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• New site

  I've set up a new site at http://newsrackblog.com. It's not quite what I want -- not sure about the green or the rather small font -- but all of that can be fixed once I've either built up some coding skills or found a better Wordpress template (so long, blogger.com). [...]
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  Posted: June 14, 2008, 11:17pm EDT
  

• Worth reading

  A stalled U.S. peace movement? Antiwar activity since 2001 (janinsanfran, "Happening Here") --- This is the fifth and last post of a series Jan wrote to gather her thoughts for a history workshop, and the whole series is worth your while. Jan concludes:A more effective peace movement needs to be [...]
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  Posted: May 24, 2008, 11:59pm EDT
  

• Good for a grin

  Liberal Pundits Offer Unprecedented Apology (Berube, TPM Cafe) --- The organization, "Repentant Villagers," announced today that it would be issuing formal apologies to hundreds of liberal bloggers, including Duncan Black, Jane Hamsher, Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, Glenn Greenwald, and "Digby," acknowledging that the progressive blogosphere was right about Lieberman after all. [...]
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  Posted: May 24, 2008, 11:40pm EDT
  

• It's Yoo again

  In today's Washington Post article "Sentence in Memo Discounted FISA," Robert Barnes reports that Senators Whitehouse and Feinstein have finally pried loose an Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) opinion purporting to provide legal cover for ignoring FISA (the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) as the exclusive means by which electronic surveillance [...]
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  Posted: May 23, 2008, 12:30pm EDT
  

• One Chinese family suffers; no translation necessary

  An NPR team followed a couple of parents back to the rubble of their apartment building in Dujiangyan, and reported it inDujiangyan Parents' Search for Child: With some bodies now found, the military was called in. Soon, about three dozen military police arrived in green camouflage fatigues and black rubber [...]
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  Posted: May 14, 2008, 5:38pm EDT
  

• dove evolution

  Via Roy Edroso ("alicublog"). [...]
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  Posted: May 12, 2008, 1:17pm EDT
  

• Department of followups: obliteration, Altstoetter

  An occasional review of further developments in stuff I've written about before. Past diminishing and well into negative returns..., April 24, 2008 --- Responding to Senator Clinton's threat to "obliterate" Iran if it were to attack Israel,* Iranian cleric and "Assembly of Experts" member Ahmed Khatami said: A disreputable American (presidential) candidate [...]
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 2:15pm EDT
  

• Even Myanmar's junta may hit this one out of the park

  First Lady Condemns Junta's Response to Storm - washingtonpost.com: 'Although they were aware of the threat, Burma's state-run media failed to issue a timely warning to citizens in the storm's path,' she said. 'The response to this cyclone is just the most recent example of the junta's failures to meet [...]
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  Posted: May 06, 2008, 3:59pm EDT
  

• A nation turns its stony eyes from you

  Last week I had to put down my newspaper in the Metro for a long time. The front page news photo -- connected with the story "U.S. Role Deepens in Sadr City" -- was this: Two-year-old Ali Hussein is pulled from the rubble of his family's home in the Shiite stronghold of [...]
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  Posted: May 06, 2008, 12:30pm EDT
  

• Ask not for whom the torturer comes

  What Jim Henley said, about Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's sophistry about torture not being prohibited under the Eighth Amendment because it isn't "punishment" but interrogation: ...one of my biggest arguments was that the corruption of war and torture would seep back across the border and contaminate republican institutions and [...]
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  Posted: May 02, 2008, 9:30am EDT
  

• Mission accomplished! -- "Responsible Plan" dropped off at Van Hollen's office

  Hank Prensky, Julius West, Michelle Bailey, Joy Austin-Lane. 2d photo here. Originally uploaded by Thomas Nephew. As advertised, I joined my friends Michelle Bailey, Hank Prensky, and Joy Austin-Lane in a short visit to Congressman Chris Van Hollen's (D-MD-8) local Hyattsville office (just outside Takoma Park), to bring the Congressman a [...]
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  Posted: May 01, 2008, 12:30pm EDT
  

• I have a responsible plan to end the war in Iraq

  Thursday, May 1 is the fifth anniversary of "Mission Accomplished" - the day George Bush stood on an aircraft carrier declaring major combat operations over in Iraq. Five years later, the costs of war keep mounting and there's still no end in sight. In 1994, the Republicans came up with [...]
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  Posted: April 30, 2008, 12:35am EDT
  

• Past diminishing and well into negative returns...

