The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

    What Might More Helpfully Be Done About Jobs This Year

    By AmericanDreamer on Wed, 02/24/2010 - 1:17pm |
    The Economic Policy Institute (EPI), an excellent DC-based, pro-middle and working-class advocacy group, has developed an American Jobs Plan proposal it estimates would create or preserve at least 4.6 million jobs in its first year.  The cost would be about $400 billion.  Under...
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    SEND IN THE CLOWNS

    By Richard Day on Wed, 02/24/2010 - 12:30am |
    Metadata                                       GLENN BECK NONE DARE CALL IT TREASON Well the eyes of many are on Texas.  The repubs are mixing it up. Kay Bailey Hutchison has decided to run away from the Senate and attempt to move into the...
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    House Votes to Designate 'Certain' TV Stations as 'Terrorists'

    By we are stardust on Tue, 02/23/2010 - 11:57am |
    Now here is a real pip we haven't heard much (if anything) about: On 12/08/09 the House overwhelmingly passed an apparently AIPAC-sponsored bill, brought to the floor by Rep. Bilirakis, Gus M. (Foreign Affairs Committee) :  H.R. 2278 directs the...

    Coming Saturday, Feb. 27: HCiB&W Pt 2

    By Ripper on Tue, 02/23/2010 - 12:06am |
    The most anticipated motion picture of 2009 arrives in 2010. "Health Care in Black & White: Part 2," will premiere at noon Saturday, Feb. 27th on YouTube. I will post the embedded video and a link here.The third and final...
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    JUST MY INTERPRETATION

    By Richard Day on Mon, 02/22/2010 - 11:32pm |
    Metadata                                BILL MOYERS   Roberts's hard-edged performance at oral argument offers more than just a rhetorical contrast to the rendering of himself that he presented at his confirmation hearing. "Judges are like umpires," Roberts said at the time. "Umpires...

    Dick Cheney: The Angina Monologues

    By Ripper on Mon, 02/22/2010 - 11:03pm |
    Former vice-president Dick Cheney was hospitalized again Monday for chest pains. Doctors quickly ruled out the possibility of a heart condition, as Cheney was born without one."We think it may have been a twinge of guilt stemming from a fluke,...

    Harriton High School webcam spying: federal investigation launched.

    By kgb999 on Mon, 02/22/2010 - 10:10pm |
    Apparently a school district in PA decided to use the laptops they had issued to the students as a spy device to take images of whatever was going on in front of the web-cam. The news broke last week when...
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    The Reverend Wendy's Telethon for Synch (Cafe-athon?)

    By we are stardust on Sun, 02/21/2010 - 4:13pm |
    Every time you Rec this, AND contribute, an Angel Gets It's Wings!   ;-} I offered to repost this for Synch.  Please realize how hard it is to ask for some money from Virtual Strangers (hahahahaha)  to get through an injury...
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    Polonius & Laertes

    By Richard Day on Sun, 02/21/2010 - 5:53am |
    File links                                                         THE BOOK OF PROVERBS It is Sunday, and in this Church of the Left Wing Scourges, we should all turn our prayer books to:The Psalms are supposed to be written by David.  There is a lament, for...
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    "A republic, if you can keep it"

    By Barth on Sat, 02/20/2010 - 2:50pm |
    "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." --Thomas Jefferson to Charles Yancey, 1816 Let's see if we have this right. In a week when...
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    Click through to Chris Hedges, if you will

    By amike on Sat, 02/20/2010 - 12:52pm |
    I spend less time blogging here than I once did, though I remain a pretty faithful reader.  It may be cyclical--when time expands, so does blogging time, after all.  But it may be symptomatic of a recurring unease I feel,...
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    Gareth Porter's Take on the 'New' Afghanistan Strategy

    By we are stardust on Sat, 02/20/2010 - 12:11pm |
    Veteran journalist and author Gareth Porter was recently interviewed by Paul Jay on The Real News network; Porter  just returned from Afghanistan two weeks ago.   It's a ten-and-a-half minute interview, and well worth the dab of time.  He makes some...

