MOON MADNESS
From CJR’s Campaign Desk:
The Washington Times is owned by fringe religious leader Rev. Sun Myung Moon, who, in addition to having been saluted by members of Congress, has spoken rapturously of the mass extinction of gays and called on Jews to apologize for killing Jesus. Despite all that, Moon’s newspaper has from its start […]

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THE VOICE OF EXPERIENCE
Via Jo Fish at Democratic Veteran, this from the former ambassador to Vietnam:
Having survived the ordeal of a POW, I never believed I would have to revisit the issue of prisoner treatment. But when I learned that the administration had created a new prisoner status for persons captured in Afghanistan after 9/11, […]

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HOW DO THEY SLEEP?
Remember those feel-good “we take care of the troops” Halliburton commercials? Hah.
Marie deYoung, a former Army chaplain who worked for Halliburton, was so upset by attacks on the company she e-mailed the CEO in December with a strategy on how to fight the “political slurs.” But today, after five months inside […]

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SHAMELESS
Media slut Deborah “Whoreville” Norville invited Lila Lipscomb (the mother of the soldier killed in Iraq who’s featured in “Farenheit 9/11″) onto her asinine show tonight. (Boy, MSNBC is really trying hard to be Fox News, aren’t they?)
Well, she just couldn’t stop herself. (You knew she couldn’t.) She ended up - oh yes she did […]

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Late afternoon in my back yard. This is where I often see deer early in the morning. Did I mention I hate them? Vermin with hooves, I say. The hood of my car is badly dented from a previous run-in with Bambi. (Bambi lost. The car won. Go, Team Toyota!) 

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COMING IN SEPTEMBER
By the way, has anyone else seen the trailer for John Sayles’ “Silver City“? It’s an satirical look at the gubernatorial campaign of a candidate very, very similar to a certain verbally challenged White House resident.
Imagine. How dare he?

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DON’T GIVE THEM AN INCH
Yippee. Smart move on the Dems’ part, to ask Jim Wallis to speak to the platform committee:
In that light, we ask that you incorporate into your party platform the following three points:
A commitment to recognize that budgets are moral documents reflecting our values and priorities by evaluating all tax policies and […]

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ROLLING THE DICE
Ralph Reed has always been a little weasel and a hypocrite. But it’s always nice to see it documented.
When Ralph Reed was the boyish director of the Christian Coalition, he made opposition to gambling a major plank in his “family values” agenda, calling gambling “a cancer on the American body politic” that was […]

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IXNAY ON EXPLORER
Oh boy.
THE US GOVERNMENT has sent out a warning out to internet users through its Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT), pleading users to stop using Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.
Following a malware attack last week which targeted a known flaw in IE, like so many other attacks, the US-CERT recommended using alternative browsers thanks […]

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ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN
Wow. A genuine liberal filling in for Friedman on the New York Times editorial page… What’s the world coming to?
Ms. Ehrenreich, whose articles, reviews and essays have been widely published, received the Sydney Hillman Award for Journalism and a Brill’s Content “Honorable Mention” (1999) for a chapter of her book, “Nickel and Dimed,” […]

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TURNCOAT
I can’t believe I ever voted for this guy. He’s just another whore.
WASHINGTON – Former Pennsylvania Congressman and struggling lobbyist Ron Klink, who ran one of the worst Senate races in recent memory in 2000, according to published reports [National Journal’s Hotline] will endorse Arlen Specter in his race against Congressman Joe Hoeffel tomorrow for […]

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“YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH”
From Drew’s Blog-O-Rama:
Via Waxy (who I’m positive had no ill intent whatsoever), I came across the link to a transcript for the first half of Fahrenheit 9/11 that was done by redlinerants.com. If you want to know what side of the fence redlinerants.com is on, just read any page of their […]

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VOX POPULI
At the Yankees game:
Cheney, who visited both clubhouses after batting practice, watched part of the game from the box of Yankees owner George Steinbrenner and part from a first-row seat next to the Yankees dugout, where he sat between New York Gov. George Pataki and former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani (news - […]

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A RISING TIDE
Oh, goody.
Jobs in lower-wage industries and regions are growing at a faster pace than higher-wage jobs, suggesting job growth is less potent for the economy because the majority of new work isn’t accompanied by fat paychecks.
Lower-wage jobs have risen more than 1.5% since U.S. employers started adding to their payrolls in September. Higher-wage […]

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FAIR IS FAIR
We’ll have come a long way in this country when either we apply the same high standards to white politicians as we do to black ones, or greet news of political cronyism among black politicians the way we do white ones: with a shrug and a yawn.
WASHINGTON, June 29 - A federal grand […]

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MORE BUSH-HATING LIBRULS
Fayetteville, North Carolina. Who’d-a thunk it?
“Fahrenheit 9/11,” a left-sided documentary that bashes the Bush administration’s war on terrorism, wouldn’t find much of an audience in a military town.
Or so they thought.
“This has broken all of our past records,” said Nasim Kuenzel, an owner of the Cameo Art House Theatre. “The movie that I […]

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WORSE THAN THEY THOUGHT
Maybe I’ll keep a copy of this in my purse for the next inconsiderate asshole who waves a cigarette under my nose:
LONDON - Passive smoking may be much more dangerous than scientists had thought, researchers said on Wednesday in new study that is likely to boost demand for a ban on smoking […]

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WISH LIST
The odds of anyone having this book are slim to none. It’s out of print in America but you can probably still get it in England.
I’m in no position to be buying books, anyway. But if any of my British readers want to send me an early Christmas present, it’s “Confessions of a Conservative […]

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A delicious slice o’sky. 

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A street scene shot as I was driving through Philadelphia’s Chinatown. 

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BITCH SLAP
Nedra gets Picklered:
Pickler implies that the Bush campaign has provided evidence to directly rebut Kerry, when in fact the two sides are referring to slightly different measures. Nor does the USA Today story that Pickler allows Schmidt to cite as evidence resolve the matter.
That’s not to say the USA Today article that Schmidt refers […]

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THE POWER OF CLASS
Great piece from the Columbia Journalism Review on the class divide between journalists and the poor:
Zweig’s formula resonated with Paul Solman, an economics reporter on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, on PBS. In the spring of 2003, Solman was doing a series of reports on the jobless recovery, and he interviewed Zweig. […]

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LIARS, INCOMPETENTS OR CRIMINALS?
This one really takes the cake:
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration is offering a novel reason for denying a request seeking the Justice Department’s database on foreign lobbyists: Copying the information would bring down the computer system. “Implementing such a request risks a crash that cannot be fixed and could result in […]

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JUNG WAS RIGHT
Ah, all those unresolved “shadow” issues:
TALLAHASSEE - Seven people who operate a Polk County private school that accepts voucher money from the state were arrested Tuesday on charges ranging from grand theft to racketeering. All were connected with the Faith Christian Academy in Bartow, which accepts state money for disabled students known as […]

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THE SHINING
If you need a good laugh, click here.

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