  ...on the value of this Democratic primary campaign. eRobin ("fact-esque") and others see it differently, seeing the campaign as giving candidates a chance to hear from more voters: ...the more time they're out there forced to compete for the votes of the people who want to hear about the candidates' [...]
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  Posted: April 24, 2008, 1:38am EDT
  

• Practice to deceive

  The past few weeks have provided numerous headlines about torture authorized by the American government. The stories quickly climbed up the dungeon ladder from John Yoo's second torture memo to the revelation that Cabinet-level discussions were held specifically about whether and how to "interrogate" -- that is, torture -- prisoners, [...]
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  Posted: April 22, 2008, 2:00am EDT
  

• Good for a grin

  Huge, if belated applause for Roy Edroso ("alicublog"), whose "The Official Village Voice Election-Season Guide to the Right-Wing Blogosphere: A confederacy of dunces was last week's cover story in the Village Voice! My favorite parts are the "stupid/evil ratio" factoids assigned to all --highest evil quotient: Glenn Reynolds (5:95); highest stupid [...]
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  Posted: April 22, 2008, 1:15am EDT
  

• RealNews video clips

  The Real News Network is a great resource for different takes (and sometimes the only takes) on world news, with voices from outside the mainstream of U.S. media. Here are some of the clips I've saved, as recently as today, on topics from Iraq to Zimbabwe to the Democratic primaries. [...]
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  Posted: April 21, 2008, 12:48pm EDT
  

• Health Care You Keep

  Not just health care policy -- funny health care policy. And even brave health care policy, says Ezra Klein, who describes Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Bob Bennett's (R-UT) plan asradical integration of the system, a sort of single-payer that uses private insurers as regulated subcontractors, rather than a multipayer [...]
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  Posted: April 18, 2008, 12:47am EDT
  

• I agree -- let's all be more skeptical

  Sound advice for Obama supporters -- in a barely friendly, clenched-teeth, ... oh, what the heck, fairly hostile sort of way -- from Obama-skeptic Kate Harding (at "Shakesville"). With the refrain "Obama is not a f*@%ing progressive," Harding rehearses a well-researched list of many of the Obama negatives I've noted [...]
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  Posted: April 13, 2008, 1:17am EDT
  

• Zimbabwe: enough is enough

  Reprisal attacks by Robert Mugabe's militias (Zimbabwe) Originally uploaded by Sokwanele - Zimbabwe. More here.Via the Flickr "Democracy in Action" photo pool, I ran across a blog by Zimbabweans called "This is Zimbabwe" this evening. The blog is run by Sokwanele, described as a "popular underground movement in Zimbabwe" in Wikipedia. Sokwanele [...]
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  Posted: April 10, 2008, 11:20pm EDT
  

• Among the netroots

  Senator Feingold addresses fundraiser attendees Two other photos from the event here. Originally uploaded by Thomas Nephew (For more and better images, see KC's photos.)I went to a "Netroots Nation" fundraiser yesterday at the Mott House near the Capitol. The price was pretty reasonable as fundraisers go, and there was the prospect [...]
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  Posted: April 10, 2008, 6:01pm EDT
  

• Moral authority is for assholes, not players

  Your former Undersecretary of Defense and mine, Douglas Feith, speaking with Philippe Sands ("The Green Light," Vanity Fair about the good old days when he played a role in approving torture: "This year I was really a player," Feith said, thinking back on 2002 and relishing the memory. I asked [...]
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  Posted: April 09, 2008, 12:30pm EDT
  

