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Mark Kleiman

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A political agenda for the post-fundraiser era

Mark Kleiman | Posted May 18, 2008 | Politics


If the Internet replaces the fund-raiser as the primary source of campaign cash for Democrats, that ought to increase our ability to pass laws that voters, as opposed to donors, like.

Ever since Tony Coehlo figured out that the only way to keep Congressional Democrats competitive in the money...

Lee Stranahan

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McCain Can Predict Future - His WWII Diary Proves It

Lee Stranahan | Posted May 17, 2008 | Politics


Read More: Comedy, John McCain, Parody

(Note: I feel the need to point out what's real and what's fiction in this post because it's a thin line in America in 2008.)

Have you seen John McCain 2013 ad? It's real.

In the ad, McCain (really) congratulates himself on every he's done by 2013. Here's...

The Need to Nominate the Strongest Candidate

Christopher Fedor | Posted May 17, 2008 | Politics


I had one thing on my mind when I went to vote in the Pennsylvania Primary: Who can beat McCain more easily!!! The answer is Clinton!! If Obama was considered the stronger candidate and it was proven in all the polls I would have picked him. I am a Clinton...

David Sirota

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Us vs. Them

David Sirota | Posted May 17, 2008 | Politics


Read More: Iraq

The New Republic's Peter Scoblic has a great op-ed in the Los Angeles Times about Bush's comments to the Israeli Knesset this week. It is a must-read.

Here's the crux:

But if there is anything that has been discredited by history, it is the argument that every enemy is...
David Horton

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Costs nothing to be civil

David Horton | Posted May 17, 2008 | Politics


The rulers of Burma, and Zimbabwe, have recently made sure, if there was a shred of doubt remaining, that they don't run civilized countries. And they are not alone of course. Got me to thinking more generally - how do you recognize a civilized country?

1. The military-industrial complex plays...

Julia Goldberg

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Chasing Tom Udall

Julia Goldberg | Posted May 17, 2008 | Politics


When I got the press release that US Rep. Tom Udall, D-NM, would be early voting at 2:30 pm, Saturday, May 17 at the Santa Fe County Fairgrounds, I decided to gamble that most reporters would be too busy having lives to show up and that, perhaps, I would be...

Dave Maass

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McCain Can't Keep His Enemies Straight?

Dave Maass | Posted May 17, 2008 | Politics


Did McCain get his enemies mixed up again? Or was it a subtle pivot?

What he told reporters in regards to James Rubin's column in the Washington Post about McCain's earlier position regarding Hamas (note: Iran is not mentioned in the op-ed):

I don't know how [Obama]...
Lulu Mickelson

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Redefining Patriotism

Lulu Mickelson | Posted May 17, 2008 | Politics


Okay, I'll admit it. I have become patriotic. A word that just a few months ago I would never use to describe myself. In fact, I would most likely grimace at being labeled patriotic and deny such an accusation. The word evoked the taste of slimy Fourth of July potato...

William Bradley

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What Is Appeasement?

William Bradley | Posted May 17, 2008 | Politics


Recall the Soviet Union, whose leaders vowed to "bury" America and truly had the power to do it.

I have something to confess, dear readers. In the 1980s, I went to the Soviet Embassy in Washington to meet...

Arianna Huffington

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Sunday Roundup

Arianna Huffington | Posted May 17, 2008 | Politics


This week, John McCain and the truth parted ways again, this time citing irreconcilable differences - i.e. the fact that the truth regularly exposes the dissembling, say-anything-to-get-elected hack McCain has become. His attacks on Barack Obama's willingness to confront the leaders of Iran at the negotiating table, and his piling...

Charlie Rose

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My Conversation with Retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez

Charlie Rose | Posted May 17, 2008 | Politics


Retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez was commander of coalition forces in Iraq at the time of the abuses took place at Abu Ghraib. After the scandal broke, Sanchez resigned from the army without a promised promotion. Here is what he told me about his accountability:



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Andy Worthington

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Betrayals, backsliding and boycotts: the continuing collapse of Guantanamo's Military Commissions

Andy Worthington | Posted May 17, 2008 | Politics


Anyone who has kept half an eye on the proceedings at the Military Commissions in Guantánamo -- the unique system of trials for "terror suspects" that was conceived in the wake of the 9/11 attacks by Vice President Dick Cheney and his close advisers -- will be aware that their...

Greg Mitchell

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Epidemic Continues: Iraq Vet with PTSD Kills Self, Brother

Greg Mitchell | Posted May 17, 2008 | Politics


The epidemic of suicides among veterans of the Iraq war with PTSD has become so common that I sat down to write about two news ones today and end up writing about an even more recent, and shocking, one. It involves a decorated vet who wrote about his PTSD for...

Nina Burleigh

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Is Obama Man Enough To Be a Feminist Too?

Nina Burleigh | Posted May 17, 2008 | Politics


In the vitriol over primacy claims to victimhood between females and blacks, we see our two candidates draining the pustulous boil of the once-silent liberal majority. That in the end, is going to be a good thing. It might not get either of them elected against the rich white guy...

Art Levine

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Missouri ID Bill to Block Nuns, Elderly from Voting Defeated

Art Levine | Posted May 16, 2008 | Politics


A GOP-pushed effort, aided by Republican voter-fraud scam artist Thor Hearne, to pass the country's most draconian photo ID bill has been stopped today in the Missouri Senate. Republicans, despite proclaiming the menace of voter fraud, didn't have enough votes to bring it to the...

James P. Rubin

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Talking with Our Enemies: McCain Should Admit The Truth and Stop Attacking the Messenger

James P. Rubin | Posted May 16, 2008 | Politics


There they go again. The old John McCain would just admit he changed his position and move on. But the new John McCain campaign is incapable of that. Instead, they are reverting to an attack on the messenger.

The question and answer I released yesterday was a full...

Danny Schechter

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Is Who Becomes the Next President All That Matters?

Danny Schechter | Posted May 16, 2008 | Politics


BERLIN, MAY 13, 2008: I know. I know. How this is the most important election in history, and why the next occupant of the White House will not only be answering the red phone at 3 AM but possibly be saving these not always United States from the decline that...

Barry Yourgrau

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Mike Huckabee: Minister and Street Thug

Barry Yourgrau | Posted May 16, 2008 | Politics


So Mike Huckabee makes a wisecrack at the NRA convention about Obama frantically trying to get away from a gun being pointed at him.

This is what passes for a Christian man of peace today in this charming country we find ourselves in. Spy magazine ran a marvelous caption...

James Wright

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The New GI Bill: It's a Win-Win Proposition

James Wright | Posted May 16, 2008 | Politics


When I was a youngster in the Midwest in the years after World War II, many people still called Memorial Day "Decoration Day," acknowledging its roots as a national day of mourning for the Union soldiers who had died in the Civil War. After World War I, the day became...

Bush's Knessup

Michael A. Siegel | Posted May 16, 2008 | Politics


George W. Bush's approval numbers are quickly approaching his neck size. He so badly wants to keep his presidency relevant. Nobody is certain why, but he found a sure fire way to do so: Inject himself into the presidential campaign in an address before the Israeli parliament marking the commemoration...

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