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Daily Kos: State of the Nation

Since Rush Limbaugh caved in to reality and hired a crisis management team , media coverage has suggested a campaign against his talk show has failed . Others involved in contacting advertisers ... by Richard Myers 0 Recs

I’ve been reading your comments on the oral arguments on the health care law and I sympathize. I’m a lawyer but I’m not an expert on the Supreme Court nor am I even much of a “court watcher.” I have enough trouble keeping current with state law and local rules in my area of practice. I don’t know what’s going to happen.

Balloon Juice

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One of the more striking aspects of the pre-emptive strikes on Peter Beinart's tightly argued polemic, The Crisis Of Zionism , is not just their viciousness, but their avoidance of the core issue of the book:

The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

Today, Breitbart.com “editor” Meredith Dake has A Note on Comments , and it’s pretty funny. Over the past month, we’ve monitored how our readers have responded to the new comment format, and how our new comment system has served our site and our vast readership. We’ve also monitored how the hordes of trolls manage the new system, and have been developing new safeguards based on a month of monitoring their behavior.

Little Green Footballs

Eschaton

Megan McArdle, aka Jane Galt. I generally resist the urge to pay much attention, even as she's continued to fail upwards, as certain types of people do, though I occasionally peek in on people with sterner stomachs who do pay some attention. Get too close and you risk crossing over the event horizon of a black hole of narcissism, and years ago I learned that she tended to respond to disagreement or criticism with various combinations of "my critics failed to understand me," "my critics are mean so I win," and "that was not intended to be a factual statement." We all say dumb things and toss out a wrong statement now and then, but with McArdle a degree of argumentum ad verecundiam pervades all of her writing, and the authority she's appealing to is herself. She's never wrong, just misunderstood.

Hullabaloo

The pair's phone logs, obtained by ABC News, show they spoke just five minutes before police responded to reports of a shooting at the gated community in Sanford, Fla. Recounting her conversation with Martin, the teen girl said, "He said this man was watching him, so he put his hoodie on. He said he lost the man." "Trayvon said, 'What are you following me for?'" the girl said. "And the man said, 'What are you doing here?'

MyDD :: Direct Democracy for People-Powered Politics

The history of energy exploration, mining, and delivery is best understood in a range from benevolent exploitation to worker and public oppression. A company comes into an area, leases land in rural and agricultural areas for mineral rights, increases employment, usually in a depressed economy, strips the land of its resources, creates health problems for its workers and those in the immediate area, and then leaves. It makes no difference if it’s timber, oil, or coal. In the 1970s and 1980s, the nuclear energy industry promised well-paying jobs, clean energy, and a safe health and work environment. Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, Fukushima Daiichi, and thousands of violations issued by the Nuclear Regulatory Agency, have shown that even with strict operating guidelines, nuclear energy isn’t as clean and safe as claimed. Like all other energy industries, nuclear power isn’t infinite.