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Help Wanted: De Facto Leader of the Republican Party

By Michael Wolraich on Tue, 03/10/2009 - 8:30pm | Politics, Humor & Satire

Seeking qualified candidates for leadership role with a top American political party who will:

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Stumble Stumble

By Michael Wolraich on Fri, 03/06/2009 - 8:14pm | Technology

StumbleUpon is a search engine of sorts that works on the "let what you're looking for find you" principle. It takes Google's "I feel lucky" concept to new heights. Instead of typing in what you're searching for, you just click the big "Stumble" button, and the site serves up pages that it thinks you want to see.

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The House That George Built - The Movie

By Michael Wolraich on Tue, 03/03/2009 - 12:21am | Politics

Last week, I wrote a piece called This is the House That George Built. TheraP at TPM suggested that I make a video. This is the video.

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This is the house that George built!

By Michael Wolraich on Tue, 02/24/2009 - 2:20am | Politics

This is the house that George built!
These are men who lie in the house that George built.
This is the war that killed the men
That lie in the house that George built.

This is the fraud that started the war
That killed the men that lie in the house that George built.
This is the Dick that contrived the fraud
That started the war that killed the men
That lie in the house that George built.

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Get Yer Hot D-Bills Here!

By Michael Wolraich on Fri, 02/20/2009 - 10:28pm | Business, Humor & Satire

Loyal readers have been anxiously following dagblog.com's financial troubles in this difficult economy. On Tuesday, after dagblog's appeals for federal assistance were rebuffed, I sadly announced that all the other members of the dagblog team would have to be let go.

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The Essence of Dag

By Michael Wolraich on Mon, 02/16/2009 - 8:00pm | Potpourri

Brought to you by wordle.net. I like the big Bush falling off the bottom...

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George Bush Not the Worst President Ever

By Michael Wolraich on Mon, 02/16/2009 - 5:54pm | Politics, Humor & Satire

Defying expectations and confounding the critics one last time, George W. Bush is not the worst president ever according to C-Span's Historians Survey of Presidential Leadership. Bush beat out Millard Fillmore, Warren Harding, William Henry Harrison, Franklin D. Pierce, Andrew Johnson, and James Buchanan to place a respectable 36th out of 42.

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Roland Burris, the gift that keeps on giving...

By Michael Wolraich on Sun, 02/15/2009 - 2:49pm | Politics

Senator Roland Burris (D) speaks...

Jan 5, sworn affidavit:

There was not any contact between myself or any of my representatives with Governor Blagojevich or any of his representatives regarding my appointment to the United States Senate.

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Jan 8, sworn testimony:

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Economic Stimulus and the Parent Principle

By Michael Wolraich on Thu, 02/12/2009 - 1:42pm | Politics, Business

The $789 billion stimulus bill passed today. As expected, the Republican leadership carped about the cost. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell complained, "We've heard a lot from our friends about the danger of deficits over the past few years...Americans are wondering how we’re going to pay for all this." In case this message was too abstract for average Americans, McConnell supported his point with a common sense analogy, "Any parent knows you don't buy a new car and plan the summer vacation before you set the family budget for the year."

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Michael Wolraich is a non-fiction writer in New York City. He co-founded dagblog and has contributed  to the Atlantic, the Daily Beast, New York Magazine, CNN.com, TalkingPointsMemo.com, Reuters, and Pando Daily.

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Wolraich is also the computer genius who maintains dagblog's state-of-the-art software, but he denies responsibility for technical glitches and advises users to "quit sniveling." In his spare time, Wolraich raises peach mold and performs live impressions of the law of gravity.

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