tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51073642012-01-19T15:16:33.217Z<em>An emergency alternative for <a href="http://sideshow.me.uk">The Sideshow</a></em>Avedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03456062611156738009noreply@blogger.comBlogger4561100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5107364.post-61707881179007488412012-01-19T06:08:00.006Z2012-01-19T15:16:33.241Z

PPACA: The Third Way To Lowering Health Care Prices?Stuart Zechman[I asked Stuart to post something here that explained one of the big reasons medical costs are so high in the United States that is unrelated to the forces we usually discuss. He felt that this comment he posted in late 2010 at Swampland helped unpack it. - Avedon]http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/11/10/

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The Difference Between Us and Themby Stuart ZechmanBriefly summarizing this representative Third Way policy memo from pre-financial crash, 2007:Laissez-faire is bad, because markets and the state would still fight.Liberalism is bad, because the state and markets would still fight.Both sides' agendas are burdened by the intellectual chains of obsolete ideological dogma, while we Third Way, on the

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Kevin Baker's SOTU emailResponding to Obama's State of the Union address, journalist Kevin Baker sent out this email:The real problem with Obama’s speech tonight was, once again, the historical narrative that he led off with, and that he is determined to have us believe.That is:Once upon a time, Americans had all sorts of really good jobs because “they only had to maybe compete against their

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The Centrist Duck TestA year-and-a-half ago, some folks thought I was bizarre for saying that Obama is an ideological centrist.I was told back then that I was a little weird for talking about all of this "New Democrat" and "Third Way" centrist stuff, and comparing Obama's policies all of the time to the DLC's "Progresive Policy Institute" think tank policy memos.It was relayed to me that Obama

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Is Larry Summers Really a Conservative?http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/12/13/larry-summers-warning-about-the-growth-of-government-transcript/comment-page-1/#comment-223886(At Swampland, Michael Scherer posts the wisdom of Larry Summers in the form of his exit address to the Economic Policy Institute, the transcript of which is well worth reading in full, and then after which the question is

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For the Good of Fox News Democrats, Obama Must Resign...Today(my response taken from Swampland commentary)lauriefive:You write: "When asked what he's going to do about the deficit, Obama should reply loud and clear and repeatedly that he will get Americans back to work and the economy booming again." No, he mustn't do that!No, no!Obama should reply loud and clear that he welcomes business

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by Stuart ZechmanAt Swampland, Kate Pickert asks the commentariat for feedback on the value of the new government web site "Healthcare.gov":The Health Care Number of the Day - $8.7 MillionPosted by Kate Pickert Wednesday, October 6, 2010 at 1:01 pmI've praised the web site for being easy to use and for including a gigantic amount of information about private and public insurance plans which have

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by Stuart ZechmanAt Swampland, Michael Crowley casually makes the case for the PPACA, and I respond in commentary, as reprinted below:Michael Crowley,You write:"The ongoing publicity around those new measures--and the tangible changes in many Americans' lives-- might warm the public to Obamacare."What many of us movement liberals particularly resent is the tiny population of beneficiaries being

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Imagine, if you will....by Stuart ZechmanImagine, if you will, that the only food that people have to eat comesfrom McDonald's.Now imagine that a strange phenomenon occurs, in which it is noticed (but, oddly, not widely reported) that Americans on the Canadian border seem to stream across into Canada to buy their Big MacsIt is discovered, and the information spreads through word of mouth on the

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BABELby CMikeSince World War II scores of front rank politicians, business leaders, and economists have championed globalization. John Foster Dulles, Robert McNamara, Henry Kissinger, George Shultz and Robert Rubin are some of the American cabinet secretaries who have promoted the transnational economic rights of capital. Bush 41 deserves a special mention for his role in advancing globalization.

