One Hit Wonders

post from The Ointment on 25 September 2007 03:01:00 AM. © The Ointment

In honor of national "One Hit Wonder" Day, Steve finds a song to go with every story in the news today, including the UAW strike, Senator Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton's charm offensive on five Sunday talk shows, and Mickey Rooney pimping himself out to party hosts.

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THE BLOGOSPHERE RALLIES BEHIND MARK PERA

post from DownWithTyranny! on 25 September 2007 02:45:00 AM. © DownWithTyranny!

Yesterday Markos over at Daily Kos kicked off a huge effort to dislodge despicable Bush Dog Dan Lipinski and replace him with a stalwart progressive, Mark Pera in Illinois' 3rd congressional district. Chris Bowers at Open Left, DavidNYC at Swing State Project, and Jonathan Singer at MyDD, all followed suit, joining Crooks & Liars, Firedoglake, Down With Tyranny, Arch Pundit and most of the local Illinois blogs and activist groups in declaring for Pera's campaign. Please take a look at the live blog session Mark did for Blue America on September 8th and think about giving him a hand to defeat a Bush rubber stamp who shames the Democratic Party. Our Blue America page is open for Mark now-- and always.

This cycle's rallying cry: "More and better Democrats. Mark Pera fits the bill.

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Shoot Me Now! Shoot Me Now!

post from Eschaton on 25 September 2007 02:06:00 AM. © Eschaton

Richard Cohen, Serious Person, offering a Serious Rationale for Joe Biden's Very Serious Plan for partitioning Iraq:

The main virtue of the Biden-Gelb plan is that it does not stand athwart history. It enlists it. The volcanic eruption of nationalism and sectarianism that drenched the 20th century in blood -- the Holocaust above all -- has not yet run its course. The farmer and the rancher, to put things in Rodgers and Hammerstein terms, will not be friends.

If I were his editor, I'd shoot him in the face.

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US Papers Tues: Sectarian The Bullet Knows

post from IraqSlogger.com on 25 September 2007 01:53:34 AM. © IraqSlogger.com

- "Countries come and go" - What do the numbers meant? - Maliki: Iranian influence begone! While the visit of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -- and his clown act -- dominated the headlines, there was some Iraq news today, although not much.

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Late Late Nite FDL: A Riddle

post from Firedoglake on 25 September 2007 01:33:02 AM. © Firedoglake

I made it up myself. Ready?Q. What’s the difference between George Bush and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?A. One is a super-scary totalitarian religious fundamentalist nutjob and the other…has a really nasty beard*.(*And I don’t mean Laura.)[...]

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Types of Cities

post from Ezra Klein on 25 September 2007 01:31:00 AM. © Ezra Klein

Sounds like Portland is a rather nice place to live -- a fact backed up by everybody I know who has ever lived there, despite what Cato says. This has actually puzzled me since I went to Seattle and noticed...[...]

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Northampton Drinking Liberally

post from LiberalOasis : The Blog on 25 September 2007 01:22:00 AM. © LiberalOasis : The Blog

Pioneer Valley readers, Northampton Drinking Liberally meets again tonight, 6:30 PM, at the Northampton Brewery. Hope to see you there!

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Critical Vote Today on Children's Health
Insurance

The House is expected to vote today on expanding the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). There already is enough support in the Senate to override Bush's threatened veto. While there is certainly majority support in the House, it's not certain if there is veto-proof levels of support. Public pressure may very well make this difference on this one.

First thing this morning, call the House switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and tell your representative to support covering millions more kids with health insurance. America's kids will thank you.

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The Power of Obama

Folks are having some fun with Barack Obama's reported belief that "the very act of Americans choosing to elect him would amount to the biggest foreign policy advance of the past 20 years, would immediately change the way, say, a...[...]

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Better, More Reliable Polling

Jerome beat me to the punch over in Breaking Blue, but I wanted to take a moment to highlight a really awesome project being put together by the folks over at Pollster.com. As you might have noticed, I'm a pretty big fan of the site -- I cite it often[...]

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