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Newt Gingrich and Me: A Charged Moment at an Education Blogger Summit

Dan Brown | Posted May 16, 2008 | Media

Ed in '08, the Gates/Broad funded advocacy campaign, hosted the first-ever education "blogger summit" this week at the Hotel Palomar in D.C. You may wonder, what happens at an education blogger summit? Were there intellectual cage matches for snarkiest wit? Gold stars for citing the most stats in...

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Witnessing Republican Disaster In Mississippi (And Beyond)

Max Blumenthal | Posted May 16, 2008 |

Last weekend, I traveled to Mississippi's first congressional district, a bastion of Republican power that has been home to William Faulkner, Elvis Presley, and the scene of massive riots on the night James Meredith attempted to integrate the University of Mississippi. With the district in the midst of a hotly...

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Missouri ID Bill to Block Nuns, Elderly from Voting Defeated

Art Levine | Posted May 16, 2008 | Politics

A GOP-pushed effort, aided by Republican voter-fraud scam artist Thor Hearne, to pass the country's most draconian photo ID bill has been stopped today in the Missouri Senate. Republicans, despite proclaiming the menace of voter fraud, didn't have enough votes to bring it to the...

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Talking with Our Enemies: McCain Should Admit The Truth and Stop Attacking the Messenger

James P. Rubin | Posted May 16, 2008 | Politics

Read More: 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Hamas, John McCain, Mccain Foreign Policy, McCain Hamas, Obama Foreign Policy, Obama Hamas

There they go again. The old John McCain would just admit he changed his position and move on. But the new John McCain campaign is incapable of that. Instead, they are reverting to an attack on the messenger.

The question and answer I released yesterday was a full...

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Lions for Lambs -- America in Need of Reporters

Leslie Griffith | Posted May 16, 2008 | Media

Read More: And Tom Cruise, Journalists Silenced, Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Velvet Censorship Exposed

Lions for Lambs and a velvet censorship exposed

The movie Lions for lambs damn near brought on the Post-Traumatic- stress that is someday inevitable for most reporters. Our eyes have to comprehend images that can never be erased and any sane person would never commit to a job that...

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Is Who Becomes the Next President All That Matters?

Danny Schechter | Posted May 16, 2008 | Politics

Read More: Housing Crisis, Limits Of Powe, Media, Presidential Campaign

BERLIN, MAY 13, 2008: I know. I know. How this is the most important election in history, and why the next occupant of the White House will not only be answering the red phone at 3 AM but possibly be saving these not always United States from the decline that...

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Think you need a raise? Caregivers for the disabled need one more than you do

Harold Pollack | Posted May 16, 2008 |

Read More: AFSME, Health, Healthcare Workers, Illinois, Medicaid, Reform Developmental Disability

Every Saturday, I pick up my brother-in-law Vincent at his group home in the Chicago southland. We go out for dinner and a movie or whatever with family and sometimes close friends. When I drop him back home, I have a few minutes of conversation with Rayshawn, the weekend overnight...

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Mike Huckabee: Minister and Street Thug

Barry Yourgrau | Posted May 16, 2008 | Politics

Read More: Berlusconi, Christian, Huckabee, Huckabee Obama, Il Duce, Kissinger, Mike Huckabee, Street Thug, War Criminal

So Mike Huckabee today makes a wisecrack at the NRA convention about Obama frantically trying to get away from a gun being pointed at him.

This is what passes for a Christian man of peace today in this charming country we find ourselves in. Spy magazine ran a marvelous...

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The New GI Bill: It's a Win-Win Proposition

James Wright | Posted May 16, 2008 | Politics

Read More: Education, GI Bill, Military, Universities, US Military, US Soldiers

When I was a youngster in the Midwest in the years after World War II, many people still called Memorial Day "Decoration Day," acknowledging its roots as a national day of mourning for the Union soldiers who had died in the Civil War. After World War I, the day became...

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Bush's Knessup

Michael A. Siegel | Posted May 16, 2008 | Politics

Read More: Bush Obama, Bush Obama Appeasers, Bush Obama Nazis, Foreign Policy, Iran, Knesset, North Korea, Obama Foreign Policy

George W. Bush's approval numbers are quickly approaching his neck size. He so badly wants to keep his presidency relevant. Nobody is certain why, but he found a sure fire way to do so: Inject himself into the presidential campaign in an address before the Israeli parliament marking the commemoration...