• Memory almost full

  (Self-updating listing of my "del.icio.us" links) This blog is parked at an ISP home page site granting about 16MB of space. After about six and half years(!) of blogging, that space is almost full; you might say newsrack blog is approaching the "one more wafer" stage. I've been moving images (they [...]
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  Posted: April 07, 2008, 12:30pm EDT
  

• Obama and Durbin's "mistake"

  ...we have a tendency to demonize and jump on and make mockery of each other across the aisle, and that is particularly pronounced when we make mistakes. Each and every one of us is going to make a mistake once in a while…and what we hope is that our track [...]
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  Posted: April 02, 2008, 1:24am EDT
  

• Fafblog! returns

  Really! Fafblog! back to save the universe. I'm glad, even if it's just for a day. (Hat tip to KCinDC) [...]
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  Posted: April 01, 2008, 12:30pm EDT
  

• Thoughts on "Bush's War"; on the road

  I haven't meant to keep quiet here quite this much since last Thursday -- but now the pause may get extended through the weekend. We're on the road to Connecticut to see an old friend, so new posts may not be possible and won't be a priority. === I watched part 2 [...]
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  Posted: March 26, 2008, 12:30pm EDT
  

• Why we're liberals -- an altercation

  Politics & Prose is quite possibly the best bookstore in the country, and I've seen some good ones. We went there again last night, ostensibly to pick up a birthday present for Maddie's friend, in reality to feed our family's book addictions, and just to go to one of our [...]
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  Posted: March 20, 2008, 8:30am EDT
  

• Donna Edwards et al on "A Responsible Plan to End the War in Iraq"

  Donna Edwards and other congressional candidates explain why they've endorsed "A Responsible Plan to End the War in Iraq" in the video below: Yes, I know he's not Donna Edwards; I mainly want the leftyblogs Maryland link. Ms. Edwards has made the plan a prominent feature of her campaign web site. [...]
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  Posted: March 19, 2008, 1:00pm EDT
  

• A Responsible Plan to End the War in Iraq

  Responsibly ending the U.S. military action in Iraq and returning control of the country to the Iraqis is a critical step in enhancing U.S. security. This solution requires that no residual U.S. troops remain in Iraq. The continued presence in Iraq of so-called “residual” forces beyond the minimum needed for [...]
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  Posted: March 18, 2008, 1:03am EDT
  

• Real News: Winter Soldier clips

  Pieces providing an overview of the conference, "Winter Soldier testimonials," testimony by Hart Viges, and commentary on Blackwater are also available, but aren't currently listed above; there may be a 10-clip limit or something. As eRobin mentions, these conferences and videos cost money. Consider supporting Winter Soldier and Real News Network. ===== UPDATE, [...]
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  Posted: March 17, 2008, 12:30pm EDT
  

• Good for a grin

  Eschaton: "When I'm fresh out of things to post about I usually ask myself, 'Self? Did Joe Klein do anything stupid today?' ... Yep." Of course, there's always the option of just not posting anything, but maybe that's why Duncan Black is a big time blogger and I'm not. ... [...]
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  Posted: March 16, 2008, 10:40pm EDT
  

• Iraq War? How's that going, anyhow?

  Via the always excellent Real News Network, Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies summarizes testimony from Winter Soldier: "Abu Ghraib was not an aberration, Haditha was not an aberration." She goes on to criticize Obama and Clinton for apparently envisioning residual forces in Iraq, and I agree with [...]
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  Posted: March 16, 2008, 4:20pm EDT
  

• Winter Soldier

  I meant to flag this, and now eRobin reminds me of it: the "Winter Soldier" event is taking place now, and can be listened to live via KPFA Radio's "The War Comes Home" web site. As TimesOnlines' Ariel Leve explains ("Patriot missiles: Iraq Veterans Against the War"), "Winter Soldier" takes up [...]
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  Posted: March 14, 2008, 2:11pm EDT
  

