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2008:

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July, 2008

23	Bush's assertion that "Wall Street got drunk" ignores the role of the Federal Reserve, as well as how much he benefited from its loose credit policies.
21	McCain confused over what countries border which in the Mid East; does it matter that Obama hasn't taken a direct briefing from Petraeus yet?
20	Radio host Mark Levin takes an anti-Semitic approach to Jon Stewart.
19	Conservative Bob Barr approved for the Ohio presidential ballot, on the Libertarian ticket.
15	No wildlife in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge? Huh? That's what a leaidn Republican said.
13	Salmonella outbreak argues against claims we're safer after 9/11; President Clinton calls on governors to experiment more with what states are capable of.
12	The White House refused to listen to early word from the CIA that many Guantanamo detainees didn't belong there; revisiting the 55 MPH speed limit; fake speed bumps.
11	McCain advisor Phil Gramm calls America a nation of whiners, but there are many reasons to complain about the economy; McCain holds Obama to standards which he, himself, doesn't meet.
10	Iranian photo-doctoring to make their rocket tests more impressive.
8	Scott McClellan describes life with Dick Cheney.
3	More Bush cronyism on a Kurdish oil deal?
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June, 2008

30	Being a war hero doesn't qualify you for the presidency - not Ulysses Grant and not John McCain.
28	Iraqi benchmarks not going to be achieved while Bush is in office?
23	A distillery in Scotland gets a request to turn the webcam back on... from the Pentagon.
22	The "lie of silence" is being deployed over Iraq; a female suicide bomber's success is taken as a sign of insurgents' desperation; Zimbabwe turmoil demonstrates the limited effects of the Iraqi invasion; T. Boone Pickens qualifies his "debunk the Swift Boaters" challenge; James Wolcott chastises a conservative commentator for his yardstick of Tim Russert's even-handedness.
19	Proponents of off-shore oil drilling are propping up their arguments with a lie, that there was no significant spillage after Katrina.
18	"I Don't Need No Doctor"
17	Early guidance for interrogating detainees said you shouldn't kill them; McCain falls for the shallow promise of off-shore oil drilling.
16	Miscellany: Bloomsday, Hemingway, Father's Day, and Shawshank Redemption.
15	Evangelicals lukewarm to McCain?
14	Celebrations of Father's Day changing in greater economic difficulties?
10	Bush fired Rove while they were in church?
9	Iraqi lawmakers cite US demands for 58 bases, and fear being drawn into a war with Iraq; Jack Abramoff's firm complains about a state department negotiator, who proceeds to lose his job; Guantanamo interrogators destroyed notes for fear they'd come out.
8	John McCain gets $58,000 a year in disability payments from the government.
7	Energy saving tip: vacuum your refrigerator coils.
5	Verdict: Bush and Cheney lied about Iraq; an early opponent of the war dies.
4	Increased usage of mass transit is putting a squeeze on some agencies.
3	In making a dumb joke about people from West Virginia, Cheney reveals who the real elitists are.
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May, 2008

31	Even if Scott McClellan doesn't deserve lionization, the attention he's getting isn't a bad thing.
29	The press can't manage to ask the right questions about Scott McClellan in a White House press briefing.
27	Americans are driving less, and adopting different strategies to cope with high gas prices.
24	Hillary Clinton touches a third rail when mentioning RFK's assassination and political uncertainty; will John McCain's interest in more efficient government extend to cutting out the waste in Iraq?
22	Who overturned the American Idol decision? And do producers have tin ears?
20	The White House bristles over a harsh look from NBC News.
19	Republican Senator Bob Corker takes the high road over the legitimate bounds of political campaigning.
15	The years of "Bush malaise," and how his response to them varies from Jimmy Carter's.
14	Americans are facing growing money worries, and it's fair to blame some of it on Bush.
12	Conservative Bob Barr may pose a potential threat to John McCain's candidacy, now that he's announced plans to run as a Libertarian.
10	Gas tax holidays: a bad idea in their own right, and worse now that more people are experimenting with mass transit.
8	Did a regulator let Condoleezza Rice off the hook too easily? And HB, THomas Pynchon.
7	Mitt Romney foresees experience as a way to whittle Obama down.
6	Further Dmocratic primaries, with Obama and Clinton looking for a selling pitch that truly wins.
3	Breda Smyth; John McCain's gaffe on warring for oil.
1	Enthusiasm about attacking Iraq is scary, given how well we accomplished the mission in Iraq.
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April, 2008

