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Gotcha. You shouldn’t believe everything you read on the Internet. If you did, you might believe that Joe Lieberman had endorsed Scott Brown in Massachusetts. Never mind that such an endorsement would be ridiculous for Lieberman to make, given that his fortunes rest better with Democrats than Republicans regardless of the Massachusetts outcome.
Actually, Lieberman [...]
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At 18, Vic Chesnutt drove drunk. That choice consigned him to a future in a wheelchair with limited use of his hands and arms, but with a powerful voice which rang strong until December 23rd. On that night, Vic Chesnutt opened a bottle of muscle relaxants and swallowed them all.
He died on Christmas Day. [...]
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I was going to write a big long post about Matt Taibbi’s latest attempt to pin the “sellout” tail on the President’s donkey and maybe I still will. But really, the bottom line is much shorter and largely ignored: This is a war between Wall Street and the rest of us.
Take your eyes off Geithner, [...]
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Senator Orrin Hatch seems to be a teeny bit unhappy with Moveon.org members’ recent protest at his office in Salt Lake City. The protesters were unhappy about Senator Hatch’s deep ties to the insurance industry; Senator Hatch was unhappy about being a target of protest.
Senator Hatch, in an interview with Andrea Mitchell:
Hatch: Now [...]
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Twitter can be a great source of information. Or not, depending. As marketers have discovered, it’s wonderful for getting a message out and spread virally, whether it’s true or not. Political operatives have discovered the same thing. In fact, the Twitter API is so robust and friendly that it can become a 24/7 propaganda machine, [...]
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I have a guest post up today on Huffington Post, thanks to Francine Hardaway. This is a post I originally wrote this weekend for the site I’ve been working on since January – US Health Crisis.
Our goal with the site is to aggregate content and build community around the ongoing debate about health care [...]
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