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Are the American people "obsolete"? Do the super-rich no longer need Americans? - 08/04/10
Michael Lind of the New America Foundation offers "Are the American people obsolete?" (link) which basically claims that the rich (or what I think would be more accurately called the superrich) no longer really need Americans to obtain money or to defend them.
I'm not a fan of that Foundation and I'm not exactly 100% sold on his ideas, but I will recommend reading the link.
What I won't recommend...
More proof Justin Elliott isn't credible (Sharron Angle, public health concerns over fluoride) - 06/09/10
... health.
Alex Pareene - now of Salon - has a post similar to Elliott's, and at least some of the comments point out how he's wrong (letters.salon.com/politics/war_room/2010/06/09/
sharron_angle_cavity_creep/view):
Has the editorial staff at Salon ever come across a technocrat-endorsed initiative they didn't like? ...She's wary of state medicated water. Ha ha. Probably GMO and rBGH too. Salon's...
Census worker found hanged in Kentucky; see who's politicizing it - 09/24/09
... Stay Out."
* Alex Koppelman of Salon says (salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/09/23/census): "There are always people who have some sort of paranoia about the federal government and the census, but things might be worse this time around. There's been a lot of talk on the right about the connection (always very tenuous, and now severed) between the census and ACORN, a group that's been...
Al Franken shows incompetence of Tea Party leaders, how they help Obama - 09/05/09
... pudding, and Alex Koppleman of Salon (link) and several other Obama supporters are quite pleased with Franken's performance. And, the tea party followers have their leaders to thank for that.
UPDATE: Before or after p0wning the tea partiers, Franken drew an outline map of the 50 states: link, via this. I have trouble believing that anyone could do that without lines already on the paper or some...
I'm proud to have opposed both two major recent U.S. personality cults - 09/02/09
... Accordingly Glenn Greenwald of Salon weighs in with a tu quoque response ("Deleting the Bush Personality Cult from history", link).
Alex Koppelman lies in his failed refutation of "Birthers" - 08/05/09
Alex Koppelman of Salon offers "Salon's handy-dandy guide to refuting the Birthers" (link):
1. He says of the Certification of Live Birth ("COLB") pictured on Obama's site:
There are allegations that what Obama released is a forgery, but state officials have repeatedly affirmed its authenticity and said they've checked it against the original record and that Obama was indeed born in Hawaii.
That...
Max Blumenthal/David Neiwert smear Sarah Palin (true guilt-by-association, bad reporting) - 10/09/08
Max Blumenthal - last seen here spinning a fantastic tale - joins with Mr. "white supremacist under every bed" himself, David Neiwert, to offer a smear called "Meet Sarah Palin's radical right-wing pals" (link). Their report was partly funded by the "Nation Institute Investigative Fund", which isn't getting its money's worth.
In this campaign we've heard a lot about guilt-by-association, but most...
Barack Obama lies about Rush Limbaugh in Spanish-language ads - 09/17/08
... objections to the ad (letters.salon.com/politics/war_room/2008/09/17/obama_limbaugh/view).
UPDATE 3:
* Eunice Moscoso of the Austin American Statesman does provide the McCain camp response to the ad (defending their previous support of amnesty, a support that continues) but fails to note that the BHO campaign lied. A comment I left has not been approved (link)
* Nick Timiraos of the Wall...
Howard Dean <b>can</b> win! - 06/09/03
Via this post comes this post which says:
After I attended the Howard Dean meetup this week... at The Metro, a gay bar in the Castro. I... signed up to volunteer... to do "outreach" activites, including, apparently, going to gay bars and talking to people about Dean. Well... a genuine excuse to [go] up to strange guys without having to worry about an opening line.
Good luck, but I don't think...
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