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Hillary’s new ad getting some play, with some folks thinking its effective - and Atrios suggesting it needs more wolves.
(I got a fever… and the only prescription is… MORE WOLVES!!!)
In any case, I suppose it’s effective - if you’re of the opinion that the weak and vulnerable United States is surrounded by dastardly enemies and […]

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Had seen this piece over a Reason Magazine linked a couple of places yesterday, and it resonated. I happen to know, for whatever reason, quite a few couples who don’t have kids and who don’t plan on having kids. One couple, in their 50s, never really tried - nor tried not to. “It just didn’t happen,” […]

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CEO of the Orange County (Calif.) Register Scott Flanders makes it:
Editorial writer Steve Greenhut told Flanders he thought he was really making an argument for not voting. Not true, Flanders said, and then he did it. He said the words, “Barack Obama.” As in, that’s who any true freedom-lover should vote for.
At that moment, I thought […]

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Josh Marshall gets it:
Hopefully, everyone can now see the McCain strategy for running against Barack Obama. Yes, we have some general points on taxes, culture wars and McCain as war hero who can protect us in ways that flash-in-the-pan pretty boy Barack Obama can’t.
But that’s not the core. The core is to drill a handful […]

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James Wolcott in a surprisingly reverent piece which nevertheless grasps the state of the movement that Buckley himself can take credit for kick-starting:
Politically, his importance is large and enduring. As Spencer Ackerman correctly reckons at Washington Independent, “No William F. Buckley, no National Review; no National Review, no Goldwater movement; no Goldwater movement, no Ronald […]

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Via the Interfaith Alliance, Pastor Dan - in an apparent attempt to get my blood boiling (mission accomplished!) - provides us with the top 10 (or bottom 10) moments in our national race for Pastor-in-Chief:
10. Mitt Romney is asked if he believes “every word” of the Bible (CNN/You Tube debate (11-28-07).
9.  CNN’s Soledad O’Brien asks John Edwards […]

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Curious to follow the discussion in this thread regarding patriotism and whether liberals have any. This, of course, has long been the cudgel which the right has used to beat up on the left, and it’s been effective. Or rather, it was effective - before Iraq.
Because the quagmire in Iraq (Now with 50 percent less death!) […]

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Days later and I’m still sort of flabbergasted over the Obama photo flap. This is supposed to be offensive… why, exactly?

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If you’ve never lived in Pittsburgh this probably won’t mean anything to you. If you have spent time in the ‘burgh, however - it’s just a very sad thing.
Myron  Cope died of respiratory failure this morning at age 79.
Cope had several claims to fame over the course of his long career in sports, and in […]

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Via Will Bunch, we see that you, too, can make money working for Comcast.
So long as the FCC is holding a hearing into Comcast’s behavior in your town, as happened yesterday in Boston:
How big are the stakes in the so-called network neutrality debate now raging before Congress and federal regulators?
Consider this: One side in the […]

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So Marv (my boss) forwards me an e-mail, and apparently we’ve gotten quite a few of these this week:
I find the implication that someone who has dedicated his or her life to serving America lacks patriotism utterly unpalatable. But reading Nedra Pickler of the AP’s Sunday smear piece against Senator Barack Obama, it appears that […]

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Whew:
This morning on NPR, host Steve Inskeep asked right-wing pundit Glenn Beck who the “rising star” is in the conservative movement. Beck’s response? Defeated senator Rick Santorum. “I think the guy is a Winston Churchill in many ways,” said Beck.
So the guy who gets crushed - not edged out, but crushed 52-41, and as an incumbent, […]

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If you haven’t seen this, meander over to check out citydweller’s excellent two-part post on his encounter with a homeless guy across the street from the courthouse. It’s not only good reading (and I’ll say this again for the umpteenth but now final time: city, I know there’s a community here on LOL but you […]

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Now, in the thread for Jeff Hawkes’ piece last week on the East Hempfield TND thing, RogueGOP lays out a pretty comprehensive case that I think is pretty representative of those who opposed “Independence,” and who would most likely oppose a similar development anywhere in the county.
It’s a fairly well-thought-out position. It’s also wrong.
Check that […]

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After about 8 hours.
Hey Kate - this is what power pop sounds like.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXMImnA5tDQ

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You’ve probably heard a cover version of this. The original is a British, late ’80s sort of hypnotic, sublime thing by a band called The La’s (from Liverpool no less!).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvPm0-tIQk0

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…to those who wound up here via the NYT link. And to everyone else trying to work your way through a sleepy Saturday. Maybe this gets the heart started…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xp_KrbN60I

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Jeff Hawkes had a decent piece yesterday regarding Heidi Wheaton, her vote to deep-six the TND thing and how that vote ultimately - in her view, at least - was a victory for democracy. Which it probably was, in that it certainly reflected the view of what appeared to be a majority of her constituents. […]

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New link blogrolled over to the right, if you care, which of course you don’t. Nevertheless: Deux Ex Malcontent is the work of one Chez Pazienza, whom I should’ve blogrolled for his name alone; but he also happens to be a producer who was just you-know-whatcanned by CNN because he blogged. Which he writes about […]

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