via rachel syme whose tumblr i read with vaguely disturbing frequency. this bear debate over....... [Show More]
supreme clientele Post Source: attackerman.firedoglake.com Posted: Nov 21 2008 19:16:55
the washington posts chris cilizza has an absurd item about bill richardson emerging as a leading contender for commerce secretary. apparently penny pritzker is out for some sort of thorny crooked business dealings and lets not beat around the bush obama hasnt appointed any latinos to anything. yet richardson is a former u.n. ambassador and energy secretary and is c...... [Show More]
paidcontent asks if newspapers can make money online from comics .
and here i always thought those glossy quarterly mags the times publishers were meant to be cash cows. i guess sports dollars arent on the same scale as fashion dollars .
exmsnbcer dan abrams is starting a new firm that will provide media consulting to corporate clients. but heres t...... [Show More]
twoway remix Post Source: attackerman.firedoglake.com Posted: Nov 12 2008 21:15:36
for the past couple years the pentagons communications staff has tried to familiarize itself with all internet traditions with some frustration. the newmedia staff took major strides in outreach to the blogosphere by launching blogger conference calls between military leaders and cheeto dustencrusted bloggers like myself. they even launched dod live their own blog.
but now likeminde...... [Show More]
looking forward Post Source: slog.thestranger.com Posted: Nov 07 2008 21:54:14
im excited about obamas choice of rahm emanuel as chief of staff. on one of my key issues womens rightsits hard to consider this a pet issue when how the country treats its female citizens affects all its citizens hes been stellar. he supports funding for embryonic stem cell research opposed the socalled partial birth abortion banquot...... [Show More]
how to break a campaign promise with hope and change
barack obamas senior advisers have already drawn up plans to lower expectations. this process started weeks before he defeated john mccain to win the election a begging the question did obama proclaim false hope while the obama team will deny they gave false hope they do admit they are extremely concerned that many of his euphoric s...... [Show More]
her postbloomberg career has been the province of wishful speculation . but a report published today indicates that dot commissioner janette sadikkhan may be considered for a position in barack obamas department of transportation possibly its top spot.
conventional wisdom held that front runners for transpo secretary were known progressive brands like reps. earl blumenauer an...... [Show More]
though we found plenty of fodder this election season transportation policy never emerged
as a consistent talking point in the presidential race. this is more
than a little surprising considering the sad state of american
infrastruc ture and the importance of same to this countrys economic
and strategic wellbeing. then again what kind of dialogue can we
expect when one sidersqu...... [Show More]
though we found plenty of fodder this election season transportation policy never emerged as a consistent talking point in the presidential race. this is more than a little surprising considering the sad state of american infrastructure and the importance of same to this countrys economic and strategic wellbeing. then again what kind of dialogue can we expect when one sides p...... [Show More]
conor friserdorf laysarepeats his conservative case for same sex marriage
1 my friend lives in a happy home. his parents are married. when people grow up and love each other and want to have kids and a happy home they get married. i hope i get married one day.
or
2 my friend lives in a happy home. his parents arent married. when people grow up and love each other...... [Show More]
an urban president Post Source: feeds.feedburner.com Posted: Oct 17 2008 16:56:32
despite the fact that the largest 100 metropolitan areas are home to 65 percent
of the nations population and account for about 75 percent of the
countrys gross domestic product americans havent elected an urban
president since john f. kennedy. a few factors probably contribute
none more than the southernization and subsequent fauxpopulism of the
republican party the form...... [Show More]
john mccain continues to run the most pathetic insulting desperate and erratic campaign in modern history. that would be merely disappointing but the reality is that america is sitting on numerous republicancreated crises and mccain seems willing to roll the dice regardless of the costs. on wednesday john mccains campaign grabbed at drama to cover up their skyrocketing des...... [Show More]
austin bramwell makes a point that has been noted elsewhere
instead perhaps a plurality of the rich private school kids in manhattaneven at historically protestant schoolsare jewish. the jewish daily forward goes so far as to report that trinity and dalton two of the top private schools in new york are largely jewish. an entire media industry follows the lavish bar ...... [Show More]
first off here is a radio ad put out by an organization called matthew25.org
these guys represent something you may not have heard of the prolife democrats.
not only is it a thoughtful and persuasive ad being run on christian radio where it is badly needed but it refers to one of the few passages of scripture which still make sense to me matthew 25. what do y...... [Show More]
what if Post Source: themarathonblog.com Posted: Sep 17 2008 18:47:02
considering whats happened on wall street this week what if the bush social security privatization effort had been successfula the scenario is even scarier considering that john mccain backs privatization ....... [Show More]
political wire reports that a new american research group poll shows mccain only up 2 in montana. four notes i have some memory of arg offering regular outlier numbers. some commenters at yglesias site discussed this some time ago . some agree some disagree.
even with a solid polling firm outliers will occasionally appear simply due to statistics.
is t...... [Show More]
gallup cbs and usatoday caught over sampling the number of republican respondents at the expense of democrats and independents in their polls httpwww .dailykos. comstory 2008823 0144290 592615
mccain lies
video of mccain lies httpwww .youtube.c omwatchv ih0xzsogz ak
comprehensive list of mccain flipflops httpwww .dailykos. comstoryo nly2823 0...... [Show More]
matt yglesias details the ways that mccainfeingold is restricting his free speech rights. it seems that because matt now works for a company that lacks a media exemption hes prohibited from commenting on the character qualifications and fitness for office of candidates for office. since matt has an extremely low opinion of one of the major presidential cand...... [Show More]
the pentagon 911 memorial. wp photo.
i. anger and fatigue
the only surprise about the most recent debasement of 911 at the republican national convention breaking a longstanding sensible taboo not to use 911 footage for political purposes was that it stood as long as it did. almost everything gets degraded over time. but that doesnt mean we have to like it. ...... [Show More]
theres a consensus forming outside the u.s. that last months airstrike by u.s. forces in afghanistan did in fact kill a large number of civilians many of whom were children. to the villagers here there is no doubt what happened in an american airstrike on aug. 22 more than 90 civilians the majority of them women and children were killed. the afghan government human rights...... [Show More]
theres really not much point in my writing about john mccains compulsivegambler nature both with dice and with his campaign. plenty of others have done that much better than i will. but ill do it anyway so that i can make a strained analogy and then stretch it even thinner. to wit mccain seems to be using a vaguely martingale like strategy with his campaign.
...... [Show More]
nothing to see here Post Source: feeds.feedburner.com Posted: Sep 04 2008 16:31:30
my internet energies remain committed elsewhere but i would like to at least register a couple of cranky complaints about the commentary surrounding palin
to everyone asserting that the democrats just dont get it and that only you the author have a privileged insight into what makes real americans so goshdarn real and theyre going to love sarah palin pl...... [Show More]
and provides some excellent reasons for giving it to him.
video credit johnkerrytv
its impossible to cover a 23 year senate career in five minutes but the video provides more than enough reason to give senator kerry your vote. the kerryfeingold amendment which had little support when it was first presented is now the democratic position on iraq withdrawal. senator kerry has b...... [Show More]
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