    Marching Orders

    By Ripper on Fri, 02/19/2010 - 8:03pm |
    You--yes, YOU--can participate in Melanie's March, even if you can't be there.Please go to melaniesmarch.com to find out how you can make a difference in one of the most memorable and powerful nationwide rallies yet for meaningful health care reform....
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    ANCHORS AWAY!!!

    By Richard Day on Fri, 02/19/2010 - 7:40pm |
    Complications in deportation efforts ensue when parents are illegal immigrants but their children are birthright citizens. Federal appellate courts have upheld the refusal by the Immigration and Naturalization Service to stay the deportation of illegal immigrants merely on the...

    Gee. Thanks for the laptop!

    By kgb999 on Fri, 02/19/2010 - 10:00am |
    Ok, this is one of the most unsettling tech stories I've seen in a while .... from philly.com (h/t Geekology). A Lower Merion family has set off a furor among students, parents, and civil liberties groups by alleging that Harriton...
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    Square Deal, New Deal, Fair Deal, Raw Deal: What's it gonna be?

    By Ramona on Thu, 02/18/2010 - 10:25pm |
    Their strategy is to overwhelm us when we're looking the other way. They scatter divisive issues among us, like religion and communism and abortion and taxes and elusive presidential birth certificates and death sentences for our grandmothers, and while we're preoccupied with the stuff that makes us really, really mad, they rob us blind and revel in the spoils.
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    Hey, everybody -- Wake up! The Public Option is Aive!

    By CVille Dem on Thu, 02/18/2010 - 8:03pm |
    I guess the in-your-face absurdity of Blue/Cross Blue/Shield of California raising premiums by as much as 39% finally got a rise out of some of those who represent us in Congress!  There is a rising tide (see the front page) and...
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    ARTHUR & THE SWORD FORGED FROM THE MAGIC STONE (CH-2)

    By Richard Day on Thu, 02/18/2010 - 7:20pm |
    Metadata                                                    THE HERMITAGE The boy/man arrived at the hermitage and showed the horse the beaten up corral the old man had built decades ago; just an old donkey residing there. Ralph did not seem to mind and he seemed...

    I need your help--right now

    By Ripper on Thu, 02/18/2010 - 2:21pm |
    Quite simply, as Al Franken has said, I need your support, and that means your money. I want to go to Washington, D.C. again next week for a rally to help finish the fight for health care reform. I'm broke...
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    I'M LAO TSU, HOW DO YOU DO?

    By Richard Day on Wed, 02/17/2010 - 8:35pm |
    Ah the subject of religion rises into prominence once again. Do not blame me for this time I was spurred on by Stratofrog. She sent me a link and opined that I might wish, once again to discuss man's...
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    Will Mourning Joe Ruin My Morning Again...

    By Barth on Wed, 02/17/2010 - 10:29am |
    ...by his pious shaking of the head while explaining that the stimulus didn't work and the President should have been doing more for jobs:See the pretty chart here.Data and facts just get in the way, because just making noise is...
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    ARTHUR & THE SWORD FORGED FROM THE MAGIC STONE

    By Richard Day on Tue, 02/16/2010 - 8:46pm |
    s The fields had been so quiet. So quiet you could hear a peasant smothering his second wife to death with a feather pillow in the adjoining county; if you were into that sort of thing. There was no...
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    Why Telephone Poles Infect My Soul

    By Joe Wood on Mon, 02/15/2010 - 10:09pm |
                 I am an artist.  Many artists are quite selective in what subjects they choose. I usually don't think about it.  I just try to portray whatever I am painting or drawing with some truth, and embed it with some...
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    GOOGLE AND THE YARD SALE

    By Richard Day on Mon, 02/15/2010 - 8:22pm |
    Metadata Therap informed me that there are some problems at Google. She thought it might make for an interesting blog. I wish to discuss first, the broader issue of contracts. Republicans like to include in their discussions "The Freedom to...
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    Presidents' Day Quiz about our country

    By Barth on Mon, 02/15/2010 - 3:58pm |
    Since, by the grace of as much fooling around with calendars as we can do, we are celebrating the birthday of President Lincoln (hitherto celebrated on February 12) and of President Washington (February 11 under the calendar "we"---Britain---were still using...

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