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Guess what it is

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Blogosphere not as radical as pundits thinkby Gene LyonsIt's no exaggeration to say that the establishment media's initial response to the blogosphere was panic. The idea of mere citizens talking back to the press was unsettling to Washington media celebrities. Pundits who'd exhibited no qualms about the sordid imaginings of, say, American Spectator or The Wall Street Journal editorial page

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Hillary's record withstands 'character' attacksby Gene LyonsMaybe somebody ought to give Iowa waitress Anita Esterday a political TV talk show. She couldn't be any worse than, say, MSNBC's Tucker Carlson. Recently, the boyish pundit has been suggesting that there's something deeply weird about female voters who support Sen. Hillary Clinton because they'd like a woman president, although it's

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Politics, Sitcom-styleby Gene Lyons(For some reason, The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette chose not to publish Gene's column this week, so he passed it on to Moose & Squirrel to post. I'm reproducing it here as a back-up.)It's rare that this column defends Robert Novak, so listen up. After his disgrace-ful conduct in the Plame affair, how the self-styled "Prince of Darkness" appears on TV without a bag

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Republicans have locked up the pundit vote by Gene LyonsNobody knows who next year's presidential candidates will be. This column has no particular favorite and will make no predictions. Even so, it's not necessary to be a prophet to know how Beltway pundits will handle the so-called character issue. The Republican nominee will be a virile, decisive straight-shooter who's 100 percent "authentic"

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As seen on TV

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Put Bush's 'puppy dog' terror theory to sleep - Richard Clarke.

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Stupid NYT tricksPublic Remains Split on Response to WarmingNinety percent of Democrats, 80 percent of independents and 60 percent of Republicans said immediate action was required to curb the warming of the atmosphere and deal with its effects on the global climate. Nineteen percent said it was not necessary to act now, and 1 percent said no steps were needed.Right, so even when a large majority

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Jack Velenti DiesAnd though your music lingers onAll of us are glad you're gone.If I could live my life half as worthlessly as you,I'm convinced that I'd wind up burning, too.

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UnconnectedSomeday I will figure out why I can never get my laptop to communicate with my brother's network. Oh, sure, I can get into web-based stuff like e-mail, and Blogger and all that, but I really need to use my laptop to update The SIdeshow. Grrr....

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Tap tap tapIs this thing on?Test test testtest test test.

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Train jumps tracksGene LyonsOnly weeks ago, GOP campaign officials were breathing smoke and fire. According to Rep. Thomas M. Reynolds, R-N. Y., the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, hapless Democrats had no idea what they were up against. Relentlessly negative TV commercials funded by the party's $ 50 million war chest were about to bury Democratic candidates under an

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Times revealed little that Bush hadn't told usGene LyonsThe key thing about the infamous New York Times scoop that's drawn the theatrical wrath of the Bush administration is the last thing you'll hear from the newspaper's embattled editors: how little real news it contained. Nobody who's paying attention could be surprised that U. S. agents monitor international money transfers. George W. Bush

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Service resumedThe Sideshow is back online.

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Technical difficulties continueIt appears there's some sort of major problem with Telewest's fibre cables that's causing outages all over the country. They are working on repairs but no one knows when things will be back together.

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From A DistanceSince Fasthosts is still down, I've been having a bit of a P.F. Sloan festival on YouTube.Most people have heard P.F. Sloan's music but don't know it. For example, the first ten seconds of "California Dreamin'" (listen but don't watch that video) is him playing guitar.A few people may be familiar with "Let Me Be" as recorded by the Turtles. (That video is a hoot - remember what

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Technical difficultiesYes, The Sideshow appears to be down. I can't get the site for my provider, either, so I don't know what's going on. Let's hope things will be back together shortly.

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Staying the course is politics, not planningby Gene LyonsInstead of running for majority leader if Democrats take control of the House in 2006, maybe U. S. Rep. John P. Murtha ought to run for president. He may be 74, but the man knows how to handle himself in a fight, a skill too many genteel Democrats appear to have forgotten. Here's the story: After escaping indictment last week, the new

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Bush's fabled intuition may be just thatGene LyonsTell me again about President Bush's fabled intuition, his born leader's gift for choosing the right course of action by natural instinct. Oh, and, yes, the peerless political genius of Karl Rove. Because if you didn't know any better, it would appear that the administration's grandest schemes have gone badly awry, confronting the White House with

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Vice president shoots himself in the footGene LyonsFeb 22, 2006My first inclination upon hearing the news was to give Deadeye Dick Cheney’s hunting accident a pass. It’s not as if there aren’t more important things to think about. Unless a plausible case could be made that the vice president harbored a grudge of some kind against the Texas lawyer he’d mistaken for a quail, everything sounded