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Friday Talking Points [32] -- Democrats Throw Bush A Few Elbows

Chris Weigant | Posted May 16, 2008 | Politics

Borah Peak, at 12,662 feet high, is the highest point in Idaho.

[That may sound like a strange place to begin this column, but please bear with me.]

It was named for Senator William Borah, known as "the Lion from Idaho." He had an impressive political career, even running...

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For Assassination Joke, Huckabee Should Be Off TV

Jeffrey Feldman | Posted May 16, 2008 | Media

Read More: Ann Coulter, Barack Obama, Huckabee Obama, Mike Huckabee, Political Assassination

Having joked less than a year ago about killing Mitt Romney (and his supporters), former Republican candidate for president, Mike Huckabee, has now made light of assassinating Sen. Barack Obama.

According to CNN, during his recent speech at the NRA convention in Louisville Kentucky, the former presidential candidate...

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HRC's Choice: Seward or Chase?

David Quigg | Posted May 16, 2008 | Politics

William H. Seward or Salmon P. Chase?

This -- in addition to being the most arcane, nerdy question I've ever typed -- is the crucial choice Senator Clinton now faces. Seward and Chase shared the indignity of losing their party's nomination to a relatively inexperienced opponent. That opponent, a guy...

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Election Mania

Caroline Presno | Posted May 16, 2008 | Living

Read More: 2008 Election, Anxiety, Chris Matthews, Depression, Election Mania, Hillary Clinton, Pat Buchanan, Post-Election Disorder, Psychology, Therapy, Tim Russert

Voters are on an emotional rollercoaster with their candidates -- from the euphoria of incremental delegate gains one week to the dysphoria of gaffes and momentum shifts the next. Millions of voters are headed for a mood crash -- and we're not even out of primary season!

After an important...

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Bush Officially Kicks Off GOP's Sleaze Campaign

Andy Ostroy | Posted May 16, 2008 | Politics

Read More: Appeasement, Bush, Chamberlain, Democrats, Election, Obama, Terrorists

President Bush has made so many utterly dumb statements during his eight years in office that K-Tel could compile a best-selling greatest-hits album. But nothing the Moron-in-Chief has said in the past is more idiotic, more outrageous, more offensive and more patently dishonest than his comments Thursday before the Israeli...

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Breaking News: Hans von Spakovsky Withdraws Nomination for FEC Commissioner; What Will This Mean for Commissioner Mason?

Rick Hasen | Posted May 16, 2008 | Politics

Here it comes on a lazy Friday afternoon:

TPM Muckraker has the details. The letter from von Spakovsky is here. More from AP and Roll Call on the President "reluctantly" accepting the withdrawal.

I think this almost certainly breaks the logjam for FEC nominations. I expect...

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Poll: Nearly One-Third of Dems Would Back Clinton Indy Bid

Christina Bellantoni | Posted May 16, 2008 | Politics

Read More: 2008 Election, Bellantoni, Democrats, Hillary Clinton, Independent Bid, Politics, Polls, Rasmussen, Washington Times

Let the rumors begin.

A new Rasmussen Reports poll shows that 29 percent of Democrats would support Sen. Hillary Clinton running as an independent in the fall:

Thirty-eight percent (38%) of Democratic voters nationwide now believe that Hillary Clinton should drop out of the race for the White...

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Obama Will Crush McCain

Diane Francis | Posted May 16, 2008 | Politics

Read More: Hillary, Mccain, Obama, Politics, West Virginia

Hillary's supporters will vote for Barack Obama and his running mate. Disaffected Republicans will join the vote for change. Even Hillary's goons like James Carville and Paul Begala will try and jump on the Democratic bullet train because it is hurtling toward the White House this fall.
Hillary cost...

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Obama's Struggle With Typical Liberal Hypocrisy

John Ridley | Posted May 16, 2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama

From the beginning it's been fairly clear a big chunk of supposedly liberal America hasn't been ready for Barack Obama. Their unease obvious in the shock and awe of Joe Biden, and in Newsweek's inane, aloud wonderings of whether or not Obama was "black enough." "Black enough" for the...

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Open Letter to John McCain's Campaign

David Donnelly | Posted May 16, 2008 | Politics

Read More: Campaign Money Watch, John McCain Lobbyist, Lobbyists, McCain's Cronies

I read with interest the news reports of your campaign's decision to vet all the past associations, work, and conflicts of interest of your staff. As you may know, Campaign Money Watch has been increasingly concerned about the number of lobbyists working on and raising money for your presidential bid,...

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