Oh, swell. I just heard that freshman Rep. Chris Carney (D-PA) - you know, the one I raised money for - is talking about voting for the Peru NAFTA extension.
Oddly enough, he ran on a fair trade and anti-NAFTA position.
If you’re in his district (or if you gave him money), you should give him a […]

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John Cole is one of us.
Welcome to the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy.

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My friend’s 25-year-old son was hospitalized over the weekend with MRSA - methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. He scraped his elbow playing basketball. One of the other players had it and apparently rubbed up against the scrape, passing it along. She said it was really scary.
Fortunately for him, his mother is still paying for his health […]

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Lots of paperwork for someone they barely knew:
Even though Jack Abramoff is about to celebrate his one year anniversary of reporting to prison, House sleuth Henry Waxman (D-CA) hasn’t forgotten about the convicted briber.
Oversight committee chairman Waxman is continuing to press for evidence of the lobbyist’s ties to the White House, and in a letter […]

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And pretending none of this happened doesn’t “honor” anybody.
The Republicans who pretend to be outraged and shocked by Scott Beauchamp’s story? I spit on them.

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Go read Erich Boehlert on Stephen Colbert’s candidacy. Best takedown of the media, ever:
Think of political press corps as that fat kid from Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory, Augustus Gloop. For too many journalists, the lure of the Colbert candidacy is akin to Wonka’s river of chocolate, the one that lured the candy-loving Gloop […]

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Will is one of the nicest, most idealistic, easygoing persons I know - but ban Bruce Springsteen from the playlist, and watch him explode! Go, Will!

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Lutton’s right - we’re very lucky to have WXPN here in Philly. If your local radio sucks, you can stream XPN online (I listen to it in work every day).

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You take a hockey player who’s already had at least one serious concussion, he gets another one and a week later, is suffering from obvious post-concussion syndrome, and they say they might let him back on the ice next week.
That’s worse than stupid. That’s criminal. We put our kids at risk, too.
Oh, and did you […]

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Natasha has a great post over at Booman’s place. She points us to this very informative quote:
The most credible estimate of the number of people in the United States who have died because of lack of medical care was provided by a study carried out by Professors David Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler (New England Journal […]

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What a shame he didn’t see fit to spend it on anything like infrastructure, education or healthcare.
Hey, big spender:
WASHINGTON — George W. Bush, despite all his recent bravado about being an apostle of small government and budget-slashing, is the biggest spending president since Lyndon B. Johnson. In fact, he’s arguably an even bigger spender than […]

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Geeze, not only does this Republican state legislator have sex with a male prostitute, he stiffs the guy on the money and then goes into a panic when the story becomes public.

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The difference between companies like Zipcar and Flexcar, and PhillyCarShare is, PhillyCarShare is a non-profit.
Which is a much better deal for the people who use it.

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Robert Goulet, 73.

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Live from Philadelphia, on MSNBC now.
I watched it for a bit, but frankly, this is horse-race stuff (Look how decisive he was! Look how evasive she was!) that’s more suited to a sports channel than anything relevant to the job. Plus, I fell asleep in the middle.

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Well, my physical therapist thinks I have a bone chip floating around my ankle. I think she’s right; although the swelling is down, the ankle still doesn’t feel better. It feels like there’s something catching the ligament; there’s a stabbing, localized pain.
She doesn’t want me walking for exercise, she doesn’t want me to go back […]

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Clear Channel tells its stations not to play the new Bruce Springsteen release.

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Not tonight, honey, I have a headache.
Unless you like having a low sperm count and a dead libido, this is a pretty scary story and we really should start paying attention. (You know, even though the head of the Consumer Product Safety Commission thinks it’s all just fine the way it is!)
Clearly, the place to […]

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One of the greatest rock albums ever, “Let it Bleed,” Rolling Stones. Here’s “Midnight Rambler”:

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No money for schools.
No money for healthcare.
No money to take care of veterans.
Ah, but we always have plenty of money to wage war and spy on everyone, including our own people:
The director of national intelligence will disclose today that national intelligence activities amounting to roughly 80 percent of all U.S. intelligence spending for the year […]

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There’s no question that deregulation doesn’t work, except to give corporations more profits and less liability. For consumers? Not such a good deal. Gee, ya think the Dems will roll over on this one?
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 — The nation’s top official for consumer product safety has asked Congress in recent days to reject legislation intended […]

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Down one path, we trade corporate Democrats for corporate Republicans; our cronies for their cronies; one political dynasty for another dynasty; and all we are left with is a Democratic version of the Republican corruption machine.
This is the remarkable speech John Edwards made today at St. Anselm’s College, Manchester, New Hampshire. Maya forwarded it to […]

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They’re so good at getting people to deal with the consequences of their actions, aren’t they?
WASHINGTON - The State Department promised Blackwater USA bodyguards immunity from prosecution in its investigation of last month’s deadly shooting of 17 Iraqi civilians, The Associated Press has learned.
The immunity deal has delayed a criminal inquiry into the Sept. 16 […]

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This would be a real disaster:
Amtrak workers who have been without a labor contract for seven years have rejected arbitration in their long-running battle, starting a countdown toward what would be the first-ever strike against the nation’s passenger railroad.
A strike, which could not occur until early next year, would also disrupt commuter railroads, including SEPTA […]

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