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Al Gore On Crackpot Hair-Of-The-Dog Solutions

The Uptake | Posted 07.27.2008 | Home

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The Uptake

"Proposing to drill for small amounts of oil that will be sold to China as a solution to our rising gas prices makes about as much sense as responding to an attack from Afghanistan by invading some other country."

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Sam Stein

Gore Surprises Netroots Nation, Says Not Eager To Serve In Obama Cabinet (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.27.2008 | Politics

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A surprise guest at Netroots Nation in Austin, Texas, former vice president Al Gore diplomatically skirted around a question of whether he would take ...

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Al Gore Surprise Guest At Netroots Nation

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 07.27.2008 | Media

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Al Gore surprised — and delighted — the crowd at the Netroots Nation conference in Austin, Texas today, appearing on the heels of a speech...

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Netroots Summit Grapples with Bipartisan Attacks on Rule of Law

Ari Melber | Posted 07.26.2008 | Politics

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Ari Melber

Attendees and bloggers at Netroots are disappointed with the emerging, bipartisan consensus in Washington that the lawlessness of the Bush era can largely go unpunished.

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Netroots Nation and My Campaign

Sherrie Matula | Posted 07.26.2008 | Politics

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Sherrie Matula

The netroots connections in Texas have elevated awareness of our campaign as one of the races to take back the Texas Legislature.

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Sam Stein

Harold Ford Heckled Over Fox Comment At Netroots Nation

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.26.2008 | Politics

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Former congressman Harold Ford was billed as a sheep amidst the wolves when he was booked for an appearance at the Netroots Nation conference here in ...

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Sam Stein

Wesley Clark: I Was Victim Of 'Right Wing Freak Machine'

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics

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Late Thursday night, General Wesley Clark cast himself as a victim of the "right wing freak machine" after his comments on John McCain's military serv...

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Netroots Try To Label Fox News As 'Opinion Media' At Conference

New York Times | Michael Falcone | Posted 07.25.2008 | Media

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It may be the blogosphere's equivalent of the scarlet letter, and the organizers of Netroots Nation, a gathering of liberal bloggers that is taking pl...

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Obama Spy Bill Vote Questioned At Netroots Nation

WSJ | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics

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Sen. Barack Obama's support of a recent overhaul of domestic spy laws that rankled many on the left still has them rankled if the opening session at t...

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The War Pundits: Sam Power, McJoan, Danner, Mitchell

Ari Melber | Posted 07.25.2008 | Media

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Ari Melber

By relying too heavily on government sources from one party, most pre-Iraq war coverage misstated the threat and drastically underplayed opposition to the war among experts, political elites, and the general public.

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Netroots Should Tend To The Net's Roots

Art Brodsky | Posted 07.24.2008 | Media

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Art Brodsky

No discussion of the Internet should be complete without a discussion of preserving and protecting the online environment. The big telecom and cable companies want to control which data goes faster.

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Green Leadership

Gavin Newsom | Posted 07.24.2008 | Green

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Gavin Newsom

San Francisco is one of the greenest cities in the country because we did not wait for Washington. We are taking action now to green our environment and our economy from the ground up.

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Joe Lieberman's Fake Son, Terrorism, Charlie Rose, Situationist International and BJ's

Sam Seder | Posted 07.24.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Sarah Silverman, Satire, Filmmaking, Afghanistan, Sam Seder, Marc Maron, Janeane Garofalo, American Idol, Netroots Nation, David Cross, Comedy, Entertainment News
Sam Seder

Sometime around the inauguration of Bush in 2000, I began to notice that there was not the slightest hint of outrage expressed in or by the media.

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Let My Data Go: How Activists Can Transform Government Through Public Data

W. David Stephenson | Posted 07.23.2008 | Business

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W. David Stephenson

This public data movement has two components: liberating government data, so more people can interpret it, and displaying data visually, rather than in mind-numbing charts.

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Gov. Siegelman at Netroots Nation: Bush's Undoing?

Sam Seder | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics

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Sam Seder

The former Governor of Alabama will be making a court sanctioned trip out of Alabama to join me at Netroots Nation to discuss his case and the corruption that exists in the Department of Justice.

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Will Netroots "Hold their Noses" in Backing Obama?

Art Levine | Posted 07.20.2008 | Politics

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Art Levine

The talk of "betrayal" is spreading on the Web, and some in the Netroots are starting to resemble those nearly half of die-hard Hillary supporters who say they won't vote for Obama.

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Moving Towards a More Interactive Era of Government: AskTheSpeaker.org Launches

Gina Cooper | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics

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Gina Cooper

At AskTheSpeaker.org you can submit your questions for Speaker Pelosi and vote the questions others have submitted up or down.

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Personal Democracy Forum: Blogging The Wisdom Of Crowds

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 07.04.2008 | Home

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Mayhill Fowler

For quite awhile now, I have thought that the netroots affair with Obama would not end well.

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