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The Archives -- 2008
November 4, 2008
George W. Bush. Tom Engelhardt: Foreclosed: The George W. Bush Story, The Smirking Chimp.
George W. Bush. Simon Schama: Nowhere Man: A Farewell to Dubya, All-Time Loser in Presidential History, The Guardian/UK.
Also, Chris Rowthorn: The Speech We Wish He Gave, The Smirking Chimp.
Bush Administration. Rosa Brooks: Bush's Booby Traps for Obama. Los Angeles Times.
Bush Administration. R. Jeffrey Ssmith: A Last Push to Deregulate. Washington Post.
Bush Administration. George Monbiot: How These Gibbering Numbskulls Came to Dominate Washington. Guardian (U.K.)
Bush Administration/Election 2008. Joseph L. Galloway: They've Squandered Lives, Fortunes and Our Sacred Honor, The McClatchey Newspapers.
The Crisis/Foreign Views. Mitch Potter: What World Needs from US..., The Toronto Star.
Democrats. Walter Alarkon: SEIU, Netroots Target Centrist Dems in 2010. The Hill.
Economy. Paul Krugman: When Consumers Capitulate. The New York Times. Also Steve Benen: Significant Shrinkage. Washington Monthly
Economy. Donald Cohen: The Education of Alan Greenspan. The Huffington Post via CommonDreams.org.
Economy. David Model: The Myth of Free Markets: Even Greenspan Sees the Light, The Smirking Chimp.
Education. George Monbiot: The Triumph of Ignorance: How Morons Succeed in U.S. Politics. AlterNet.
Election 2008. Robert C. Koehler: The Time Has Come. The Smirking Chimp..
Election 2008. Alternet: Are You on the Edge of Your Seat?, Alternet.
Election 2008/Republicans. R.J. Eskow: 100 Million Suspects, The Huffington Post.
Election 2008/John McCain. Greg Palast: How McCain Could Win, Truthout.
Electoral Fraud. Brad Friedman: Tool Developed to Detect Possible Fraud in Election-Tabulating Software, Brad Blog.
Electoral Fraud/Democrats. Brad Friedman: Democrats Continue to Defend Their Indefensible Election Protection Efforts, Brad Blog.
Electoral Integrity. DJK, Brave New Films: How Electronic Voting Machines Could Steal Our Democracy, AlterNet.Electoral Integrity. Michael Collins: Exit Poll Mess - 2008: The Past is Prolog. The Smirking Chimp..
Electoral Integrity. Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman: Beware the Twin Towers of Electronic Election Theft. The Smirking Chimp.
Electoral Integrity. Chris Floyd: Without a Trace: The Smokeless Gun of Flagrant Election Fixing, Chris-Floyd.com
Electoral Integrity/Voter Fraud. Digby: All the Way to the Top. Digby Blog.
Fascism. Robert Parry: The New Technology of Repression, The Smirking Chimp.
Financial Bailout. Naomi Klein: Bailout: Bush's Final Pillage. AlterNet.
Financial Bailout. Gabor Steingart: American, Where It Pays to Fail. Der Spiegel (Germany). Also Tristero: Maybe the Dog Ate It All. Digby Blog.
Foreign Views. Eric Margolis: World Views McCain with Unease, Skepticism, Smirking Chimp.
McCain Campaign. Glenn Greenwald: Defeating McCain: Ending Not Only Neocon Policies, But Also Tactics. Salon.com.
Media. Scott Rosenberg: Andreesen's Newspaper Advice Echoes Grove's, A Decade Ago. Scott Rosenberg Blog.
Media. Jacques Steinberg: An All-Out Attack on 'Conservative Misinformation'. The New York Times.
Media/Liberals. Jessica Pressler: The Dr. Maddow Show, New York Magazine.
Barack Obama. Frank Rich: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. The New York Times.
Barack Obama. Beth Arnold: Interview with Bernard-Henri Levy: Why Europeans Love Obama. Der Spiegel (Germany).
Barack Obama. David Swanson: How and Why I Just Voted. After Downing Street.
Barack Obama/Foreign Views. Johann Hari: In the Age of Transformation, Obama's Time Has Come, The Independent/UK.
The Presidency. Glenn Greenwald: The Single Worst Expression in American Politics. Salon.com
Religion. Lorna Salzman: Rescuing Secular Democracy: Fundamentalist Religion and New Age Movements. The Smirking Chimp.
Religion. Ed Naha: Behind the 8 Bawl, Smirking Chimp.
Republicans. Larry Beinhart: The New Know-Nothings, Common Dreams.
Republicans. John W. Dean: The Evidence Establishes, without Question, that Republican Rule is Dangerous, The Smirking Chimp.
Republicans/Election 2008. Gary Kamiya: The Republican Shipwreck. Salon.com.
Right Wing. David Michael Green: Thirty Years Too Late: The Implosion of John McCain and the Demise of the Regressive Right., CommonDreams.org.
Syria Raid. Steve Benen: Talking to Our Enemies . Washington Monthly. Also dday: No One Could Have Anticipated. Digby Blog.
Syria Raid. Nicholas Blanford: What's Behind the U.S. Military Raid on Syria?. Democratic Underground. Also Eric Schmitt/Thom Shanker: U.S. Confirms Raid in Syria. International Herald-Tribune.
October 28, 2008
Bush Administration. David Michael Green: Remind Me Again -- Who Won the Cold War?, The Smirking Chimp.
Bush Beyond the Law/Pardons. David Swanson: Pardon Me, Congress?. CounterCurrents.
Climate Change. Paul Eccleston: Climate Change Is "Faster and More Extreme" Than Feared. The Telegraph/UK via Common Dreams.org.
The Constitution. Glenn Greenwald: [Review of Bruce Fein's "Constitutional Peril: The Life and Death Struggle for Our Constitution and Democracy"], FireDogLake.
The Crisis. Robert Jensen and Pat Youngblood: Taking Politics Seriously: Looking Beyond the Election and Beyond Elections, The Smirking Chimp.
The Crisi/Lies. Jonathan Schell: When The Gloves Come Off. The Nation.
Dissent. Gary Leupp: Raising the Specter of the '60's. Dissident Voice via The Smirking Chimp.
Dissent. Mike Ferner: It's Our Turn Now: Resistance As If It Really Mattered. The Smirking Chimp.
Economic Crisis. Paul Krugman: The Widening Gyre, New York Times. Also Joe Nocera: So When Will Banks Give Loans?, New York Times. And Scott Rosenberg: Noonan: Maybe Economic Crisis Will "Fade", Scott Rosenberg Blog.
Economic Justice. Linda McQuaig: Maybe the Rich Are the Problem. The Toronto Star via CommonDreams.org.Economic Justice. Robert Freeman: The Dirty Little Secret in McCaion's "Socialism" Charge, Common Dreams.
