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JamesOTB posted a blog entry

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 05:28:35 America/Los_Angeles

Obama’s Pet Goat: Watch This Drive
TV writer Steve Marmel takes to the pixels of HuffPo to excoriate President Obama for continuing his vacation in the wake of...
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wmblake7 posted a blog entry

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 04:16:02 America/Los_Angeles

Warnings about “top-two primary” measure in California
KW: A colleague of mine noted that the article below, and the strong participation of California State Senator Abel Maldonado...
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Incog posted a blog entry

Sat, 26 Dec 2009 20:00:00 America/Los_Angeles

Ulterior Motive For Jimmy Carter's Apology To Jews
When I read that Jimmy Carter had actually apologized to the Jews for his often contentious, anti-Semitic diatribes I knew...
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wmblake7 posted a blog entry

Sat, 26 Dec 2009 06:58:32 America/Los_Angeles

“MERRY CHRISTMAS”, by Langston Hughes
Published In New Masses (Dec. 1930) From the gun-boats in the river, Ten-inch shells for Christmas gifts, And peace on earth...
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sltaylor posted a blog entry

Fri, 25 Dec 2009 19:51:05 America/Los_Angeles

Paradigm Shift in Action?
One of the reasons (if not the main reason) that the 9/11 attacks worked as well as they did (well, three of the four attacks)...
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JamesOTB posted a blog entry

Fri, 25 Dec 2009 04:34:31 America/Los_Angeles

Senate Health Care Vote Breakdown
Steven Taylor (here and here) breaks down the Senate’s party-line vote on the health care bill in some interesting...
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sltaylor posted a blog entry

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 21:08:39 America/Los_Angeles

More Senate Health Care Vote Numbers
Here’s the breakdown of the vote by class (i.e., when they are next up for election): Yes No 2010 16 17 +1 (not...
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sltaylor posted a blog entry

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 12:41:56 America/Los_Angeles

Looking at the Senate Health Care Vote
As everyone already knows, the Senate voted this morning 60-391 to pass their version of the health care reform bill. I did a...
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JamesOTB posted a blog entry

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:46:30 America/Los_Angeles

Where You Sit
Position, they say, is policy. President Obama is discovering, as are many of his fellow travellers, that the tools he was...
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JamesOTB posted a blog entry

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 07:46:36 America/Los_Angeles

Sun Belt Growth Continues but Slows
While most Americans think of the Census Bureau only in terms of the decennial population count, they are actually constantly...
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JamesOTB posted a blog entry

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:51:12 America/Los_Angeles

We All Want What’s Best
Ezra Klein surveys the political landscape and offers a bold assessment: At this point, structural reform of the legislative...
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JamesOTB posted a blog entry

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:45:26 America/Los_Angeles

Colbert on Colbert
Veteran journalist Jim Warren recounts this weekend’s 50th anniversary celebration at Chicago’s famed Second City...
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JamesOTB posted a blog entry

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:32:50 America/Los_Angeles

Mitch McConnell Surrenders to Reality
RedState’s Erick Erickson has a piece with the headline “Mitch McConnell Surrenders.” His dastardly crime? ...
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JamesOTB posted a blog entry

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:58:40 America/Los_Angeles

Obama Less Popular Than Bush?
George W. Bush left office as one of the most despised presidents in American history. Could Barack Obama actually be less...
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wmblake7 posted a blog entry

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:31:27 America/Los_Angeles

Green Party of New York Decries US Senate Health Care Sellout
The Green Party of New York State decries the “historic” deal reached in the US Senate as historic only in the sense of its...
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JamesOTB posted a blog entry

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:30:09 America/Los_Angeles

Members of Congress Receive Useless Subsidies (Apart From Their Salaries)
If there’s one set of government economic interventions that virtually everyone who isn’t planning on running for...
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sltaylor posted a blog entry

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:35:55 America/Los_Angeles

Alabama Gets a New Republican Seat
Today, Representative Parker Griffith (AL-05) switched parties from Democrat to Republican (see the Politico: House Dem...
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JamesOTB posted a blog entry

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:12:16 America/Los_Angeles

RedState and Club For Growth Target Griffith
Dave Wiegel notes that before the pixels were dry on the announcement that Rep. Parker Griffith had switched party...
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JamesOTB posted a blog entry

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:56:10 America/Los_Angeles

Parker Griffith Switching to Republican Party
The news that a freshman Alabama Congressman Parker Griffith is switching from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party...
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JamesOTB posted a blog entry

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:16:33 America/Los_Angeles

State Controlled Media
Yesterday, Teresa Kopec noted the strange convergence of the Left and Right over the healthcare debate, quipping “2009:...
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sltaylor posted a blog entry

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:38:09 America/Los_Angeles

Krugman’s Right
In a post entitled The WYSIWYG president over at his NYT blog, Paul Krugman makes two key points about the Obama...
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sltaylor posted a blog entry

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:10:27 America/Los_Angeles

Back to the “War” on Christmas
The LAT has a good piece on seasonal complaining that is worth reading: Stop that Christmas griping: please spare me the...
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JamesOTB posted a blog entry

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 07:03:57 America/Los_Angeles

Why Andrew Sullivan Will Dump Obama in 2012
Patrick Appel reveals an interesting pattern about his boss, Andrew Sullivan: Look at the presidential nominees Andrew has...
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JamesOTB posted a blog entry

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:57:58 America/Los_Angeles

Cash For Cloture
Someone, perhaps this commenter at ABC’s The Note, has coined “Cash for Cloture” to describe the outrageous...
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JamesOTB posted a blog entry

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 05:54:08 America/Los_Angeles

Andrew Sullivan’s Alter Ego
Scott Payne has an extensive interview with Patrick Appel, who, we have recently learned, is much more than Andrew...
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