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The slow implosion of the GOP

Wednesday, May 14, 2008 9:34 PM
The Republican Party seems to be ensnared in a slow-motion downward spiral of late. Party unity on Capitol Hill has all but evaporated, the rank and file are disassociating themselves from the White House like rats from a sinking ship, and the prospects
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House prevents Bush from sticking it to the poor (again)

Wednesday, April 23, 2008 9:20 PM
By a lopsided vote of 349-62, the House of Representatives voted today to impose a moratorium on seven regulations promulgated by the Bush White House which would have eliminated $13 billion in Medicaid funding for health care for the poor. Every House
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Quote of the day (on the Democratic race)

Wednesday, April 23, 2008 1:07 PM
In a comment here , the inimitable Betty Bean said: Is it too late to draft Gore? My sentiments exactly. Share this post: Email | del.icio.us | Digg | Reddit
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"Liberal" media? Yeah, right

Monday, April 14, 2008 6:22 PM
Number of Google News hits on Obama's "bitter" remark: 2006 Number of Google Blog Search hits on the same remarks: 3757 Number of Google News hits on Rep. Geoff Davis (R-Kentucky) calling Obama " boy ": 64 Number of Google Blog Search hits on the same
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The distraction du jour: Obama's comments on alienation

Saturday, April 12, 2008 9:25 PM
Barack Obama said this yesterday : "In a lot of these communities in big industrial states like Ohio and Pennsylvania, people have been beaten down so long. ... The jobs have been gone now for 25 years, and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through
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Knox County Commission admits to breaking the Sunshine Law

Monday, March 24, 2008 11:40 PM
As a consequence of this debacle in our local government, Knox County Commissioners are under a court order not to violate the Sunshine Law again, under penalty of fines and possibly even jail time. Given the events of the last year and a half in this
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A note to Bill Hobbs

Wednesday, February 27, 2008 8:35 PM
Dear Mr. Hobbs : Your slimy insinuation that a man can be inferred as sympathetic to terrorists because his middle name is "Hussein" is just as idiotic as suggesting a man is a cocaine-addled imbecile merely because his name is "George." Every day that
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Some clarity on GOP scare tactics

Tuesday, February 26, 2008 10:20 PM
Senators Jay Rockefeller and Patrick Leahy and Congressmen Silvestre Reyes and John Conyers have an op-ed piece in tomorrow's Christian Science Monitor that calls out the White House on its fear-mongering tactics regarding warrantless surveillance : Our
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McCain/Iseman furor obscures the real story

Thursday, February 21, 2008 8:21 PM
The New York Times story and this Washington Post story on the cozy relationship between John McCain and the lobbyist Vicki Iseman have resulted in a predictable deluge of manufactured outrage from the right wing noise machine. "Manufactured" is exactly
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Fun with numbers

Wednesday, February 20, 2008 8:42 PM
Two statistics appeared today that look startling side-by-side: 1) Obama's lead over Clinton nationwide has grown to 14 percentage points. 2) Bush's approval rating stands at a jaw-dropping 19 percent. If these trends continue, Obama's lead over Clinton
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McCain's hypocrisy on torture

Wednesday, February 13, 2008 9:15 PM
On the subject of waterboarding, here's John McCain, who was tortured by the North Vietnamese, last October : Waterboarding is a form of torture no matter how it is done and should be a prohibited among U.S. military interrogation practices, Republican
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The continuing crisis

Tuesday, February 12, 2008 9:33 PM
Today's updates on the continuing decline: The six Guantanamo detainees who are slated to be tried by the Bush administration's kangaroo courts are now facing the death penalty; if that's their sentence, they'll be executed at Guantanamo . The charges,
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Bush's hypocrisy on earmarks

Saturday, February 09, 2008 7:29 PM
It took George Bush seven years in the White House to notice that the federal budget contains pork-barrel spending. Purely by coincidence I'm sure, it was not until after the Democrats had gained control of Congress that the president decided to focus
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Two short notes on Super Tuesday

Tuesday, February 05, 2008 6:45 PM
Just two things, for now: I agree with Randy -- delegate math makes my head hurt. This is hypnotic and addictive. Google Maps + Twitter + Twittervision + Super Tuesday = a very cool way to watch what people are saying about today's primaries. Share this
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A cool experiment in election group-blogging and linking

Thursday, January 31, 2008 8:33 PM
Along with a few other Tennessee bloggers, I've been invited to participate in an experiment in covering the Tennessee primary on Tuesday. This group of bloggers will spend the next several days bookmarking and annotating news stories, blog posts, and
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With Edwards out, things shift

Wednesday, January 30, 2008 11:00 AM
John Edwards has announced that he is withdrawing from the presidential race and is scheduled to make a formal announcement at 1:00 PM today. This is disappointing, if not unexpected, although I fully expected him to remain in the race at least through
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Edwards on Bush's final SOTU: "Groundhog Day"

Tuesday, January 29, 2008 8:55 PM
Here's what John Edwards had to say about Bush's final State of the Union address : Following the president's final State of the Union address last night, John Edwards told a crowd in Tulsa this morning that he doesn't know "how he [Bush] can say these
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Why you should vote early

Wednesday, January 16, 2008 9:12 AM
Early voting for the February 5 primary starts today in Knox County and runs through January 31. This election covers both the Presidential race and the primary for Knox County offices. We'll probably have a record turnout for this primary, due mostly
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Huckabee shows his theocratic urge

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 10:20 PM
Here's reason #1 Mike Huckabee is absolutely unfit to serve as President of the United States ( Raw Story via HuffPo ): "I have opponents in this race who do not want to change the Constitution," Huckabee told a Michigan audience on Monday. "But I believe
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My answers to a seriously unscientific survey

Sunday, January 13, 2008 5:22 PM
The mighty Joe Powell is soliciting answers to a set of questions for his readers. Here are the questions (in bold) with my answers underneath each one: 1) Do you have a preference for any one candidate in the current race for President of the U.S.? Please
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