30	Bush trains his sites on ANWR, as if that will make up for the forgone conservation opportunities; LA home prices down 19% from last year.
25	Eric Alterman's "Why We're Liberals."
23	Obama's supposed "failure" to knock Clinton out of the ring isn't a sign of weakness.
22	Deficits increasing, and 2008's already surpass 2007's.
21	Vacant foreclosed homes are being infested by bees.
19	The GAO rules that Bush is wrong to block states from doing more to feed poor kids.
17	When people care about whether or not John McCain's wife has genuinely personal recipes, and ABC's debate anchors ask all the wrong questions, we have to ask ourselves who is being served by the current discourse.
16	Iraqi forces flee when push comes to shove.
15	AG Mukasey's staff tries to clarify issues surrounding whether or not they could wiretap before 9/11, but in doing so show they still don't understand the law.
13	Lenders are exercising their contractual rights to cut off lines of credit, but aren't refunding fees based on the size of the credit line. And those who planned on those credit lines have to make other plans.
12	Bill Richardson says, among other things, that the Clinton camp and its supporters were too aggressive in pursuing his endorsement.
10	Finally, Bush cuts back on the length of troops' tours in Iraq. But only once Democrats aren't pushing for it to happen.
7	Democrats in the New York State Assembly won't even let Bloomberg's congestion pricing plan come up for a vote.
5	What's the relative value of a letter from Abraham Lincoln and an Internet domain name?
3	John Conyers wants AG Mukasey to cut through his claims that FISA stopped us from gathering intelligence from Afghanisan telephones prior to 9/11.
1	Iraqi failures in Basra show how unprepared they are to take over for themselves; Leningrad Cowboys sing "Sweet Home Alabama."
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March, 2008

31	NYC's city councl approves Bloomberg's congestion pricing plan.
29	James Carville defends comparing Bill Richardson to Judas, but shows how little he understands about righteousness.
28	Loudon Wainwright III.
27	Joke.
26	Farmed salmon issues; McCain's baseless reputation for credibility.
24	The Clinton camp argues that superdelegates need to decide between Clinton and Obama on the basis of the electorla college map.
22	James Carville compares Bill Richardson's endorsement of Obama to Judas Iscariot's betrayal of Jesus; 3,996 US troop deaths in Iraq; do owners of Internet networking sites owe royalties to the community when the big sale is made?
20	Bush heightens anxiety over Iran and nuclear weapons with a slip of the tongue, intentional or not.
17	An editorial cartoon compares Pelosi to a whore, selling out American security as a freebie; the US study of over 600,000 documents showing Saddam Hussein had no relationship with Al Qaeda is out on CD; Josh Marshall questions press treatment of John McCain.
15	John McCain plays Iraq so that, no matter what happens, he looks good.
13	Media frenzy over the details of Spitzer's dealings with prostitutes.
12	The iPod porffered Elvis' "One Night of Sin" after a discussion of Governor Spitzer, but does the history of GOP cheaters argue against Fitzgerald's narrator's claim that there are no second acts in American lives?
11	A review of over 600,000 documents shows no Iraqi - Al Qaeda partnership.
9	McClatchy seeks clues to the "tough" Obama through his writings.
8	Bush vetoes a bill outlawing torture.
4	What will Obama be like when the Republicans dig in their heels and it's time to take the gloves off?
1	Iraq's Prime Minister declares that reconciliation has been accomplished.
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February, 2008

