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• My 2009 "McLaughlin Awards" [Part 1]

  
  ChrisWeigant.com — Authority: 424
  Welcome once again to our year-end wrapup and awards ceremony. Honesty dictates that I immediately genuflect to The McLaughlin Group , from whom I have stolen all these award categories. We will begin this week with Part 1 of these annual awards, and then next Friday on New Years Day, we will present Part 2 , ...
  3 days ago

• Readings: Pierce: A Christmas Carol in which the three ghosts are waste, fraud, and abuse

  
  p3 - Persuasion, Perseverance, and Patience — Authority: 131
  At Altercation yesterday , Charles Pierce shared a holiday tale for everyone counting heavily on any problems with the now-likely-to-be-passed health care bill getting fixed "later." His rationale: I post it again to make the following point--just because an entitlement exists, and because it is largely doing ...
  4 days ago

• Prieur’s readings (December 24, 2009)

  
  Investment Postcards from Cape Town — Authority: 585
  This post provides links to a number of interesting articles I have read over the past few days that you may also enjoy. • Caroline Baum (Bloomberg): “New Normal” tops 2009 list of overused phrases , December 23, 2009. As a way of describing the US economy, the new normal has merit. ObamaNation is looking at ...
  5 days ago

• The unforgiving minute

  
  p3 - Persuasion, Perseverance, and Patience — Authority: 131
  This mornings L.A. Times : Schwarzenegger to seek federal help for California budget Reporting from Sacramento - Facing a budget deficit of more than $20 billion, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is expected to call for deep reductions in already suffering local mass transit programs, renew his push to expand oil ...
  5 days ago

• A united progressive/tea-party front

  
  The League of Ordinary Gentlemen — Authority: 636
  I can see where Jane Hamsher’s tea-party/populist left united front thing could seem appealing as a movement against something (the no-good politicians in Congress and their corporate special-interest shenanigans).   But I can’t see how it could be a movement for anything.  Progressives want more ...
  5 days ago

• More on Jane Hamsher’s Nixon-Goes-To-China Epiphany (Now With Less CAPSLOCK)

  
  bastard.logic — Authority: 483
  by matttbastard My esteemed friend Sarah Jaffe takes issue with several of the points I raised in yesterday morning’s post on Jane Hamsher: This combines SEVERAL things I hate into one paragraph. “Ugly Red State mugs” well gee, you know what? Those are real fucking people too. I’m so tired of the red ...
  5 days ago

• Waiting for Berlusconi

  
  Confessing Evangelical — Authority: 120
  “This man looks like a corrupt idiot and acts like one, but this should not deceive you – he is a corrupt idiot.” The Today programme had an item this morning about Silvio Berlusconi. It was interesting (worth catching up on once it appears on “listen again” ), but followed the typical pattern for ...
  6 days ago

• Palin Twitters: The Return of Death Panels

  
  Little Green Footballs — Authority: 591
  She’s found her fear-mongering story and she’s sticking to it, no matter how stupid or deceptive: Sarah Palin (SarahPalinUSA) on Twitter : ..merged bill may b unrecognizable from what assumed was a done deal:R death panels back in?what’s punishment 4not purchasing mandated HC? Ahhh! Ahhh! Death panels! ...
  6 days ago

• Lt. Gov. Denish & A.G. King Call for Major Reform of Predatory Lending

  
  Featured States News — Authority: 155
  Original Author:  Democracy for New Mexico
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• So Many Jacksonian Moments, So Few Jacksonians

  
  Eunomia — Authority: 600
  Jay Cost argues that another “Jacksonian moment” may be upon us: We might be on the verge of another Jacksonian moment: a time when the people awake from their slumber, angrily exercise their sovereign authority, and mercilessly fire the leaders who have for too long catered to the elites rather than average ...
  6 days ago

• WHAT THE NY TIMES AND NEW YORKER DONT KNOW ABOUT POPULISM

  
  UNDERNEWS — Authority: 152
  Ralph Brauer, Progressive Historians - It seems like the press can just never get it right especially when it comes to history. In the wake of You-Know-Whos new book tour, several publications, including the venerable New York Times, which should know better (especially if they read their own archives), are referring ...
  6 days ago

• “Liberals Should Be Concerned About the Financial Damage Being Done to Middle-Class Investors”

  
  A Rich Life — Authority: 123
  Set forth below is the text of an e-mail that I sent to Jane Hamsher, owner of the FireDogLake.com blog, on Saturday, December 19, 2009:  Jane: My name is Rob Bennett. I write the “A Rich Life” blog ( www.arichlife.passionsaving.com ). I was encouraged to read your article entitled Left/Right Populist Outrage ...
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• Jane Hamsher’s Recycled Capslock Radicalism

  
  bastard.logic — Authority: 483
  by matttbastard You want to know why the (dis)organized left has been a relatively ineffectual force in USian politics over most of the last 40 years? Check out so-called kill-biller netroots activist [sic] Jane Hamsher, who, in the course of her vain crusade to crush the Senate’s ( admittedly flawed but ...
  6 days ago

• Politifacts Lie of the Year: Death Panels

  
  Little Green Footballs — Authority: 591
  The indispensable Politifact website has named their Lie of the Year, and it came from the pen of none other than Sarah Palin, you betcha: PolitiFact’s Lie of the Year: ‘Death panels’ . Of all the falsehoods and distortions in the political discourse this year, one stood out from the rest. “Death ...
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• Latinobarometro Survey 2009

  
  Latin America — Authority: 111
  Every year at about this time gadflies of the region indulge in the publication of the Latinobar ó metro poll. The survey chronicles opinion on a spate of questions among 18 Latin American nations. This year (the survey focus changes a bit every year) views on democracy and the free market formed the basis of ...
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• Getting Out the Vote and the Myth of the Stupid Voter

  
  Mirror On America — Authority: 133
  An important, highly intelligent and well-argued blog post at Open Left discusses the myth of "stupid voters" and the weaknesses of the Democratic Party in getting out the vote in elections. This is highly recommended reading. I would love to hear a response from an official Democratic Party official on it. Key ...
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• The Temple of Justice and veneration of Capital: Supreme Court’s Decision on NRO

  
  Sherryx's Weblog — Authority: 111
  A Comment by Lal Khan of IMT (translated by AA from Tabqatti Jiddojehd) The recent Supreme Court’s recent decision declaring the NRO (National Reconciliation Ordinance) null and void has emerged as latest explosion in the series of tremulous events which have been arising from the severe political, economic and ...
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• Colbert explains, as only he can, two of the most damaging Supreme Court decisions in US history

  
  p3 - Persuasion, Perseverance, and Patience — Authority: 131
  Im little late in getting to this, but as Susie Madrak at Crooks and Liars reminded us this morning , the question of corporate personhood is, alas, not going anywhere.
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• How the White House Misjudged the Political Landscape

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 744
  The political terrain has changed (graphic: Rayne for FDL) As progressives on and offline continue to debate the future of the health care reform bill, attention is finally shifting to the underlying factors that have gotten us into this mess in the first place: namely, the mistakes of the White House. Meteor ...
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• Friday Talking Points [105] — One Bad Week

  
  ChrisWeigant.com — Authority: 424
  What a difference a week makes, eh?But before we get to all that, a quick program note needs to be addressed here up front. Every so often in these columns, I start channeling Howard Beale (from Network) and get "mad as Hell and just cant take it any more," and — rather than the [...]
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