Economic Justice/Poverty. David Model: The Invisible Americans. The Smirking Chimp.
Education. John F. Borowski. Corporate Curriculum: Teaching the "Science of Death". The Smirking Chimp.
Election 2008. (Fourteen authors): A Fateful Election, The New York Review of Books.
Election 2008. Mark Morford: When History Spanks. San Francisco Chronicle via Common Dreams.org.
Election 2008. DaveLindorff: I'm Calling the Race for Obama. The Smirking Chimp.
Election 2008. Robert C. Koehler: Redesigning Democracy. The Smirking Chimp.
Election 2008. Robert Creamer: Why this Election Actually is About Defining the "Real America. The Huffington Post.
Election 2008. Alan Bisbort: All Along the Watchtower: Is America Still in Denial at this Late Hour? The Smirking Chimp.
Election 2008. Brian Morton: Ground Game. The Smirking Chimp.
Election 2008. Rank Rich: In Defense of White Americans, The New York Times.
Election 2008. Daniel Patrick Welch: Voter Intimidation in Odd Places: Even in Safe States, Hints of Fear and Intimidation, The Smirking Chimp.
Election 2008/Republicans. Tom Engelhardt: F is for Failure: The Bush Doctrine in Ruins. Tom Dispatch. Also H.D.S. Greenway: The Grand Illusion of American Power. Boston Globe.
Electoral Fraud. John H. Richardson: How to Rig an Election, the 2008 Edition. Esquire. Also Bob Fitrakis/Harvey Wasserman: Critical U.S. Supreme Court Ruling Against Rovian GOP Vote Meddling May Prove Temporary. Online Journal.
Electoral Integrity. David Swanson: A McCain "Win" Will Be Theft, Resistance Is Planned. The Smirking Chimp.
Electoral Integrity. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Greg Palast: Block the Vote. Rolling Stone.
Electoral Integrity. Andrew Gumbel: How Safe Is This Election?, AlterNet.
Electoral Integrity. Jennifer Hathaway: This Election Will Not Be Stolenm OpEd News. Also, Steven Freeman: A Way to Restore Confidence in Elections, OpEd News.
Electoral Integrity. PRWatch.org: Counting Electronic Votes in Secret, PRWatch.org.
Electoral Integrity. Mark Karlin: Republican Leaders WHo Participate in Attacks on ACORN Could be Prosecuted as Part of a Criminal Conspiracy, Buzzflash.
Electoral Integrity. Michael Collins: AP Poll -- Setup for a Stolen Election?, The Smirking Chimp.Environment. Alister Doyle: Crunch May Put Price Tag On Environment, Reuters via Common Dreams.org.
Financial Meltdown. Edmund Andrews: Greenspan Concedes Error on Regulation . The New York Times. Also Devilstower: RIP John Galt, Daily Kos.
Iran. Glenn Greenwald: Bipartisanship and Threats of War Toward Iran. Salon.com. Also Glenn Greenwald: Kenneth Katzman on Attacking Iran. Salon.com. And Ian Welsh: U.S. Raids Into Syria Because Destabilizing Pakistan Isn't Enough, FireDogLake.
Iraq Occupation. Gareth Porter: Final Text of Iraq Pact Reveals a U.S. Debacle. IPS News.
John McCain. Tim Dickinson: Make-Believe Maverick. Rolling Stone.
John McCain. Brent Budowsky: Why Adoring Pundits Missed the Collapse of John McCain. The Smirking Chimp.
McCain Campaign. Paul Krugman: Desperately Seeking Seriousness, New York Times. Also Atrios: A Really Bad Campaign, Eschaton.
McCain Campaign/Economic Justice. David Sirota: McCain Banking on a Confederacy of Dunces. TruthDig.com via CommonDreams.org.McCain/Palin Campaign(s). Ben Smith: Palin Allies Report Rising Camp Tension, Politico. Also David Frum: Sorry, Senator. Let's Salvage What We Can, Washington Post.
John McCain Campaign/Republicans. Glenn Greenwald: What Is Happening to GOP Electoral Tactics?. Salon.com. Also Markos Moulitsas: Americans' Answer. The Hill.John McCain/Dirty Tricks. Greg Sargent: McCain Communications Director Gave Reporters Incendiary Version Of "Carved B" Story Before Facts Were Known. TPM Election Central. Also Empty Wheel (Marcy Wheeler): MI Republicans Admit to Illegal Foreclosure Scheme, "Surrende" to Democrats. FireDogLake. And Hannah Strange: McCain Campaign Paid Republican Operative Accused of Voter Fraud. Times Online (U.K.).
John McCain/Palin. Peggy Noonan: Palin's Failin'. Wall Street Journal.John McCain/Torture. David Swanson: Not Only McCain Palled Around With Pinochet. After Downing Street.
Media/Liberalism. Paul Waldman: As Democratic Landslide Looms, "Big Media Try to Peddle More 'Right-Wing Nation' B.S., AlterNet.
Obama Campaign/Liberalism. Linda Hirshman: Obama Echoes New Deal to Counter 'Greed is Good'. Toronto Star via CommonDreams.org.
Barack Obama/"Spread the Wealth". Steve Weissman: Spread the Wealth? Soak the Rich?. truthout. Also Editorial: Barack Obama for President. The New York Times. Also Steve Benen: We're All Socialists Now. Washington Monthly.
Barack Obama Campaign. William Pitt: Counting Our Chickens. Democratic Underground. Also Jeff Berg: The Theft Component. CounterCurrents. And Digby: Win By Losing. Digby Blog.
Colin Powell/War Crimes. Chris Floyd: Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien: Obama's New Advisor Stands By His War Crimes. Chris Floyd Blog.
Republicans. Joseph L. Galloway: Republicans Summon Ugly Old Ghosts, McClatchey Newspapers.
Republicans. Garrison Keillor: Some Voters Are Going to Have to Lose Their Homes Before They Connect the Dots, Alternet.
Republicans/Barack Obama. Ewen MacAskill: Prominent Republicans Cross the Aisle to Endorse Obama. Guardian (U.K.). Also E.J. Dionne Jr.: Civil War on the Right. Washingon Post.
Right Wing. Carol V. Hamilton: Let's Call the Whole Thing Off!: Why the Blue States Should Secede. CommonDreams.org.
Right Wing/Economic Justice. David Corn: Alan Shrugged: Greenspan, Ayn Rand and Their God That Failed. Mother Jones via Common Dreams.org.
Vote Fraud. Allan J. Lichtman: What Voter Fraud?, CommonDreams.org.
Voting Problems/Election 2008. Amy Goodman/Mark Crispin Miller: Early Voting Sees Reports of Voter Intimidation, Machine Malfunctions.
