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Paul Newell Slams One of New York's Most Powerful Democrats, Sheldon Silver, on Fare Hike Hypocrisy
Written by Administrator   
Thursday, 24 July 2008

[Editor's Note: Here's a state-level race that is turning up on the national radar. Democrat Paul Newell's primary challenge to entrenched New York State Senate Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is making headlines. Newell has been a high-profile community organizer in New York City – a trait he has in common with a certain high-profile candidate from Illinois. Following is his latest press release, a superb example of holding a machine politician's feet tp the fire.]

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Bushism and Evil as the Absence of Empathy
Written by Ernest Partridge   
Thursday, 24 July 2008
From Crisispapers.org: In the 2000 TV film “Nuremberg,” psychologist Gustav Gilbert says to the Head Prosecutor Robert Jackson, "I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants: a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.” “Absence of empathy” is likewise “the one characteristic that connects” most of the immoral and misbegotten tenets of Bushism: that dogmatic mix of market absolutism, libertarianism, corporatism and simple greed that falsely describes itself as “conservatism.” Ernest Partridge explains.
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Hiding Behind Hyperbole and Other Literary Devices
Written by Steve Young   
Wednesday, 23 July 2008

Steve Young explains Michael Savage's dodge.

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Inside Bush's Diary: Lame Ducks and Lame Dems
Written by Bernie Weiner   
Wednesday, 23 July 2008

What does the country's most unpopular resident in the White House do while he's waiting to exit the place? Bernard Weiner takes a peek into Bush's journal and observes how he is obsessed with escaping jail time, punishing his political enemies, marveling at the wimpiness of the Democrats, and searching for some, ANY, positive legacy.

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Glenn Beck Performs Miracle: Makes Larry King Look Credible
Written by Steve Young   
Tuesday, 22 July 2008

Steve Young on Beck's amazing performance as substitute host on Larry King Live.

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Savage Betrayal
Written by Steve Young   
Friday, 18 July 2008
Michael Savage's latest outrage: he claims autistic kids are "just brats". Steve Young responds to Savage.
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Michael Medved: The Most Dangerous Nobody on Talk Radio
Written by Jeff Koopersmith   
Friday, 18 July 2008
"[Senator Obama]'s only accomplishment in 47 years has been to build up the mass hysteria and messianic expectations surrounding this campaign." — Michael Medved, July 16, 2008 — Trying to Make Obama Look Small
Illustration: Jeff Koopersmith and Photoshop Insurgent

Jeff Koopersmith takes Michael Medved to the woodshed.

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Koop's Comfort Capsule Communiqué
Written by Jeff Koopersmith   
Friday, 18 July 2008
Confidential

Jeff Koopersmith takes a few minutes to write a confidential memo to USAF Generals McMahon and McNabb.

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A Decision that Makes No Sense
Written by Marc Perkel   
Friday, 18 July 2008

In the last few days Israel has traded the release of murders and terrorists in exchange to get back the bodies of dead people.

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Send Karl Rove to Jail
Written by Mike Harwood   
Friday, 18 July 2008

Watch the video...

... then visit the site

 
Election Fraud & Tyranny – Part 2
Written by Michael Collins   
Thursday, 17 July 2008

Regarding election fraud, it's not the beginning of the end.  It's the end of the beginning, to borrow from Churchill.  In Part 2 of the series on Mark Crispin Miller's new book, Michael Collins wraps up the ugly events of 2006, a "landslide denied" with various atrocities, and gives us the warnings for 2008.

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Satire to Sue The New Yorker
Written by Steve Young   
Thursday, 17 July 2008

Steve Young with the latest breaking news on Satiregate.

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Headlines
Written by Mike Harwood   
Thursday, 17 July 2008

Just what one expects from today's GOP:

• Officials spread Katrina lie to push offshore drilling
• Obama Raises $52 Million in June
• "W" actors' arrest details reveal police brutality: tasers, pepper spray, bigot Shreveport cops direct "N" word at actor Jeffrey Wright
• Pentagon Signals New Escalation in Afghanistan
• All Three Major Evening News Anchors Will Accompany Obama on His Overseas Trip
• American Forces Retreat in Defeat: Taliban drives NATO, American forces from Afghan post
• New OPR Investigation into Siegelman Prosecutor Alice Martin, Has Commenced
• Seven years on, no answer from White House on anthrax attacks
• Obama: It's Time for a Real Offensive Against Terrorism
• Bush Claims Executive Privilege in Valerie Plame Leak
• Smacked Down Like a Housefly: Congress Overrides Bush's Veto of Medicare Protection
• "Surge" Ends… But with More Troops in Iraq than Before Buildup Began...

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Watch Laura Ingraham Lose It Live, Not Quite Coast to Coast...
Written by Mike Harwood   
Wednesday, 16 July 2008

… over at the irrepressible Harry Shearer's MyDamnChannel.com subsite.

 
Someone Want to Explain to Me What's So Funny about Satire?
Written by Steve Young   
Wednesday, 16 July 2008

Steve Young on this week's New Yorker cover cartoon: "Comical? Gimmeabreak!"

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On FISA
Written by JPF   
Wednesday, 16 July 2008

I hope Marc Perkel was joking about the FISA issue on July 9th.

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McCain and Obama Campaigns Bedeviled by Iraq
Written by Bernie Weiner   
Wednesday, 16 July 2008

From crisispapers.org: The difference between McCain and Obama on the Iraq issue is stark. The former wants to Stay the Course until "victory," whatever that might mean, and the latter wants to start moving troops out over the next 16 months. But, as Bernie Weiner explains, when dealing with the domestic and international fallout from America's neo-colonialist attitudes, nothing is going to be very simple, or easy.

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Be Ready for $400-a-barrel Oil... And Worse!
Written by Jeff Koopersmith   
Tuesday, 15 July 2008

Jeff Koopersmith on the economy, the Middle East, and the fruits of the Cheney-Bush Geopolitical Policy.

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Barack Obama's Vision for an Effective Foreign and Military Policy: The Complete Text
Written by Barack Obama   
Tuesday, 15 July 2008

Read the complete text of presidential candidate Barack Obama's wide-ranging speech of July 15, 2008, in advance of a fact-finding trip to the Middle East, by clicking here.

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