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Swing State Project: Well, it didn't take Doug Hoffman long to start bringing the crazy...

My Left Nutmeg: Dodd pursues sweeping financial regulatory changes

Pruning Shears: The long climb back

field negro: Here in Mississippi, we don't need our blacks educated

Pam's House Blend: Pathetically ignorant and perpetually dishonest Republican contributes more battsh*ttery to the public discourse

TPMMuckraker: CREW calls on State Dept. to probe Galbraith over Kurdish oil dealings



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Matthew Yglesias: Canada turns a blind eye to torture. So does Lithuania...

Margaret and Helen: Thanksgiving letter to the family, 2009

The Agonist: A Tale of Two Belles

Rising Hegemon: The terrorists who will be tried in NYC are not comic book Super Villians

pandagon: "Jungle Fever” is still eating away at some bigoted brains 40+ years after Loving v. Virginia.

Democurmudgeon: Republican candidate hangs out in a bar and complains to the only bartender who'll listen


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Kiko's House: Breast cancer bombshell lands in the middle of the health care debate

The Pump Handle: Swine flu and bird flu and lessons to be learned

Ken Silverstein: Feds document crime spree by dictator's son: Why no action?

Private Buffoon: Writes letters...

The National Protrusion: Should terror suspects be tried in U.S courts? - The Henry "Mack Truck" Harvey Show

ANNALS OF JOURNALISM: Rush to judgement...Media, Money and Sun Myung Moon...and his paper says...and his editor says...The state of journalism in Nebraska...Gernelism...Newsweek taps Bush aide for Obama reporting... Rogue?...Balance...Ethics...Setoodeh and Teh Ghey...Typography...The 'Dean' writes...WashTimes against protectionism before they were for it...


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Max Blumenthal: Palin's Literary Klavern

Newsbroke: Has Sarah Palin become the 'community organizer' she once disdained?

The Washington Note: Not Supposed to Happen in Obama Land: Intrigue behind Gregory Craig's resignation

43-Ideas-Per-Minute: Their intellectual honesty has bowed out again

Submitted to a Candid World: National Review: Where the Supreme Court is an afterthought

Economist's View: The Fed "refused to use its considerable leverage"


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MyDD: Tea Baggers set their sights on Climate Change. Here's more...

Consortiumblog: Shining light on the roots of terrorism

Truthdig: Testing next year's lies today

Respectful Insolence: Hmmm...maybe I fell for Obama's liberofascist plot to poison me

The Existentialist Cowboy: The End of American Community

HOLY CRAP: Faith is no defense...How Rev Moon bought Washington...In the 'next world'... Robertson puts McDonnell in a bind...Meet John Thune...God, the Army, and PTSD...Catholic morality...I thoroughly enjoyed their evisceration...Godless billboard moved after threats...Charles Colson on Atheists...Nashville gets secular...Ted Haggard returning to revivalist racket...Postcard from God to Glenn Beck...The God Gene... onegoodmove is one of my favorite sources for Holy Crap and lots of other good stuff!


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Booman Tribune: A small slice of conservative sanity

Emptywheel: Mueller already reviewing the shortcomings of the Hassan investigation

INSTAPUTZ: The CA Senate Race: Get Yer Popcorn!

Prometheus 6: Well now, yeah...

A Tiny Revolution: Get that man a place on Mt. Rushmore

Politics in the Zeros: Willfully blind banksters, and changing public opinion


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They gave us a republic: The Nightowl Newswrap

Prairie Weather: Fraud

The Brad Blog: TN GOP fights against the rule of law and paper ballots

The Sideshow: Health Care Roulette

Pensito Review: Carl Hiaasen's letter to Sarah Palin from her publisher

Happy Blogiversary to bark bark woof woof!


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Salon: Get the smelling salts...A Republican voted for the House Dems health bill!

Free Thought Manifesto: One Nation, Under Illusion

The Political Carnival: The lying, self-absorbed little death panel-monger is at it again

Scott Horton: More on the Verdict in Milan

James Fallows: Unemployment and airplane crashes

Digital Life: Better the broken Windows than life with the Mac monks


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Corrente: One Down: Schlecher County jury convicts Jessop of child rape. And speaking of convictions...

