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Oliver Willis has posted links to a website which appears to be owned by Joseph Stack, the alleged pilot that crashed into the Austin FBI/IRS office building this morning. If the text is authentic, it appears that Mr. Stack had ongoing resentment toward the government and the IRS in particular.
His somewhat rambling note [...]
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What follows are some ideas I had for setting the tone of the debate on financial reform. Just as with health reform, conservatives have already got their financial reform talking points from Frank Luntz, propagandist-in-chief. Following his format, I decided to put together a few talking points of our own, which coincidentally, happen to be [...]
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There’s all sorts of little interesting stories swimming in the Twitter stream today that will likely be big stories tomorrow. Remember, you heard it here first:
Scott Brown wants to move up his swearing-in ceremony by a week. He’s requested that the Massachusetts certification of his election be hand-delivered to him so he can be sworn [...]
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Tobias Higbie on Flickr/ CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
It’s easy to call for filibuster death when one backs the party in the majority; less so when in the minority. In legislation, the filibuster is one of the few means the minority party has to be heard. The problem isn’t the filibuster; it’s the Republicans.
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Part of the magic of yesterday’s 90-minute real-time conversation with the Republicans in Baltimore was the spontaneous rise of attention. Within minutes, Twitter is abuzz. Everyone is transfixed. Everyone. It was some of the best political theater I’ve seen, ever. I call it theater because all of the drama, timing, dialogue and personalities were there, [...]
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What a remarkable hour and a half. The President addressed House Republicans at their retreat in Baltimore, then took questions for about an hour. His goal? To try and ratchet down the tone, address concerns head-on. Did he succeed? You decide.
Here’s the video via YouTube:
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