Wed Mar 17, 2010 at 23:10:25 PM CDT
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- Karl 'Turdblossom' Rove has a book out, is everywhere on corporate media, and remains pretty much a lying, pusillanimous swine. From Political Cortex.
- A report on a strange campaign to 'market' toxic sludge, from The Smirking Chimp.
- CNN has reached a new low, and can no longer be remotely considered a legitimate journalistic outlet. I base this on posts from Digby, here, and Media Matters, here.
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Tue Mar 16, 2010 at 22:47:30 PM CDT
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- 'March Badness' from Alliance for a Better Minnesota.
- Two sites re: the Middle East: Uruknet has its perspective; Israel Insider has a different one.
- Talk about a heroic endeavor. This blog is Orange County Progressive (subtitled 'Change for Orange County').
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Sun Mar 14, 2010 at 23:09:13 PM CDT
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- A report from attendees at the Sparklepony anti-HCR extravaganza, from Democratic Underground.
- A group of prominent religious figures, of various faiths, signed a letter supporting HCR. Via National Catholic Reporter.
- Native Americans and the Missouri River, from Street Prophets.
- An update on proposed financial regulation, from Crooks and Liars. I'm withholding judgment, trying not to get my hopes too high. My suspicion is that, as with HCR, what we do get will be a first step, nothing more, nothing less.
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Sat Mar 13, 2010 at 23:12:10 PM CST
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- 'Why Are We Afraid to Tax the Super-Rich?' from AlterNet.
- Polluters want to kill, via referendum, California's efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. From Calitics.
- Analysis of Fox 'News', and other media, from News Corpse. It is just as unnecessary for the media to worry about competition from Fox as it is to worry about competition from Nickelodeon (which, ironically, is a better source for news than Fox, and plays to a smarter audience).
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Fri Mar 12, 2010 at 23:01:00 PM CST
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- An editorial from Scientific American: 'The Crisis of Public Management.'
- Political Animal, on the media double-standard regarding political sex scandals being the opposite of what one might think, given Repug. sanctimoniousness.
- MNPublius on a Republican budget plan that's gotten some ink lately. And what a farce it is.
- Two related posts, here and here, from The Cucking Stool on teacher-bashing. The second is actually mostly Dick Bernard's opinion piece in the Minneapolis StarTribune.
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Wed Mar 10, 2010 at 23:22:29 PM CST
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- AMERICAblog, on the realities of current markets, with reference to the not-so-reality-based reporting in corporate media.
- Maricopa County, Arizona (which includes Phoenix) Sheriff Joe Arpaio has been one of the sorriest, most obnoxious and self-serving demagogues in elective office of any kind for a while now. His comeuppance may be nigh, from Daily Kos.
- Selections from 'The World As I See It,' by A. Einstein.
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Mon Mar 08, 2010 at 23:37:06 PM CST
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- Analysis on Iraq, immediately post-election, and therefore somewhat speculative, from Juan Cole.
- Foreign Policy Watch bucks a good deal of U.S. media conventional wisdom on Iraq.
- Like The Progressive Realist, and many others (e.g. Border Jumpers, in the yellow box on this page), I like to highlight that sub-Saharan Africa is far from a 'lost cause.'
- 'The Fastest Growing Export of the Western Banking Industry is Fraud,' from Zero Hedge. Long, for a blog post (especially compared to mine), but worthwhile. "These 'experts' will tell you that the present difficulties are simply the result of abuses and excesses in a system that is basically sound. All that is required is for some faults to be corrected. Do not believe them. The reality is that the problem is systemic and a little tinkering here or there will achieve nothing in the long term. What is needed is a root-and-branch re-evaluation of that most curious of cultural inventions, money: how it is created, how it circulates, and how it can best be used to serve the interests of the community."
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Sun Mar 07, 2010 at 23:20:38 PM CST
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- This, from the Death Penalty Information Center, is interesting. A judge ruled the death penalty in Texas unconstitutional, though he'll likely be reversed.
- Progressives in New Mexico at New Mexico FBIHOP. I'm not sure what the caps. represent.
- This is insane. Not in a loose, colloquial sense, but literally. From TPMMuckraker.
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Sat Mar 06, 2010 at 23:27:52 PM CST
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- This, from Skeptical Science, is great for rhetorically slapping down climate change deniers.
- News about ACORN, and the right's reaction, from The American Prospect.
- Here is the website for the Indigenous Environmental Network, which I read somewhere is, or was, based in Bemidji, MN.
- Here's a list of physicians organizations supporting HCR with a public option, from The Health Care Reform Debate Blog - CMHMD.
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