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Frank Rich : Last Call for Change We Can Believe In
Drawing by Barry Blitt / NYT.‘It’s time for Barack Obama to dispatch Change We Can Believe In to a dignified death’By Frank Rich / August 24, 2008 AS the real campaign at last begins in Denver this week, this much … Continue reading
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Denver : Police and Protesters Make Preparations
Two days before the start of the Democratic convention, police patrol Cuernavaca Park in Denver. The city has spent a year gearing up. Photo by Joshua Duplechian / Rocky Mountain News / AP.Looks like they’re preparing for martial lawBy Eli … Continue reading
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Tagged Democratic Convention, Democratic Party, Denver, Denver Police, Peace Movement, Political Protest, Protest
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Drawn and Quartered
The Rag Blog / Posted August 24, 2008
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Tagged Cartoon, Energy, Humor, Oil Drilling, Oil Exploration, Peak Oil
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ECONOMY : The Cascading Effect of Peak Oil
Photo by Mannie Garcia / Bloomberg News.‘Don’t take a weatherman’: Credit Default SwapsBy Roger Baker / The Rag Blog / August 24, 2008 I’m no expert on these financial instruments, but as we used to say, it don’t take a … Continue reading
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Tagged Bank Bailouts, Economy, Federal Reserve, Finance, Peak Oil, Wall Street, World Economy
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FILM : Lipstick & Dynamite: The First Ladies of Wrestling ‘These are not the type of women we usually listen to, so I was nothing less than thrilled to sit down to watch 80 minutes of their stories’ By Grace … Continue reading
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Home Sweet Homes : Ten and Counting
John and Cindy McCain’s house keys.The Rag Blog / Posted August 23, 2008
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America is Pro-Choice, Any Questions?
In support of a woman’s right to choose: ‘According to a recent Gallup poll, we are in the majority by a long shot’By DarkSyde / August 23, 2008 Is anyone still unsure where We the People stand on choice? That … Continue reading
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Tagged Abortion Rights, Freedom of Choice, Republican Party, Right Wing, Roe v. Wade, Women, Women's Movement
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Cindy McCain ‘Unsure’ How Many Half-sisters She Has
One of Cindy McCain’s half-sisters, Kathleen Hensley Portalski, showing proof of her half-sisterness. How many more are there? Get back to us. Photo by Ted Robbins / NPR.Says staff member will handle sibling tally By Andy Borowitz / August 22, … Continue reading
Same Sex Marriage Affects the Whole Country
What impact will it have on the elections? Maybe not much.By Suzi Steffen / August 22, 2008 Patchwork, partying, pessimism, politics: That’s the state, so to speak, of same-sex marriage around the U.S. since same-sex couples began lining up to … Continue reading
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Democrats Have Turned Sharply to the Left
‘They are more liberal than at any time in a generation’By Steven Thomma / August 22, 2008 DENVER — As they meet for their national convention Monday through Thursday, Democrats are poised to shift their party’s course — and the … Continue reading
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Joe Biden : Senator MasterCard
Faux Photomontage.Biden’s bankrupt policy causing people to lose their homesBy Tom Cleaver / The Rag Blog / August 23, 2008 Has anyone else noted the irony that Joe Biden is the Senator who led the “bi-partisan” charge for “banktruptcy reform”? … Continue reading
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Tagged Bankruptcy, Corporate Power, Economy, Joe Biden, Personal Finance, Presidential Campaign
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Ronnie Dugger : LBJ, The Texas Observer and Me
Former Texas Observer editor Ronnie Dugger with President Lyndon Johnson. Photo by Yoichi Yokamoto / Courtesty LBJ Library / Texas Observer.‘None of us knew it yet, but we Americans were about to be trapped in the history that Lyndon Johnson … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Authors, Democratic Party, Journalism, LBJ, Progressives, Texas, Texas History, Texas Observer, The Presidency
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