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It's gas food and lodging keeping people up at night. At a recent New Hampshire fair with an diverse economic cross-section of people, I noticed a fe...
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Obama to meet Energy Smart Debbie
A. Siegel | Posted 07.12.2008 | Politics
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Amid skyrocketing oil, gasoline, coal, and electricity (coming to a neighborhood near you) prices, 2008 offers Americans quite serious and stark choic...
CON GAMES: Rove Says Obama 'Brilliant' Like Me
Michael Conniff | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics
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Presidential architect Karl Rove's mainly miss-the-mark missives in the Wall Street Journal are a thing of beauty, but none have quite reached the level of co-opted op-ed pulchritude as his latest exercise in self-aggrandizement, modestly headlined "Barack's Brilliant Ground Game."
Meet Mac's New Supremo: Steve Schmidt And His Tumultuous First Week
William Bradley | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics
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Schmidt's experience with Schwarzenegger tells him about the problems with the conservative base as the candidate runs a campaign aimed at independents.
The Week That Should Have Ended McCain's Presidential Hopes
Max Bergmann | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics
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Any one of the embarrassing incidents and comments this week would dominate the news cycle if they came from the Obama campaign. Yet McCain barely gets a mention.
Jesse Jackson (With a Little Help From James Dobson) Just Handed the White House to Obama
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics
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If Obama becomes President both Jackson and Dobson (and many like them) will be out of luck -- post-racial and post-culture wars, America will have little patience with the professional dividers.
Nas Gets Sly on Fox On His Latest Album
Derek Beres | Posted 07.09.2008 | Entertainment
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Nas not only has a penchant for headline-making titles, his ability to condense complex topics into manageable sound bytes without losing their depth of discussion is unmatched.
Fashionably Politic - Team Nanette Lepore/The Creative Coalition
Paige Donner | Posted 07.09.2008 | Living
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Nanette Lepore began her dress design company in 1992 with $5000, a degree from New York's Fashion Institute of Technology and a dream. Her gross sal...
FISA Fight: Attack Of The Epic Failure
Martin Bosworth | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics
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This was a battle the Democrats absolutely could have won. Instead, they knuckled under and granted a corrupt and authoritarian president one of his greatest victories.
Wilshire & Washington
Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 07.09.2008 | Media
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Wilshire & Washington, the weekly Blog Talk Radio program that explores the intersection of politics, entertainment, and new media, launched this morning.
Mac And Murph
William Bradley | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics
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MIke Murphy is a very smart and amiable strategist. He has good advice for McCain -- that he simply can't win in this environment with the base-oriented strategy he's been pursuing.
G8 Leaders Endorse 50% Emmisions Cut, but With No Specific Targets
Janet Ritz | Posted 07.08.2008 | Green
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The G8 Statement's lack of requiring that carbon emissions reduction targets be met was seen as a result of US resistance, and will doubtless raise questions among both environmentalists and businesses.
News Update: Obama to Accept Nomination on the Moon
William Klein | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama will accept the Democratic presidential nomination on the Moon, and not as previously reported Denver's Invesco Field at Mile High, a 76,...
McCain's Deficit Reduction Proposal -- Adopt Obama's Iraq Plan
Max Bergmann | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics
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Now McCain is implying that he will bring a large portion of our troops home quickly enough to pay down the deficit? Let's get this straight.
CREW Files Bar Complaints Against Former DOJ Officials Over Hiring Practices
Melanie Sloan | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics
Two weeks ago, the Department of Justice's (DOJ) Office of Inspector General and Office of Professional Responsibility released a report entitled "An...
Sunday Watch 7-6-08
Todd Gitlin | Posted 07.07.2008 | Media
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As Joe Biden might say, the shortest distance between Joe Lieberman and a microphone is a sentence consisting of three parts: a subject, a verb, and "Ready on Day One."
I'm Just Sayin': Beware McCain's "Peace with Honor"
Phil Trounstine | Posted 07.06.2008 | Politics
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As the general election unfolds, McCain's strategic message will be to argue that both he and Obama will end the war in Iraq, but under McCain, American will remain proud and honorable.
Romney Thinks Stopping Spread of Nuclear Weapons is a Liberal Issue - Huh?
Max Bergmann | Posted 07.04.2008 | Politics
In an interview with John Roberts of CNN, potential vice presidential nominee Mitt Romney dismissed Obama's bipartisanship accomplishments as being achieved on liberal issues.
A Detailed Analysis of Obama's Move to the Center in Cartoon Form
Lee Camp | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics
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Torture Plagiarism
David Misch | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics
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It's one thing to use Chinese toys to bring our children's lead-paint intake up to FDA standards but should we really subject our precious national torture resources to Chinese influence?
Killing the Dead Sea Twice Is Good for Politicians, Not the Environment
Karin Kloosterman | Posted 07.02.2008 | Green
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The Dead Sea, shared by Israelis, Palestinians and Jordanians should be listed as one of the Wonders of the World -- and it's in danger of drying up.
Obama Keeps Five Point Lead In Gallup Poll
Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics
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In the latest Gallup poll, Obama has a significant margin for the second day in a row, beating McCain 47% to 42%. See the complete trend of Gallup p...
TV Ad Wars: Changing McCain v. Working Obama
William Bradley | Posted 07.01.2008 | Media
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While insiders obsess over the constant back-and-forth on cable news and in the blogosphere, the campaigns seek to drive longer range messages for the non-insiders who will decide the election.
The Emperor Changes His Clothes: A Cartoon
J.S. McDougall | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics
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I submit for your pleasure the first cartoon in the Chelsea Green Cartoon Series, The Emperor Changes His Clothes, by Dennis Pacheco. Watch chelsea...
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