Open Left: Only fiscal conservatives would say we can't afford to reduce the deficit

TPMMuckraker: Patriot Games: GOP lawmakers skip national security votes to toast tea baggers

Oliver Willis: Eric Cantor, soon to be pimp slapped...watch, ring, and all

David Rees:10 jokes about Joe Lieberman

ANNALS OF JOURNALISM: Brad Jacobson's investigative series..."Official" media criticism...A perfect match...Odd couple...Coming Sunday: NYT does something unprecedented...WaPo Co. crashed-and-burned-and-smoking...Terrorism, Islam and Fort Hood...Huffington: We do not live in the age of misinformation..Journamalism....Bumped... Gibbs...Special Suburbanites...More honors for Sy Hersh...Scribe nominates himself for CA Lt. Governor...


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BAGnewsNotes: Underneath the Hood

litbrit: The view (and racket) outside my window: St. Petersburg tea baggers attend party of NO class

Cogitamus: Dear Blue Dog Bartlebys: Do your 'effin jobs or quit

the peoplesvoice: The great foreclosure robbery of the 21st century

naked capitalism: Goldman, Fed, Citi getting preferencial allotments of H1N1 vaccine

Infrastructurist: The Daily Dig: Strangest Bridges Edition


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No More Mister Nice Blog: Erickson and Malkin: The People's Front of Judea

Stinque: Facebiter Bachmann & Fox News calling out to Brownshirts to storm congress and kill the health care reform bill.

Law Enforcement Against Prohibition: Grassley on the National Criminal Justice Commission: "The point is, for them to do what we tell them to do. And one of the things that I was anticipating telling them not to do is to -- to recommend or study the legalization of drugs."

Liberal Values: Triple X home movie leads to settlement of Prejean suit

The Reality-Based Community: Absolute prosecutorial immunity?

Gordon notes that November 4 has been an important date in American history


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Runnin' Scared: Hoffman concedes in NY 23, but the Tea Baggers are still eager to burn down the GOP pup tent

darrel plant: Populist campaigns are a barometer of how difficult the times are, and if you think things are bad now, wait until you hear a politician comparing himself (or herself) to Huey Long.

Wall St. Cheat Sheet: Cramer 'buy' recommendation goes bankrupt

his vorpal sword: The Secret Masters: Freedom Works and their Oregon franchises

AlterNet: Meet the 28 (male) anti-choice Dems who are stalling health care reform

OFF THE BEATEN PATH: The Daily Censored, Unemployed and Trying, The Immoral Minority, Mark Of The Beast


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Linda R. Monk, J.D.: Let Us Now Praise Uppity Women (h/t Where’s the Outrage?)

The Plum Line: Harry Reid calls GOP's transparency bluff: Is your health care bill a secret, or merely non-existent?

AMERICAblog News: Top McCain campaign advisor running out of insurance. He has a "pre-existing condition."

Apoliticus: Top 5 annoying talents of President Obama

Bill in Exile (not work safe) : New York Twenty Three

Family and Friends blog: Our Achilles Heel


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TBogg: The beatings will continue until morale improves

skippy the bush kangaroo: How Goldman Sachs bet on America failing

The Bobblespeak Translations: Face the Nation with Joe Lieberman

field negro: Pastor, please don't shoot, you might hit the usher

ANNALS OF JOURNALISM: California AG Brown illegally taped reporters...Not a news organization...Jon Stewart breaks it down...Inside Iraq...Media failure compounds the financial failure...NPR gets it wrong...Sometimes, opinion kills...Moonie Times reaches out to Tea Partiers...Shielding reporters and bloggers...Short on facts...Phony AP fact check...Fred Hiatt's strange argument...Early Glenn Beck footage located...Budding journos


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The Washington Note: Lawrence Wilkerson comments on South Carolina's worst

The Democratic Daily: Freedomworks' Little Frankenstein Lab: Oregon

Matthew Yglesias: John Hannah, patriot

Lawyers, Guns and Money: The Tories and Europe

Newshoggers: Hooverville

alicublog: Notes from the 'compassionate conservative' front