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Prominent progressive blogs (and a few Columns) on politics. Dec 21
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The BRAD BLOG
This is really great. But the subsequent information I've received from the Columbia County, NY commissioners in reply to my query is even better! For a start, here's the key parts of the story from Debora Gilbert at The Columbia Paper near Albany, New York.
E.J. Dionne writes about politics in a twice-weekly column and on the PostPartisan blog. He is also a senior fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution , a government professor at Georgetown University and a frequent commentator on politics for National Public Radio, ABC’s “This Week” and NBC’s “Meet the Press.” Before joining The Post in 1990 as a political reporter, Dionne spent 14 years at the New York Times, where he covered politics and reported from Albany, Washington, Paris, Rome and Beirut. He is the author of four books: “ Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith & Politics After the Religious Right ” (2008), “ Stand Up Fight Back: Republican Toughs, Democratic Wimps, and the Politics of Revenge ” (2004), “ They Only Look Dead: Why Progressives Will Dominate The Next Political Era ” (1996), and “ Why Americans Hate Politics ” (1991), which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was a National Book Award nominee.
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TBogg
When last anyone paid attention to anything Ruth Marcus had to say, she was going Full Metal Schoolmarm on Emma Sullivan for being obstreperous in her tweets to her friends about creepy God-bothering dye-job Sam Brownback.
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."
The Young Turks: Rebel Headquarters : News : Politics : Commentary
Drone porn' videos of strike deaths may teach us to disconnect from reality of U.S.
Your humble host is quoted in this Maclean’s article about First Lady Michelle Obama, check it out!
Oliver Willis: Like Kryptonite To Stupid [Breaking News, Politics, & Pop Culture]
Thu Dec 15, 2011 2:52 PM EST by Dylan Ratigan If you haven't noticed, your fellow Americans are somewhat pissed about our political situation. No, I take it back -- they're mad as hell.
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Arianna Huffington: Sunday Roundup
It was an up and down week for President Obama. His speech in Osawatomie, Kan. was an up, as he correctly identified the ways our political and economic system are rigged against the middle class as "the defining issue of our time." It would have been much, much better though if the speech had been given two years ago. On the other hand, his politically motivated cave-in on the Plan B morning-after pill was definitely a down (made worse by his claim that HHS Secretary Sebelius was the ultimate decider on this one). Memo to the president: the people who want to deny teens access to birth control are never going to support you -- no matter how many reproductive rights or cabinet members you throw under the bus.
Barbara Ehrenreich - Blogs
I completed the manuscript for Nickel and Dimed in a time of seemingly boundless prosperity. Technology innovators and venture capitalists were acquiring sudden fortunes, buying up McMansions like the ones I had cleaned in Maine and much larger. Even secretaries in some hi-tech firms were striking it rich with their stock options. There was loose talk about a permanent conquest of the business cycle, and a sassy new spirit infecting American capitalism. In San Francisco, a billboard for an e-trading firm proclaimed, “Make love not war,” and then -- down at the bottom -- “Screw it, just make money.” When Nickel and Dimed was published in May 2001, cracks were appearing in the dot-com bubble and the stock market had begun to falter, but the book still evidently came as a surprise, even a revelation, to many.
Crossposted from Video Cafe Ann Coulter, a controversial backer of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, suggests that conservatives should begin attacking President Barack Obama's two young daughters. On Wednesday, Fox News host Sean Hannity told Coulter that liberals had been "feigning outrage" over radio host Rush Limbaugh calling Georgetown University law student a "slut" because she wanted contraception to be covered by her health insurance.
Crooks and Liars
La Mohammed Kalay, Afghanistan, 2010. Abu Ghraib, Iraq, 2003. Soldiers rest just after the My Lai massacre, 1968. My Lai 4, Vietnam, 1968. It’s the smile.
SEYMOUR M. HERSH
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 .The Associated Press recently reported that White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan is America's new death czar —the individual most responsible for overseeing the Obama administration's targeted killing of suspected terrorists. There's long been a right-wing meme comparing targeted killing to torture , with the conclusion that torture is obviously less immoral. The Atlantic 's Conor Friedersdorf doesn't make this argument directly, but he alludes to it in his post on Brennan's new authority : So to sum up, Barack Obama insists while campaigning that "enhanced-interrogation techniques" are a euphemism for illegal, immoral torture that makes us less rather than more safe from terrorism, and insists that the Bush Administration was imprudent for using those tactics. After being elected, Obama forbids those tactics from being used.