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Considering that the Christmas ads started before Halloween this year, I don't think it's too early to begin speculating about who Time magazine will name to be its 2009 Person of the Year .
While such speculation may seem like a lame parlor game, in fact, who Time chooses for this ...
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Clarence Page, writing in "Page's Page" for the Chicago Tribune asks "Are storm clouds brewing on the horizon for Democrats," referring to the elections coming in 2010, based on some startling figures from the latest weekly tracking poll by Daily Kos ...
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cross-posted from Daily Kos where it has received a lot of traffic
If Joe Lieberman or other senators came across John Brodniak writhing in pain on the sidewalk, they presumably would jump to help him and rush him to a hospital.
Unfortunately, an emergency room won't help - indeed, the ...
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crossposted from Daily Kos
The American economy is broken, ruined by the greed and irresponsibility of fabulously wealthy corporate chieftains and their shabby acolytes and enablers in government. While Wall Street is handing out billions in bonuses, American families are struggling with ...
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Thousands of lobbyists are being swept off federal advisory panels thanks to a policy initiated quietly by President Obama at the instigation of White House ethics counsel Norm Eisen. Eisen disclosed the policy on the White Houe blog last September, saying:
"Some folks have developed a ...
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It's not easy to pick up and dust off after a tough fall. This election was a tough one for Democrats in Virginia. In spite of an unprecedented effort by the Virginia Young Democrats and Democrats all over the Commonwealth, we lost. Even with this loss, however, we have a lot to be thankful ...
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crossposted from Daily Kos
I was, perhaps appropriately, listening to a recording of the Brahms Requiem when I saw the email: Greg Kannerstein had passed away. Let me quote two paragraphs from Haverford College President Steve Emerson's ('74) email: A mentor, student, ...
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Having Thanksgiving Dinner with your relatives? If they are not all good Democrats it is inevitable that a diehard Republican lurks among them. Even if your hostess decrees that politics and religion are no-no's I can safely predict that that Republican will not be able to contain him/herself. ...
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David W. Marsden , Democrat, who just won re-election to the position of Delegate in the 41st House District, has made it official: he is running for the 37th Senate District seat vacated by Republican Kenneth T. Cuccinelli, who won the slot of Commonwealth's Attorney General in the recent ...
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Originally posted by Mitch Malasky at Sum of Change
Reaching your potential voters is (obviously) vitally important to any campaign. But what is the best way to reach this crucial audience? This week, Kendra Sue Derby from Democracy for America's Campaign Academy is going to speak ...
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No, this is not a joke, dirty or otherwise. This is a 21st century techie way to winkle out every last voter you need to win an election. It is how Al Franken won his US Senate seat in Minnesota, and why he watched so calmly over the long recount, certain he was going to win, according to ...
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Al Franken
Those of us who failed to get notice of the meeting that Democratic Party of Virginia Chair Dick Cranwell and the staff of the state party had in Vinton last Sunday can get an excellent summary from Susan-in-the-SW, who posted her notes on Democracy Prevails.
I will not launder further in ...
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Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Monday, November 23.
1. Yesterday, Jon Walker took on Nate Silver, who "believes progressives should trade the public option away , but what he wants in return is far more useless and an even tougher political battle."
2. Jane Hamsher ...
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Health care
Harry Reid
I checked Lowell Feld's blog, Blue Virginia today. To my surprise, he had a post about this email reportedly sent by Don Marks, one of the head honchos of the Democratic Party of Virginia in Richmond, to certain people:
"Central Committee Members and Local Committee Chairs,
Thanks for all your ...
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is the focus of a new book by Sam Chaltain, National Director of the Forum for Education and Democracy . Sam previously worked with the First Amendment Schools Project , an experience that helped shaped this book. He is also founding director of the Five Freedoms Project , which is ...
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Here's another example of deceiving by headline, interestingly caught at headline news. The cnn.com political ticker here , there's some real subterfuge, exaggeration (and deception). Is it any wonder this network once brought us Glenn Beck and Lou Dobbs (or, at its sister station, ...
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Last week, the corporate media ran with a story that said in no uncertain terms that the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force was changing its recommendations for women 40-50 regarding mammograms and breast self-examination. When I actually read a summary of the report on the Health and Human ...
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Some Democrats in Congress have called for the ouster of Tim Geitner and Larry Summers. They are understating the case. New information shows that Geitner and Summers apparent "cure" for the home mortgages disaster will force this nation to hang a new shingle on the nation's "house": ...
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Economic Meltdown
(Hat tip: Firedoglake.com.)
Somewhere in America, a man (with no insurance and no money for the medications he needs to ease the pain) is dying. Some with dangerous complications of H1N1 cannot get treatment. A woman (who thought she had insurance) was told her "benefits" had run out. ...