Democracy Now. Also Daniel Patrick Welch: Voter Intimidation in Odd Places: Even in Safe States. OpEdNews.Voting Problems/Election 2008. Brad Freidman: Election Integrity Filmmaker Sees Own Vote Flipped on ESS Touch-Screens in TN. Brad Blog. Also Brad Friedman: ES&S Touch-Screen Votes Now Flip in TX Too! Obama/DNC Still AWOL!. Brad Blog.
October 21, 2008
ACORN. Zachary Coile: Voter Fraud Called a Minor Issue for November. San Francisco Chronicle. Also Digby: Squeezing Every Last Drop. Digby Blog.
ACORN. Josh Marshall: Simply a Disgrace. Talking Points Memo. And David Kurtz: Oldie But Goodie (And Still Going On?). Talking Points Memo.
The Crisis/Fascism. Chris Hedges: The Idiots Who Rule America, TruthDig.com.
Debate (Third Presidential). AlterNet: Obama Three for Three: Short Takes on the Final Presidential Debate, AlterNet.
Economic Crisis. Marty Kaplan: Alan Shrugged, The Huffington Post.
Economic Crisis. Joseph Stiglitz: Guided by An Invisible Hand, The New Statesman via Common Dreams.
Economics/Right Wing. Sam Zuckerman: Crisis Inspires Rethinking of "Reaganomics," San Francisco Chronicle.
Education/Election 2008. Bob Herbert: Amusing, But Not Funny . The New York Times.
Election 2008/John McCain. Josh Marshall: Race to the Bottom. Talking Points Memo. Also Reed Hundt: Winning [in the Final Weeks]. TPM Cafe.
Election 2008. Roy Eidelson: How To Sell An Indefensible Status Quo, The Smirking Chimp.
Election 2008. Jared Bernstein: Ideology Takes a Breather, Maybe, The Huffington Post.
Electoral Integrity. Michael Sears: GOP Strategy: Voter Suppression, The Oregonian via Common Dreams.
Electoral Integrity. Mary Pat Flaherty: Thousands Face Mix-Ups in Voter Registrations: In Many Databases, Many Are Wrongly Flagged as Ineligible, Washington Post.
Electoral Integrity/Election Fraud. Robert F. Kennedy Jr./Greg Palast: Block the Vote. Rolling Stone. Also Greg Palast: It's Already Stolen Greg Palast Blog.
Fascism. Naomi Wolf: Dear Conservatives, Will You Help Save the Republic from Military Takeover?, AlterNet.
Financial Crisis. William Greider: Dr. Paulson's Magic Potion Is Pure Poison for Us, AlterNet.
Financial Meltdown. Eric Martin/Rhonda Schaffler: Roubini Sees Worst Recession in 40 Years. Bloomberg News.
Iran/Democrats. Maya Schenwar: In Reversal, Democrats Shelve Iran Resolution. truthout.
Iran/Russia. Ray McGovern: Attack on Iran Off the Table? Common Dreams.
John McCain. Frank Rich: He Just Can't Quit W. The New York Times.
John McCain. Glenn Greenwald: Poor John McCain: Forced Against His Honor to Run an Ugly Campaign. Salon.com.
McCain Campaign/Religion. Amy Goodman: Former McCain Supporter: McCain Is "Unleashing the Monster of American Prejudice," AlterNet.
McCain Campaign. Alternet: The 10 Dirtiest Election Tricks the Republicans Have Tried so Far, Alternet.
Media/Election 2008. Greg Mitchell: Why Obama's Shocking Landslide in Newspaper Endorsements Really Matters, The Huffington Post.
Barack Obama/Election 2008. Mark Danner: The Radical Face of Obama, The New York Review of Books.
Obama Campaign. Don Hazen: 10 Reasons for Democrats to Think Positive Despite the McCain Sleazathon, Alternet.
Colin Powell Endorsement. Glenn Greenwald: Colin Powell Condemns the Ugliness of the Republican Party. Salon.com.
Colin Powell Endorsement. Glenn Greenwald: Colin Powell Condemns the Ugliness of the Republican Party, Salon.
Republicans/Economic Justice.. Juan Cole: The Great Reagan Pyramid Scheme Comes Crashing Down . Juan Cole Blog.
Republicans/Dirty Tricks. Digby: Inflationary Numbers. Digby Blog. Also Evan Halper/Michael Rothfeld: Voters Say They Were Duped Into Registering As Republicans. Los Angeles Times.
Right Wing/McCain. David Michael Green: Payback's A Bitch, The Smirking Chimp.
"Socialism". Hilzoy: Spread the Wealth . Washington Monthly. Also Steve Benen: Powell, Redux. Washington Monthly.
Voter Fraud. Michael Collins: Voter Fraud - The Dog That Didn't Bark, The Smirking Chimp.
Voter Fraud. Jay Bookman: GOP Terrified of American Voters, The Atlantic Journal-Constitution via Common Dreams.
October 14, 2008
Capitalism. Anthony Faiola: The End of American Capitalism?, Washington Post.
The Crisis. Chris Hedges: America's Political Cannibalism, Common Dreams.
Debate (2nd Presidential). AlterNet: Obama vs. McCain: Who Won? Short Takes on the Debate. AlterNet.
Domestic Spying. Glenn Greenwald: Major Shock: Eavesdropping Powers Abused Without Oversight. Salon.com. Also Brian Ross/Vic Walter/Anna Schechter: Exclusive: Inside Account of U.S. Eavesdropping on Americans. ABC News.
Economy. Joshua Holland: Recession? Depression? How Deep, How Far and What Can Be Done? AlterNet.
Economy. Noam Chomsky: Anti-Democratic Nature of US Capitalism is Being Exposed, Common Dreams.
Economics. Catherine Rampell: Krugman Wins Economics Nobel, New York Times.
Election 2008. Garrison Keillor: Americans' B.S. Detectors Off Charts with Palin. tampabay.com.Election 2008. Frank Rich: The Terrorist Barack Hussein Obama, The New York Times.
Election 2008. Bob Fitrakis/Harvey Wasserman: GOP Attacks on American Voters Turn Desperate, Ugly and Dangerous. Common Dreams.
Election 2008. Christopher Hitchens: Vote for Obama, Slate.com
Election 2008. Alternet: GOP Attacks on ACORN are Based on the Fear of 1.3 Million New Voters, Alternet.
Election 2008/Democrats. Kos: Break Their Back, Crush Their Spirits. Daily Kos.
Electoral Fraud. Josh Marshall: The Gist of the ACORN Story. Talking Points Memo. Also Jason Leopold: Voter Registration Group ACORN Long a Target of GOP Operatives. Public Record. And Digby: The Fraud of Fraud. Digby Blog.
Electoral Integrity. Robert C. Koehler: Brace Yourself: GOP Can't Win Unless It Suppresses the Vote, The Smirking Chimp.
