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Three Wise Men: Texas Progressive Alliance Round-Up 8/30/10 The Texas Progressive Alliance sure hopes that Harris County has a disaster recovery plan for the loss of its voting machines as it brings you this week’s blog roundup.
Off the Kuff had three more interviews this week, with State Reps. Armando Walle...
Dateline: 2010-08-30 2:17pm -07:00T (337 words)
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Three Wise Men: Primary Results Democratic Congressman Kendrick Meek won the Senate primary in Florida last night. While he is clearly the better Democratic candidate, the downside is that means that he and Gov. Crist – who is running as an Independent – will now be fighting...
Dateline: 2010-08-25 11:02am -07:00T (245 words)
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Three Wise Men: Texas Progressive Alliance Round-Up 8/23/10 The Texas Progressive Alliance welcomes everyone back to school as it brings you the best of the blogs for the week.
This week, Off the Kuff did three interviews with State House candidates – Joe Montemayor, Rick Molina, and Silvia Mintz.
Bay Area H...
Dateline: 2010-08-24 12:16pm -07:00T (264 words)
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Three Wise Men: Texas Progressive Alliance Round-Up 8/16/10 The Texas Progressive Alliance is enjoying its last week before school starts as it brings you this week’s blog roundup.
CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme is amazed at how much republicans like John Cornyn hate our constitution and the freedoms it a...
Dateline: 2010-08-16 7:16am -07:00T (280 words)
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Three Wise Men: Midterms Outlook IV Less than three months to go…
House – Charlie Cook still thinks the House is very much in play:
The Cook Political Report last week upped its projection from a 30-40-seat net gain for Republicans to a 32-42-seat net gain, with our model showi...
Dateline: 2010-08-11 8:32am -07:00T (427 words)
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Three Wise Men: House passes emergency state aid to save jobs The House of Representatives returned from district work break to pass a bill to save cash-strapped states from having to layoff teachers, police, and other state workers. President Obama immediately signed it into law. The House also passed a bill to inc...
Dateline: 2010-08-10 8:47pm -07:00T (91 words)
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Three Wise Men: Primary Results Tonight had the biggest primary news in awhile. In the most major news, Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado survived a primary challenge from the left by former state Rep. Andrew Romanoff (I guess that anti-incumbent stuff from the media was a bit ...
Dateline: 2010-08-10 8:47pm -07:00T (110 words)
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Three Wise Men: Texas Progressive Alliance Round-Up 8/9/10 The Texas Progressive Alliance is pretty sure its invitation to President Obama’s events in Texas were lost in the mail, and we will keep saying that to ourselves as we bring you this week’s blog highlights.
Off the Kuff continued his intervie...
Dateline: 2010-08-09 7:32am -07:00T (123 words)
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Three Wise Men: America, land of the free, home of the brave… As this article makes clear, America is still full of racist, ignorant, intolerant people:
[H]eated confrontations have also broken out in communities across the country where mosques are proposed for far less hallowed locations.
In Murfreesboro, Tenn., R...
Dateline: 2010-08-08 11:16pm -07:00T (336 words)
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Three Wise Men: Deflation or no? Either way, people don’t have jobs If you read the news (God help you if your main source is TV “news”), you’ll be thoroughly confused by the conflicting economic reports. For one thing, you’ve got Tim Geithner telling you that everything A-OK and we’re on the...
Dateline: 2010-08-06 1:46am -07:00T (1195 words)
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Three Wise Men: Elena Kagan confirmed to the Supreme Court The Senate confirmed Elena Kagan as the 112th justice of the Supreme Court by a 63-37 vote.
The Senate also approved a bill to save hundreds of thousands of state jobs and Speaker Pelosi says she will call the House back from recess next week to pass it...
Dateline: 2010-08-05 1:32pm -07:00T (93 words)
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Three Wise Men: Children and Happiness, Revisited Back in 2008 I wrote a post on children and happiness, where I took exception to interpretations of studies that show people with children are less happy than people without. Here’s what I said at the time:
…not everyone feels like they’ve...
Dateline: 2010-08-03 9:32am -07:00T (1132 words)
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Three Wise Men: Texas Progressive Alliance Round-Up 8/2/2010 The Texas Progressive Alliance sends its congratulations to Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky on the occasion of their wedding as it brings you this week’s blog roundup.
This week on Left of College Station, Teddy reports on a Texas size failure th...
Dateline: 2010-08-02 7:32am -07:00T (314 words)
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Three Wise Men: Legislative Update XLIV Congress passed bills that drastically reduces the disparity in crack and power cocaine sentencing and increase aviation safety. The House also passed legislation to crack down on K Street lobbyists who flake on disclosure laws while House Republicans man...
Dateline: 2010-07-30 12:47pm -07:00T (96 words)
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Three Wise Men: Texas Progressive Alliance Round-Up 7/26/10 The Texas Progressive Alliance wishes Lois the corpse flower a restful and well-earned dormant period as it brings you this week’s blog highlights.
WhosPlayin posted a document explaining the link between benzene and natural gas drilling and product...
Dateline: 2010-07-26 7:32am -07:00T (409 words)
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