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Digby:We are not the radicals. To force women who wish to terminate their pregnancies - for whatever reason - to use coathangers - that's radical. And unspeakably cruel. To refuse to recognize, both legally and publicly, a couple in love - that's radical. And narrow-mindedly cruel. To base foreign policy on the president's "gut" and an obviously untenable unilateralism - that's radical. And

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What's the matter with What's the Matter with Kansas?Katerina Vanden Heuval

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I see everyone is taking the old Political Compass test again.OK, now here's me, at:Economic Left/Right: -7.38Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.64So how did you score?

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The Sideshow is down?Well, I just stopped being able to find it. And I don't know why, yet, either. Update: It's back now. I don't know what happened, but at least it didn't last long.

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Eyeball newsOkay, I haven't set up a re-direct for The Sideshow yet, but I will as soon as I've properly wrapped my mind around the idea. The whole site is mostly duplicated at its new home now but archives aren't deleted, so your old permalinks to individual posts will still be good.So do me a favor and change your blogroll links and your favorites ASAP to:http://sideshow.me.ukAnd then you can

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Propagate this link!I'm now http://sideshow.me.uk. (The www. prefix will work too, but why bother?)

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Fact vs. Fantasy in the electionWe have two strains of thought: One is that every single indicator of who would win and was winning the presidential election was wrong because of a stealth campaign by Bush that was largely invisible and occurred almost entirely below the radar, to the extent that nothing was indicating a Bush win (except for some cooked polls that have been picked apart to the

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Around the web More from Oliver Willis' Brand Democrat projectKevin Drum has a short round-up of some of our favorite examples of moral values by the returned Republican-controlled Congress. Buying Sailor George a yacht was a particularly popular choice. (Atrios liked that one, too.) Not that we think he can pilot a boat any better than he can ride a horse....At Salon, Joe Conason says a

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Election storiesThen: Election Worker Refuses to Lie for Voting Software Company:Marion County Clerk Doris Anne Sadler revealed Tuesday that the company installed illegal software before last November's election.1st Tuesday: First hand reports by other Ohio volunteers: 5. There were numerous reports of voters trying to select Kerry and Bush was selected on the screen instead. The voters would try

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Enlightenment strikes againSo....What Happened To The Truth? : The Crushed Optimism of a Young RepublicanI am, and have always been, a registered Republican. I grew up in a Republican family in a Republican area, and went to church every Sunday with other southern white Republicans. I went to a private Lutheran College in NC. Growing up, we had Boy Scouts, and bake sales, and school plays with

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Hey, it worked for Bush....Blunkett plans tough new anti-terror lawsLONDON (Reuters) - The government is considering new tough anti-terrorism laws to prevent an al Qaeda attack including plans to target suspects even if they have not committed an offence, Home Secretary David Blunkett will say today.The proposals would see the creation of special anti-terror courts which would sit without juries,

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Make 'em pay2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State,

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Cooking the voteFlan points to another "insightful analysis from Glenn Reynolds," which reads, in its entirety, as follows:Indeed.The link is to a silly item in the Daily Telegraph last week gloating about how Michael Moore didn't deliver the election for Kerry after all and snorting that it took him three days to make any public remarks about it. But this bit caught my eye:In 2000, Mr Moore's

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Important stuffOne of the things I've neglected over the last few days that Josh Marshall started was the idea of calling your Republican reps and demanding to know whether they voted for the DeLay rule or whether they were part of the "handful" of Republican Congressional members who actually refused to support it. A tiny number of people have had some good news, but a lot of Republicans just

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But you knew that, right?From Political Animals, via Bartcop

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War storiesIraqi Physician Confirms US Chem Weapons Use In Fallujah: Anger that is seething throughout Iraq and the world over the assault on Fallujah turned to rage yesterday as an Iraqi physician came forward to confirm reports of the use of banned chemical weapons in Fallujah. Speaking on the condition of anonymity to the Panorama radio station, the physician said he had just examined two dead

