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• That Would Not have Worked For Long

  
  Revelations From An Unwashed Brain — Authority: 561
  A small bit from slashdot has made me think of how the government works, and how interesting it might be to see the trail of money in the overall telling of this long and winding story. theodp writes “Recalling that CEO Jeff Bezos originally explored placing Amazon.com on an Indian Reservation near San ...
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• The Smell Test: Part Deux – Mele Kalikimaka

  
  The Pink Flamingo — Authority: 487
  Why?What if ....Suppose the Obama Administration needed a diversion to take the collective conservative mind off health care ....Obamas AP Golf Photo of the Day!Al Qaeda issued a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  20 hours ago

• Well, That Sure Sucked: Good Riddance To The Devils Decade

  
  The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy — Authority: 626
  As I understand it, certain pundits are struggling with finding an appropriate name for the decade now mercifully coming to an end. Whats the problem, I wonder? Are their word processor dictionaries redacted of all four-letter words? I mean, I could think of a few dandies, right of the top of my head. Short of the ...
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• The Smell Test

  
  The Pink Flamingo — Authority: 487
  The Pink Flamingo does not specialize in “terror” or “Islam”.  But – even someone who does not specialize in something knows something stinks here.Barack Obama was not... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Wall Street was making boatloads of money…Yada yada yada… the US is sliding into socialism.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 157
  it’s essential to realize that this is happening totally as an unintended consequence of the plan to save capitalism. Again. We’ve been through chapters in our history like this before (1890-1919; 1932-1952). It’s just a cycle. When wealth and power get too concentrated and there is a major power imbalance at a ...
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• How much more qualified should an appointee be?

  
  Where's the Outrage? — Authority: 433
  When Dawn Johnsen was nominated to head the Office of Legal Counsel , there was much rejoicing by progressives. Glenn Greenwald wrote a GREAT post on her and her qualifications. That was back in January. Now, like were reliving a bad episode of the West Wing, Dawn Johnsen has become a political football. She’s ...
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• 2000-2009: Americas Lost Decade

  
  The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy — Authority: 626
  When historians update the history of the United States, ponder when we lost our way and punted the mantle of global supremacy to China, theyll conclude this past decade was the turning point. From 2000 to 2009, voters made a series of terrible political choices. As a result, for many Americans the US ceased being a ...
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• Utah Resource Management Plans and Lease Sale Challenge

  
  Climate of Our Future — Authority: 125
  EarthJustice.orgIn Brief:In late 2008, the Bush administration attempted to cement its pro-development philosophy in the BLM’s land management plans applicable to Utah’s public lands for decades to come. These public lands include areas adjacent to Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Dinosaur National Monument, ...
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• Robert Gates is person of the year

  
  Shadow Government — Authority: 598
  Peter Feaver It is hard to top Scott Stanzels nominee, "Straw Man," as Person of the Year, so I will play it safe and second the nomination of Secretary of Defense Bob Gates . The hardest part of President Obamas job, taking over as commander in chief in the middle of two very challenging wars, would have been ...
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• Farm Subsidies Fund Poisoning of Farm Animals and The American Consumer

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 173
  Ever wonder why a salad costs more than a Big Mac? The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) is speaking out about the recent Farm Bill passed by the House of Representatives, and they don’t like it. Here’s why: the bill provides the greatest subsidies to farmers who produce arguably the ...
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• The Stupidest Thing I’ve Read All Day (Also, why does anyone still listen to Grover Norquist?)

  
  The United States of Jamerica — Authority: 503
  This is, without a doubt, the dumbest single thing I’ve read today (unsurprisingly, it comes from the National Review ): I have always said that the word  bipartisan has a very scary meaning in Washington, D.C. Here is more evidence: Faced with a massive amount of federal debt and future spending that is about ...
  5 days ago

• The NY Times and journalistic objectivity

  
  Later On — Authority: 455
  Glenn Greenwald : I’ve written many times before about Sami al-Hajj, the Al Jazeera cameraman who was abducted by the U.S. in late 2001, tortured at Bagram, sent to Guantanamo for seven years — where he was never charged with any crime and was interrogated overwhelmingly about Al Jazeera’s operations, ...
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• Former Guantanamo Detainee Returns to Work at Al Jazeera

  
  : - Published news — Authority: 179
  Filed under: Bush Administration , Terror , Afghanistan read more
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• Day of Reckoning

  
  Beers with Demo — Authority: 437
  For our moderate and liberal friends who were had... Harry Reid cravenly explained all the pork give-aways in Senatecare as being just business as usual and intimating that’s just how legislation was done. We’re sorry – we’re not buying because it was supposed to be different with this Congress and ...
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• The non-blizzard of 2009 and why the anti-science disinformers try to shout down any talk of a link between climate change and extreme weather

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 173
  Our story so far. The anti-science crowd pushed the nonsensical meme that a big snowstorm in winter is somehow counter-indicative of human-caused climate change.   I then discussed the actual science, which makes clear that is, in fact, nonsense, and, if anything, such a storm is consistent with climate science, ...
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• Top Five Online Stories Of The Year!

  
  The Plum Line — Authority: 777
  Are you ready for this? I’ve recorded a brief video in which I lay out what I believe are the five top online stories of the year — the top five stories that showcased the world of online journalism at its finest. My picks, in rough chronological order: 1) The release of the torture documents and Cheney’s ...
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• Schmidt to lead Obamas cybersecurity drive

  
  Telecom Industry News — Authority: 143
  With the appointment of former Bush administration and eBay staffer Howard Schmidt to cybersecurity coordinator, President Obama has finally reached his goal of "personally selecting" a cybersecurity czar. A letter announcing Schmidts appointment on the White House website on Tuesday, said that Schmidt will "have ...
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• The Ten Worst Nightmares Bush Inflicted on America

  
  Politics or Poppycock — Authority: 136
  By Juan Cole, Informed Comment. Posted December 22, 2009.Here are my picks for the top ten worst things about the wretched period, which will continue to follow us until citizens stand up to fix them.By spring of 2000, Texas governor George W. Bush was wrapping up the Republican nomination for president, and he went ...
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• TV/media in the 2000s: 10 (or so) key voices in left/right political media

  
  Premium Hollywood - Entertainment blog, Hollywood blog, movie blog, TV blog — Authority: 532
  Politically speaking, the aughts have been one long, strange trip. Just think about what we’ve seen this decade: a disputed presidential election in 2000, the largest terrorist attack in world history occurring on U.S. soil in 2001, followed by two wars, the partial erasure of New Orleans and much of the Gulf ...
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• Former Guantanamo Detainee Returns to Work at Al Jazeera

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 787
  Filed under: Bush Administration , Terror , Afghanistan Sami al-Hajj was stopped by Pakastani forces on the border of Afghanistan in 2001. The New York Times reports that the U.S. military accused him of falsifying documents and delivering money to Chechen rebels, and held him for the next seven years without ...
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