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Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:43:09 -0700

An Open Letter to Sarah Palin from Marlene Winell, Ph.D.
Dear Sarah, As a former fundamentalist, I'd like to call you on what you are doing. The media has found you "opaque" about your religion. Why? You have not been honest about the most important thing about you: the fact that you are a born-again...
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Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:05:14 -0700

Science does not create suicide bombers, but religion does
This is an excellent point from Robert Ingersoll: Let the gods take care of themselves. Let us live for man. Let us remember that those who have sought for the truths of nature have never persecuted their fellow-men. The astronomers and chemists have...
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Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:45:00 -0700

Shudder to See
Surprise release of McCain debate prep tapes (via Ezra Klein) ...
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Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:13:20 -0700

White House Authorized Torture (in Writing)
Uneasy about the blessing it received from the Justice Department to engage in torture, senior CIA officials wanted express White House approval as political cover for its aggressive (and illegal) interrogation techniques. The repeated requests for a...
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Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:13:00 -0700

Palin Sees America As Wealthy And White: New Hampshire And Alaska Are ‘Microcosms’ Of The Country
Speaking at a rally today in Dover, NH, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) praised the area’s beauty and natural resources. She also claimed New Hampshire is “kind of this microcosm here in the state of the rest of the entire U.S.” In the past, she has said...
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Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:58:55 -0700

Hysterical Palin Web site
Visit it, then start clicking around - make sure your speakers are on.
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Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:14:36 -0700

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Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:47:19 -0700

Exposing "John McCain’s Voter Suppression Committee"
Over at Oxdown, Ari reports that, despite all the Republican's crocodile tears about voting, John McCain's so-called Clean Elections committee is stacked with Republicans who have been engaged in voter suppression. Yeah, the people who tried to...
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Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:39:24 -0700

William F. Buckley's son leaves National Review after endorsing Obama
From Christopher Buckley:I have been effectively fatwahed (is that how you spell it?) by the conservative movement, and the magazine that my father founded must now distance itself from me. But then, conservatives have always had a bit of trouble with...
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Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:01:34 -0700

Why does Sarah Palin have such strained relations with minorities?
While Max Blumenthal was up in Alaska gathering information on Sarah Palin's background, he managed to sit down and interview two of the African-American community leaders in Anchorage who'd had dealings with Palin as governor: Gwen Alexander, the...
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Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:51:41 -0700

Ethics Investigation of Palin Expanded
The Alaska Legislature has concluded its TrooperGate investigation of Gov. Sarah Palin, but the investigation of the Palin-appointed Personnel Board, an investigation she requested, continues and is widening its focus to include other employees and...
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Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:17:15 -0700

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Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:26:08 -0700

The Rachel Maddow Show: David Frum's False Equivalencies and Foolishness
Holy FSM, I love Rachel Maddow. And not in a little way; I mean pick-her-up-and-carry-her-on-my-shoulders kind of love. And I love her even more for the gracious way that she deals with neo-con former Bush speechwriter David Frum. Frum, who...
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Tue, 14 Oct 2008 08:43:37 -0700

Predicting Political Attitudes
There was an fascinating experiment done years ago which showed that if you made a loud noise off to the side of a baby, about half the babies tested would turn their head towards the noise with curiosity and about half would turn away from the noise and...
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Tue, 14 Oct 2008 08:29:16 -0700

Anchorage Daily News on Palin: "In plain English, she did something 'unlawful.' She broke the state ethics law."
Brutal editorial from the Anchorage Daily News. I've been loving the ADN this year. The members of the paper's editorial board read the Troopergate report -- and, given Sarah Palin's response to the report, they don't think she really did read it...
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Tue, 14 Oct 2008 08:20:46 -0700

Tell McCain to End the Politics of Hate
We’d like to talk about the pressing issues facing our country: the woeful economy, rising unemployment, the housing crisis, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But we can’t talk about them because John McCain and Sarah Palin have distracted us...
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Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:42:41 -0700

More Palin/McCain mob ignoramuses
I say again, what is wrong with these people? (via)
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Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:42:29 -0700

Religulous
Outside Obama's major economic policy speech in Toledo today. Feels like the End Times for somebody, I am forced to report.On a completely separate note in Nevada:Democrats now outnumber Republicans in Washoe County for the first time since 1978, the...
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Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:25:07 -0700

Past Opponents, Associates of Ayers Agree: Stop Targeting Obama over Ayers Connection
In this letter to The New York Times, former federal prosecutor William C. Ibershof, who lead the team of federal prosecutors who attempted to convict members of the Weathermen, including William Ayers, on conspiracy, weapons and bombing-related charges...
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Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:19:52 -0700

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Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:31:44 -0700

Yes We Can, From the Mouths of Babes
Last week was a hard one, as we all saw racists crawl out from under the rocks where they live, and slither into the light of day at various McCain-Palin pep rallies for hate around the country. It rips me up inside to think that people are still...
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Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:24:38 -0700

Rage Against The McCain
Two hard right wing racist moonbats were arrested after firebombing an Obama campaign sign in...
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Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:26:53 -0700

The Poor Losers Of The Right
Pundits with conservative sympathies are starting to talk about the "L" word as they contemplate the utter collapse of Republican credibility and a probable scenario where Obama as President is backed by democratic majorities - even fillibuster-proof...
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Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:19:06 -0700

Palin-isms
Sarah Palin declares that the Trooper-Gate probe cleared her of any wrongdoing (and that "rogue," as she applied it to the state official she fired, is not a "negative term").
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