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http://www.mahablog.com/ - Making the World Safe for Liberalism
mahablog.com - 10 hours ago
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True story: On Monday I sent a payment
for something in a regular-size envelope from a post
office in southern Westchester County, New York — about three miles north of the Bronx — to an address on Long Island. And I wanted to be sure it arrived in a timely manner. So I sent it ...
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Just Griping
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mahablog.com - 16 hours ago
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Tomorrow night the Senate is supposed to vote
on whether it will take up the health care
bill released this week. They need 60 votes, and it’s a big question mark whether they will get 60 votes. The Senate bill is somewhere between “not what we wanted” and “better than ...
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Health Care Vote Tomorrow Night
mahablog.com - 35 hours ago
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From yesterday’s Watertown Daily Times : With his
prospect of winning the 23rd Congressional District race now
almost zero, Conservative Party candidate Douglas L. Hoffman suggested Wednesday in a letter that “ACORN, the unions and the Democratic Party” “tampered” with results to deny ...
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Terminal Whining
mahablog.com - 2 days ago
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I wasn’t going to write about Moosewoman again,
but the event of Richard Cohen writing a good
column was too remarkable to ignore. Today Cohen writes , The Institute for the Study of Sarah Palin might conclude that she represents the exact moment important Republicans gave up on ...
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Richard Cohen Gets a Clue
mahablog.com - 3 days ago
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Now that Moosewoman is all over the news
these days — Max Blumenthal has an insightful piece
about Why Wingnuts Love He r at TomDispatch. The answer lies beyond the realm of polls and punditry in the political psychology of the movement that animates and, to a great degree, controls, ...
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A Culture of Personal Crisis
mahablog.com - 5 days ago
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Been away for a couple of days, and
I see Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other 9/11 suspects
are to be tried in a New York City court. And I can think of nothing more just, more perfect, than to let these trials go forward in the city that has waited so long for justice. And naturally righties ...
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The Difference Between Free People and Weenies
mahablog.com - 8 days ago
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Rush (via RedState ) has got the Wingbots
all worked up over a memo that allegedly says
the Obama Administration is going to purge Republicans from civil service jobs. This is the memo that is supposed to say that . It’s late and I’m tired, but I can’t even tell what it was ...
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Explain This to Me
mahablog.com - 8 days ago
mahablog.com - 8 days ago
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The greatest tragedy ever perpetrated by an television
entertainment executive was the canceling of Josh Whedon’s series
“Firefly.” But Whedon sold them another series, “Dollhouse,” which turned out to be smart and entertaining. It was also one of the few dramatic ...
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Fox and Josh Whedon
mahablog.com - 8 days ago
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Here’s a blogger definitely living in an alternative
universe , and her commenters likewise. I started to
leave a comment, then decided it was futile.
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Genuinely Twisted
mahablog.com - 8 days ago
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Why should my tax dollars pay for some
geezer’s Viagra prescription? Digby writes , I realize that
many people disagree with my moral objections to men getting erections which God clearly doesn’t want them to get, but my principles on this are more important to me than theirs are ...
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Here’s a Health Care Compromise for You
mahablog.com - 9 days ago
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Click here for The Mahablog Armistice Day archives
. Today Wingnuts are suffering from reaction whiplash. Early
in the week they were slamming President Obama for not personally attending the observance of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Monday. They shut up after some of them realized it ...
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It’s Armistice Day
mahablog.com - 10 days ago
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David Brooks tells us that Islam harbors evil
: Most people select stories that lead toward cooperation
and goodness. But over the past few decades a malevolent narrative has emerged. That narrative has emerged on the fringes of the Muslim world. It is a narrative that sees human history as ...
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The Log in David Brooks’s Eye
mahablog.com - 11 days ago
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Paul Krugman brings up Richard Hofstadter’s “The Paranoid
Style in American Politics” in his column today, noting
that much of what Hofstadter wrote about the far Right in 1964 sounds just like the far Right of 2009. The biggest difference, Krugman says, is that in 1964 both parties ...
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How Dangerous Is the Wingnut Right?
mahablog.com - 12 days ago
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House Democrats Who Voted Against the Health Care
Bill House Democrats Who Voted for the Stupak-Pitts Amendment
House Democrats Who Voted Yes on Stupak-Pitts and No on the Final Bill (the Worst of the Worst): Jason Altmire (Pa. 4) John Barrow (Ga. 12) John Boccieri (Ohio 16) Dan Boren ...
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Clip and Save
mahablog.com - 13 days ago
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I’m not sure what all they’ve done to
it at the last minute, but the House just
passed a health care bill.
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House Passes Health Care Bill
mahablog.com - 13 days ago
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By good luck I flipped on the television
in time to see the big filly Zenyatta win
the Breeder’s Cup Classic at Santa Anita. Amazing come-from-way-behind performance, and she’s the first filly to beat the boys and win that race. I’ll look for a video of the race for those who ...
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Girls Rule
mahablog.com - 13 days ago
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In Republican World, women may only speak with
the leave of right-wing men. Watch: As explained at
Think Progress the video shows members of the Democratic Women’s Caucus of the House attempting to offer arguments for how the healh care reform bill would benefit women. House ...
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Some Congresspersons Are More Equal Than Others
mahablog.com - 14 days ago
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The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon –
Thurs 11p / 10c The 11/3 Project www.thedailyshow.com Daily
Show Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Crisis
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Jon Stewart Explains It All
mahablog.com - 14 days ago
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Recently Senate Republicans put forward another Republican health
care bill. This isn’t the first one; GOP lawmakers
trot out bills from time to time that are mostly word salad meant to serve as props at press conferences. The newest one is supposed to be a real health care bill. As I ...
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Republican Health Care Still an Oxymoron
