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Thursday, September 4, 2008
Palin vs. The Facts
Palin fact check

Thursday, September 4, 2008
More Fact-Checking on Palin's Speech
Talk about chutzpah!

Thursday, September 4, 2008
Palin's Gratuitous Swipe at a Group of Selfless Individuals
Shows just how low Palin's attack on community organizers really was.

Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Possibility of Criminal Charges Considered
Hints at what could happen in an Obama/Biden administration

Wednesday, September 3, 2008
An Extreme Choice
Nice compilation of scary facts.

Tuesday, September 2, 2008
McCain Makes Up History
(1 comments) McCain makes false statements about Obama vs. Palin.

Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Palin Cut Funds for Unwed Moms
Palin's family's blessing: supported. Other people's blessings: not so much.

Monday, September 1, 2008
GOP Parties with Lobbyists Despite Assurances to Tone Down
ABC news commits journalism!

Saturday, August 30, 2008
The Truth on Palin and "Bridge to Nowhere"
Rachel Maddow reported to Keith Olbermann that Palin expressed her intention to support the project. This goes much further.

Friday, August 29, 2008
Sarah Palin Investigation
This is amazing. McCain's pick for VP is being touted as a "reformer," yet she is under investigation. Appropriate for a member of the "Keating 5," whose economic plan is written by a foreign bank lobbyist, and whose foreign policy plan is written by a lobbyist for Georgia.

Sunday, August 24, 2008
VA Newspaper Reports on McCain's Vet Voting Record
This is such a simple, obvious, and easily researched story. Hope it gets picked up elsewhere.

Thursday, August 21, 2008
Debate Schedule
Upcoming debates: Hope they talk about more pressing issues than lapel pins and English professors with a past.

Thursday, August 21, 2008
Carville's Advice to Obama
I couldn't agree more.

Tuesday, August 19, 2008
McCain Voted for Bear Study
From Factcheck via Digg

Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Maddow Mania!!!
(3 comments) Yay!!!!!!!!!

Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Telegraph Confirms What Progressives Have Known: McCain Gets Free Ride
Surprise: McCain gets a free ride on gaffes.

Friday, August 15, 2008
Think Progress: McCain Campaign Trashes Social Security Birthday Cake
What better metaphor?

Friday, August 15, 2008
Obama Rebuttal to Swift-Boating in '08
Obama's rebuttal

Friday, August 15, 2008
McCain Turns Blind Eye to Ralph Reed Abramoff Involvement
The candidate whom the MSM likes to portray as a "reformer," gives corruption a pass.

Friday, August 15, 2008
CAP: Energy: What Voters Really Want
Debunks MSM latest talking point that voters want more drilling.

Friday, August 15, 2008
Americablog: More on McCain & Reed: Forced Abortions and Forced Prostitution, But Hey, They're Holding Bibles!
More on McCain and Ralph Reed from Americablog. Forced abortions and prostitution are fine, since the workers are being converted to Christianity, too.

Tuesday, August 12, 2008
McCain Asked to Give Back Social Security Payments
When McCain called Social Security a "disgrace," the real disgrace was 1) that he was clueless as to how the program has always worked; 2) that he himself collects, despite his feelings about it, not to mention being married to a beer heiress.

Monday, August 11, 2008
Who Should Pay the Price?
(1 comments) Who should pay for the rebuilding of Iraq?

Monday, August 11, 2008
Parts of McCain Speech Lifted from Wikipedia?
(1 comments) Striking parallels between McCain speech on Georgia and a Wikipedia article.

Saturday, August 9, 2008
Asian American Action Fund Blog: Irwin Tang's book: "John McCain's Racism and Why it Matters"
I heard Irwin Tang interviewed on "Black Politics" with Chris Owens, on Air America Radio. He has an interesting story to tell, based on his research on John McCain.

Thursday, August 7, 2008
TPM: Follow-Up to Offensive Ad in Tinker-Cohen Race
(1 comments) More on religious divisions brought into Democratic primary.

Thursday, July 31, 2008
Think Progress: Toby Keith Shares Stereotypes with Glenn Beck
As a former country music fan, I had no idea....