Fascism in America. Tom Burghardt: Secret Bush Administration Plan to Suspend U.S. Constitution. Global Research. Also Matthew Rothschild: Leahy Concerned About NorthCom's New Army Unit, The Progressive. And Naomi Wolf: Troops Deployed on U.S. Streets, AlterNet.
Fascism in America. Amy Goodman: Is Posse Comitatus Dead? AlterNet.
Financial Bailout. Dave Lindorff: Beyond Boondoggles, The Smirking Chimp.
Financial Bailout. Thom Hartmann: How Wall Street Can Bail Itself Out Without Destroying the Dollar, The Smirking Chimp.
Financial Bailout/China. Arvind Subramanian: A Master Plan for China to Bail Out America. Financial Times. Also dday: Fixing the Mess. Digby Blog.
Financial Crisis. David Michael Green: This Just In: Greed Is Not Good, Common Dreams.
Financial Crisis. David Goldstein/Kevin Hall: Private-Sector Loans, Not Fannie or Freddie, Triggered Crisis, McClatchy Newspapers.
Financial Crisis. Katrina vanden Heuvel: The Woman Who Could Have Prevented This Financial Mess Was Silenced by Greenspan, Rubin and Summers, AlterNet. Also dday: Hey Kids, Let's (Pretend to) Buy a Bank, Digby Blog.Financial Crisis. Chris Floyd: The God That Failed: The 30-Year Lie of the Market Cult, Empire Burlesque.
Foreign Views. Mark Morford: Planet Obama, San Francisco Chronicle via Common Dreams.
Global Warming. Andrew Glikson: The Methane Time Bomb And The Triple Meltdown, CounterCurrents.
Iraq Occupation/Afghanistan. Jonathan Landay/Warren Strobel/Nancy Youssef: New U.S. Intelligence Report [NIE] Warns "Victory" Not Certain In Iraq. truthout. Also Satyam Khanna: After New NIE, Bush Officials Now "Privately" Admitting Afghanistan Is the Central Front in War on Terror. Think Progress.John McCain. Josh Marshall: Weird. Sad. Surreal. Talking Points Memo. Also Glenn Greenwald: TNR's Michael Crowley: McCain Lynch Mobs Are No Different Than Bush Critics. Salon.com. And Greg Sargent: Richard Clarke: Al Qaida Might Try to Swing Election to McCain. TPM Election Central.
John McCain. Frank Schaeffer: McCain's Attacks Fuel Dangerous Hatred. Baltimore Sun. Also William C. Ibershof: Prosecuting Weathermen. The New York Times.
John McCain. Ken Bode: Why McCain's Health Matters. The Indianapolis Star via Common Dreams.
John McCain. Jonathan Alter: Crushed by the Elephant, Newsweek.
Justice Department Scandal. Marilou Johanek: Justice Department Scandal Almost Buried by Financial Crisis, Toledo Blade.
McCain Campaign. Sherwood Ross: On Ayers, Colson, and G. Gordon Liddy, The Smirking Chimp.McCain Campaign. Pamela Troy: Truly Base, The Smirking Chimp.
McCain Campaign. Howard Kurtz: McCain Attack Ads Called Inevitable -- and Ineffective, Washingtonpost.com .
McCain Campaign. Robgert Parry: Why are McCain Backers So Angry?, The Smirking Chimp.
McCain/Palin Campaign. Sarah Baxter: McCain Tussels With Palin Over Whipping Up a Mob Mentality, Sunday Times (U.K.).
Sarah Palin. Joe Klein: Embarracuda, Time.Sarah Palin. David Talbot: The Palins' Un-American Activities. Salon.com. Also Max Blumenthal/David Neiwert: Meet Sarah Palin's Radical Right-Wing Pals. Salon.com.
Sarah Palin. Hilzoy: The Troopergate Report. Washington Monthly. Also Digby: Friday Night News Dump, Alaska Style. Digby Blog. And Serge Kovaleski: Palins Repeatedly Pressed Cases Against Trooper. The New York Times.
Sarah Palin. Thomas Friedman: Palin's Kind of Patriotism.The New York Times. Also Huffington Post: David Brooks: Sarah Palin "Represents a Fatal Cancer to the Republican Party". The Huffington Post.
Sarah Palin. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: Alaskan Independence Party: The Last Refuge of a Scoundrel, Huffington Post.
Sarah Palin/Fascism. Bruce Fein: Palin vs. Palin, Truthdig.com via Common Dreams.
Palin Report/Religion. Kagro X: Todd Palin, Creepy "First Stalker", Daily Kos. Also
Garance Burke: As Governor, Palin At Times Bonds Church and State, Associated Press via San Francisco Chronicle.
Polls. David Swanson: Lies, Damn Lies, and Polls, The Smirking Chimp.
RightWing Zealots. Steve Weissman: America's Right-Wing Zealots Will Not Fade Away, Truthout.
Voter Suppression. Ian Urbina: States' Purges of Voter Rolls Appear Illegal, New York Times.
October 7, 2008
Afghanistan. Erik Schmitt/Thom Sanger: Bush Administration Reviews Its Afghanistan Policy, Exposing Points of Contention. The New York Times. Also Small Wars Journal: Afghanistan/Pakistan News Roundup. Small Wars Journal. And Times Online: British Envoy Says Mission in Afghanistan is Doomed, According to Leaked Memo. Times Online (U.K.).
Bailout/McCain. Garrison Keillor: They're Stealing from You and Me -- Where's the Outrage?, International Herald Tribune.
Capitalism. Brian Cloughley: A Repulsive Farce: The Unacceptable Face of Capitalism. The Smirking Chimp.
The Crisis/United States Empire. Mike Whitney: The New American Century: Cut Short by 92 Years, The Smirking Chimp.
The Crisis/Right Wing. Gary Younge: America Has a Terrible Headache, but It Seems Like No One Wants to Cure It. The Guardian/UK via Common Dreams.
Debate (V.P.). Carl Bernstein: What the Palin-Biden Debate Really Told us, The Huffington Post.
Debate (V.P.). Juan Cole: Thoughts on the Middle East, History, and Religion. Informed Comment.
Debate (V.P.). Biden vs. Palin -- Who Won? 6 Short Takes on the VP Debate. AlterNet.
Domestic Spying/Civil Liberties. Digby: While You Were Sleeping . Digby Blog.
Economic Justice. Norman Solomon: Too Big to Fail and Too Small to Matter. The Smirking Chimp.
Economic Justice. Awkward007: ABC News: Palin Flub on Bankruptcy Has McCain Camp Flailing. Daily Kos. Also Robert Reich: The Almost-Done Deal, and the Era of Angry Populism. TPM Cafe.
Economy/Financial Bailout. Joseph Gallaway: Trust Us? In a Pig's eye, I Say. McClatchy Newspapers. Also Dean Baker: The Credit Squeeze Scare. CEPR.
