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Democrats Need to Learn Spin from Rove-ian Masters
Rick Klein has an incisive piece on how the Bush campaign spun the Bin Ladin tape to "insulate Bush from political damage." The way the Bush campaign…
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Press Exposed
Michael Berube has an incisive critique of the press. Well worth reading.…
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October Surprise?
A new push into Fallujah that comes just on election eve. And the next event with a nice coincidental timing: the opening of voter registration in Iraq--coming…
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Shredder Alert
On November 3, the media should scrutinize the White House (and other executive departments) carefully because the paper shredders and disk destroyers may be in…
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Admitting Mistakes vs. Making Them
I'm generally unpersuaded by the argument that Bush doesn't ever admit mistakes. Bush's failure as President is not that he refuses to admit error…
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Bush Has Appointed Most Conservative Judges
A study by Cass R. Sunstein and David Schkade shows that Bush has followed the tradition of his father and Ronald Reagan in successfully nominating conservative…
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The Economist (magazine) Recalls Guantanamo in Kerry Endorsement
In its editorial endorsing Kerry, the Economist declares that our abuse of the international legal order by imprisoning people in Guantanamo, Cuba will "ha…
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Building the Case Against George W Bush
Check out TheCaseAgainstGeorgeWBush.com…
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Broadband over power lines?
Approved by the FCC. That's nice, I guess, though a bit weird. Is anyone seriously talking about providing this in the market?…
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In Case Your Child Is Still Looking for a Halloween Costume
The Littlest Prisoner at Abu Ghraib Your child will be the hit of the neighborhood costume parade in this recreation of the Abu Ghraib prisoner-abuse scandal…
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Explosives vs. weapons
A Minneapolis TV station apparently filmed the Al Qaqaa facility on April 18th, nine days after Saddam's fall, with the boxes of explosives still intact. B…
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At Least the Ad-Guy Is Willing to Take the Fall
The Bush campaign doctored a photo to put in to Bush's backdrop soldiers where a podium had been. That's too easy to criticize. The more intriguing pa…