Thursday, July 31, 2008
Think Progress: Cheney Proposal for Iran War, According to Hersh
Think Progress: "EXCLUSIVE: To Provoke War, Cheney Considered Proposal To Dress Up Navy Seals As Iranians And Shoot At Them"

Wednesday, July 30, 2008
BREAKING: House Panel Votes to Hold Rove in Contempt
Rove closer to contempt charge.

Sunday, July 27, 2008
Heartwarming Testament to the Capacity of Animals to Form Deep Relationships
(1 comments) Incredible video of lion-human reunion. A powerful argument for vegetarianism.

Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Raw Story: Savage Goes After Autistic Kids
This is beneath contempt. Sure, we all have free speech rights, but do we all have the right to have a radio show?

Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Mitchell Bard on Huffpost Challenges "Surge is Working" Mantra
Why won't even the most liberal pundits challenge the conventional wisdom that "the surge is working?" Bard lays out why they should in HuffPost. In addition, "The troop escalation ... allowed the ethnic cleansing of the Sunnis of Baghdad and the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis from the country," according to Juan Cole on his blog. It's time to beg to differ.

Friday, July 18, 2008
How the Bush Administration Supports the Troops - NYT: Electrical Risks at Bases in Iraq Worse than Previously Said
This deserves at least as much media attention as "America Held Hostage" did under Carter. Why is there so little regard for the safety of our troops?

Friday, July 18, 2008
On FLDS, While the Media Focused on Child Abuse, Racism and Church-State Issues are Also Involved
The media has focused on the alleged child sex abuse aspect of the FLDS story, but the Southern Poverty Law Center also chronicles racist statements and church-state issues.

Wednesday, July 9, 2008
McCain University at Center for American Progress
On June 30th, 2008, I attended the Center for American Progress' half-day event: "McCain University." I was tremendously impressed with its quality and comprehensiveness. I got to ask what John McCain's definition of "freedom" was. The answers indicated it was little more than a slogan.

Monday, June 9, 2008
Obama & Jewish Voters
(1 comments) Obama may have more support in the Jewish community than is generally realized.

Sunday, June 8, 2008
Why is Dianne Feinstein Questioning the Legitimacy of Obama's Win?
Feinstein continues, after Clinton's concession, the bogus talking point that she won the popular vote. Besides the fact that it ignores caucus states, the canard questions the legitimacy of Obama's win, especially with Dems traumatized by 2000. Is she trying to help McCain??

Sunday, June 8, 2008
WaPo: Mighty Appetite Goes Vegan
Mighty Appetite touts the joys of vegan food.

Sunday, May 25, 2008
Raw Story: Fox Commentator Jokes About Killing Obama
On the subject of "knocking off," Fox commentator confused Osama with Obama, then laughingly says, "both if we could."

Thursday, May 15, 2008
Linked on Raw Story: Medved Uses Pseudo-Science to Justify Stereotypes
(2 comments) Shocking beyond words: Michael Medved gives in to the misuse of "science" in the service of old-fashioned stereotypes.

Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Huffington Post: Some History on the Michigan Delegates
This argument against the Clinton Michigan plan, provides some useful history.

Monday, May 5, 2008
Clinton Mailing Gun Gaffe
Gun enthusiasts spot mistake immediately.

Sunday, May 4, 2008
Frank Rich: Clerical Double Standards
Frank Rich calls the MSM on its clerical double standard - and educates on pastors on the Right.

Friday, May 2, 2008
Move On's Bush-McCain Challenge
Quiz that gets the truth out.

Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Hillary Supporter & Wright Event
Raw Story cites connection between a Hillary supporter and a recent Rev. Wright event.

Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Praise of Hillary includes anti-gay slur
From AmericaBlog: NC Governor uses anti-gay slur in his endorsement of Hillary Clinton.

Sunday, April 27, 2008
Think Progress: Romney Pushes McCain's "Endorsed by Hamas" Line
(1 comments) The Republicans get help from Hamas in smearing Obama.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Scarborough Runs from Maddow
(5 comments) Joe Scarborough is apparently rattled by Air America's Rachel Maddow.