29	A White House employee who writes a column for his hometown paper is caught plagiarizing.
27	The cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is $3 billion, according to a leading economist.
25	How the US intelligence community continues to play up threats fro political gain.
23	John McCain's lobbyist scandal.
21	In Philip Shenon's book on the 9/11 Commission, the extent to which the White House tried to stonewall on the PDB's is clear. But Zelikow doesn't like the book for its scrutiny of him.
20	Powerline complains about another monster under the bed; a self-deprecating blog title.
19	I strongly recommend this recipe for a bean stew.
18	McClatchy analysis now shows that it takes more time for the unemployed to find new jobs.
17	Huge beef recall.
15	Telecom immunity, and high praises for Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.
14	Lurch, the primary voice at the blog "Main and Central," has died.
12	One more reason to complain about Verizon is that they don't get very fresh web content.
11	The Army buries a report from the Rand Corporation, ostensibly because its scope was broader than desired. But Rand found a lot of blame to place for the way we blew Iraq.
10	Republican Congressmen not running for re-election approaches a record, because it's no fun to be a statesman while in the minority; Tom Friedman was indispensible?
8	Once Bush gets a temporary bill passed, he wants it forever.
7	Looking out for "The McCain Suck Up Watch."
5	Movie musings while we wait for Super Tuesday results which we all know won't decide anything; I voted for John Edwards even though he no longer contends.
2	More security for the NYC subways, but is it only election year fear mongering? Plus, the NFL cracks down on church prayer greetings surrounding big screen showings of the Super Bowl.
1	Edinburgh's "Royal Mile" endangered by modern construction; an Australian attorney is forgiven for leaking details of how the police were railroading his client as a "terrorist."
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January, 2008

30	John Edwards, and his exit from the Presidential campaign.
29	The continuing claim that once a practice is abandoned, having once practiced it isn't newsworthy; the word "progressional."
28	Paul Weyrich joins the list of conservatives who can't tolerate John McCain.
26	Rick Santorum hates John McCain so much, he was overheard to say he'd sooner vote for Obama or Clinton.
24	In endorsing Clinton over Obama, the New York Times brusquely shunts John Edwards aside without any serious consideration.
23	A tally of 935 pre-war falsehoods on Iraq and al Qaeda from the Bush Administration gets the brush-off from spokesperson Dana Perino; a former Bush official comes down with a tummy ache when she learns a speech she will give be on the public record.
21	The EPA refuses to share its deliberations over a waiver for California's requests for stricter standards, citing "executive privelege."
20	The Green Bay Packers and "Starry Starry Night;" New York Times ombudsman defends a reporter's Supreme Court coverage.
17	Someone who intercepted Cheney a bit aggressively got arrested, and Secret Service starts pointing fingers over the bad collar.
15	Visiting Saudia Arabia, Bush talks about energy prices and consumption, but it sounds like a late conversion.
14	Further attempts to quantify the denominator for a New York Times article on the behavior of our troops after serving in Afghanistan and Iraq.
13	A New York Times article on the post service crime behavior of veterans is indecipherable, thanks to a very muddy denominator.
12	Arianna Huffington foolishly says that the answer to bad polling is to stop answering pollers' telephone calls; a US appeals court says that Guantanamo detainees should have expected they'd be tortured; further thoughts on racism regarding polling surveys and voter behaviors.
11	Recounts in the New Hampshire primary have been requested.
10	On the anniversary of last year's "New Way Forward" in Iraq, the US effort gets repositioned to "Iraqi Solutions," with even lower expectations.
9	More on the turnout.
8	I think the overlooked story in Iowa and New Hampshire is the huge turnout.
6	The Twelve Days of Christmas, a la Fox News; Bhutto's assassination has caught our government unprepared.
5	Jonah Goldberg predicts race riots if Obama doesn't win the nomination; Bill O'Reilly thinks Obama avoids "tough" interviews.
4	Time warp from watching a 1991 baseball game; Senator Christopher Dodd exits the Presidential race.
3	Representative Jane Harman's letter protesting torture has been partially declassified; Iowa caucuses, and we wonder if Obama has been elected President yet.
1	Mitt Romney takes on Reagan's mantle, ignoring the huge deficit spending; Trashcan Sinatras.
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