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Can the media be educated?Is it possible that the Newspaper of Record has actually learned from a mistake? Dig this - they've got an editorial about the Iran rumblings called Groundhog Day: Stop us if you've heard this one before. The Bush administration creates a false sense of urgency about a nuclear menace from a Middle Eastern country. Hard-liners talk about that country's connections to

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More on the Ohio voteLawyers to challenge election in Ohio:Columbus- A trio of activist lawyers armed with mysteriously wrong exit polls and hundreds of voter horror stories announced plans Friday to contest Ohio's presidential election as soon as the vote is official.Their challenge could lead to widespread reconsideration of dozens of alleged election irregularities around the state - from

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The Church of RealityThose of you who aren't familiar with Marc Perkel ought to know that he's One of the Good Guys and works hard to keep lefties on the web. Aside from being a helpful web provider, he has a sense of humor and is into the reality-based community in a big way. So visit The Church of Reality, and check out some wonderful Ozark scenery photos while you're there.

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The knives are outFirst there is John Podhoretz in The New York Post on GOP Arrogance:WHAT is the great Demo cratic hope over the next four years? The answer isn't Hillary. Nor is it the magical unknown figure Democrats have been fantasizing about - a Blue State liberal in Red State clothing who sounds like Barney Fife, prays like Billy Graham, sweet-talks like Bill Clinton and lives like George

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Hot news at Talk Left In Congress: Negotiators Add Abortion Clause to Spending Bill. This is being advertised as protecting the conscience of doctors who don't want to provide abortions, but federal law already does this, so it's another stealth bill. This thing allows insurers and other institutions to claim a "conscience" that we all know they don't have. Having already allowed

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That old soft shoe No More Mister Nice Blog applauds a couple of Democrats for being willing to condemn an alleged liberal radio talk-show host (no one I've ever heard of, but we don't get a lot of that around here) for calling Condi Rice Aunt Jemima. He also called Colin Powell an Uncle Tom. That's poor form, for a number of reasons, but I'm not impressed with Senator Feingold and Mayor

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Sex and the rest AMERICAblog is closely following the important story of Senator Brownback's campaign against masturbation. Economist of the Day: Angry Bear on Alan Greenspan's recent announcement that things are bad for the dollar but don't worry, be happy, because the US economy is magic. (Via the Blogwire at LiberalOasis, which you want to read anyway for Bill's take on Dubya's Odd Trial

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The Values Thing In Stand up For Moral Value of Economic Justice, Michael Zweig asks:But this easy amazement obscures a deeper problem: If the Democratic Party platform and candidate for president embodied moral values more faithfully than the Republicans, why didn't a large percentage of people voting Democratic cite moral values as their highest concern?Just for the record, I did, on the last

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A few good links David Podvin says the south has risen again.Alterman has a good post up exploring the question of objectivity in the press.Check out this series on "Values" Oliver Willis posted. Then wear them on t-shirts and make them into fliers to stick under the windshield wipers at the mall parking lot.Don't you hate those things? Finally, someone figured out what to with one. (Via PNH.

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Ego scans Thanks to Jack K. at RuminateThis, Jeralyn at TalkLeft, and Mary at The Left Coaster for your concern over The Sideshow blinking out yesterday. Thanks also to the people who wrote to express similar concern, especially those that offered to hit the tip jar. I'm still not sure what's going to happen yet, but it will probably cost money, so if you really want to make a donation to the

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How much more do you need? 'Stinking Evidence' of Possible Election Fraud Found in Florida by Thom Hartmann:Bev Harris of www.blackboxvoting.org, the erstwhile investigator of electronic voting machines, along with people from Florida Fair Elections, showed up at Florida's Volusia County Elections Office on the afternoon of Tuesday, November 16, 2004, and asked to see, under a public records

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The difference is, you're reading this Must-read of the day: Digby has found a fascinating article by Christopher Hayes at The New Republic on undecided voters that provides a somewhat scary look into the minds of the Undecided Voters. Undecided voters do care about politics; they just don't enjoy politics. [...] Undecided voters don't think in terms of issues.

