Bush Pens A Third Grade Paper About His Father

Seeded on Sun Jun 14, 2009 11:46 AM EDT (Daily Beast)

Dad loves the outdoors. He often took me fishing when I was a kid. We'd go fishing for bluefish off the coast of Maine. I learned the skills of fishing from listening to him, and the joy of fishing from watching him.

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So you want innocent people to die so you can be right.

Sun Jan 25, 2009 9:57 AM EST

Rush Limbaugh wants President Obama to fail so that liberalism can fail with him.

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Saddled With Debt, Some Decide to Torch Vehicles - washingtonpost.com

Seeded on Mon Oct 13, 2008 1:27 PM EDT (The Washington Post)

"Sounds to me like someone was behind on their payments," he said, "and was about to be repopped."

geniuses, brainiacs, desperation, economic-death-spiral

Obama did not ask to delay security agreement, Iraqi FM says - CNN.com

Seeded on Mon Oct 13, 2008 11:51 AM EDT (CNN)

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) – Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama did not urge Iraqi officials to delay a decision on a security agreement with the United States, Iraq's foreign minister told CNN on Sunday.

Doom, DOOM!!! - Peter Schiff

Seeded on Sat Oct 11, 2008 7:40 PM EDT (newmogul.com)

Make no mistake; had the government resisted the political pressure to interfere with the markets, we would now be experiencing a very deep recession.

William F. Buckley's Son Voting OBAMA - The Daily Beast

Seeded on Fri Oct 10, 2008 7:26 PM EDT (thedailybeast.com)

But that was—sigh—then. John McCain has changed. He said, famously, apropos the Republican debacle post-1994, "We came to Washington to change it, and Washington changed us." This campaign has changed John McCain. It has made him inauthentic.

christopher-buckley, william-f-buckley, election-2008

McCain Urges Bush To Spend $1 Trillion On Bailout -- Without Congressional Approval

Seeded on Wed Oct 1, 2008 2:55 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)

I'm not making this up. John McCain today urged the Bush Administration -- on more than one occasion -- to immediately and uniliterally spend $1 trillion buying up home mortgages.

WaMu's Done. - Sep. 25, 2008

Seeded on Thu Sep 25, 2008 10:42 PM EDT (CNN)

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- JPMorgan Chase acquired the troubled thrift Washington Mutual Inc., the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation announced late Thursday, marking yet the latest stunning development in the ongoing credit crisis.

Joe Biden Screwing Up 900 Times An Hour - Wonkette

Seeded on Tue Sep 23, 2008 6:23 PM EDT (Wonkette » top)

Biden — who has also @!$%#ed up a couple of other times in the last three seconds — shares the same problem with Bill Clinton: when there are Video Cameras in your face, they are probably recording, and they're probably going to be uploaded to the YouTubes later.

This is Your Nation on White Privilege | Red Room

Seeded on Tue Sep 23, 2008 1:56 AM EDT (redroom.com)

White privilege is being able to claim your experience as a POW has anything at all to do with your fitness for president, while being black and experiencing racism and an absent father is apparently among the "lesser adversities" faced by other politicians, as Sarah Palin explai …

The Economist: The election has taken a nasty turn. This is mainly the Republicans' fault

Seeded on Mon Sep 22, 2008 8:10 AM EDT (The Economist)

It doesn't seem so now. In the past two weeks, while banks have tottered and markets reeled, the contending Democrats and Republicans have squabbled and lied rather than debated.

Palin's E-Mail Account Hacked -- Wired.com

Seeded on Wed Sep 17, 2008 7:11 PM EDT (Wired News)

Vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin's private Yahoo e-mail account was hacked, and some of its contents posted on the internet Wednesday.

