Archive for July 18th, 2011

Late Night Video — President Obama Discusses Getting Politics Done

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This video is from the White House and comes from a surprise visit President Obama made to a group of College Democrats, Republicans and Independents back in March. This is very compelling — if anything because this philosophy of governing is very evident in how he has worked to date.

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Whistleblower’s Death Added To Murdoch Scandal

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I’m not surprised.  Truthfully, I lost the ability to be surprised about this scandal a week ago. In another twist in the News Of The World scandal, a former reporter for the tabloid who initially alleged that editor Andy Coulson knew about the practice of phone hacking by his staff, was reportedly found dead Monday. […]

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Dan Savage vs. Marcus Bachmann

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Let me begin by saying that I had no opinion, whatsoever, about Michelle Bachmann’s husband.  I had no idea who he was.  I first saw him on TV as I was walking past the set, and my only thought was – I swear! – this guy must be on talking about support for gay marriage.  […]

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Monday Open Thread

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The Monday edition of your semi-daily open thread.

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NJ Truthiness Watch — Wagging Their Finger at American Political Debate

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The Sunday NJ brings us an editorial with this amusing observation:

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OK, You Can Panic

Filed in Delaware by on July 18, 2011 6 Comments

As you may know, on Friday about 11 hours of comments (and posts) were disappeared from the blog.  This appears to have been a glitch on the redundant database servers that store most of the data for the site.  In technical terms, the servers stopped synchronizing data in the late morning and in the late […]

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The Real Victim Is Rupert Murdoch

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The Wall Street Journal finally notices there’s a huge international scandal encompassing their newspaper, but it’s no big deal.

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Christine O’Donnell Will Smite Her Enemies

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Christine O’Donnell is back and she’s pissed.

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A Peak Inside Hell

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Former employees from The News of the World discuss the atmosphere at the paper under Brooks and why their denials don’t ring true.

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