Election 2008. Anne E. Kornblut and Dan Balz: U.S. Financial Crisis Seems to Have Altered Political Map. washingtonpost.com.
Election 2008. David Michael Green: The Reality-Based Community Returns to Life, The Smirking Chimp.
Electoral Fraud. Brad Friedman: Republican War on Democracy: The Latest Offensives. Brad Blog. Also Brad Friedman: CBS News: New Study Details Massive Voter Roll Purges Underway in At Least 19 States. Brad Blog.
Electoral Integrity. Steven Rosenfeld: How the GOP Wired Ohio's 2004 Vote Count for Bush to Win, Alternet.
Financial Bailout. Glenn Greenwald: The Simultaneous Rejection of the Ballout and a Corrupt Ruling Class. Salon.com. Also Dean Baker: Statement on Congressional Approval of Bailout. CEPR.
Financial Bailout. Paul Craig Roberts: Why Paulson's Plan Is a Fraud. Information Clearing House.
Financial Bailout. Digby: Progressive Shock Doctrine. Digby Blog. Also Chris Floyd: Shock and Awe: Bipartisan Beltway Terrorists Launch Economic 9/11 on the American People. Empire Burlesque. And Glenn Greenwald: Post's Pearlstein: Anyone Opposing the Bailout Is Ignorant. Salon.com.
Financial Bailout Alternatives. Joseph Stiglitz: A Better Bailout. The Nation. Also Christopher Hayes: House Progressives Propose Bailout Alternatives. The Nation.
Financial Bailout/Economic Justice. Joe Bageant: The Really Hard-to-Swallow Truth About the Bailout. AlterNet.
Financial Bailout/Military-Industrial Complex. Chalmers Johnson: We Have the Money - If Only We Didn't Waste It on the Defense Budget. The Smirking Chimp. See also Tom Englehardt: Chalmers Johnson on the Pentagon Bailout Fraud.. TomDispatch via The Smirking Chimp.
Financial Crisis. Thomas Frank: Wrecking, Wrecking, Wrecked. The Huffington Post via Common Dreams.
Global Warming. Robin McKie: Seas Turn to Acid As They Soak Up C02. Guardian (U.K.)
Iran. Lorna Salzman: How the Left and the Right Encourage Terrorism and War. The Smirking Chimp.
Iran. Peter Tatchell: Ahmadinejad Accepts Israel's Right to Exist, The Guardian/UK.
Iraq Occupation. Eric Margolis: Senator McCain: One More Such 'Victory' and We're Ruined. The Huffington Post.
John McCain. George F. Will: McCain Loses His Head. washingtonpost.com.
John McCain/Lies. Robert Parry: John McCain v. The Truth. The Smirking Chimp.
McCain Campaign. Frank Rich: Pitbull Palin Mauls McCain. The New York Times.
John McCain. Tim Dickinson: Make-Believe Maverick. Rolling Stone. Also Digby: Wallowing in Nixonland. Digby Blog.
John McCain Campaign/Lies. Digby: Missiles of October. Digby Blog.
McCain's Health Plan. Paul Krugman: Health Care Destruction,. New York Times.
Media. Greg Mitchell: Pundits Blow Debate Analysis (Again)m Editor & Publisher.
Middle East. Matti Friedman: Olmert Says Peace Requires Israeli Withdrawals [from] West Bank, Jerusalem, Golan Heights. Wired.
Barack Obama/Financial Bailout. Tom Hayden: Obama's Bailout Strategy. The Nation.
Sarah Palin. Wilmer J. Leon III: Reality Is No Rehearsal. truthout.
Sarah Palin. Linda Hirshman: Sarah Palin's Debate Performance Tanked Among Women. AlterNet.
Republicans. Glenn Greenwald: A Country in shambles, Under GOP Rulem Salon.com via Common Dreams.
Republicans/Financial Bailout. Donna Smith: Trickle Down Has Finally Trickled Up, Common Dreams.
Republicans/Election 2008. Glenn Greenwald: The Right's Two-Pronged Religion of Rage and Self-Pity. Salon.com.
Republicans/Iraq Occupation. Glenn Greenwald: The Death of GOP Electoral Tactics on the War. Salon.com.Terrorism/Bush Administration. Gareth Porter: Bush Had No Plan to Catch Bin Laden After 9/11. Antiwar.
U.S. As Empire. Spiegel Staff: The End of Arrogance: America Loses Its Dominant Economic Roll. Der Spiegel (Germany). Also John Gray: A Shattering Moment In America's Fall From Power. Guardian (U.K.)
September 30, 2008
The Bailout. Dave Lindorff: The Power of "No" and the Need to Keep the Pressure on Congress, The Smirking Chimp. Also, David Swanson: Bailout Round II: A New Share of Lipstick, The Smirking Chimp.
Bailout Failure. Kos: Congress Did the Right Thing Today, Daily Kos. Also Meteor Blades: Bailout Defeat Offers Opportunity, Daily Kos.
Debates: Presidential No. 1. Joseph Romm: Obama's Can't-Lose Debate Strategy. The Huffington Post.Debates: Presidential No.1. Joshua Holland: Six Short Takes On Why Obama Came Out Ahead in the Debate, AlterNet.
Dissent. Norman Solomon: Finally the Story of the Whistleblower Who Tried to Prevent the Iraq War. The Smirking Chimp.
Domestic Spying/Beyond the Law. Think Progress: Addington Signed Gonzales’ Name to Re-Authorize Warrantless Wiretapping Program. Think Progress. Also Declan McCullagh: FBI's Net Surveillance Proposal Raises Privacy, Legal Concerns. CNet.
Economy. Hank Kalet: The Pyramids Crumble. Common Dreams.
Electoral Fraud. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: "Votes Are Being Stolen, Now, by Hundreds of Thousands". Daily Kos. Also Greg Gordon: Election Officials Telling College Students They Can't Vote. McClatchy Newspapers. And Mark Crispin Miller: Spoonamore Reveals The Plan To Steal The Next Election, Democratic Underground.
Fascism. Naomi Wolf: Has Sarah Palin Been Picked as the Titular Head of the Coming Police State? AlterNet.
Fascism in America/Military. Glenn Greenwald: Why Is a U.S. Army Brigade Being Assigned to the "Homeland"?. Salon.com. Also Digby: Dispatches from Torture Nation. Digby Blog.
Financial Bailout. Dave Lindorff: What Nobody's Saying: The Bailout Will Kill the Dollar, The Smirking Chimp.
Financial Bailout. Joshua Holland: Meltdown and Bailout: Why Our Economic System Is On the Verge of Collapse. AlterNet.
Financial Bailout. David Swanson: We Can Stop Paulson's Plunder. The Smirking Chimp.
