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Thursday, July 24, 2008

John McCain is building his entire campaign around the “surge”, which he claims to have created himself, and which, according to him, has brought, or will bring, peace and prosperity to Iraq. In the process of promoting the “surge” he has misrepresented its origin, its purpose and its results. Juan Cole has an excellent post […]

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Scam on the right

Thursday, July 24, 2008

It is a truism that a sucker is born every minute. That may be a bit of an exaggeration, but it doesn’t matter to scam artists as long as a reasonably high number of people are reliably gullible. It appears that the right wing suckers among us are getting fleeced with regularity. Here’s the facts: […]

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Public service announcement

Thursday, July 24, 2008

A friend and neighbor has asked me to remind my readers that Glen Beck is an a**hole.

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