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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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That's why we call it the Big Con

By Rick Perlstein
July 6th, 2008

Very fine piece on On the Media today on how the Evangelical right gulled and guilted the media into habitually giving it three times more coverage than its actual numbers deserve: more »

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Judge Rejects Bush's View on Wiretaps

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July 5th, 2008
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nytimes.com — Washington - A federal judge in California said Wednesday that the wiretapping law established by Congress was the "exclusive" means for the president to eavesdrop on Americans, and he rejected the government's claim that the president's constitutional authority as commander in chief trumped that law.

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My patriotic post

By Rick Perlstein
July 5th, 2008

I'm inspired by Digby's re-post of some 2006 reflections on why unregulated state surveillance isn't such a great idea, and our president's warning that maitaining the ancient and honorable right of habeus corpus means terrorists might soon be walking Main Streat USA, to re-post a patriotic reminder of my own. more »

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Independence for All Americans

By Timothy Gatto
July 5th, 2008

I have been wondering of late where it is on the political spectrum that I would feel comfortable? more »

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Obama's housing policy spells more of the same for inner city blacks.

By Michael Kwiatkowski
July 4th, 2008


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Retooling a Developed Economy’s Energy Base: Germany

Submitted by Philip Palij
July 3rd, 2008

Its happening. Breaking step with big oil is much harder in the US and catching up is vital. Support for Big Oil is retarding US development

"...Germany is at the forefront of this wave of change. Energy consumption in Germany dropped 5.6% - the equivalent of 18.5..." (MILLION) "... tons of oil - in 2007 as its economy grew 2.5%..."

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Plastics!

By Rick Perlstein
July 3rd, 2008

Thank you, Washington Independent: more »

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Richard Dubin and I disagree

By John Benson
July 3rd, 2008

Not fundamentally, but on what I view as a technical point, is it appropriate to treat all conservatives and members of the GOP as if they were Rush Limbaugh or John Hagee. Richard’s position is principled and fair minded, and I admit to some misgivings about my position. more »

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