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Moveon tops Joe

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Moveon says that it has raised $280,000 for Tom Allen, already topping the $200,000.00 Joe is expected to raise for Susan Collins. There looking to double Joe’s take. If you haven’t donated, think about it and go here. Update: As of June 21st, according to My Left Nutmeg, Joe has raised $355,000 for Tom Allen. […]

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Digby revealed

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Yesterday I learned that the incomparable Digby, of Hullabaloo, was-of all things-a woman. This came as a bit of a surprise to me, and led to what we Catholic school kids remember as an examination of conscience. Why, after all, did I presume she was a man? My conscience was somewhat comforted, however, by the […]

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Not a good day for Rudy

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Some days it doesn’t pay to get up. It must be one of those days for Rudy Guliani, or, as he likes to think of himself, “the hero of 9/11 because I was Mayor then”. First, we hear that the terrorist fighter couldn’t be bothered to attend meetings of the Iraq Study Group, of which […]

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Help make Lieberman toxic

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

More than likely, most or all of my readers get emails from Moveon, but I can’t resist passing on the message of the latest email. A while back I posted about fellow Bowdoin alum Tom Allen, who is going to run against Lieberfriend Susan Collins up in Maine. Lieberman is going to Maine to raise […]

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The definition of hubris

Monday, June 18, 2007

From Thinkprogress: In March, J. Steven Griles, formerly the no. 2 official at the Interior Department, pleaded guilty to “lying to the Senate about his relationship with convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff.” Griles asked the lobbyist “for many favors for close female friends and in exchange helped Abramoff’s clients at the government agency.” As part of […]

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Pulling out motes

Monday, June 18, 2007

From the Moscow Times we learn that Colin Powell, Bush enabler par excellence, has seen fit to lecture the Russians on Democracy: Walking a tightrope between praising Russia’s post-Soviet progress and encouraging the government to open up, General Powell reiterated Washington’s line that the Cold War was over and U.S. military expansion would not hurt […]

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Good growing weather for the House of Blackwater

Sunday, June 17, 2007

Apparently the difference between a mercenary and a “contractor” is that a contractor doesn’t do offensive operations. At least that seems to be the line peddled by the various “security” companies to which the United States has thrown large amounts of money for off the book, and off the Geneva Convention (not that it matters) […]

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General Taguba speaks out

Sunday, June 17, 2007

More reason to believe that we may never recover from the criminality of the Bush Administration in Seymour Hersh’s latest article in the New Yorker. General Antonio Tagula, who conducted a circumscribed (by his superiors) investigation of the Abu Ghraib torture, was forced out of the military in January, and for the first time he […]

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Buying time expecting a miracle

Saturday, June 16, 2007

Today I played a little catchup on my newspaper reading, since I hadn’t been around yesterday to read the Times when it first came. I sort of hopped from yesterday’s paper to today’s, and serendipitously happened to read the following two articles one after the other. The first (The Laptop is Mightier than the Sword), […]

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At the Diner

Saturday, June 16, 2007
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