FDL Book Salon Welcomes Jeff Connaughton, The
Payoff: Why Wall Street Always Wins

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Jeff Connaughton has authored a powerful, and chilling insider?s perspective on the financial crisis and the pathetic governmental response to it. The second part of his title sums up the result and the first half explains why Wall Street always wins.[...]

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George McGovern 1922-2012

post from DemConWatch on 21 October 2012 04:59:06 PM. © DemConWatch

Here's McGovern's late nite speech from the 1972 convention:

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Today on The Stars Hollow Gazette

post from Docudharma - Front Page on 21 October 2012 04:38:36 PM. © Docudharma - Front Page

Our regular featured content-On This Day In History October 21 by TheMomCatThese weekly features-Six In The Morning: On Sunday by mishimaPunting the Pundits: Sunday Preview Edition by TheMomCatWhat We Now Know by TheMomCatRant of the Week: Bill Maher by[...]

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Are we 'Better Off Without 'Em' A live Q & A with
author Chuck Thompson about southern secession

post from Daily Kos on 21 October 2012 04:30:05 PM. © Daily Kos

Author Chuck ThompsonLast week's book review of Chuck Thompson's Better Off Without 'Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession spurred the comment section into overdrive in a passionate discussion of the book's premise. During the past week, Thompson and I corresponded via email and I brought up many of the points that were made in comments. His responses are below.

Additionally, he will be joining us live here in comments today to discuss his ideas?and Daily Kos user reactions and questions?further, so dive into comments and read (and ask!) away.

But before we get started on the give and take, back and forth, Thompson has a few things to say ....

Chuck Thompson (hereinafter CT): Before addressing the questions below, a few prefatory remarks to lend a bit of perspective.

1. There?s nothing punitive behind my call for southern secession. Certainly nothing like an attack on Fort Sumter.

A large part of my book is intended to show how North and South have historically and still are operating as fundamentally different societies, with sharply contrasting agendas and values. My primary position is simply that a union based on such diametrically opposed approaches to societal organization is like a bad marriage that needs to end in order to save the children from turning into the same dysfunctional assholes as the parents.

2. Many if not most of the questions below are handled in more detailed and specific fashion in the book. I?ll keep answers here relatively brief.

3. The official theme song for this interview is Phosphorescent?s ?It?s Hard To Be Humble (When You?re From Alabama).? I?m cueing it up right now and suggest you do the same.

Okay, let?s do this ...

=Susan Gardner (hereinafter SG): Can you give readers a very brief bullet-pointed outline of how a peaceful separation between the North and the South could work?

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Missionary Service Is Not the Same Thing as
Military Service

post from Firedoglake on 21 October 2012 04:10:59 PM. © Firedoglake

Missionary service is not the same thing as military service ? a fact, and not just a semantic one ? lost on Mommy, Daddy, and the Romney Boys. Donning a crisp white shirt and black tie to annoy the hell out of the good citizens of France from the back[...]

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PollTracker

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Need to know the second a new presidential poll comes out? This iPhone app has you covered. [...]

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Gingrich Cites Romney's Time as Missionary in
France as Foreign Policy Experience

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Gingrich Cites Romney's Time as Missionary in France as Foreign Policy Experience

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I would have loved for someone to have asked why dodging the Vietnam draft as a missionary in France is in any way, shape or form something that qualifies as foreign policy credentials, but sadly, neither the host Candy Crowley or the other guest, Bill Richardson said a word about it to Newt Gingrich when he made these remarks.

Gingrich Makes Case For Romney On Foreign Policy:

Newt Gingrich outlined Mitt Romney's credentials on foreign policy in an appearance on CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday, ahead of Monday's final presidential debate on foreign policy.
Gingrich mentioned Romney's time spent abroad as a missionary, his work at Bain Capital which was an international company, his dabbling in foreign policy as the governor of Massachusetts, and finally his work with other nations while running the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.
Gingrich also took aim at Obama's foreign policy, which he said was falling apart in the Middle East.

No one bothered to point out that Romney has surrounded himself with George W. Bush's foreign policy team and what that might mean for us if we're unfortunate enough to see him elected either.

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The Wisdom and Legacy of George McGovern, Who
Told America to Come Home

With the passing of George McGovern, remember he was a man who wanted America "to turn away from cursing and hatred and war to the blessings of hope and brotherhood and love." It is a sentiment men have entered political office understanding yet ignored.[...]

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Rep. Steve King Wont Say If He Believes
Contraception Should Be Legal

Iowa Congressman Steve King pointedly refused to say whether he believes contraception should be sold legally in the United States. King, who sits on the House Judiciary Committee, criticized the seminal Supreme Court decision of Griswald v. Connecticut which overturned a state ban on the sale of contraception. As whether he was “personally against” the [...]

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