• Another governor in trouble -- at least, he ought to be

  There's a storm brewing out in Nevada that ought to be much bigger than the one surrounding Eliot Spitzer: people's health and lives are at risk because of shoddy medical practices -- and neglectful oversight. As the Wall Street Journal's Scott Hensley explains, a Las Vegas endoscopy clinic has been reusing [...]
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  Posted: March 11, 2008, 9:43pm EDT
  

• President Torture

  Noted with contempt: Bush Announces Veto of Waterboarding Ban (Washington Post, March 8): President Bush vetoed Saturday legislation meant to ban the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation tactics, saying it 'would take away one of the most valuable tools on the war on terror.' 'This is no time [...]
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  Posted: March 09, 2008, 1:26am EST
  

• taking a breather: rivers, tides, music, stars

  from Rivers and Tides, Andy Goldsworthy, movie by Thomas Riedelsheimer, 2001 (6:35) Billie Holliday, Lester Young, "Fine And Mellow," 1957 (9:04) The Hubble Deep Field Image, movie by astronomers at SUNY, 1995 (4:30) ... assembled from 342 separate exposures taken with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) for ten consecutive days [...]
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  Posted: March 08, 2008, 7:30pm EST
  

• Vote Sinbad '08

  In an interview with CNN earlier this week Senator Clinton, responding to a question about her foreign policy experience, listed efforts in Northern Ireland, Macedonia and Bosnia, among others. But Mike Dorning and Christi Parsons, of the Chicago Tribune report ("Clinton's experience claim under scrutiny"): But her involvement in the [...]
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  Posted: March 08, 2008, 2:14am EST
  

• Dear Hillary

  There are so many ways I really, really hate this: Look, I have said that Senator McCain will bring a lifetime of experience to the campaign, I will bring a lifetime of experience, and Senator Obama will bring a speech that he gave in 2002. I think that is a significant [...]
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  Posted: March 08, 2008, 12:37am EST
  

• Book tag: Shock Doctrine, Arsenals of Folly

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  Posted: March 05, 2008, 1:00am EST
  

• Austan Goolsbee, International Man of Mystery

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  Posted: March 04, 2008, 7:23pm EST
  

• Worth reading

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  Posted: March 03, 2008, 8:32pm EST
  

• Comparing appeals

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  Posted: March 01, 2008, 11:00pm EST
  

• Senator Clinton and the Iraq AUMF

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  Posted: February 28, 2008, 10:47pm EST
  

• ONN: Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early

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  Posted: February 27, 2008, 12:30am EST
  

• "Taxi to the Dark Side" wins Oscar

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  Posted: February 25, 2008, 8:30am EST
  

• Department of followups -- Taxi to the Dark Side edition

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  Posted: February 23, 2008, 9:47pm EST
  

• Good for a grin

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  Posted: February 23, 2008, 3:27pm EST
  

• On the other hand: a changed system

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  Posted: February 23, 2008, 1:03am EST
  

• Asserting hope

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  Posted: February 22, 2008, 11:49pm EST
  

• Prairie View A&M rocks

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  Posted: February 22, 2008, 11:32pm EST
  

• Hail to the Chief, he's the only one we've got

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  Posted: February 19, 2008, 1:28am EST
  

• Not of the body

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  Posted: February 18, 2008, 5:30pm EST
  

• Voting for Obama

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  Posted: February 16, 2008, 5:30pm EST
  

• Happy Valentine's Day

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  Posted: February 14, 2008, 12:30pm EST
  

• Good for a grin

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  Posted: February 13, 2008, 2:13pm EST
  

• Discovery is more than the name of their company...

