Aww. Waffles didn’t make it.

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Editor & Publisher:
A public relations company known for its role in a controversial U.S. military program that paid Iraqi newspapers for stories favorable to coalition forces has been awarded another multimillion dollar media contract with American forces in Iraq. Washington-based Lincoln Group won a two-year contract to monitor a number of English and Arabic media [...]

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See, it’s not your imagination - Iraq isn’t on TV anymore.
They did the same thing before the 2004 elections. So cooperative of them, don’t you think?

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New York’s GOP finest. You gotta read this one.

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I suggest we get rid of the current inhabitants of Congress who show no inclination to perform the oversight function of their job:
A little-noticed provision in President Bush’s proposal for the treatment of suspected terrorists would for the first time legally endorse the fight against terrorism as equivalent to war, lawmakers and national security lawyers [...]

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Good Slate piece on the odds of your prescription medicine actually doing the thing for which you’re taking it.
I remember a few years ago the head of the British company Glaxo Smith Kline causing an uproar when he offhandedly mentioned that anti-depressants “only work for thirty percent” of the people who take them. There was [...]

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T.O. apparently tried to kill himself last night.

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Good news if it passes:
Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) introduced emergency legislation to amend the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) this afternoon to offer funding to states and counties who make ‘contingency paper ballots’ available to voters to be used at the voter’s option instead of electronic voting systems.
The so-called contingency [...]

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Via Rox, go read Brad DeLong. I especially like this one quote from a commenter on another site:
Some will wonder why I bother to respond to Dio instead of ignoring him as a troll? Because he is not a troll. He believes what he is saying, and 32% of US voters agree with him. They [...]

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I’ve been writing about campaigns being able to bypass the corporate media via the internet, and lo and behold, there it is - The People Choose. (Which just goes to show you how great minds think alike.)
It’s a website associated with Link TV where campaigns and people covering local races can upload videos at the [...]

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Looks like Christie didn’t do it alone:
Condoleezza Rice’s office gave final approval to the infamous Environmental Protection Agency press releases days after 9/11 claiming the air around Ground Zero was “safe to breathe,” internal documents show.
Now Secretary of State, Rice was then head of the National Security Council - “the final decision maker” on EPA [...]

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What’s the matter, is your dialing arm broken? Don’t just sit there, call your senator - toll-free Capitol switchboard: 1 866 808 0065.. Nothing fancy: “I’m a constituent, and I don’t want you to vote to support this torture bill, and I don’t want the administration to get a free pass on torture.”
Glenn Greenwald:
Put another [...]

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Dear God, I’m linking to Andrew Sullivan. Again. [Via Brendan, who has the constitution for reading Andy on a regular basis.]

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Once again, the New York Times newspaper rushes to save us when it’s too late for them to make a difference. But gee, aren’t they starting to sound shrill - like bloggers?
Here’s what happens when this irresponsible Congress railroads a profoundly important bill to serve the mindless politics of a midterm election: The Bush administration [...]

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Why is the Whitewash Torture bill retroactive to Nov. 26, 1997? Have Skunk takes a shot. Anyone else?

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Matt Taibbi:
So to recap: a weapon that was designed to fight an enemy that no longer exists, which may be a spectacular design failure, and which costs up to ten times as much as the last generation’s still-excellent and still-superior weapon, is to be mass-produced by a government steeped in a budget crisis of its [...]

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Arianna Huffington.

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It looks like some compromise version of the Whitewash Torture bill will go through this week, thanks to those cooperative Democrats:
Democrats, who have found themselves on the losing end of the national security debate the past two national elections, said the changes to the bill had not yet reached a level that would cause them [...]

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In an obvious swipe at colleague David Broder’s mythinc “independence” party, WashPo’s Harold Meyerson lets “moderate” Republicans have it:
Chafee and Maine’s Olympia Snowe and such deathbed converts to moderation as Ohio’s Mike DeWine are seeking reelection to the Senate by claiming that they represent a Republicanism less rabid than the Bush-Rove strain. They point to [...]

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While many of the faithful take that “Thou shalt not kill” stuff seriously, I notice none of our “values” senators were present:
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Two Presbyterian ministers were among 71 people arrested during a series of peaceful protests against the Iraq war Tuesday, said a spokeswoman for a group participating in the protests.
Demonstrators held [...]

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ESPN, making crowd noise safe for the right wing.

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Vanessa Paradis covers the Rickie Lee Jones song rather nicely:

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Quick, someone stop the Phillies from choking…

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Here’s your family values party for you.

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Catholics are asking, “Who would Jesus torture?”
In the meantime, American Jews have their own struggle with conscience:
PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia Jews continued to honor the High Holidays today by unfurling banners reading “U.S. Jews Say: Stop U.S. Military $ to Israel ” and “U.S. Jews Stand Against Israeli War Crimes.” Similar banners have adorned bridges over [...]

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Link:
John Hutson, a retired rear admiral and the former top uniformed lawyer for the Navy, argued that a habeas right was fundamental to American law and identity.
“Without these kinds of protections, we’re just another banana republic,” Hutson said.

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Looks like we won’t have to worry about this one just yet:
A high-profile Republican effort to clarify the legality of President Bush’s warrantless wiretapping program will almost certainly not pass before Congress recesses at week’s end for the fall campaign, leaving the legislation in deep trouble, congressional leaders conceded yesterday.
Efforts to reach agreement on a [...]

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Because if no one actually reads it, it never happened:
The Bush administration has blocked release of a report that suggests global warming is contributing to the frequency and strength of hurricanes, the journal Nature reported Tuesday.
The possibility that warming conditions may cause storms to become stronger has generated debate among climate and weather experts, particularly [...]

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Drinking Liberally at Tangier, 18th & Lombard, 6-9 p.m. Free wings and drink specials!

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Go give money, it’s close and there’s three days left to donate:

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