Archive for August, 2006
Posted in August 29th, 2006
No surprise really, but George Allen seems to like hanging out with racist scumbags. Gordon Baum used to host a radio show with a particular fan of mine…. I’ve discussed the CofCC before, but anyone who has a fascination with the South that Allen has demonstrated thoughout his life knows that the CofCC is an […]
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Posted in August 27th, 2006
Dan graciously gave me 30 minutes of his time and I’ve turned into a podcast. Download it here as an mp3 or if you use the rss feed, it should show up as a podcast–you can add it to your podcasting client as I expect there to be several more soon, though hopefully my interviewing […]
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Posted in August 22nd, 2006
I mean, if we leave, it might become a haven for terrorists…. Iraq’s prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, has angrily charged American forces with undermining national reconciliation after a US-led raid in the eastern Baghdad stronghold of the radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr reportedly caused the death of three people, including a woman and a child. […]
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Posted in August 21st, 2006
Slow until tonight or the morning. I’ll be doing an interview tomorrow morning so if all goes well, it’ll be up tomorrow—Dan Seals agreed to an interview and I’m going to use that as a guinea pig for podcasting.
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Posted in August 18th, 2006
It’s really not a joke that the right wing is attacking contraception, not just abortion. The store’s head pharmacist, who knew Noesen’s concerns, had agreed to personally fill such prescriptions, but he was out of town for the weekend. Renz asked where else she could get the prescription filled. Noesen declined to tell her. Renz […]
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Posted in August 18th, 2006
You screw up and lose a huge undertaking, you get booted upwards to national organizing. Pretty impressive Petey. For your daily funnies, you can go to Petey’s new/old project, Americans for Truth. From the looks of it, we might have more fun as Petey expands and deals with issues in science as well as family […]
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Posted in August 18th, 2006
Kevin Drum covers the 10th anniversary of the San Jose Mercury News’ series on the CIA ignoring that many Contra leaders were cocaine traffickers. Never mind that many were a part of Somoza’s National Guard that routinely used rape and torture to intimidate opponents–oh, and murder too. It’s not real surprising. The night after having […]
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Posted in August 18th, 2006
I mentioned it below several days ago, it’s no big deal at all–it’s simply the accounting required by the FEC. The basic problem is the FEC has a bizarre and burdensome accounting requirement and so the state expenditures have to go to the federal account and, of course, both parties in Illinois utilize corporate donations […]
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Posted in August 18th, 2006
When it is safe to check out cable news again.
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Posted in August 18th, 2006
Apparently he knew I was in a bit of a blog funk: Alan Keyes, the keynote speaker, said embryonic stem-cell research is the moral equivalent of Nazi medical experiments on the inmates of death camps during World War II. He’s on this mini-tour with Rick Scarborough and David Limbaugh. I just wish to thank them […]
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Posted in August 18th, 2006
Austin Mayor points out that Tom Roeser is off on a paranoid binge, but what’s really odd about the whole thing is the most damning thing on the Roeser blog is what Roeser writes.
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Posted in August 18th, 2006
Mr. Roskam has some problems in his. We’ll make this a series. The first issue? The very first donor is a LLC. Ooops.. Even better, the NRCC seems to be sending out some of the most ineffective pieces I’ve ever seen attacking Duckworth. This one looks like a pro-Duckworth flyer showing her support for breast […]
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Posted in August 18th, 2006
Back at the beginning of July I taught a seminar to a group of elected and professional local finance and election folks at a conference in San Francisco. The cool thing about that is that they are very interested–so much so they show up at a conference to actually learn something. There is a certificate […]
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Posted in August 17th, 2006
I’m really baffled by the level to which a person can be elected President of the United States and be this much of a dolt: ?I sensed a frustration with the lack of progress on the bigger picture of Iraq generally ? that we continue to lose a lot of lives, it continues to sap […]
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Posted in August 16th, 2006
Apparently I won’t be watching any cable news tonight. Or perhaps the security alerts just aren’t distracting people enough.
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