The Note details just how efficient a money machine the Bush re-election campaign is.

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Coming from Howard Kurtz, a man who can’t even handle his own balls, this roundup of the CW on Dean is ironic. But hey, we report, you decide.

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WONDER IF HE VOTED REPUBLICAN?
A heartbreaking story, one that’s all too common these days:
He had been out of work 14 months. His unemployment benefits had long run out. His savings were gone. His retirement account was gone. Three-hundred-fifty résumés. Three responses. Zero jobs. Depression. Overeating. Thirty pounds. In 14 months, he says, he had gone […]

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The Montreal Expos may be moved to D.C.

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More on Bush’s economy:
Van Luyn’s occupational fall may seem extreme, but workers here and across the country are making similar compromises to avoid joining the unemployed. The stubborn 7.3 percent unemployment rate around Grand Rapids is itself a shock for an area accustomed to the success that residents figure comes naturally from hard work and […]

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SOMEONE’S JUST BEGGING FOR SOME INSTANT KARMA
“People who violate the law don’t have a right to remain free.” - John Ashcroft, CBS Sunday Morning interview today. (I hope he remembers that when he and his buddies are convicted of selling legislation to Westar.)
Asked his favorite Simpson, he says he likes all of them at different […]

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A GROWING SCANDAL
Oh, this is getting good. John Conyers, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, sent John Ashcroft a letter this week pointing out that one of Ashcroft’s former staffers has been implicated in the Westar scandal - and that Ashcroft also received some of the tainted contributions.
It now appears clear that you, […]

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Ted Rall’s latest ‘toon.

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This is the transcript of the Nightline interview with Randy Beers, the former Bush counterterrorism advisor who’s now working for John Kerry.

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Apropos of nothing in particular, this is a good one to hold onto - or send to your deluded Republican friends. It’s a scorecard of military service, Democrats vs. Republicans.

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This is pretty close to my own opinion of the recent Supreme Court rulings. Remember, it’s all about marketing.

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DENNIS MILLER DOES THE HIGH-PRICED SPREAD
You know, I always hated Dennis Miller. He’s a nasty, self-important twit. And now I consider him beneath contempt. What a jackass.

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See? Ken “Buddy Boy” Lay didn’t do a thing. Sure pays to know the right people.

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MORE ‘RUNNING GOVERNMENT LIKE A BUSINESS’
A former long-time CIA analyst has some intriguing things to say:
So here is September 11, the first time since Pearl Harbor that this system failed. It was worse than Pearl Harbor. More people were killed on September 11 than were killed at Pearl Harbor, and where were the pieces? They […]

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Under the circumstances, perhaps this Bob Dylan song would be a better choice for Bush’s reelection campaign:
All through my whole lifeIf another war startsIt’s them we must fightTo hate them and fear themTo run and to hideAnd accept it all bravelyWith God on my side.
But now we got weaponsOf the chemical dust If fire them […]

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Ladies and gentlemen, please recalibrate your brains. It is perfectly okay to lie about why we went to war because it has nothing whatsoever to do with blowjobs. Got it?

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The normally placid Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) has announced Democrats will hold their own hearings into intelligence questions surrounding Iraq.
Levin said he has directed Democratic staff to examine the objectivity and credibility of the intelligence and its effect on Defense Department policy decisions, military planning and operations in Iraq.
He said Warner refused his request to […]

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In an eventful game, the Red Sox score 10 before the first out.

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READING THE SMALL PRINT
For what it’s worth, I think supporters of school vouchers are either incredibly dumb - or just plain spiteful. Because the very same laws that require colleges to meet certain federal and state standards will eventually require private schools to do the same. The only reason small church-oriented schools do so well […]

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Let’s play inside politics. McGreevy’s people were polling like crazy this week, and one of the questions they asked New Jersey voters is what they thought of George W. Bush. The poll focused on public perception of who’s to blame for the state budget crisis and whether McGreevy should shut down the state government to […]

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Another Repug returns campaign contributions from Westar, while others hang on tight. In the meantime, another consumer group asks three Westar directors to resign.
The citizen board’s filing attacked the special report that Westar’s directors made public in late May. The report had detailed abuses of company airplanes, funds to decorate lavish executive offices, and […]

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Spy Magazine is back! Well, sort of. Maybe they’ll get better. Go, read. If you want the real thing (or reprints of the originals), click here, here, here or here.

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WAH! WAH!
I’ve been very cranky for the past few days, and no, it isn’t just the Bush administration. First there was all that rain, then the blistering heat. The grass pollen is so bad, I can’t go out outside without my eyes tearing and my nose itching like mad. I woke up every day this […]

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Daily Kos on the growing military backlash against the Busheviks’ “support” for the troops. If the links are bloggered, scroll down. This is from the Army Times:
In recent months, President Bush and the Republican-controlled Congress have missed no opportunity to heap richly deserved praise on the military. But talk is cheap — and getting cheaper […]

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Nicole over at GoFish has a very interesting post today - a response from Major David Accetta about those two burned Iraqi children, and why the Army doctors didn’t treat them. I have to say, it doesn’t sound like spin.
Now, the military lies. We all know that. But in this case, his version sounds more […]

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