The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    Best Article of the Day (so far!)

    By stillidealistic on Wed, 09/10/2008 - 3:48pm |
    This is the kind of stuff Obama surrogates need to be out there pounding...
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

    Paul Begala: The McCain-Palin Lies and the Neil Armstrong PrincipleIn the face of demonstrable, provable, incontrovertible evidence to the contrary, McCain and Palin continue to assert that Gov. Palin opposed the infamous "Bridge to Nowhere." They do so in their speeches and ads, and their supporters say so on television until their pants are on fire. McCain and Palin also claim the Alaska governor opposes earmarks -- despite the fact that she's gotten her state so much pork she's at risk for trichinosis. The media have an obligation to point out when a politician is lying about a matter of fact, but the right-wing attack machine has so cowed some of them you can almost hear them moo.