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Great editorials, shame about the news coverage

Times editorial page:

If the current Congress had been called on to intervene in the case of Mr. Allen, it would probably have tried to legalize shoplifting.

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College Democrats

Who knew? Check out new College Democrats at Swarthmore site. (Straw poll: Mark Warner at 28... )

UPDATE: Link fixed. And now Feingold pulled even with Warner, both at 23. Read below the fold...

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Nothing the matter with Hutchinson, Kansas

First, the demographics. From In this moment:

With a population of about 40,800, located in a county with a grand total of 63,800 people, Hutchinson is best known as the home of the Kansas State Fair ... In the 2004 presidential election, only 33 percent of the county voted for Democrat John Kerry, while 65 percent supported Bush.

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Dem on Dem Violence

AP:

"Democrats run and hide" when the administration invokes the war on terrorism, Feingold told reporters.

"I'm amazed at Democrats ... cowering with this president's numbers so low," Feingold said.

Is Feingold right? Will Feingold be effective? Readers?

UPDATE Harry Reid's reaction:

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FBI: If you're against the war, you're a terrorist

Why am I surprised? They've been calling us traitors for years, so why not take them at their word? Although the logic is a little odd: There aren't a lot of committed pacifists who turn into terrorists, and most terrorists I've heard of don't want to draw attention to themselves by handing out leaflets. Still, who expects logic from these guys? Read below the fold...

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Hey, Why Not, Dude?


Lucky Africans After Winning Slave Lottery

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General JC Christian has a post up about a sweet, dear woman who shares her ideas on why God wanted Africans to be slaves. Read below the fold...

Ways In Which We're Better Off Because Bush Has Been Our President

Yeah, I got nothin' this morning. How could you tell? Read below the fold...

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36

I'm detecting a pattern here:

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Growing dissatisfaction with the war in Iraq has driven President Bush's approval rating to a new low of 36 percent, according to a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll released Monday. Read below the fold...
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Mantra to Defeat the Scoundrels

Digby at Hullaballo has a post up titled Start the Hum. In that article Digby wrote the following: Read below the fold...

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Goodnight, moon

Zinc! Yeah, that's the ticket! Zinc! [Cough, cough. Hack. Prolonged bout of hacking and coughing followed by brief silence. Cough. Sheeeeit.] Read below the fold...

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"Making government run like a business"

And surely Bush has made that long-time Republican dream come true. Has everyone seen Office Space?

Oh, and making the government run more like a business... Well, that would be the folk definition of corporatism, now wouldn't it? Read below the fold...

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This picture needs a caption!

bush_cricket

I'll start:

What, no codpiece? Read below the fold...

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Rove, Bush to have lunch, dinner with "adult film starlet" Mary Carey

Not that there's anything wrong with that. PR Newswire:

[Mary Carey] will join Karl Rove, senior advisor to the President, for lunch on Wednesday the 15th, and President Bush for dinner on Thursday the 16th.

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He had a nasty reputation as a cruel dude

It didn't take long for the bed wetters to start Swift Boating Feingold. In the 2nd irregular (and I don't mean in the "Honey, where's the Ex-Lax?" way) edition of Right Is Wrong, we find this gem, from the un-ironically named Conservative Voice [DCOW]:

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Lexicon of Liberal Invective: 
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Truth crushed to earth will rise again

From the text of Feingold's resolution to censure Bush:

"Resolved that the United States Senate does hereby censure George W. Bush, president of the United States, and does condemn his unlawful authorization of wiretaps of Americans within the United States without obtaining the court orders required."

Is this entirely factual, or am I missing something? Read below the fold...

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