Financial Bailout. David Cay Johnston: Journalists, Start Your Skepticism. Poynter Online. Also Meg White: Bailing Out Wall Street: Another Front in the GOP Economic War Against American Working Families. BuzzFlash. And Dean Baker: Bush Brings WMD Line to Wall Street. truthout.
Financial Bailout. Matthew Benjamin: Hundreds of Economists Urge Congress Not to Rush on Rescue Plan. Bloomberg News. Also Mike Whitney: Mushroom Cloud Over Wall Street. Information Clearing House.Financial Bailout. Digby: Long Term Capitol. Digby Blog. Also Kos: "Crisis" Bill Was Months in the Making. Daily Kos. And Anonymous: [Satire on How to Finance Bailout]. The Nation.
Financial Bailout. Glenn Greenwald: David Brooks Thinks He Sees a "New Establishment" to Run Economic Policy. Salon.com. Also Madis Senner: You Cannot Push on a Piece of String, Mr. Paulson . Dissident Voice. And Dan Lieberman: The Great Bailout. Dissident Voice.
Financial Bailout. Digby: Serious People [Roubini's Thoughts]. Digby Blog. Also Nouriel Roubini: Is Purchasing $700 billion of Toxic Assets the Best Way to Recapitalize the Financial System?... . RGE Monitor. And Mike Whitney: Mushroom Cloud Over Wall Street. Information Clearing House.
Financial Bailout. Digby: Stopping the Bleeding. Digby Blog. Also Glenn Greeenwald and Digby: What Are the Dangers for Democrats in Supporting a Bailout? And Why Are They About to Do It?. Salon.com.
Financial Bailout. Thom Hartmann: How Wall Street Can Bail Itself Out without Destroying the Dollar. OpEdNews. Also Paul Krugman: A $700 Billion Slap in the Face. The New York Times. And Der Spiegel: Merkel Says Washington Helped Drag Europe into the Credit Crisis. Der Spiegel (Germany).
Financial Bailout. Hilzoy: The Final Bill, Washington Monthly. Also Digby: Enablers, Digby Blog. And Glenn Greenwald: Bailout Follows the 10 Normal Principles
for How Our Government Functions, Salon.
John McCain. Rosa Brooks: Keating 5 Ring a Bell?. Los Angeles Times. Also John Judis: Putting Country Last . The New Republic. And George F. Will: McCain Loses His Head. Washington Post.John McCain. Nicholas Kristof: Impulsive,Impetuous,Impatient . The New York Times. Also Frank Rich: McCain's Suspension Bridge to Nowhere. The New York Times.
John McCain/Veterans Issues. clammyc: McCain's Voting Record: He Does Not Support Our Troops and Veterans. Veterans for Common Sense. Also Dean Baker: McCain Would Privatize Social Security. truthout.
John McCain. Steven Rosenfeld: Republicans Allege McCain Covered Up His Collaboration with the North Vietnamese While a POW. AlterNet.
McCain/Palin. Carl Bernstein: The Palin Pick -- The Devotion of McCain. The Huffington Post.
Media/Financial Crisis. Eric Boehlert: The Campaign-Obsessed Press Never Saw Wall Street's Calamity Coming. The Smirking Chimp.
Media/Liberals. Sam Boyd: Channel Changer. The American Prospect.
Obama Campaign. R. J. Eskow: Five Ways Obama Can Nail the Next Debate . . . And Still Be Obama. The Huffington Post.
Sarah Palin. Matt Taibbi: Mad Dog Palin. AlterNet.
Sarah Palin. James Rainey: Palin Talks to Couric - and If She's Lucky, Few are Listening. Los Angeles Times.
Sarah Palin. Glenn Greenwald: Correction on Sarah Palin. Salon.com.
Sarah Palin/Religion. Michelle Goldberg: Sarah Palin, 21st Century Theocrat. AlterNet.
Sarah Palin. Rachel Weiner: Report: McCain Aides Complain That Palin Is "Clueless". The Huffington Post. Also Fox News [AP story was spiked quickly]: Conservatives Begin Questioning Palin’s Heft . Brad Blog. And Kathleen Parker: Palin Problem: She's Out Of Her League [And Should Resign]. National Review.
Regressives (Right Wing. ). David Michael Green: America's Elephant In The Room. The Smirking Chimp.
Right Wing. Alicia Morgan: Conservatism - The Elephant in the Room. The Smirking Chimp.
Torture/John McCain. Digby: Dispatches from Torture Nation . Digby Blog.
September 23, 2008
Anthrax Investigation. Glenn Greenwald: The Oversight Joke. Salon.com. Also Scott Shane: Senator [Leahy], Target of Anthrax Letter, Challenges FBI Finding. The New York Times.
Beyond the Law/Sarah Palin. Glenn Greenwald: The Bush/McCain/Palin Contempt for Subpoenas and the Rule of Law. Salon.com.
Dick Cheney/Lies. John W. Dean: By Deceiving a Congressioinal Leader, Cheney Sent Us to War on False Pretenses..., FindLaw.
The Constitution/Domestic Spying. Dday: Constitution Day and Cheneyism. Digby Blog.
The Culture Wars. E.J. Dionne Jr.: Americans Know Which Form of "Elite" Really Matters. Star-Tribune. Also Glenn Greenwald: The Complete (Though Ever-Changing) Elite Consensus Over the Financial Collapse, Salon.
Economic Justice. Alicia Morgan: When Conservative Dreams Come True. The Smirking Chimp.
Election Integrity. Steven Rosenfeld: How the GOP Wired Ohio's 2004 Vote Count for Bush to Win. AlterNet.
Electoral Fraud. Digby: VonSpakovsky 2.0 [GOP's "Caging" Gambit]. Digby Blog. Also Kim Zetter: Voter Database Glitches Could Disenfranchise Thousands. Wired.
Environment/Sarah Palin. Chip Ward: Sarah Palin's Creationism Will Rape the Environment, Alternet.
Fascism in America. Michael Parenti: Fascism: A False Revolution. Sonic. Also Larisa Alexandrovna: Welcome to the Final Stages of the Coup, Huffington Post.
Financial Crisis. Larry Madill: Executive Power Grab in Banking Bailout Bill, Daily Kos. Also Sen. Bernie Sanders: Billions for Bailouts! Who Pays?, Sanders Website. And Paul Krugman: No Deal, New York Times.
Financial Crisis. Nouriel Roubini: The Shadow Banking System Is Unraveling, Financial Times. Also Devilstower: Daily Kos.Financial Crisis. Steve Fraser: Is the 'Good Life' as America Knows it Over?, AlterNet.
Financial Crisis. Jon Faulkner: How Could a Nation Get This Stupid?. The Smirking Chimp.
Financial Crisis. Mike Whitney: The Point of No Return. Information Clearing House. Also Jerome White: No Return to the 1930s!... . World Socialist Web Site.
