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FiveThirtyEight.com: Projection: Franken to Win Recount by 27 Votes
Seeded on Mon Nov 24, 2008 2:57 AM EST (fivethirtyeight.com)
Franken will win by 27 votes once the recount process is complete (including specifically the adjudication of all challenged ballots).
FiveThirtyEight.com: The Ghosts of 1993
Seeded on Sun Nov 23, 2008 2:35 PM EST (fivethirtyeight.com)
Put differently, if Obama can't get a DADT repeal passed, then good luck with something like universal health insurance, which though also supported by solid majorities of the public, is not at 75 percent support, and will be met with much, much more vigorous resistance from lobb …
FiveThirtyEight.com: Amid Epidemic of Challenges, Coleman Appears to Expand Lead
Seeded on Sun Nov 23, 2008 2:31 PM EST (fivethirtyeight.com)
Minnesota's recount, generally speaking, has gone smoothly, and is a model for how other states should adjudicate their recount process.
WSJ: The Numbers Guy : Zogby's Misleading Poll of Obama Voters
Seeded on Sun Nov 23, 2008 2:19 PM EST (Wall Street Journal)
The other five questions covered events or comments during the primary or from decades ago, including Obama's first campaign and a Biden presidential bid in 1987 done in by charges of plagiarism in law school and on the campaign trail.
Maureen Dowd: Marriage on the Rocks
Seeded on Sun Nov 23, 2008 1:26 PM EST (The New York Times)
Gays who supported Barack Obama had the bittersweet experience of seeing voters who surged to the polls to vote Democratic also vote for Proposition 8, which turned gay "I dos" into "You can'ts." I e-mailed Larry Kramer, the leading activist for gay rights in the era th …
Mixed Martial Arts Makes Its Way to High School - NYTimes.com
Seeded on Tue Nov 18, 2008 2:26 AM EST (The New York Times)
1) Beat the crap out of someone 2) Say "no way dude, I didn't mean it like that... I was just practicing my moves." 3) Start calling "beating the crap out of someone" "sport" 4) Call your new sport cage fighting...
Sarah Palin's $150,000 Shopping Spree: Politics and Power: vanityfair.com
Seeded on Tue Nov 18, 2008 2:19 AM EST (The Latest From VanityFair.com)
I know I'm not the only one who's been asking how in the world can you spend so much money on clothes - and not from a values perspective, but from a sheer lack of understanding of how it's physically possible understanding.
"Terrorist Fist Jab" Coiner E.D. Hill To Leave Fox News Channel
Seeded on Tue Nov 18, 2008 2:01 AM EST (The Huffington Post)
Karma!
Administration Protects Bush Appointees by Converting Positions to Career Civil Service Jobs - washingtonpost.com
Seeded on Tue Nov 18, 2008 1:59 AM EST (The Washington Post)
Heads up to the folks running Rachel Maddow's 'Lame Duck Watch: Quackitude'! Just weeks before leaving office, the Interior Department's top lawyer has shifted half a dozen key deputies -- including two former political appointees who have been involved in controversial environme …
Gingrich On Prop 8 Protests: "Gay and Secular Fascism... Prepared To Use Violence
Seeded on Mon Nov 17, 2008 11:43 PM EST (The Huffington Post)
Hate-mon-ger-er (adj.):GINGRICH: Look, I think there is a gay and secular fascism in this country that wants to impose its will on the rest of us, is prepared to use violence, to use harassment. I think it is prepared to use the government if it can get control of it.
Jindal: Intelligent Design
Seeded on Sun Nov 16, 2008 11:48 PM EST (The Huffington Post)
So this "very best science" includes intelligent design how...? This, from the supposed young, fresh face of Republican leaders. He now says that Republicans need to get back to their core values in order to re-earn the trust of the American people.