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My provider has responded! I've put up an explanation but I'm not actually sure whether I dare post over at The Sideshow for the moment. Short version - I had actually been exceeding bandwidth for a couple of months but they suddenly cut me off without warning, claiming the problem had arisin "in the last 24 hours", which obvously wasn't true. I suppose this is my fault for not noticing what

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Links to ponder What does the right-wing have that we don't have? Sugar Daddies for the cause. How else could someone like David Horowitz make a living? How Boring was Bill Clinton's book? Despite what you've heard from some quarters, some of its most "boring" sections are fascinating, and could help Democrats learn how to talk across the divide, according to Bob Somerby. At The Mahablog, a

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Blog hits The Angry Liberal, whose site you might want to check out if you haven't been there before, sent me this joke:Clocks in Heaven A man died and went to heaven. As he stood in front of St. Peter at the Pearly Gates, he saw a huge wall of clocks behind him. He asked, "What are all those clocks?" St. Peter answered, "Those are Lie-Clocks. Everyone on Earth has a Lie-Clock. Every time you

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No Fourth Estate, no democracy At Consortium News, Sam Parry is not too happy with the sniffy response they got from a certain newspaper on their serious look at voting problems:Washington Post's Sloppy Analysis The Washington Post and the big media have spoken: Questions about Nov. 2 voting irregularities and George W. Bush’s unusual vote tallies are just the ravings of Internet conspiracy

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International conversation Remember Sorry Everybody? Well, Everybody answered: Apologies Accepted

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I see going out didn't make the world change Free-Online still hasn't responded to my wailing, so The Sideshow is still down. Meanwhile, here are a couple of pages I found in my referrers tonight: Andrew Tobias linked the Dwight Meredith page I have up at The Sideshow Annex, Just For The Record, in a piece called Duccio di Borealis explaining that Democrats are better than Republicans at

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The fight goes on At The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Democrats take up fight over ballots Cincinnati - Seeming to brush aside John Kerry's concession speech, the Ohio Democratic Party has launched a federal court fight over nearly 155,000 provisional ballots by contending a proper accounting of those votes might decide who really won. In Ohio, Bush now holds a lead of about 136,000 votes over

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My suspicion is a DOS attack at The Sideshow. I haven't heard back from my ISP yet. Meanwhile, Atrios has a pretty important piece of news this morning from The Washington Post about a major tax shift the administration has proposed that advances the movement of the tax burden to workers-only. If they really do this, though, it may work out to quite the opposite of what they intended. If

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The Republican legality strategy of Rove by Jerome Armstrong It's becoming clearer as the vote approaches. Just today, the Republicans in Oregon challenged thousands of registered voters in Portland, OR; yesterday, it was the Republicans in Wisconsin challenging likely Democratic voters in Milwaukee, WI; before that in Ohio & Florida. There are literally thousands of Republicans that the GOP has

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It's the Christianity, Stupid. Close readers of The Sideshow already know that I was raised on the Gospels and that, to a large extent, this is where my values come from, even though I've left all the churchifying behind. It's not something I normally think of as part of my core identity, but I was taught that certain things were right and certain things were wrong, and I've thought about those

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On the Radio Last week I listened to the last broadcast of Mike Malloy's show on the union-supported I.E.America radio network. I say "broadcast" although, as far as I know, Malloy's show was available only on one or two local stations and on the Internet. Though Malloy has always been popular in whatever market he worked in, right-wing organizing to silence him has usually been effective

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Should Bush Be Shot for Desertion? All right, I'm not really going to argue for a firing squad for Bush, but I'm getting annoyed with the question of why we should care whether he was AWOL from his required service with the Texas Air National Guard. I have seen someone say that we shouldn't care because the Vietnam war was a mistake and many of us were actively against it, so why should we mind

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The Sour Taste of Iraq I don't read Jane's. I am not an airfix kid. And yet I knew instantly that Tony Blair's claim that Saddam could deploy WMD to strike at British interests within 45 minutes was false.How did I know? I used this simple test:Do I recall ever having read a front-page headline announcing that Iraq had tested a nuclear bomb?No.So they can't be nuke-ready, because you can't

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LatinAmericazation of the USAIt's pretty basic stuff. You soak the populace in taxes paid for services which will, for the most part, not actually be provided by the government.Those services will be sold off to private enterprise or devalued altogether - by a government that claims to be giving you even better service! at even lower prices! but in fact is putting them into the hands of people

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Yet another service interruption Yes, the provider for The Sideshow is doing another upgrade, and as usual this seems to be messing me about with the FTP server. Service will resume...when it does. Meanwhile, this week's DNO article is called Watching the Fabric Tear.