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  Posted: February 12, 2008, 1:16am EST
  

• Super Tuesday endorsement face-off

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  Posted: February 05, 2008, 12:30pm EST
  

• Worth reading -- Super Tuesday edition

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  Posted: February 05, 2008, 1:04am EST
  

• The really important news on what is now truly a Super Tuesday

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  Posted: February 05, 2008, 12:02am EST
  

• WashingtonPostUnfair.com

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  Posted: February 04, 2008, 10:59pm EST
  

• Neither of the above -- for now

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  Posted: February 04, 2008, 6:30pm EST
  

• The good news is...

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  Posted: February 02, 2008, 4:47pm EST
  

• Help a Posner-fightin' blogger out

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  Posted: January 31, 2008, 1:42am EST
  

• Edwards

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  Posted: January 30, 2008, 10:23pm EST
  

• Library of Congress historical photos online

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  Posted: January 18, 2008, 12:43am EST
  

• Maryland's messenger meets Mercury

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  Posted: January 16, 2008, 6:15pm EST
  by Thomas Nephew

• Video: last leg of Nirenberg's "March in My Name" for impeachment

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  Posted: January 14, 2008, 1:07am EST
  by Thomas Nephew

• A walk to strengthen a weakening Constitution

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  Posted: January 14, 2008, 12:30am EST
  by Thomas Nephew

• Happy fourth birthday, fact-esque!

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  Posted: January 13, 2008, 11:16pm EST
  by Thomas Nephew

• Tear it down -- protest Guantanamo and torture online and in person

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  Posted: January 10, 2008, 12:30pm EST
  by Thomas Nephew

• Great headline

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  Posted: January 10, 2008, 12:43am EST
  by Thomas Nephew

• Hillary human! New Hampshire responds

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  Posted: January 10, 2008, 12:13am EST
  by Thomas Nephew

• Dems win New Hampshire on change -- not more of the same

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  Posted: January 09, 2008, 12:30pm EST
  by Thomas Nephew

• Good for a grin

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  Posted: January 07, 2008, 6:45pm EST
  by Thomas Nephew

• McGovern for impeachment

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  Posted: January 07, 2008, 2:43am EST
  by Thomas Nephew

• You'd think this would get more attention

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  Posted: January 06, 2008, 11:26pm EST
  by Thomas Nephew

• Major Andrew Olmsted,, a.k.a. G'Kar

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  Posted: January 04, 2008, 6:00pm EST
  by Thomas Nephew

• Obama's biggest "Lieberman" of all

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  Posted: January 03, 2008, 2:35pm EST
  by Thomas Nephew

• 2008 presidential candidates on executive power: an spreadsheet

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  Posted: December 28, 2007, 7:04pm EST
  by Thomas Nephew

• Philly Inquirer runs Rep. Wexler's impeachment op-ed

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  Posted: December 27, 2007, 6:15pm EST
  by Thomas Nephew

• We had a deal: contra Henley and Ron Paul on the Civil War

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  Posted: December 26, 2007, 12:38am EST
  by Thomas Nephew

• Washington Ballet Nutcracker season over

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  Posted: December 23, 2007, 11:33pm EST
  by Thomas Nephew

• Kiriakou: apologist or whistleblower?

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  Posted: December 23, 2007, 11:10pm EST
  by Thomas Nephew

• Cardin stands with Dodd for rule of law, against telcom immunity

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  Posted: December 18, 2007, 1:48am EST
  by Thomas Nephew

• My blog space

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  Posted: December 16, 2007, 4:59pm EST
  by Thomas Nephew

• Some good news, anyway: WexlerWantsHearings.com, Adel Hamad released

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  Posted: December 14, 2007, 6:30pm EST
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• Good for a grin

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  Posted: December 05, 2007, 10:19pm EST
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• ...and when did they know they didn't know it?