Cenk Uygur: The Center-Right Myth
Seeded on Sun Nov 16, 2008 10:46 PM EST (The Huffington Post)
I've been thinking the same ever since Newsweek ran that nonsensical cover stating the same a few weeks ago.What is it going to take to get through the dunderheads in DC -- this is not a center-right country! In the last two elections the Democrats picked up over fifty seats in t …
TheHill.com - Gingrich says Palin will not be the future GOP leader
Seeded on Sun Nov 16, 2008 10:41 PM EST (TheHill.com)
I trust Newt as an expert on Republican Party politics, if nothing else..."I think that she is going to be a significant player," said Gingrich during an interview on CBS's "Face the Nation". "But she's going to be one of 20 or 30 significant players.
Structural Adjustment—a Major Cause of Poverty — Global Issues
Seeded on Sun Nov 16, 2008 10:38 PM EST (globalissues.org)
For more background on structural adjustment - sounds eerily familiar to the policies that caused our own financial collapse, doesn't it?Following an ideology known as neoliberalism, and spearheaded by these and other institutions known as the "Washington Consensus" (for bein …
BBC NEWS | Business | IMF head calls for extra funding
Seeded on Sun Nov 16, 2008 10:36 PM EST (BBC News)
Does this mean that the IMF will impose smarter structural adjustment conditions on countries receiving their aid than US leaders have imposed on our own aid for us?
Today's Quote: Thursday, November 13, 2008 - 236.com - News
Seeded on Sun Nov 16, 2008 6:44 PM EST (236.com)
Sarah Palin's command of the English language is startling! The quote is from the RGA convention.
Alaska: Most uncounted ballots will be tallied Wednesday
Seeded on Wed Nov 12, 2008 2:40 AM EST (adn.com: Alaska)
Something fishy is going on in Alaska...For days, the count has been frozen. Sen. Ted Stevens leads Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich by about 3,000 votes with roughly 30 percent of the ballots remaining to be counted, including: • 61,000 absentee votes.
Wonkette : American People Give Republican Party Major Responsibility: big $ale on truck nutz
Seeded on Wed Nov 12, 2008 2:29 AM EST (Wonkette » top)
Wow...Well now we have leverage with the Republican party to rebuild it in the likeness of Truck Nutz. The Paultards, meanwhile, have nothing.
Coming Out: The Development of my Librarian Identity
Seeded on Sun Nov 9, 2008 4:40 PM EST (blip.tv)
A fantastic story! :)
Nicholas Kristof: Obama and the War on Brains --- Are intellectuals out of the closet…?
Seeded on Sun Nov 9, 2008 8:06 AM EST (The New York Times)
Barack Obama's election is a milestone in more than his pigmentation. The second most remarkable thing about his election is that American voters have just picked a president who is an open, out-of-the-closet, practicing intellectual.
Saturday Night Live: Weekend Update: Palin Rap
Seeded on Sun Nov 9, 2008 4:23 AM EST (hulu.com)
mccain-palin, gonna put the nail in the coffin... of the media elite (she likes red meat) shoot a mother-humpin moose eight days of the week!
The Secret to Rachel Maddow's Success
Seeded on Sun Nov 9, 2008 4:19 AM EST (New York Magazine)
Amen! Read up.On a Wednesday in September, executive producer Bill Wolff is regaling the room with a story about George Bush confusing Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. "He praised Kazakhstan for choosing democracy. Except it was Kyrgyzstan.
Rachel Maddow video: Voters say, 'Smoking weed is okay, gay marriage is not'
Seeded on Sun Nov 9, 2008 4:09 AM EST (msnbc.com)
Right on.
Palin Didn't Know Africa Is A Continent, Says Fox News Reporter (VIDEO)
Seeded on Sun Nov 9, 2008 3:59 AM EST (The Huffington Post)
According to Fox News Chief Political Correspondent Carl Cameron, there was great concern within the McCain campaign that Palin lacked "a degree of knowledgeability necessary to be a running mate, a vice president, a heartbeat away from the presidency," in part because she didn't …
You can't take this away from me: Proposition 8 broke our hearts, but it did not end our fight.
Seeded on Sun Nov 9, 2008 3:47 AM EST (hrcbackstory.org)
As free and equal human beings, we were born with the right to equal families. The courts did not give us this right—they simply recognized it. And although California has ceased to grant us marriage licenses, our rights are not subject to anyone's approval.
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