Novak falsely claimed Clinton did not argue
"until her presidential campaign" that Levin amendment would subordinate U.S. decisions to the U.N.

post from Media Matters for America on 04 February 2008 06:13:23 PM. © Media Matters for America

While writing that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) said during the January 31 Democratic presidential debate that "she opposed the Levin amendment to the 2003 [sic] Iraq war resolution because it would 'subordinate' U.S. decision-making to the United Nations," conservative columnist Robert Novak falsely claimed in his February 4 column that Clinton "made no such claim until her presidential campaign." In fact, the same day Clinton voted on Sen. Carl Levin's (D-MI) proposed amendment to the[...]

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It's The Superdelegates, Stupid

post from MyDD on 04 February 2008 06:10:28 PM. © MyDD

Please Support the MyDD Fundraiser TodayAs we saw in Nevada, the definition of the word "win" can be a bit fuzzy. While Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, Barack Obama emerged from the caucuses with 1 more delegate (albeit uncommitted.) So who "won?"[...]

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Savage: "America's not ready for an affirmative
action presidency"

post from Media Matters for America on 04 February 2008 06:10:26 PM. © Media Matters for America

On the February 1 broadcast of The Savage Nation, host Michael Savage stated that the Democratic presidential nominating contest "is, or can be seen as, the first affirmative action election in American history." Referring to Democratic presidential candidates Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) and Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), Savage continued: "We have a woman and a multi-ethnic man running for office on the Democrat side. Is this not akin to an affirmative action election? Isn't that why the[...]

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Fox News' Hill: Are Latinos "going to vote for
the person who basically is going to give them the most for ... the least"

post from Media Matters for America on 04 February 2008 06:07:21 PM. © Media Matters for America

Discussing the upcoming presidential primaries on the February 4 edition of Fox News' America's Pulse, host E.D. Hill asked Eddie "Piolín" Sotelo, host of Univision's Piolín por la Mañana: "Do you think that the majority of Latino listeners that you hear from are going to vote for the person who basically is going to give them the most for, you know, for the least? Who's gonna, you know, open up the borders, who's going to give everybody automatic citizenship, that sort of[...]

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IL-03: What Will Be Decided Tomorrow

post from Open Left - Front Page on 04 February 2008 06:06:56 PM. © Open Left - Front Page

Regardless of who wins the various states, we'll know one thing tomorrow night, and that is how far[...]

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Karbala Police Form New Detachment

post from IraqSlogger.com on 04 February 2008 06:01:48 PM. © IraqSlogger.com

On the heels of a massive pilgrimage to the Shi'a shrine city of Karbala, security forces in the shrine city have formed a new unit in preparation for another major pilgrimage, expected to bring hundreds of thousands of Shi'a faithful to the city at the end of this month.

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Fundraiser

post from Crooks and Liars on 04 February 2008 05:55:54 PM. © Crooks and Liars

Atrios is doing a fundraiser for his blog today. If you can spare a few bucks to help out a great blogger, please do. He helped me out when I first started this C&L bloggy thing over three years ago when not too many people would ever link me up. They didn’t get that “video [...]

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It's Official: Nobody is Protecting Your Privacy

post from Daily Kos on 04 February 2008 05:42:29 PM. © Daily Kos

How do you trump all the horrible nominations that Bush has made so far? How about by leaving a new board on privacy and civil liberties completely empty?

The Bush administration has failed to nominate any candidates to a newly empowered privacy and civil-liberties commission. This leaves the board without any members, even as Congress prepares to give the Bush administration extraordinary powers to wiretap without warrants inside the United States.

This is the board that is supposed to determine if the TSA is handling the "no-fly list" correctly. It's supposed to help determine if the administration is staying within the bounds of FISA.

The previous incarnation of the board had turned a blind eye to everything the Bush administration has done to erode privacy, but the new rules were supposed to make the board more independent. And I suppose nobody is as independent as nobody. At least the outgoing members know how to protect their own privacy.

The privacy board ignored repeated requests for comment for this story, and a White House press staffer did not provide information by late Friday about the status of nominees to the board.

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Playing History Scrabble To Help With The Future

With the presidential primaries reaching a climax on February 5th, I feel at this point that I am paddling in circles within the Sea of Insanity. At the time of writing, many candidates have withdrawn, essentially leaving four: John McCain, Mitt Romney, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama.The Republican race appears to be McCain’s to [...]

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Organic Food: Its Whats For Dinner (or should be)

If I could change any one thing, I would…Explain to producers that going green saves them $$! Organic prices will come down and then people without Trust Funds can eat healthy foods too.Producing products in a “green” way is more than playing nice with the earth; it may be a cost-effective business strategy. This [...]

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