yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 11/24/2008
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Last night, some friends and I were listening to “Even Hitler Had a Girlfriend” and the little-known fact that The Mr. T Experience’s Dr. Frank was a big-time liberal hawk warblogger back in the day came up. Even better, unlike most classic blogs, his archives are still 100 ...
haaretz.com - 11/30/2008
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haaretz.com —
WASHINGTON - U.S. President George Bush believes that
Israel is offering Syria the Golan Heights without getting...
anything in exchange, according to sources briefed on his White House meeting with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert last week. After Olmert ...
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Bush to Olmert: Why are you giving Syria the ...
timesonline.co.uk - 11/19/2008
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timesonline.co.uk —
Britain re-established high-level intelligence links with the Syrian
authorities as David Miliband made his landmark visit to...
Damascus yesterday, according to senior Syrian officials. The move, first raised earlier this year at a meeting in New York ...
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Britain re-establishes high-level intelligence links ...
washingtonpost.com - 11/26/2008
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washingtonpost.com —
Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or
other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from...
the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. ...
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Aaron David Miller - For Obama, a Syria Solution First
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The Early Days of Political Blogging
Eschaton —
The Early Days of Political Blogging Were indeed craptastically funny. I miss the people who would try to convince me that Instapundit was actually a liberal.
Radicals! Socialists! Hardcore Leftist! Palling Around With Terrorists!
Balloon Juice —
... There really was a time when I thought Ed was interesting. Then again, there was also a time I would have been writing stupid things like this. ...
Bush Is Actually Smart
Open Left - Front Page —
... and Yglesias have called for today to be blogosphere reminiscence day, I'll pick my favorite silly and widely held illusion. Remember back when it was considered an open question whether Bush was an intelligent guy? What about when ...
Weigel On Den Beste
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
From Yglesias' blog: Never forget - this was a guy Glenn Reynolds considered a genius. Man, that was a very meta post: a kind of blogger five-way via a comments section. Do I get insidery points? ...
Why Blogs Were Invented.
INSTAPUTZ —
Matthew Yglesias says I never wrote anything this dumb and always — always — regarded Steven den Beste as a fool. and his commenters use the thread to prove him wrong. Brutally.
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