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  Posted: December 04, 2007, 6:35pm EST
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• Greenland melt anomaly

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  Posted: November 30, 2007, 5:40pm EST
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• Shameless commerce division

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  Posted: November 28, 2007, 12:30pm EST
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• Drum can't read his (golden) compass

  Kevin Drum holds forth on Philip Pullman's "Golden Compass" series, arguing that Christian right has a point in worrying about the effects of the upcoming movie: I'm sure the movie itself will indeed be harmless, but the books are every conservative Christian's nightmare of what the secular left's real agenda is [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2007, 1:15am EST
  by Thomas Nephew

• Obama on Social Security

  I noticed the graph on the right earlier this year when Ezra Klein lifted it from a Council on Budget and Policy Priorities.* As the title indicates, yes, there's a looming budget crunch -- but as the dark blue area at the bottom of the graph indicates, no, it's not because [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2007, 1:30am EST
  by Thomas Nephew

• Thanksgiving -- everything you know is wrong

  The real thanksgiving story is much more interesting than the one we've learned. That story about Squanto, the friendly Indian? Even the name is wrong. From Chapter 2 of 1491, by Charles C. Mann:More than likely, Tisquantum was not the name he was given at birth. In that part of [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2007, 1:01am EST
  by Thomas Nephew

• Good for a grin

  You'll regret this, publius. You too, Nephew. The Gods Must Be Petty (publius, "Obsidian Wings") -- It’s interesting that religious people – including me at one point – tend to ignore causation when praying for help. Bad stuff just sort of happens, but then the benevolent God might be persuaded to fix [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2007, 12:30pm EST
  by Thomas Nephew

• A fortiori

  Though we've never met, Marty Lederman, a Georgetown law professor who writes frequently for the blog "Balkinization," is someone I hold in high esteem. As a former Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) lawyer in the Department of Justice, he has great insight into the procedures and importance of that agency. [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2007, 12:20am EST
  by Thomas Nephew

• Majority say Bush and Cheney committed impeachable offenses

  In a new American Research Group (ARG) poll, a substantial majority of Americans say both President Bush and Vice President Cheney have abused their powers to levels "which rise to the level of impeachable offenses under the Constitution." Among such Americans, a majority favors Bush's impeachment and removal, and a [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2007, 12:33am EST
  by Thomas Nephew

• Majority say Bush and Cheney committed impeachable offenses

  In a new American Research Group (ARG) poll, a substantial majority of Americans say both President Bush and Vice President Cheney have abused their powers to levels "which rise to the level of impeachable offenses under the Constitution." Among such Americans, a majority favors Bush's impeachment and removal, and a [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2007, 12:33am EST
  by Thomas Nephew

• Optical scan voting survives Maryland House committee vote

  Thanks to tenacious lobbying by TrueVoteMD, SAVEOurVotes, and other verified voting supporters -- and to strong advocacy by District 20 delegates Sheila Hixson, Heather Mizeur, and Tom Hucker -- optical scan voting machines remained funded in the House version of the Special Session budget to be sent to conference, and [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2007, 12:30pm EST
  by Thomas Nephew

• Cassini-Huygens, Titan / Opportunity, Mars

  Movie built from telemetry data during the descent of the ESA probe "Huygens" to the surface of Titan. Some Brian Eno type had the nice idea of associating the activation of different mechanisms on board the Huygens with specific musical tones and colors: This movie, built with data collected during the [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2007, 10:02am EST
  by Thomas Nephew

• Well said, David Wade

  Senator John Kerry spokesman David Wade, responding to Rush Limbaugh's claim that the Swift Boat Veterans' charges about Kerry in Vietnam "were right on the money, and nobody has disproven anything they claimed in any of their ads, statements, written commentaries, or anything of the sort": At first I thought, that’s [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2007, 11:59pm EST
  by Thomas Nephew

• I miss Fafblog!

  But at least Fafblog has a long shelf life. February 20, 2006: Q. Why are we in Iraq? A. To prevent the failure of the occupation of Iraq. If we pull out now the occupation will be a failure! Q. Would it have been easier to have never occupied it in the [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2007, 4:04pm EST
  by Thomas Nephew