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La Crosse Tribune :    U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold admitted Monday he’d have to seriously think about it if asked to be a presidential running mate.But Feingold’s flirtation with the White House has given way to renewed enthusiasm for life in the Senate, now that there’s a Democratic majority. At a listening session in Onalaska City [...]

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The evidence is already compelling that Republicans are in the midst of stealing Florida’s 13th, and as Paul Krugman noted today, this is a clear instance in which paperless voting machines “delivered the race to the wrong candidate.” Indeed, state officials, who already unfairly certified Republican Vern Buchanan the "winner," tapped an FSU professor as an [...]

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You know, sometimes the punchlines just write themselves. WaPo via Huffington Post:  A post-election e-mail to executives at the drug company GlaxoSmithKline details just how tough. "We now have fewer allies in the Senate," says the internal memo, obtained by The Washington Post. "Thus, there is greater risk over the next two years that bad amendments [...]

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Iraq is unraveling…A barrage of car bombs, mortar attacks and missiles battered the Shiite Muslim slum of Sadr City on Thursday afternoon, killing around 200 people and injuring as many more in the single deadliest assault on Iraqi civilians since the start of the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003.The highly orchestrated attacks on the stronghold [...]

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And you only thought it was the Limbaugh’s of the world that said these things. When will the Gang of 500 call them on it? How do they look themselves in the mirror everyday? Do you think Mark Halperin make a note of this garbage? When will 24/7 talking heads highlight the propaganda they use? When will… You [...]

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I’m sure St. McCain’s plan to send in a few more troops will ease this situation.More than 1,000 Iraqis a day are being displaced by the sectarian violence that began on Feb. 22 with the bombing of the Shiite Askariya shrine in Samarra, according to a report released this week by the Geneva-based International Organization for [...]

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  James Dobson on Larry King:  If anything should show the public that Dobson is a charlatan, this appearance should. He dumped his good old buddy Ted Haggard in a NY minute as soon as Ted got into trouble. He only spoke to him one time. That’s compassion for you. I guess he needs to [...]

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 …who think that Daddy and the Baker Commission are going to save Bush and turn the Iraq war around? I’m not talking about the press of course…I’m still waiting…

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"Concubinage"

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The great jazz singer Anita O’Day died on Thanksgiving morning at the age of 87.   She was a dedicated artist, despite the fact that she claimed she took the stage name O’Day because "in pig Latin it meant dough, which I wanted to make." She had musical chemistry with the great trumpeter Roy Eldridge, when they [...]

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Smooth, from Supernatural

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 So what happens when you exploit alleged terrorist plots for short-term political gain? You endanger national security by interfering in ongoing investigations, allowing suspects to escape.From the UK Independent:A team of suspected terrorists involved in an alleged UK plot to blow up trans-atlantic airliners escaped capture because of interference by the United States, The Independent [...]

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Chuch Hagel in the WaPo: There will be no victory or defeat for the United States in Iraq. These terms do not reflect the reality of what is going to happen there. The future of Iraq was always going to be determined by the Iraqis — not the Americans.Iraq is not a prize to be won [...]

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BAGHDAD, Iraq Gunmen broke into two Shiite homes and killed 21 men in front of their relatives in an Iraqi village, police said Saturday, as Vice President Dick Cheney sought Saudi Arabia’s help in calming Iraq after an especially violent week of sectarian violence. U.S. and Iraqi forces also killed 58 insurgents during fighting north of [...]

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Philly: Don’t expect to see Sen. Rick Santorum’s name on the 2008 presidential ballot."Absolutely, positively not. Absolutely not," Santorum said yesterday on The Michael Smerconish Show on WPHT-AM (1210). "My wife would throw me out of the house if I do anything in ‘08."I’ll have to talk with my good buddy Mark Levin and hope he [...]

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