The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    Obama Names Yemen New Hotbed for Anti-American Extremists?

    By we are stardust on Mon, 02/15/2010 - 12:08pm |
    Yemen's been in the news a lot lately, and I needed to know more about it than it's where the Underwear-bomber got his bomb, and that the Fort Hood shooter emailed with a Radical Imam there.  Maybe you'd like some...
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    IN GOD WE BLUSH

    By Richard Day on Sun, 02/14/2010 - 5:04pm |
                                                           JOHN LOCKEOkay Folks. It's Sunday and time for Dikky's Sermons.I came to Richfield, the home of the American Dream in the fourth grade. Everybody in Richfield was white and if there were...
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    About the Olympics (a few notes for broadcasters)

    By Barth on Sun, 02/14/2010 - 1:08pm |
    We have all come to learn than things incessantly reported on television, and its cable bastard, frequently become accepted fact, even if absurd. Recent examples of this include the idea that unusual, record setting snow storms in places that never...
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    STAR WARS

    By Richard Day on Sat, 02/13/2010 - 7:15pm |
                                                   NIKOLA TESLA I love to read about scientific breakthroughs. That is why I visit my National Geographic site more than a couple times a month. I also enjoy reading Homer. I really do. Origins are important to me. I can...
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    Screaming into the Night

    By Barth on Sat, 02/13/2010 - 3:13pm |
    It's really all one can do. Bizarre weather crops up all over the country. Washington, D.C. gets more snow than ever before while Vancouver, B.C., trying to host the winter Olympics has temperatures in the 40s and too little snow....
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    Again, a Dark and Stormy Night

    By wws on Sat, 02/13/2010 - 12:54am |
    It's snowing -- in Charleston, SC, for the first time since 1990. It is then, for us, "a dark and stormy night." Which recalls the laughs we had last year -- our hearts newly full of hope and confidence after...
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    NEW BOOKS BY POLITICIANS WE CARE ABOUT

    By Richard Day on Fri, 02/12/2010 - 11:42pm |
    ile links Meet the latest Abraham Lincoln biographer: Bill O'Reilly. The Fox News host and best-selling author is working on "Killing Lincoln," a history book that will take readers "into Ford's Theater and into the mind of Lincoln's assassin, John...
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    False Labor: After Elaine Chao, You Owe Us

    By Ramona on Fri, 02/12/2010 - 1:00pm |
    Name me one Republican congressperson who backs the unions.  Name me one who has EVER backed the unions.  Now give me one good reason why any of us who support unions and equity in the work force should be hopeful...
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    GOVMENT

    By Richard Day on Thu, 02/11/2010 - 11:56pm |
    File links I was having a wonderful tete-a-tete with Doomer this morning and even Q chimed in. I was thinking of the repubs and govment and all that crap.  Today the repubs will speak of the Demcrat party.  They just...
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    THE PLEBS

    By Richard Day on Wed, 02/10/2010 - 11:44pm |
    Missy has some of us thinking of a an old leader in Café. Lux was his handle.  You can see Missy's blog here:  http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/b/a/barefoot/2010/02/lux... All she was doing was highlighting one of Lux's posts from '08 when I first...
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    Maddow on the Repub Hypocrites and the Dem Chickenhearts: Priceless

    By Ramona on Wed, 02/10/2010 - 1:58pm |
    Just wanted to pass along the most incredible piece of responsible journalism I've seen in a long, long, LONG time.  Rachel Maddow is the Edward R. Murrow of our age.  The Republicans can have their Sarah Palin.  We have Rachel...
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    MAY DAY

    By Richard Day on Tue, 02/09/2010 - 9:06pm |
    Okay, let's see what I got here. Once upon a time there was a  Lieutenant colonel François de La Rocque. It was 1930 in Paris, and La Rocque becomes the leader of a group of WWI veterans who were...

    OH NO HE DI'NT

    By Ripper on Tue, 02/09/2010 - 8:19pm |
    NPR just reported that Obama has reversed his position and is willing to start from scratch with Republicans on health care. I left a message for Nancy Ann DeParle with an intern in the White House Office of Health Reform....

    Melanie's Last Wish: Finish Health Care Right

    By Ripper on Tue, 02/09/2010 - 1:18pm |
    When I wrote about how courageously Melanie Shouse of St. Louis fought for health care reform--even as she was losing her battle against breast cancer---it touched a chord in all who read about her life and death. I want to...

    John Murtha Calls a Halt

    By Ripper on Tue, 02/09/2010 - 12:11am |
    Amid the statements of somber recognition and condolences issued about Rep. John P. "Jack" Murtha (D-PA.) after his death today at age 77, there were also catcalls from anti-war Progressives who felt compelled to point out Murtha's complicity in the...
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    Assassination of US Citizens Abroad

    By we are stardust on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 4:43pm |
    Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair told a Congressional committee on Wednesday that the military has the authority to target US citizens in other countries if it believes that they 'have been radicalized' and are 'involved with a group that...
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    DUGFUCKNOW MUST BE DESTROYED

    By Richard Day on Sun, 02/07/2010 - 11:19pm |
    The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides with the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who in the name of charity and good will shepherds the weak through...
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    Geaux SAINTS!

    By oleeb on Sun, 02/07/2010 - 4:42pm |
    I have nothing against the Colts and they may just win today's contest, but I'm cheering the Saints because I think it's their time, they have a wonderful, exciting team and they represent one of our greatest cities, if...
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    Sarah Palin Tea Party Speech SIMULCAST: Surrender NOW

    By Ramona on Sun, 02/07/2010 - 1:12pm |
    Remember how much fun we had with those people? Are you thinking what I'm thinking? That it was all a clever ruse designed to put us off-guard until the actual Saturday-night Tea Party massacre?
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    Ernesto Miranda and the Christmas Underwear Guy

    By Barth on Sun, 02/07/2010 - 12:37am |
    The pseudonym used in these posts is meant to protect the person who has appointed the author of this junk from having to account for the private ravings of a Public Servant. The utility of this device could be tested...
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    TO BLEED OR NOT TO BLEED

    By Richard Day on Sat, 02/06/2010 - 10:01pm |
                        File links I watched some good movies this week end. I was particularly intrigued by The Client.   This is a film set in the South and one can never go wrong with Tommy Lee Jones and Susan Sarandon...
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    PSYCHOPATHS FOR PERRY

    By Richard Day on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 9:51pm |
    ile links You realize I have not done a Rush Limbaugh blog for a long time.  This is the closest I have come in a long time. Auntie Sam sent me this gem today: Jake Gibson of Fox News' Liveshots...
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    Washington Doesn't Work For Me

    By Joe Wood on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 8:50pm |
    Why do people have to sit and wait?  The nightly wait in front of the computer or a TV set for some news, some word--that help is on the way to them.  Selling things you never wanted to part with,...
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    How To Break Republican Obstructionism

    By oleeb on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 6:51pm |
    This is a reprise of a post I did a week or so ago, but I didn't realize I was posting it in the midst of a major spam attack so I don't think many people saw it.  Thus, I'm...
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    Help Needed: Heroes. Must relate well to Huddled Masses

    By Ramona on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 11:05am |
    Toward the end of my last blog, American Dreamer posted a Help Wanted ad:<blockquote>Help Wanted: inspiring, credible national spokesperson(s) to lead a nonviolent social movement that reflects widespread popular grievances in a vocabulary consonant with popular perceptions of what is...

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