Martha Rosenberg: Sarah Palin for mother of the
year

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Meet Lexis Web

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For lawyers and reporters on legal events, meet Lexis Web. It's a free search engine of legal stuff, but it also gives you the last five years of case law free, through lexisone.com. It's like a google search engine for law, with the added benefit you can access huge amounts of material free, including the last five yars of caselaw.

No sign up required for the search engine. If you do have a lexis account, and you want to do research in greater detail, you can log in right in from your search results.

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Mary Cheney fighting to stop gay marriage ban in
California.

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GayWired.com reports:

Though she long sat on the sidelines as her father served as second in command over the past eight years, Vice-President Dick Cheney?s daughter Mary is flexing her political muscle and joining the fight to stop Prop. 8.
According to the website RepublicansAgainst8.com, Cheney pledged $3,000 back in July to the campaign to stop the ballot measure attempting to re-ban gay marriage in California.

RepublicansAgainst8 was founded by the Log Cabin Republicans. The group recently endorsed Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), who supports Prop. 8.

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Ike threatens to devastate Texas coastal towns

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Hurricane Ike - AP - A massive Hurricane Ike sent white waves crashing over a seawall and tossed a disabled 584-foot freighter in rough water as it steamed toward Texas Friday, threatening to devastate coastal towns and batter America's fourth-largest city.read more | digg story

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MCCAIN ON THE VIEW.

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It's a sad commentary on the state of our news media that the toughest, most substantive, most unyielding interview John McCain has endured happened on The View. The first clip -- which I can't seem to embed -- is particularly powerful. I could imagine[...]

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Dave Lindorff: Experience is Over-Rated

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Sarah Palin stated again, most recently in her interview yesterday by ABC's Charlie Gibson, that she has foreign policy experience because as governor of Alaska she has been in charge of that state's National Guard, and because Alaska is, doggone it, "right next" to Russia.

This made me feel pretty good, because it made me realize that I have a whole lot of skills and experience that I hadn't really appreciated before, and that I could perhaps use to get myself out of this freelance journalism profession, which is not all that great from a financial perspective.

I, for instance, live very close to the garage where my mechanic works (I mean, I drive past the place every day and even buy my gas there), so I'm ready to be a car mechanic (I can't tell you how many cars I've seen go over there, and have even sometimes watched a bit as my own vehicles were up on the lift). I also live literally across the street from a large forest, which qualifies me to be a number of things -- forest ranger, lumberjack, and perhaps naturalist.
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McCain Can't Explain His Lies

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More good stuff from the interview with The View at HuffPo here.

And the Quote of the Day:

"I am prepared. I am prepared. I need no on-the-job training. I wasn't a mayor for a short period of time. I wasn't a governor for a short period of time."

--John McCain

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After NBC political director discredited it,
MSNBC uncritically ran McCain campaign ad attacking Obama

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On the September 12 edition of MSNBC Live, anchor Alex Witt aired a new adby Sen. John McCain's campaign that suggests that Sen. BarackObama's campaign is being "disrespectful" to Gov. SarahPalin. Neither Witt nor her guest, NBCNews deputy political director Mark Murray, gave any indication that the adcontains several distortions or that, in the previous hour of the program, NBCNews political director Chuck Todd said, "The ad that McCain'shitting Obama on takes some words out of context."In its[...]

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BuzzFlash Mailbag for September 12, 2008

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Subject: The CIA's Out To Topple The Democratically Elected Governments Of Bolivia, Venezuela & Ecuador

"Based on?"

"Past CIA topplings of democratically elected governments in Guatamala, Iran and Chile, as well as failed CIA attempts to do the same five years ago in Venezuela."

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Midday Open Thread

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gives Sarah Palin a thumbs down and doesn't mince words.

Katha Pollitt from The Nation smacks down the sexism charges by McCain surrogates and has a few questions of her own for Sarah Palin. -MissLaura

More and more women are speaking out against the McCain/Palin ticket because of her extreme views. On Wednesday, Sept 3, 2008, a group of women sent an email to 40 friends asking them to respond with the reasons they will not support any ticket with Sarah Palin. The response has been incredible as their website has received 100,000 letters in one week.

Curious how often the candidates use certain words or phrases? Check out Speech Wars to see the breakdown. -Plutonium Page

Mike Huckabee and Bob Barr competed in the 15th Annual Funniest Celebrity in Washington Contest at the DC Improv. They pulled no punches about the McCain-Palin ticket.

Another reminder that "it's the economy, stupid" comes as retailers report an unexpected drop in August, the second disappointing month in a row and the worst since December of 2007.