Financial Crisis. Dave Lindorff: America and China Joined at the Hip. After Downing Street. Also Christine Harper: Morgan Stanley Said to Be in Talks With China's CIC. Bloomberg News.Financial Crisis. Paul Craig Roberts: U.S. Economy: Rudderless and Reeling from Direct Hits. Baltimore Chronicle. Also Joseph Stiglitz: Reckoning the Economic Consequences of Mr. Bush . Vanity Fair.
Financial Crisis. David Lightman: Wall Street Crisis Is Culmination of 28 Years of Deregulation . McClatchy Newspapers. Also Robert Kuttner: Only a Roosevelt-Scale Counterrevolution Can Prevent Great Depression. AlterNet. And Anne Davies: U.S. Struggles to Prop Up House of Cards. The Age (Australia).
Financial Crisis. Philip Delves Broughton: Free-Market Capitalism Lies Shredded, While America's Confidence Is Badly Shaken Daily Mail (U.K.) Also London Banker: The Unitary Federal Reserve - Crisis Choreography, RGE Monitor.
Financial Crisis. Paul Krugman: Crisis Endgame . The New York Times. Also Paul Krugman: Financial Russian Roulette. The New York Times.
Financial Crisis. Jeremy Seabrook: Who's to Blame for Market Failure? Clue: Not the Bankers, The Guardian (UK).
Financial Crisis. Naomi Klein: Free Market Ideology is Far from Finished, The Guardian (UK).
Financial Crisis. William Pfaff: Reality Catches Up to the Free Market, TruthDig.com.
Financial Crisis. Eric Margolis: U.S. Orgy of Debt: Americans Borrowed to Hilt, then Housing Bubble Burst, The Smirking Chimp.
Financial Crisis. Jared Bernstein: Watching History Unfold, The Huffington Post.
Financial Crisis. William Greider: Paulson Bailout Plan a Historic Swindle, The Nation.
Iraq Occupation. Patrick Cockburn: Iraq: Violence Is Down But Not Because of America's 'Surge". Independent (U.K.)
Lies/John McCain. Joe Klein: John McCain and the Lying Game. Time.
Lies/Sarah Palin. Eugene Robinson: Palin Keeps Lying, and Lying and ... . TruthDig.com via Common Dreams.
John McCain. Elizabeth Drew: How John McCain Lost Me, truthout.
John McCain. Robert J. Ellsberg: It's About John McCain. The Huffington Post.
John McCain/Torture. David Swanson: McCain Supports Torture. David Swanson Blog. Also Sidney Schanberg: McCain and the POW Cover-Up, The Nation.
John McCain. Richard Cohen: The Ugly New McCain. Washington Post. Also Bob Herbert: McCain's Radical Agenda. The New York Times. Also Scott Rosenberg: McCain Blames "Greed" for Wall St. Woes. Huh?. Scott Rosenberg Blog.
McCain/Palin Campaign. Rachel Weiner: Conservatives Turn on McCain-Palin, Huffington Post.
Media/Palin Lies. E.B.: McCain and Palin are Laughing at the Press -- and It's the Press' Fault. Media Matters.org.
Military-Industrial Complex. Frida Berrigan: Military Industrial Complex 2.0: Cubicle Mercenaries, Subcontracting Warriors, and Other Phenomena of a Privatizing Pentagon. Tom Dispatch.
Barack Obama/Financial Crisis. Dan Balz: Obama Attacks McCain on Regulation, Lobby Ties. Washington Post.
Barack Obama. Wick Allison: A Conservative for Obama. D Magazine.
Sarah Palin. Leonard Doyle: "Hillary's Women" reject McCain's VP Choice, The Independent (UK).
Sarah Palin/John McCain. AlterNet Staff: 8 More Stories About Palin the Public Needs to Know . AlterNet. Also Josh Marshall: Ask Her About the Rape Kits. Talking Points Memo. And David Talbot: Sarah Palin's Wasteful Ways. Salon.com.
Polls. Joshua Holland: Why the Polls Drive Us Crazy (and Shouldn't). AlterNet.
Republicans. Frank Schaeffer: An Open Letter to all Republicans From a Former Religious Right Activist. The Huffington Post.
Republicans/Science. John Tierman: We Can't Afford McCain and Palin's Anti-Science Beliefs. Alternet.
Science/Bush Administration. Chris Mooney: Return of the Geeksm truthout.
September 16, 2008
9/11. Andrew Bacevitch: 9/11 Plus Seven. TomDispatch.com. Also Jonathan Landay/Saeed Shah: 9/11 Seven Years Later: U.S. "Safe," South Asia in Turmoil. McClatchy Newspapers. And Allen Roland: Still Unanswered 9/11 Questions. Salon.com.
Cold War. Tom Lasseter: Kremlin-Watchers Warn of Direct U.S.-Russia Clash. McClatchy Newspapers.
Above the Law/Domestic Spying. Glenn Greenwald: What Illegal "Things" Was the Government Doing in 2001-2004?, Salon.
Above the Law/Domestic Spying. Think Progress: Addington Signed Gonzales' Name to Re-Authorize Warrantless Wiretapping Program, Think Progress. Also Barton Gellman: Cheney Shielded Bush from Crisis, Washington Post.
Democrats. David Michael Green: Democrats Do Poland. The Smirking Chimp
Democratic Campaign. Drew Westen: What Obama Needs to Do in the Final SIxty Days: Avoiding President Palin, The Huffington Post.
Economic Justice. Bill Quigley: Twenty Questions: Social Justice Quiz 2008. truthout.
Economy. Larry Beinhart: Crash Course in Economics, Common Dreams.
Economy. Dean Baker: The Whiner's Recession. Common Dreams.
Economy. Mike Whitney: The Worsening Debt Crisis: Who Got Us into This Mess and What are the Real Political Options?. CounterPunch. Also Michael Lerner: Economic Collapse?, Tikkun via The American Muslim.
Election 2008. Paul Begala: The McCain-Palin Lies and the Neil Armstrong Principle, The Huffington Post.
Election 2008. Margaret Talev and Steven Thomma: Obama, Feeling Heat from McCain, Hits Back Hard. McClatchy Newspapers via Yahoo News.
Election 2008. Jonathan Freedland: The World's Verdict Will Be Harsh if the US Rejects the Man it Yearns For. The Guardian/UK via Common Dreams.
Election 2008. Jonathan Martin and Jim VandeHei: McCain, Palin Push Biography, Not Issues. Politico. Also Tom Friedman: From the Gut.
The New York Times.Election 2008. Lee Siegel: The Triumph of Culture Over Politics, Wall Street Journal Online . Also Tim Wise: White Privilege, White Entitlement and the 2008 Election, BuzzFlash. And Thomas L. Friedman: Making America Stupid, New York Times.
