slate.com - 1/29/2009
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When Air America Radio launched in 2004, the American left was ailing: Republicans controlled all three branches of government, protests against the Iraq war were going unheeded, and George W. Bush was on his way to re-election. What the left needed, the logic went, was its own Rush Limbaugh—someone to spend all day, every day, kicking the GOP down the stairs. Thus was born Air America. Two years later, it filed for bankruptcy. [ more ... ]
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Daily Digest: Forget Sod. Will Obama's Bill Stimulate the Grassroots?
techPresident —
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