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Palin's private e-mail hacked, posted to 'Net

Seeded on Wed Sep 17, 2008 7:06 PM EDT (networkworld.com)

The internet activist group 'anonymous', famed for its exposure of unethical behavior by the Scientology cult, has now gone after the Alaskan governor and republican Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

politics, anonymous, sarah-palin, hack, boned

My Gal (Sarah Palin): The New Yorker

Seeded on Tue Sep 16, 2008 10:56 PM EDT (New Yorker)

Explaining how she felt when John McCain offered her the Vice-Presidential spot, my Vice-Presidential candidate, Governor Sarah Palin, said something very profound:

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Repost: Plato's Criticisms of Democracy (Part 2)

Sun Sep 14, 2008 3:58 PM EDT

These are the social critiques. See Part 1 for political criticisms. Plato's social critiques are even more shockingly prescient than his political criticisms, and so I think they make for good reading and better contemplation.

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Repost: Plato's Criticisms of Democracy

Sun Sep 14, 2008 3:55 PM EDT

I know I know, this is probably against some rule, but I'm posting this piece (and its companion) again. I just think they get more relevant as time goes on. There is a lot here to think about, and a lot that can be readily observed in the current election climate.

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politics, philosophy, mccain, obama, election

Lose your house, lose your vote

Seeded on Thu Sep 11, 2008 7:51 AM EDT (michiganmessenger.com)

The chairman of the Republican Party in Macomb County Michigan, a key swing county in a key swing state, is planning to use a list of foreclosed homes to block people from voting in the upcoming election as part of the state GOP's effort to challenge some voters on Election Day …

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Wal-Mart Staging Morning Meetings with Employees to Tell Them Who to Vote For

Seeded on Sat Aug 16, 2008 1:01 PM EDT (SmartMoney TV)

Right again Wal-Mart! You always show us how you're looking out for the little guy. Thanks.

politics, wal-mart, record-profits, dont-unionize-me-bro

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Soviet dissident writer, dies at 89 |

Seeded on Tue Aug 5, 2008 9:28 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)

The author whose books chronicled the horrors of the Soviet gulag system was lauded as a moral and spiritual leader as well as one of the greatest writers of his time.

Hiring and Firing: Monica Goodling's Lexis-Nexis Search

Seeded on Wed Jul 30, 2008 11:42 AM EDT (The Washington Post)

This is one of the searches she used to research U.S. Attorneys.

politics, monica-goodling, firing-attorneys, scapegoat

Oliver Sipple saves Gerald Ford - VidLit (old news retold smartly)

Seeded on Sun Mar 30, 2008 12:23 PM EDT (vidlit.com)

I've never heard this side of this story, and I thought others might find it interesting. This is a great site by the way.

gerald-ford, oliver-sipple, assassination, homosexual, gay, discrimination

What's eating you, Mother Nature? Is it us? | Macleans.ca - Columnists

Seeded on Wed Mar 19, 2008 9:14 PM EDT (macleans.ca)

Dear @!$%#, Are you for real?

nature, humor, weather

Ralph Nader - Hope You Can't Vote For.

Seeded on Thu Feb 28, 2008 10:25 AM EST (Yahoo! News)

Dimestore psychoanalysis was the standard reaction to Nader's third third-party presidential bid. "An ego-driven spoiler," the Des Moines Register called him. "He seems to have a pretty high opinion of his own work," jabbed Barack Obama.

politics, ralph-nader, election, spoiler

Magnitude 4.7 earthquake rattles UK - CNN.com

Seeded on Tue Feb 26, 2008 10:10 PM EST (CNN)

A magnitude 4.7 earthquake shook Britain early Wednesday, centered on the east coast north of London, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.

earthquake, london, whoa

Unfair is Unfair: Superdelegates Should Vote Their Conscience.

Thu Feb 21, 2008 8:35 PM EST

Heated discussion about superdelegates is ubiquitous. Untethered Superdelegates, party elders whose prominent position gives them a vote equal to an entire delegate (average joes are thousands to a delegate) are under intense national scrutiny right now.

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politics, obama, clinton, election

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