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When You Take Cops Off The Beat

By Tom Sullivan
July 8th, 2008

[via Atrios] Bloomberg reports that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission found that credit-rating companies “violated internal procedures” and played fast and loose with conflict of interest guidelines, setting the scene for what came next. more »

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US Electromagnetic Weapons and Human Rights

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July 8th, 2008
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globalresearch.ca — by Peter Phillips and Lew Brown and Bridget Thornton

A Study of the History of US Intelligence Community Human Rights Violations & Continuing Research in Electromagnetic Weapons

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What's Missing from the Nuclear Power Debate?

By Sara Robinson
July 8th, 2008

Nuclear power is about to rise from the grave like a reanimated zombie, and it looks like we're going to have a harder and harder time escaping some very brain-dead discussion about it. Neither supporters nor opponents seems to be even remotely aware of emerging second-generation nuclear technologies that pretty much render every argument on either side absolutely wrong. more »

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McCain's Croc of Hooey

By Sara Robinson
July 7th, 2008

Marc Ambinder at theatlantic.com notes that Crocs (which are probably what your children are wearing right this moment) seem to be a perennial favorite when GOP presidential candidates come to Colorado and need to call out a Great American Company. Once again, they either have incompetent fact-checkers, or they're lazy, or they're just plain lying. more »

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Frankly

By Rick Perlstein
July 7th, 2008

Having read some of Tom Frank's new book, and having had the privilege of playing a small part in its gestation—I saw documents from Tom basement file cabinet that will make your hair curl—I'm prepared to testify that the mofo's a thermonuclear bomb. more »

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Health Care For America Now!

By Roger Hickey
July 7th, 2008

On Tuesday, July 8, a new campaign will be launched – for Health Care for America Now! – at press conferences in Washington and 55 other cities and towns. We at the Campaign for America’s Future are proud to play a leadership role in launching this much-needed campaign, led by 100 national and local organizations. more »

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To Their Coy Senator

By Rick Perlstein
July 7th, 2008

As a scholar of the American past, the most powerful tool I have access to is ProQuest Historical Newspapers—basically, Google for newspapers going back to the 19th century. more »

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If you read one thing today... (UPDATED)

By Rick Perlstein
July 7th, 2008

How do the rise of Rush Limbaugh and the lionization of Jesse Helms explain the bankruptcy of the conservative project? Read Ezra Klein. The brother nails it. more »

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Our Pavlovian Press

By Tom Sullivan
July 6th, 2008

Media heads exploded all over America last week in response to Gen. Wesley Clark’s Jun 29 Face the Nation comments. TPM posted an excellent compilation of the pre-July 4th fireworks here. more »

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Jesse Helms

By Rick Perlstein
July 6th, 2008

I published this in the New York Times Week in Review section upon the occasion of Senator Helms' retirement in 2001: more »

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