So I stayed at DL tonight longer than I planned, because I was discussing some business ideas with the CEO of the Corrente Group. (UPDATE: Turns out he’s really more of an assistant manager.) But I couldn’t ignore the smoke one minute more, and was about to grab my coat and bolt when someone from […]

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These warmongers are so incompetent, you’d swear they’re doing it on purpose:
WASHINGTON - U.S. intelligence agencies repeatedly warned the White House beginning more than two years ago that the insurgency in Iraq had deep local roots, was likely to worsen and could lead to civil war, according to former senior intelligence officials who helped craft […]

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It’s Joementum, GOP-style:
It’s been the subject of whispered conversations among top Republican officials for the past month. Now, U.S. Rep. Chris Shays, R-4th District, has let slip the secret: GOP officials have discussed cross-endorsing Democratic Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman this fall.
In an interview today with the editorial board of The Advocate of Stamford, Shays said […]

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I’m really going to miss KFC:
PARIS (AP) - Veterinary chiefs meeting in Paris said Tuesday no country should consider itself safe from lethal avian flu and that it is “highly likely” that the disease will continue its spread in poultry stocks in Europe and beyond.
“The risk now is high for everybody,” said Bernard Vallat, […]

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John Fund’s boxed himself in nicely on this one.

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I’m a huge fan of Les Sampou’s self-titled CD, which came out in 1999. Back then, I clung to it like a raft through a particularly gruesome breakup, but it’s still one of my favorite records.
Interesting story. She was a fixture on the Boston folk scene for her blues performing when she came out […]

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I have to go to Drinking Liberally tonight, because my dear friend Somegirl will be there. I did see her Friday night at Johnny Brenda’s (she brought me this really cool stone pyramid from Venzuela), but it was just us, Brendan and his girlfriend - so now I have to go to the larger event. […]

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Will links to his old newspaper in Birmingham, Alabama and a historical treasure trove of photographs from the civil rights battle.
It reminds me how far we have to be willing to go to achieve justice in this country. It’s going to take a lot more than sitting at a computer.
Go look at them all.

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Tonight is the other Drinking Liberally - at Tangier, 18th & Lombard, Philadelphia. (Monday night is Johnny Brenda’s.) Here’s the email I got this morning from Will Weltman, our new organizer:
Special Drinking Liberally Meet the Press Roundtable tonight featuring John McCain (Maverick Senator from Arizona), Joe Lieberman (Republocrat from Connecticut), Mary Matalin (Wicked Witch of […]

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Raw Story:
Seventy two percent of U.S. troops in Iraq believe the United States should pull out within one year, a column by Nicholas Kristof in Tuesday’s New York Times reveals. The poll was conducted by Zogby International and is the first poll to examine the attitudes of those currently serving in the wartorn nation.
The […]

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You’d almost think they didn’t have any more career diplomats left to tell them these things… oh wait, they chased them all away, didn’t they?
The parent company of a Dubai-based firm at the center of a political storm in the US over the purchase of American ports participates in the Arab boycott against Israel, The […]

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Richard Cohen should have been a first-grade teacher, the kind who gives out awards for “Best Smile” or “Shiniest Shoes”.

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Wasn’t that the point?
A federal judge blocked the Defense Department from implementing much of its new personnel system yesterday, handing the Bush administration a major setback in its efforts to streamline work rules and install pay-for-performance systems in federal workplaces.
In a 77-page decision, U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan ruled that the Pentagon’s National Security […]

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We have entered the era of “frozen scandal.” Read on.

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Because it doesn’t seem like anyone else is going to help:
ADRÉ, Chad — The chaos in Darfur, the war-ravaged region in Sudan where more than 200,000 civilians have been killed, has spread across the border into Chad, deepening one of the world’s worst refugee crises.
Darfur War Spreads Arab gunmen from Darfur have pushed across […]

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Via Pacific Views. You can watch the video here:
In south Florida, a police watchdog group sent a person into 38 police stations in Dade and Broward counties with a simple task: to test what would happen when someone asks for a complaint form. At all but three stations, the tester found out that the department […]

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Just read Wolcott’s review and it sounds like a must-see.

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Digby:
Unlike Democrats, Republicans do not question whether it is a good thing to have hard working, committed activists. They just say thank you.
Rather than worry about being “pulled in a more extreme direction” they confidently accept support wherever they can get it and openly court their base. They proudly run on the label “conservative” […]

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Good. It’a bout time the media stopped rolling over and playing dead:
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York Times sued the U.S. Defense Department on Monday demanding that it hand over documents about the National Security Agency’s domestic spying program.
The Times wants a list of documents including all internal memos and e-mails about the program […]

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Just another tasty quote from “The Case for Impeachment”:
The Conyers report doesn’t lack for further instances of the administration’s misconduct, all of them noted in the press over the last three years—misuse of government funds, violation of the Geneva Conventions, holding without trial and subjecting to torture individuals arbitrarily designated as “enemy combatants,” etc.—but conspiracy […]

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At Johnny Brenda’s. Sorry, I forgot to post it earlier but there’s still plenty of time to drop by.

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Keep your eye on the ball. They won’t be happy until this is a complete serf state.

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Will weighs in with a thoughtful piece about media bias - and it’s not what you might think.

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Josh Marshall:
Under every administration there are examples of individuals or tax exempt groups (associated with the opposing party) getting audited by the IRS. It always, or usually, looks a bit fishy. But there’s seldom any concrete evidence of politicized decision-making at the IRS to point to. So partisans on one side or another make their […]

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