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Dying to Save the G.O.P. Congress
“Success in Iraq is possible and can be achieved on a realistic timetable,” said Mr. Khalilzad. Iraq can be “in a very good place in 12 months,” said General Casey.
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What Congress Would Look Like If It Were Demographically Representative of America
Oh, good, Karl Rove started his own WikiLeaks. A conservative WikiLeaks. This WikiLeaks is about “transparency” and exposing malfeasance by the Obama administration. It’s also not about “leaks,” at all: It is made up of documents obtained via FOIA requests, that citizen journalists (vetted by Rove’s Crossroads GPS group, obviously) will sift through and analyze. It is called “Wikicountability.”
The right just doesn't get journalism - Karl Rove
David Mamet Talks About His Shift to the Right
Years ago, you described “American Buffalo” as being about “how we excuse all sorts of great and small betrayals and ethical compromises called business.” In this book, you defend enormous payouts to C.E.O.’s working for failing corporations. You seem to have changed radically.How presidential elections are impacted by a 100 million year old coastline
2008 Presidential election results by county. Blue denotes majority Democratic votes and Red Republican. Map from New York Times . Hale County in west central Alabama and Bamberg County in southern South Carolina are 450 miles apart. Both counties have a population of 16,000 of which around 60% are African American.
Last week, the Gallup Organization released a poll suggesting that, on average, Americans estimate one in four people in this country to be gay or lesbian. If that number seems high, it's not just you. Calculations of the population vary, but most recent surveys place the percentage of gay and lesbian Americans at around 3.5 percent. Neither are such wild overestimations new to the era of Lady Gaga and Glee . In 2002 , Gallup asked the same question and found similar results: the average estimate then was that 21 percent of men were gay and 22 percent of women lesbian.
11 Bizarrely Wrong Beliefs Americans Have About Themselves - Chris Danello - Politics
The Most Inappropriate Responses to the Civil War Sesquicentennial - National
The American Civil War began 150 years ago this week. How should you mark the occasion? We'd suggest reading a book, touring a battlefield, or just spending a few moments in quiet contemplation. Not everyone shares our sense of propriety.
Murray Hill, Inc. For Congress - Chris Good
Via Miller-McCune's Emily Badger : in an test of the Supreme Court's recent campaign finance decision--and its logic that corporations should be treated as people, when it comes to political money--a Maryland-based progressive PR firm is planning to run for Congress. Murray Hill, Inc. announced its candidacy in a press release on its website; it plans to enter the Republican primary to challenge Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Chris Van Hollen in the state's eighth congressional district, as a corporation. "Until now," the firm says in its release, "corporate interests had to rely on campaign contributions and influence peddling to achieve their goals in Washington.There Is Only So Much I Will Do for the Atlantic (updated) - James Fallows - Politics
I watched the O'Donnell-Coons Delaware "debate" last night. I started watching the Harry Reid - Sharron Angle Nevada version tonight. After the opening statements, I realize: I am not that brave.
Putting One Obama Myth to Rest - Jeffrey Goldberg - National
No, not the one about how he was born in Kenya, or Indonesia. We know, of course, that he was born in Kenya and Indonesia at the same time. He was always quite the overachiever! No, the myth I'm talking about is the myth that President Obama doesn't believe that America is an exceptional country, one with exceptional capabilities and exceptional responsibilities.
The new Republican majority's agenda is pretty clear when you look at their list of legislation this Congress: H.R. 1 -- decimate the programs that millions of middle-class families across the country depend on. H.R. 2 -- repeal the landmark law that expands health care to millions of Americans and prevents big insurance companies from discriminating against people when they get sick.
Rep. Bruce Braley: Leaving Women No Choice
Two narratives have begun to emerge from the 2006 Congressional elections. The first is that Democrats didn’t win so much as Republicans lost. The second is that the Republicans who lost were beaten by a bunch of conservative Democrats. There’s some truth to the first one: The election was a negative referendum on President Bush and the Republican Congress, specifically their mismanagement of Iraq, their ethical problems, and their inability to balance the federal budget or refrain from trying to distract Americans public with noisy wedge issues rather than provide solutions to more pressing problems. But the second narrative is a fiction. And it is puzzling that Republicans and conservatives are the ones peddling it.