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McCain Forgets that Czechoslovakia Isn’t a Country... Again

noreply@blogger.com (Sergey) — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:48:00 +0000

During a press availability today, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said that he’s been concerned by “a couple of steps that the Russian government took in the last several day,” including “reducing the energy supplies to Czechoslovakia.” But, as TPM’s Greg Sargent points out, Czechoslovakia hasn’t existed in 15 years.

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Google as 'Potential Monopolist'

noreply@blogger.com (Sergey) — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:48:00 +0000

The Google-Yahoo partnership has theoretical implications for the search market and, by consequence, for the whole advertising market.

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Jesse Jackson: A Leader Left Behind?

noreply@blogger.com (Sergey) — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:47:00 +0000

Jesse Jackson's voice sparked hope long before Barack Obama's rise to political stardom. Now it's his bitter words that resound, stirring a new debate.

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John McCain Has 61 Major Flip-Flops: Here Are All of Them!

noreply@blogger.com (Sergey) — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:36:00 +0000

McCain argues that flip-flops are an example of a political leader who can't be trusted -- so he might as well drop out of the race. Here is a comprehensive tally of John McCain's flip-flops on issues ranging from national security to energy. These are clear 180-degree switches by McCain on the biggest issues of the day.

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McCain On the Internet: ‘I’m Learning to Get Online Myself'

noreply@blogger.com (Sergey) — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:34:00 +0000

John McCain has acknowledged that he is “an illiterate” when it comes to computers. He said he “has to rely on his wife for all the assistance he can get.” At the Personal Democracy Forum last month, McCain aide Mark Soohoo argued in McCain’s defense that “you don’t have to use a computer to understand how it shapes the country.”

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New Yorker Cover: "Muslim" Obama With Gun-Slinging Michelle

noreply@blogger.com (Sergey) — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:32:00 +0000

The upcoming issue of the New Yorker, the July 21st issue, has a picture of Obama, depicting him and his wife on the cover. It shows Michelle Obama with an Afro and an AK 47 and the two of them doing the fist bump with Obama wearing a sort of turban-type thing on his head.

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How big is England? Mapmakers Can't Seem to Agree [Maps]

noreply@blogger.com (Sergey) — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:40:00 +0000

So for the last two years I've been taking pictures of Britain on world maps. Not accurate maps, but drawings or illustrations of maps. The differences are amazing. You might assume that all maps were accurate, or at least accurate-ish. But no, designers play fast and loose with the truth.

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Nazi Hunters Find 'Doctor Death': Most Wanted War Criminal

noreply@blogger.com (Sergey) — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:38:00 +0000

Nazi hunters say they have strong evidence that the most wanted member of Hitler's regime - known as Dr Death - is hiding in southern Chile. The Simon Wiesenthal Centre believes Aribert Heim is in Patagonia, where his daughter is known to live. The centre has sent representatives to the region to pursue the search.

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Iran claims it was threatened, tests missiles

noreply@blogger.com (Sergey) — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:37:00 +0000

Iran says it has test fired nine missiles in response to what it says are threats from Israel and the United States. Iran tested a Shahab-3 missile and several other missiles during war games in the Persian Gulf, according to Iran's state-run media and a U.S. military source.

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Atheist Soldier Sues Army for Religious Discrimination

noreply@blogger.com (Sergey) — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:36:00 +0000

“People like you are not holding up the Constitution and are going against what the founding fathers, who were Christians, wanted for America!” Major Welborn said, according to the statement.

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Reminder: Obama Told Us To Judge Him, and Pressure Him

noreply@blogger.com (Sergey) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:25:00 +0000

I want to point out that Barack Obama told me that progressive activists should judge him explicitly by what he does - and not come up with wild theories that absolve him. Those who think they are being Obama loyalists by either concocting apologist rationales about his behavior or telling everyone to shut up are harming the progressive movement.

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An Open Letter To Senator Obama: Vote NO On Telecom Immunity

noreply@blogger.com (Sergey) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:19:00 +0000

The people who support you are speaking loudly and clearly. I believe you will hear them and will uphold your promise to oppose any FISA bill which includes immunity for for the telecommunications companies which unlawfully went along with President George W. Bush's program of warrantless wiretapping of ordinary American citizens.

