST
    by Alabamian
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