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My latest DNO article: It's the Christianity, Stupid. (Lately I can't seem to get a ping on The Sideshow half the time. Dunno why.)

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And now, back to our regularly scheduled program The Sideshow's provider does seem to have things back together again. I hadn't realized that some things that appeared to have posted before the page went dark hadn't actually proliferated. But it's all there now, and that's the main thing....

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The race/sex card Nice catch by Hesiod at Counterspin Central: GEORGE W BUSH IS A RACIST AND A SEXIST: Pretty strong allegations, I know. But I am just applying Republican criteria. What do I mean? Well, remember when the Republicans kept whining about how the Democrats in the Senate were "racists," and "sexists," because they refused to confirm Judge Priscilla Owen and Judge Miguel Estrada

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Art & Politics The Propaganda of William Safire, by David Corn. Making Light on some astroturf, Ashcroft, her mother the terrorist, and Elmore Leonard?s ten rules for writers.

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Sports and entertainment Throw rocks at boys and watch a drawing take shape (via The Biomes Blog).

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Stuff I wanted to post today But I still can't FTP to The Sideshow, so here it is. Tonight is apparently the last chance to hear The Mike Malloy Show on i.e.america. What a bummer. Talk Left reports that a grand jury in Palm Beach has issued a "a scathing report" on the privatized girls prisons in Florida, and has this: How many times does this go on when and no one finds out? A high school

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The webhost for The Sideshow is upgrading their web servers this morning, in case anyone is wondering where I went. Meanwhile, here's my latest DNO article.

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Service restored BT wuz here and fixed the phones. God, what a relief!

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Daily News Online There's this other thing I'm doing called Daily News Online. Fortunately, I had e-mailed an article for it to someone else to post on the grounds that my computer kept crashing. My computer seems to be working now, but since I still can't get online, I still can't upload to The Sideshow but here's my article about LatinAmericanizing the US.

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Live from an Internet cafe! Yesterday I discovered that both of my phone lines were dead. BT admits it's a problem on the network and not me. I think it's those guys that were digging on the street just down the road. BT promised they would send an engineer by.... Monday. So I can post here from the local Internet cafe, but I can't post to the Sideshow from here. *sigh*

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Your Comment HerePeople ask me why The Sideshow doesn't have comments. Pretty simple: I don't know how to code them. So I wondered if maybe it would be useful to direct comments here. I could create a post here for each day, or maybe even for individual posts if they are substantive ones, and direct people to that post from The Sideshow.Is that a stupid idea?

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Statistics Don't Support Bush's Claim that Tort Reform Will Minimize Costs

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"Grassroots"Hesiod Theogeny (of Counterspin Central) e-mails:Check out what someon e-mailed me. It's from Marc Racicot.Subject: Action Alert! President Bush's grassroots vs. liberal billionaires.December 10, 2003 Dear XXXXXXX,Our Campaign Manager, Ken Mehlman, recently wrote you about the vicious personal attacks Democrat Presidential candidates are making on President Bush.Now comes news from a

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En Banc - a law-oriented group weblog.

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The real reason Arnold is running for governor (via Ungodly Politics).

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Story Time: How Margaret Thatcher Accidentally Triggered Regime Change at the American School in London, 1971

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Editing the New York Times

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David Horsey works it out.

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Here's a radical statement-- I hate non-politicians. I don't trust them, because where were they when the politicians were fighting for my rights? - Nathan Newman discussing Wesley Clark.

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Eeyew, gross!

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George W. Bush, Will You Please Go Now?!

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The Sideshow's ftp server has been out of it since yesterday afternoon. Here's the post I've been trying to put up since then:Informed on the Superhighway (I just felt like having a graphic there, so I borrowed one from Lois, who remembered to wish Bruce a happy birthday, unlike some people you could name.)Jeanne D'Arc and CalPundit find out that "No Child Left Behind" really stands for "No

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