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What Wesley Clark Really Said About John McCain

noreply@blogger.com (Sergey) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:17:00 +0000

People twisted Clark's comment into being a slam on John McCain, but as I showed on this video, he was merely rejecting an attack on Barack Obama leveled by Bob Schieffer. Still, that hasn't stopped the media from pumping up the controversy.

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McCain Launches "Truth Squad" With Swift Boat Vet

noreply@blogger.com (Sergey) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:15:00 +0000

McCain publicly deplored the Swift Boat ads back in 2004, saying they were reminiscent of the smear campaigns launched against him during his initial White House run in 2000.

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EIA Predicts 50% Increase in World Energy Use by 2030

noreply@blogger.com (Sergey) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:12:00 +0000

World marketed energy consumption is projected to increase by 50 percent from 2005 to 2030, according to a new report from the United States Energy Information Agency. Total energy demand in non-OECD countries is projected to increase by 95 percent, while OECD countries are expected to increase consumption by 24 percent.

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75% Blame Bush's Policies for Deterioriating Economy

noreply@blogger.com (Sergey) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:54:00 +0000

Three out of four Americans, including large numbers of Republicans, blame President Bush's economic policies for making the country worse off during the last eight years. Can we really afford to let McCain continue these same economic policies?

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Nader Says Obama is Using 'White Guilt' to Get Votes

noreply@blogger.com (Sergey) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:53:00 +0000

Ralph Nader's presidential candidacy has received little media attention, but his latest critique of Sen. Barack Obama has come under fire for its seemingly racial overtones. Speaking with Colorado's Rocky Mountain News, Nader accused Obama of attempting to "talk white" and appealing to "white guilt" in his quest to win the White House.

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Mugshots Of Prositutes Working On "The Brothel Bus" In Miami

noreply@blogger.com (Sergey) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:53:00 +0000

Brothel operated from a $250,000 bus and offered riders who paid a $40 cover charge lap dances and assorted sex acts.The bus and its six inhabitants were sidelined early Sunday morning after three undercover cops boarded the mobile brothel and observed women brazenly offering sex and lap dances (oral sex, cops said, cost patrons $100).

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Senators To Government: Don't Search Laptops At Airports!

noreply@blogger.com (Sergey) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:52:00 +0000

Advocacy groups and some legal experts told Congress on Wednesday that it was unreasonable for federal officials to search the laptops of United States citizens when they re-enter the country from traveling abroad.

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St Louis Post: Chained slavery continued in South into 1940s

noreply@blogger.com (Sergey) — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:40:00 +0000

"[Cottenham] was found guilty of the vague charge of vagrancy. Unable to pay exorbitant fines, he was sentenced to a year of labor & sold to a mining subsidiary of US Steel, which agreed to pay his debts in return for his services & sent him in chains into a coal mine."

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McCain Adviser May Have Struck a Nerve

noreply@blogger.com (Sergey) — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:40:00 +0000

Sen. Barack Obama and his surrogates continued to criticize Charles R. Black Jr., a top adviser to Sen. John McCain, on Tuesday for saying a terrorist attack before the November election would help the presumptive Republican nominee. But behind their protests lay a question that has dogged Democrats since Sept. 11, 2001: Was Black speaking the trut

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Teen Arrested Just Because He Wore a 'Blasphemous T-shirt'

noreply@blogger.com (Sergey) — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:39:00 +0000

An Australian teenager who wore a T-shirt by English extreme metal band Cradle of Filth that reads 'Jesus is a c**t' has been charged with offensive behaviour. Above the offensive slogan a nun is depicted masturbating. A 16-year-old was arrested on Monday for wearing the shirt and was charged with offensive behaviour.

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Court Rejects Death Penalty For Raping Children

noreply@blogger.com (Sergey) — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:38:00 +0000

The Supreme Court has struck down a Louisiana law that allows the execution of people convicted of a raping a child. In a 5-4 vote, the court says the law allowing the death penalty to be imposed in cases of child rape violates the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

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Dodd And Feingold Will Filibuster Telecom Immunity

noreply@blogger.com (Sergey) — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:04:00 +0000

Two Senators willing to stand for the Bill of Rights, surely there are more. Please call yours.

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The Bush House of Cards is Collapsing

noreply@blogger.com (Sergey) — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:52:00 +0000

Economy on brink of recession - Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan warned on Tuesday the U.S. economy was on the brink of a recession, with the chances of that happening at more than 50 percent. The U.S. economy has been hit by a credit crisis, gas crisis, housing crisis, food crisis, war, poverty...

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