Category: political
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NYTimes criticizes, reinforces NYTimes smear on Obama, Muslims
An op-ed piece by Edward Luttwak the New York Times last week relied on a very questionable description of Obama as a “Muslim apostate” to argue that he’d have a hard time reaching out to Muslim leaders and would be at risk of assassination if he visited any countries with a lot of Muslims. It…
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Supreme Court Legalizes Voter Suppression
The headline’s from Project Vote’s post on OpenLeft, which also has a great quote from their board member Donna Massey: The real purpose of strict photo voter ID rules is to make it more difficult for some Americans to vote. It’s the voters who are less likely to vote who are also less likely to…
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A Carnival of Allies
From The Angry Black Woman: I call a Carnival. The Carnival of Allies. Where self-identified allies write to other people like themselves about why this or that oppression and prejudice is wrong. Why they are allies. Why the usual excuses are not good enough. I figure allies probably know full well all the many and…
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TSA forces woman to remove nipple rings — with pliers
Yes, really; and then defends the “thoroughness of the Officers involved”. Don’t you feel safer now? Our tax dollars at work … From AP’s coverage of Mandi Hamlin’s press conference: The female TSA agent used a handheld detector that beeped when it passed in front of Hamlin’s chest, the Dallas-area resident said. Hamlin said she…
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“If Ann Coulter had liveblogged the Gettysburg Address”
by Mark Kleinam on The Reality Based Community: Old Abe is approaching the podium, looking even more like a badly-dressed and ill-proportioned scarecrow suffering from a depressive disorder than he usually does. I mean, if you’re going to be an empty suit, couldn’t you at least find a suit that fits? And as usual, he’s…
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The day after: narrative through the lens of strategy
original essay March 5, 2008 see the comments for updates Back on February 7, Catherine Dodge and Alex Tanzi of Bloomberg News broke a story on an Obama campaign spreadsheet, “inadvertently” released by the campaign, with their projections (or maybe predictions) of delegates. Ben Smith on Politico has a nice screenshot, and even better a…