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Political Pistachio: Tea Party Movement Tames The NRA
By J.J. JacksonThe National Rifle Association has learned a powerful lesson. That lesson is that they are not the all powerful group they thought they were whose members jump at their mere request. Whether or not they will retain this lesson for use in ...
Dateline: 2010-09-05 8:47am -07:00T (914 words)
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Crooks and Liars: Koch Brothers Donate $1M To Campaign To Suspend CA's Climate Law
I suppose this should be filed somewhere under "dog bites man." I keep wondering: Do the Koch brothers live in a different universe, one without massive heat waves, blizzards and storms? One where all kinds of wildlife is showing up in places where it's n...
Dateline: 2010-09-05 8:45am -07:00T (312 words)
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Obsidian Wings: Why Argue On Blogs? The Dunning-Kruger Effect
by Gary Farber, guest blogger.You're biased!Of course you are. We all are. We can't think without basing our thinking on our past experiences and conclusions, and so we are led into all sorts of cognitive bias. Errol Morris had a brilliant ser...
Dateline: 2010-09-05 1:31pm -07:00T (1352 words)
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PrairiePundit: Political wind in Texas
Richard Dunham, Houston Chronicle:...The marquee House race is taking place deep in the heart of Texas. The district includes former President George W. Bush's Crawford ranch and is the most heavily Republican district in the nation represented by a Democ...
Dateline: 2010-09-05 8:48am -07:00T (186 words)
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Balloon Juice: Contemplating a Turnover
In his response to E.D., Larison makes this point about a possible House turnover: After all, even if the Republicans won the House there would not be much that they could do once in office, except waste their time as they did in the ’90s hauling ex...
Dateline: 2010-09-05 8:45am -07:00T (330 words)
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TalkLeft: Sunday Musings and Open Thread
(Check out the larger version here. I took the picture on my neighborhood walk yesterday. The llamas belong to musician John Oates, who also raises emus, alpacas and peacocks.) For perspective, here's The Barns of Woody Creek from 2005. Woody ...
Dateline: 2010-09-05 11:00am -07:00T (533 words)
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PrairiePundit: The discomfort of the House Democrats
David Shribman:...... the House of Representatives was built with two-year terms for a reason: to be the barometer that measures both the pressures on the public and the pressures exerted by the public. At the Constitutional Convention of 1787, James Mad...
Dateline: 2010-09-05 8:48am -07:00T (578 words)
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Crooks and Liars: McCain: GOP must be for something... like repealing health care law
Click here to view this media Being the "Party of No" just isn't good enough.
Appearing on Fox Sunday, Sen. John McCain explained that the Republican Party has to give voters a reason to support them.
"I really think that the that this election could b...
Dateline: 2010-09-05 11:00am -07:00T (200 words)
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The Moderate Voice: Gallup Poll: Minority, Young Voters Part of Obama’s Winning Coalition Weak for Election Day
More bad news in what seems a steady flow of bad news for Democrats heading into what looks like a political Katrina of nationwide defeats: a Gallup Poll finds minority and young voters, two key parts of the coalition that elected Barack Obama President a...
Dateline: 2010-09-05 7:30am -07:00T (344 words)
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The Astute Blogger: MORE PROOF THAT THE SO-CALLED UNIVERSAL LAWS AND CONSTANTS ARE ACTUALLY VARIABLE
PHYS ORG:One of the most controversial questions in cosmology is why the fundamental constants of nature seem fine-tuned for life.One of these fundamental constants is the fine-structure constant, or alpha, which is the coupling constant for the electroma...
Dateline: 2010-09-05 5:15pm -07:00T (280 words)
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Power Line: Al Qaeda weak, but America fights
ScottI think there is a logical error that undermines Fareet Zakaria's Newsweek column on the purported American overreaction to 9/11. Indeed, the premise of his column is based on the error. According to Zakaria, the war on al Qaeda and related actions...
Dateline: 2010-09-05 8:45am -07:00T (271 words)
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Crooks and Liars: This Week's In Memoriam
Click here to view this media (h/t David at VideoCafe)
This Week with Christiane Amanpour marks the passings of bicyclist Laurent Fignon, journalist Dorothy Sucher, and political cartoonist Paul Conrad. In addition, the Pentagon released the names of t...
Dateline: 2010-09-05 5:15pm -07:00T (315 words)
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Crooks and Liars: Gingrich Blames Democrats Poor Polling Numbers on 'Radicalism' of Obama, Reid and Pelosi
Click here to view this media Newt Gingrich is in upside down land again with his explanation of why the generic Republican v. Democratic poll numbers are looking bad for Democrats right now; the Democrats are too "radical". Yeah, whatever you say there b...
Dateline: 2010-09-05 12:15pm -07:00T (431 words)
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Crooks and Liars: Paging Dr. Freud
Somewhere in America, a psychology graduate student is doubtless preparing the definitive thesis of the modern conservative mindset. After all, the Bush years produced a cottage industry of analyses on the roots of Dubya's "dead or alive, bring 'em on"...
Dateline: 2010-09-05 10:00am -07:00T (1218 words)
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Media Matters: Sunday show economic experts agree: more stimulus needed
On the September 5 editions of CBS's Face the Nation and ABC's This Week, economic experts noted that the initial stimulus package was too small and that the resultant slow economic recovery demanded further stimulus. Media largely ignored progressive eco...
Dateline: 2010-09-05 1:30pm -07:00T (1388 words)
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