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So I’m at the gym last night and Larry King actually asked “Does McCain need to win tomorrow night’s debate?”
Why does this man have a nightly show on CNN?
At several points, he forced himself to do that faux sensitive thing he does and asked insightful questions like, “So do you think McCain can [...]

Two interesting points:
Ezra Klein:
The template is broken. One striking lesson of the campaign has been the reduced salience of the culture war stuff. Rove and Bush could gesture towards identity politics. They could hide behind issues like abortion and guns and the role of the church. McCain has had to state it all explicitly. He’s [...]

Welcome to an America of your (Republicans) choosing.

I’ve touched on this topic before. Offit, literally, wrote the book on the subject. What he has to say:
There is no known cause or cure for autism [snip]
The reason that I wrote the book is because of what happened after the studies exonerating vaccines had been performed and published. The media, using the [...]

The Fox News Ethos Summarized In Thirty Seconds
A nearly unanimous vote for Obama unapologetically called a “split” on FOX

On any given day, one can visit Media Matters and see physical proof of a conservative bias in the media.  The right-wing mantra claiming the opposite can at best produce only anecdotal evidence to support their lie.
Print media reported McCain attacks on Obama for purported ties to Freddie and Fannie, but not McCain aides’ lobbying [...]

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After the election of 2004, voting rights activists everywhere were wondering why the exit polls, which had been clearly favoring John Kerry all day, puzzlingly flipped 180 degrees, and ultimately reflected the official voting results. If you haven’t heard about this, you are definitely not alone. Although the organization that ran the exit polls still [...]

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Linda Carter, a noted evangelical Christian who used to play Wonder Woman on television, was asked by a reporter for a magazine in Philadelphia how she felt about the media calling VP candidate Sarah Palin the “new Wonder Woman.” Carter didn’t just have an opinion, she “WENT OFF!”
Don’t get me started. She’s the anti-Wonder Woman. [...]

This is basically a re-post from Think Progress, for which I apologize. However, the message is important: Senator John McCain hasn’t got a clue about Iraq strategy. I can cite specifics, but why take it from me? Listen to CNN’s Baghdad correspondent Michael Ware, who has been closely following developments in Iraq [...]

While the Presidential campaigners make their rounds talking about victory in “eye-rack,” they are careful to say nothing whatsoever about Afghanistan. Unlike the unbelievably costly and pointless Iraq fiasco, the Afghanistan/Pakistan war matters greatly to U.S. national security.

Fraidoon Pooyaa/Associated Press
In Azizabad, an Afghan boy carried his belongings amid the ruins of his home, which [...]

I was alerted to the arrests in St. Paul when Amy Goodman was arrested, but I had no idea the arrests and spying were so systematic. The relative silence in the press is disturbing. See Glen Greenwald’s column and subsequent updates.
…how is our own Government’s behavior in Minnesota any different than [...]

If you missed “60 Minutes,” then you ought to watch this now. Scott Pelley interviewed Bob Woodward about his new book on the so-called “surge” in Iraq.
Now, normally I wouldn’t hit the keyboard to run the risk of helping Woodward– he’s a smug s.o.b. who wrote adulatory books about President Bush until [...]