The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    Some good news from Washington -- Max Baucus in Trouble with his Constituents over his Treatment of Single Payer Advocates!

    By CVille Dem on Mon, 06/01/2009 - 4:53pm |
      Here is something that just might help to lift our spirits over here in TPM-Land:  Max Baucus sent his staff to hear his constituents, and they got an earful!   Five separate accounts of the meetings, published in four different...
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    The New Math: So Simple, that Only a Child can Do it.

    By amike on Mon, 06/01/2009 - 2:49pm |
    Apologies to Tom Lehrer for the Header.I sent myself on a fool's errand this morning: to write down a mathematical formula which would encapsulate the degree of satisfaction I might reasonably feel with the Obama administration at any time during...
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    Who Killed Dr. Tiller?

    By oleeb on Sun, 05/31/2009 - 11:20pm |
    A doctor was assassinated today in Wichita, KS by a religious fanatic and cold blooded killer.  His name was Dr. George Tiller.  But who killed Dr. Tiller?  Was it the gunman alone?  Hardly. Ever since the Roe v Wade decision...
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    CHENEY and the Five Stages of Grief

    By Richard Day on Sun, 05/31/2009 - 10:53pm |
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    Appellate judging

    By Barth on Sat, 05/30/2009 - 9:24pm |
    I once had a job which required me, from time to time, to speak on the record to newspaper reporters and their supposed equivalents in the broadcast media. The people who were responsible for my office's relations with the same...
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    Voices in the Wilderness

    By Richard Day on Sat, 05/30/2009 - 3:51pm |
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    American Idol Almost Causes Apocalypse - Last Minute Save By Jesus (Assist goes to Danny Gokey)

    By kalakitty17 on Sat, 05/30/2009 - 1:04am |


    Greetings Friends.  I come to you with a true story of God’s victory over evil.  Keep in mind the victory was a hard fought one - and were it not for one Christian sacrificing his own future - all may have been lost.

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    Sure Road to Success - Stick it to Labor

    By Ramona on Fri, 05/29/2009 - 9:45pm |
    I can say this because I'm a liberal and a Michigander: My heart breaks for the laboring class in this country. I feel sorrow even for the workers who can't see that the unions are their only lifeline and inexplicably...
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    Palagian Heresy and Pie

    By Richard Day on Fri, 05/29/2009 - 3:59pm |
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    Sexual Psychosis {Memoir}

    By gilwaters on Fri, 05/29/2009 - 1:43pm |

    Sexual Psychosis

    by Gil A. Waters {www.gilwaters.com}

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    For DickDay and the Others, the Party Continues!

    By SleepinJeezus on Fri, 05/29/2009 - 11:49am |
    I guess I missed the party. And I can only imagine the aftermath. Dick slowly awakening to find he slept face-down on the keyboard, the ashtray full of half smoked cigarettes laying amidst a crumpled wrapper from a package...
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    Please Pass the Viscum Album, Dr. Härtling.

    By amike on Thu, 05/28/2009 - 6:46pm |
    Sometimes it strikes me that the human body is more a witness to sense-of-humor design than to intelligent design.  Two beneficent nature cards I received on recent birthdays testified to that.  In one case the sentiment pointed to the fact...
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    Cicero Calls Out Cheney

    By Richard Day on Thu, 05/28/2009 - 2:22pm |
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    Gen Taguba vs. Obama - who's lying?

    By kgb999 on Thu, 05/28/2009 - 12:30pm |
    An interesting dynamic is emerging in the torture photo debate that deserves a mention.  Last week when Obama decided to abandon his pledges of accountability and transparency in favor of state secrets and concessions democrats were unwilling to make with...
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    Southern. Let the blame games begin, if they must, but hey....

    By wws on Wed, 05/27/2009 - 8:47pm |
    We can all agree that thorough, thoughtful interpretations of historical fact matter. We know this process requires more than a knowledge of facts on a timeline, especially when the perception of those facts is combined with the perspectives and...

    The Proper Response to N Korea

    By Ripper on Wed, 05/27/2009 - 5:31pm |
    I'd love to read your thoughts on the continuing belligerence of Kim Jong Il's regime. Is it mere saber-rattling or does it signal a real willingness to make war? Either way, what should be the response of the United States...
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    Remembrances of Things Past

    By Richard Day on Wed, 05/27/2009 - 1:56pm |
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    A nation does not win a war.<br><font size=-1>(who wants a war anyhow)</font>

    By kgb999 on Tue, 05/26/2009 - 8:05pm |
    A nation fights war. What a nation wins is peace. Americans should not lose sight of what we seek to win as we determine how to conduct the fight....
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    GEORGIA ON MY MIND

    By Richard Day on Tue, 05/26/2009 - 4:20pm |
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    Obama and the Confederate Memorial

    By Joe Wood on Tue, 05/26/2009 - 2:59am |
    I attended as a teenager a military academy here in St. Louis.  In naval science class, we not only learned the history of people like John Paul Jones and Admiral Nimitz, we also learned the history of how Robert E....
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    Veteran Andy Rooney Hits The Memorial Day Nail On The Head

    By oleeb on Mon, 05/25/2009 - 6:22pm |
    I rarely watch 60 Minutes anymore, but yesterday I coincidentally caught Andy Rooney's commentary on Memorial Day.  I am very glad that I saw it.  A lot of the time Rooney plays the curmudgeonly old fella with quirky takes on...
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    What is Beauty?

    By Richard Day on Mon, 05/25/2009 - 3:41pm |
    Susan Boyle came out of nowhere onto a world stage. I remember watching cable news as I typed my drivel for the day and saw this woman. An ugly woman. I of course would not be so disposed or...
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    Memorial Day

    By Barth on Mon, 05/25/2009 - 2:38pm |
    I am not sure exactly when it happened. Maybe it was during 1968 when the murders of Dr. King and Senator Kennedy made it look as if the country could break apart. Somehow the progressive wing of the party got...
    Richard Day's picture

    Stuck Inside the GOP With the Lincoln Blues Again!

    By Richard Day on Mon, 05/25/2009 - 12:07am |
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