Electoral Fraud. Bob Fitrakis/Harvey Wasserman: Ten Ways the McCain/Palin GOP Is Now Stealing the Ohio Vote, Online Journal. Also Seven Rosenfeld: 2008 Season of Voting Meltdowns Begins, AlterNet.
Electoral Integrity/Electoral Fraud. Mark Crispin Miller: What YOU Can Do to Prevent Another Stolen Election. OpEdNews. And Brad
Friedman: How to Hack a Sequoia Touch-Screen Voting Machine. Brad Blog via Scoop.Electoral Integrity/Electoral Fraud. Mebe: It's Not Just 600,000 in Ohio: LA, FL, MI, KS, NM, CO, and NV. Daily Kos. Also Steve Heller: Republicans Ramp up Voter Disenfranchisement Efforts Ahead of November Election. Brad Blog.
Environment. Mark Hertsgaard: Our Polar Bears, Ourselves. The Nation via Common Dreams.
Foreign Policy/Election 2008. Glenn Greenwald: Where is the Debate Over the Bush Doctrine?, Salon.
Foreign Views/Election 2008. Ian Bell: A Letter to America: You Cannot be Serious. Sunday Herald/UK via Common Dreams.Global Warming. Renee Schoof: Study Finds Recent Global Warming Unprecedented in 1, 300 years, McClatchy.
Liberals. Bob Herbert: Hold Your Heads Up. The New York Times.
Lies/Republican Campaign. Newsday: The Media Call MaCain and Palin on Their Trail of Lies, Alternet.
John McCain. Rory O'Connor: Only in America Could a Two-Faced Creature Like McCain Attain Such Media Status. The Smirking Chimp
John McCain/Lies and Deceptions. Brent Budowsky: Vote for McCain's Biggest Lie About Barack, The Smirking Chimp
John McCain/Election 2008. Josh Marshall: Unfit for High Office. Talking Points Memo. Also Sam Stein: McCain Admits He's "Divorced" From Reality: Obama Camp Lets Rip. The Huffington Post. And Andrew Sullivan: McCain's Integrity. Atlantic.
John McCain/Sarah Palin. Ed Schultz: The 27 McCain Flip-Flops, Ed Schultz Blog . And David Ignatius: Stopping at Nothing to Win, Washington Post.
John McCain/Women's Issues. Steve Benen: McCain and the "Concept" of Equal Pay. Washington Monthly. Also Digby: Senator Strongarm. Digby Blog. And Steve Benen: The Tax Increase McCain Doesn't Want to Talk About. Washington Monthly.McCain Campaign. Dave Lindorff: McCain Campaign Relies on Lazy Thinking and Prejudice to Win. The Smirking Chimp
McCain Campaign. Thomas B. Edsall: McGamble, The Huffington Post.
Media. Norman Solomon: The Sickening Praise for 'The Daily Show'. Common Dreams.
Barack Obama/Election 2008. Dday: Two Ground Games. Digby Blog. Also Jonathan Haidt: What Makes People Vote Republican?, The Edge. And Dan Hoyle: What Small-Town America Is Saying About Obama. Salon.com.
Barack Obama/John McCain. George Lakoff: Don't Think of a Maverick! Could the Obama Campaign Be Improved?. BuzzFlash. Also David Swanson: Xmas Letter to Obama: How You Could Have Won . After Downing Street.
Obama Campaign. Joseph Romm: Obama Nails the Winning Message: "Honor Comes with Honesty.." The Huffington Post.:
Obama Campaign/Economy. Greg Sargent: Biden Uncorks Tough Populist Hit On McCain Over "Fundamentals" TPM Election Central. Also Barack Obama: [Tough Reaction to McCain's Economy-Is-Fine Message], Daily Kos.
Sarah Palin. Matt Apuzzo: Palin Faces Laundry List of Complications. Associated Press. And Jackie S.: [An Alaskan Writes "I Am Horrified That He Picked Her"]. Snopes.
Sarah Palin. Steve Weissman: Sarah Palin: A Gidget for God's Truth. truthout. Also Paul Krugman: Blizzard of Lies . The New York Times. And Women Against Palin: [A Variety of Reasons Why] . Women Against Sarah Palin.
Sarah Palin/John McCain. Frank Rich: The Palin-Whatshisname Ticket.The New York Times. Also E.J. Dionne Jr.: Pulling the Curtain on Palin.
Washington Post.Sarah Palin. John W. Dean: The Sarah Palin Selection: Why She Falls Short of Meeting the Implicit Constitutional Qualifications for Vice Presidents. FindLaw via The Smirking Chimp.
Sarah Palin. Juan Cole: What's the Difference Between Palin and Muslim Fundamentalists? Lipstick. Salon.com via Common Dreams.
Sarah Palin/Religion. Chris Hedges: For Palin, It's a (Christian) Man's World, TruthDig.com.
Religion/Sarah Palin. Bruce Wilson: YouTube Censors Documentary on Palin's Churches. The Huffington Post.
Polling. Seth Colter Walls: Poll Madness: McCain Takes Lead Even As Democrats Out-Register Republicans?, The Huffington Post.
Republicans/Fascism. Ray McGovern: Trickle-Down Preemption: Baghdad on the Mississippi. Common Dreams.
Republican Voter Suppression. Jonathan Alter: "Jim Crawford"™ Republicans. Newsweek. Also Steven Elbow: [Using Photo ID to Disenfranchise Poor Voters] . Madison Capitol-Times.
Russia. Walter C. Uhler: By Playing its Iraq Card, Russia Exposes McCain's Poor National Security. The Smirking Chimp
Science. Patrick Barry and Hanna Lundqvist: Left Behind. The Huffington Post.
Torture. David Swanson: John McCain Supports Torture. The Smirking Chimp.
War Powers. John Byrne: Bush Quietly Seeks to Make War Powers Permanent By Declaring Indefinite State of War. Raw Story.
September 9, 2008
Bush Administration/U.S.-Russia. Juan Cole: Putin's War Enablers. Salon.com. Also Andrew Kramer: Russia Claims "Privileged" Sphere of Influence. Star Tribune. And Matt Rothschild: U.S. Recklessness Toward Russia Set Stage for Current Conflic. The Daily Crock.
Constitution/Religon. David Swanson: Imagine There's No Heaven. After Downing Street.
Economy. Dean Baker: The Whiners' Recession,. Truthout. Also Paul Krugman: The Power of De, New York Times.
Election 2008. Norman Solomon: Beyond the Conventions. truthout.Election 2008. Sanho Tree: McCain's Palin Gambit: Are Americans Weary of the Culture Wars?, AlterNet.
Electoral Fraud. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: On Election Fraud. RFKJr for President. Also David Rosenfeld: 600,000 Subject to Possible Caging in Ohio, Miller-McCune Magazine.
Energy. Lester R. Brown: Let's Use Wind to Power Cars. The Capital Times