Friday, April 18, 2008
McCain's Gas Tax Holiday Hurts US Helps Oil Producers
(6 comments) The likely consequences of McCain's latest proposal.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Abuse Victims Not Placated By Pope
Victims of priest abuse are not impressed by the pope's expressions of shame.

Monday, April 14, 2008
Bill vs. Hillary re: China
An important conflict of interest that is being glossed over in the US MSM

Monday, April 14, 2008
Hillary & Mark Penn
While the "elitist" debate rages on...

Monday, April 7, 2008
Think Progress: McCain's Hypocricy on Veteran Support
From the man the MSM (except, of course, for Olbermann) lionize as a war hero.

Sunday, April 6, 2008
Ruth Wisse WaPo 2007 Op-Ed: Are American Jews Too Powerful? Not Even Close
An instructive op-ed from 2007, by a Harvard professor.

Sunday, April 6, 2008
Alan Dershowitz: Discriminating Between Policy Differences and Prejudice
(2 comments) A useful guide, by Alan Dershowitz

Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Heard it on Hartmann: Jeb Bush vs. Church-State Separation
Push in FL to cross the church-state line.

Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Scarborough gets snarky with Maddow: She responds
(4 comments) Rarely have I seen even the best liberal pundit say everything that needs to be said when the Right attacks. Go Rachel!

Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Raw Story: Workers' Health Claims Against KBR
Workers say managers described carcinogen as "mild irritant"

Thursday, March 20, 2008
McCain Aide Suspended....
McCain Aide Suspended...

Thursday, March 20, 2008
Heard it on Maddow: Probe of Accidental Electrocution of Troops in Showers
(1 comments) Probe of accidental troop electrocutions in showers in Iraq.

Thursday, March 20, 2008
"The Nation" on Clinton's Credibility on NAFTA
First Lady records shed light on Clinton's original position on NAFTA

Thursday, March 13, 2008
Facts About Veganism
Vegansim is about more than animal ethics. A vegan lifestyle contributes to issues that liberals care about, such as the environment, world hunger, and managing the planet's scarce resources.

Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Obama Projected to Win Mississippi
Obama projected to win Mississippi

Friday, March 7, 2008
Bush's Church-State Legacy
Bush's legacy of attacking the constitutional guarantee of church-state separation.

Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Feminism & Orthodox Judaism
Interesting movement, especially since we've been discussing here the role of women & religion.

Thursday, January 31, 2008
The Nation on Clinton vs. Obama
A succinct delineation from the Nation magazine.

Monday, January 28, 2008
Toni Morrison endorses Obama
Author who dubbed Bill Clinton "Black" endorses Obama

Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Man, this guy is brilliant!
Declining to cast Hillary's MLK comment as racial, he instead casts it as dissing ordinary activists in favor of politicians. (Sorry, it comes after the fainting girl.)

Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Ehrenreich backs up Obama's point on Hillary & MLK
Not racism, but elitism.

Monday, January 7, 2008
Clinton Takes a Page from the Karl Rove Playbook

Saturday, December 29, 2007
Huckabee's Recklessness
Crooks and Liars documents Huckabee's recklessness.

Saturday, December 22, 2007
"CIA Tapes Were Kept From 9/11 Panel, Report Says"
9/11 Commission contends it asked for CIA interrogation tapes before they were destroyed.

Saturday, December 22, 2007
WaPo on Huckabee's Exclusionary Ad

Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Matthews' (and Carlson's) Disgusting Castration Imagery
(2 comments) Why must Chris Matthews and Tucker Carlson project their castration anxiety onto their Clinton campaign coverage?

Friday, December 7, 2007
What's Really Wrong with the MSM?
Succinctly lays out the starkness of the problem with the corporate media.

Thursday, November 29, 2007
Heard it on Rachel Maddow: Virginia Republican Loyalty Oath
(1 comments) Virginia Republican Party requires loyalty oath.

Friday, November 23, 2007
Cellphone Tracking Concerns
Lower standards on court-approved cellphone tracking cause privacy concerns.

Thursday, October 11, 2007
On CNBC's The Big Idea, Coulter said that "we" Christians "just want Jews to be perfected"
(11 comments) Coulter describes her ideal world, in which all are Christian.