The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    Some Easy, Effective Things You Can Do To Support Single Payer Right Now

    By oleeb on Sun, 06/14/2009 - 4:37pm |
    It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that the health care "reform" the Democrats are cooking up in Washington right now with their BFF's from the insurance and drug companies isn't going to solve the health care crisis...
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    Racism Is Not About The "N" Word

    By Joe Wood on Sun, 06/14/2009 - 3:45pm |
    As noted in another post, many white people in our media, as well as many of us, seem to think that racism ends when we go to school with bussed in children, or when we choose not to use the "N"...

    On the Obama Hating

    By AmericanDreamer on Sun, 06/14/2009 - 2:41pm |
    This is the only post I hope I make on this odious subject.Bush was deeply hated by many. But I don't believe I have ever seen a single comment by a tpmcafe denizen even suggesting or intimating violence against Bush...
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    Who Hangs the Hangman?

    By SleepinJeezus on Sun, 06/14/2009 - 11:42am |
    When I was in my teens, I was visited many nights by the same old nightmare. This dream was one of those that was incredibly real, so much so that upon waking the first action taken was to grasp the...
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    Parsing the President II: Connectivity

    By amike on Sat, 06/13/2009 - 9:38pm |
    No man is an island, entire of itself; Every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, As well as if promontory were,...
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    Civil Discourse & The Wacko Sphere

    By Richard Day on Sat, 06/13/2009 - 8:50pm |
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    AS LONG AS WE'RE ATTEMPTING TO RESHAPE THE COUNTRY: A Discussion About Food Stamps, Food Banks, Health Care, Responsibility, and Rights vs. Wouldn't It Be Nices?

    By stillidealistic on Sat, 06/13/2009 - 8:37pm |
    We've had lots of discussion lately about health care, which has set my mind to wandering and wondering. As long as we're advocating for health care as a basic human right, shouldn't we be talking about our responsibilities to the...
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    Rafsanjani out? Iran gets murkier

    By acanuck on Sat, 06/13/2009 - 7:10pm |
    Unconfirmed reports out of Iran say former president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has resigned as chairman of the powerful Expediency Council, which arbitrates disputes between the religious leadership (Council of Guardians) and the Majlis or parliament. Rafsanjani also chairs the Assembly of...
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    New York, New York or The state I am in

    By Barth on Sat, 06/13/2009 - 3:01pm |
    We laugh about it sometimes. Those of us who live in the State of New York, particularly, perhaps, those of us who have worked for it, or work on legislative issues, have watched as what passes for a government has...
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    We pause for a brief public service announcement.

    By amike on Sat, 06/13/2009 - 12:59pm |
    I'm on far too many e-mail lists, but I can't bring myself to take myself off of any.  It's rather like being unable to put down a boring book because I'm afraid the next chapter will get interesting, or leaving ...
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    My White Aryan Resistance: Dissecting The Lone Nut in American Politics

    By Joe Wood on Sat, 06/13/2009 - 7:14am |
    I have two rifles; both are pre WWI, a 7mm and an 8mm Mauser rifle. When I was 15, I got my first guns. My best friend and I would go to our private range underground, and shoot .303...

    SASC Detainee Report Time Line.

    By kgb999 on Fri, 06/12/2009 - 6:30pm |
    I recently slogged through the Senate Armed Services Committee report: "Inquiry Into the Treatment of Detainees in U.S. Custody". One of the big difficulties I had was the thing kept doing time warps.  Suddenly, it jumped from 2005 back to...
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    The Parsing of the President I:

    By amike on Fri, 06/12/2009 - 1:58pm |
    Read And Listen.Parsing:To examine closely or subject to detailed analysis, especially by breaking up into components: To make sense of; comprehend: I simply couldn't parse what you just saidHopefully people will be able to parse what I say as I...
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    Pardon Me!

    By Richard Day on Fri, 06/12/2009 - 1:53pm |
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    The Mainstreaming of Hate: That's Entertainment!

    By Ramona on Fri, 06/12/2009 - 1:02pm |
    As a group, they are the pop culture equivalent of necrotic carrion beetles, crawling with insectile determination from one infected open wound in the American psyche to another. The wounds include fear of race, fear of foreigners, fear of sexuality,...
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    Arthur of the Roundish Table: The Lady of the Forest

    By Richard Day on Thu, 06/11/2009 - 6:44pm |
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    Sheldon Whitehouse said last night that all we believe we know about torture is wrong.

    By we are stardust on Thu, 06/11/2009 - 5:21pm |
    On the Floor of the Senate last night, he gave a long speech that totally refuted Cheney's lies and most of the conventional narrative on the subject.  "I want my colleagues and the American public to know that, measured against...
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    Just Words: The Results of Hate Speech Part II

    By Joe Wood on Wed, 06/10/2009 - 6:39pm |
    Today a 89 year old man with a Confederate flag and a rifle walked up to the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC, and opened the door.  His website and his book unfurl his feelings towards Jews and Blacks.  He is not...
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    Scarborough the Not So Fair

    By Richard Day on Wed, 06/10/2009 - 5:42pm |
    Joe Scarborough Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} There is not one America. Even the term is nothing but...
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    Sotomayor to (wrong) man in prison--we took 10 years at first bite; you get six more for believing that the court clerk was an agent of the court, SUCKAH!

    By jollyroger on Wed, 06/10/2009 - 8:19am |
    By the time Sonia Sotomayor had the chance to fuck him up, Jeffrey Deskovic had already spent ten years wrongly imprisoned. The short story: Deskovic (via his lawyer, whose timeliness or lack thereof attaches to Deskovic under agency/principal vicarious liability)...
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    PUBLIC HEALTH

    By Richard Day on Tue, 06/09/2009 - 11:21pm |
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    Graham, Lieberman will shut down the Senate??

    By we are stardust on Tue, 06/09/2009 - 5:07pm |
    Since the House stripped out the provision making it illegal for the Pentagon to release the Bush-era detainee photos  from the War Supplemental bill in conference, the two Senators are upping the ante.  At a press conference today (Tuesday) they tantrummed with...
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    Iran: Now

    By Joe Wood on Tue, 06/09/2009 - 3:07am |
    There is no coincidence.  There will soon be an election in Iran.  You have an issue of Newsweek devoted almst entirely to Iran, "Everything You Think You Know About Iran Is Wrong."  You have this corresponding with an effort by CNN...
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    250,000 contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan: from a new Pentagon report.

    By we are stardust on Mon, 06/08/2009 - 8:59pm |
    June 8, 2009, 9:57AM Absolutely breath-taking numbers, especially put in a context that contractors are now half of the forces we have deployed in the two countries.  And the number of armed contractors has risen by an average in the...
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    Caesar and the Pirates: The Ransom Note

    By Richard Day on Mon, 06/08/2009 - 4:06pm |
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