McCain book proceeds?

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Friday August 22, 2008 · 8:57 AM PDT

2008/08/22 · 08:57

Now that we have turned to something like an investigation of McCain's finances, I wonder if anyone here has information on McCain's book proceeds. The campaign's response to Obama yesterday, remember, included a dismissal of Obama on the basis of his having made "$4 million dollars last year." What we need to know -- what is no doubt already in the public record, but I cannot find it -- is the amount that McCain has made from his "authored" books. If the McCain campaign is going to toss around the $4 million figure, then we should have a figure ready to hand as well.

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Thursday January 03, 2008 · 11:18 PM PST

2008/01/03 · 23:18

What links Obama and Huckabee? They are both excellent public speakers.

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Sunday December 02, 2007 · 8:19 PM PST

2007/12/02 · 20:19

I am on record as declaring that HRC's post-hostage crisis presser was "not hateful." High praise indeed, no? But this in all fairness was what I felt. Usually, I start cringing three words in to one of her speeches, sometimes sooner. What is it exactly that seems to affect me so deeply? I continually obsess over this, primarily because (a) I feel I shouldn't dislike her with the intensity that I do and my own dislike perplexes me; (b) it's likely that I am going to have to vote for her in the general and, even more likely that she'll win so I'd like to work through this dislike and come to some sort of accommodation with the idea of her.

[Warning: this post, as most others on the topic of "Hillary hatred" is based on subjective truths, truths of perception.]

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Tuesday November 13, 2007 · 9:46 AM PST

2007/11/13 · 09:46

Apart from what has been said already, I think the unfolding news about the planting of questions by HRC or her campaign has two interesting aspects. First, we want to believe that there is in fact a material and philosophical difference between the dems and the Bush administration. Second, the planted questions in the case of this particular campaign -- Hilary's instead of Obama's or another's -- does reinforce the contrast between Hilary and Bill and is in fact doing her no favors.

[fleshed out below]

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Tuesday August 28, 2007 · 10:18 PM PDT

2007/08/28 · 22:18

Senator Craig will, I suspect, be gone within 48 hours. The scandal is above the fold not simply for the usual reasons -- "gay sex!" "sex in the Senate!" "pages (again)!" "Republican hypocrisy on all this faith-and-values nonsense!" "Republican hypocrisy on Clinton!" -- but also because the sex, or the promise of sex rather, was located in an airport bathroom.

My thoughts on why this may be the case after the jump.

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Thursday June 15, 2006 · 8:32 AM PDT

2006/06/15 · 08:32

Of course, the new rules aren't really about protecting the integrity of elections. Only one Florida supervisor of elections allowed outside experts to test his voting system security. And when Ion Sancho's hackers discovered they could alter the outcome of an election and wipe out all trace of the tampering last year, it was a huge embarrassment to the Secretary of State's office. Instead of trying to fix the flaws, state officials and Diebold -- a maker of voting machines -- went after Sancho, disparaging his findings and suggested that he ought to be tossed from office. (Fred Grimm)

The latest development in the new expert culture: Five-day training courses trump university degrees! If outside "computing experts" hack your Diebold machines and show that election results can be entirely destroyed, take steps to protect Diebold and get new experts!

Full text of an article from the Miami Herald below. Read More

Feinstein Primary - what to do?

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Monday June 05, 2006 · 7:20 PM PDT

2006/06/05 · 19:20

What are California voters going to do about Feinstein's primary tomorrow? I promised that the Hayden confirmation vote was the last straw, the very last straw, really and truly this time, but I am afraid that the competition is none too appealing either. Church, the "conservative Democrat," is out. Colleen Fernald, on the face of it, seems acceptable but it looks like, for all her blustering about being "progressive," she is as conservative in Feinstein in certain areas. Read More

Support Iraqi Bloggers

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Monday April 10, 2006 · 3:37 PM PDT

2006/04/10 · 15:37

- Call for the support of Iraqi bloggers:
Read and contribute to Streamtime. Read more than Salam Pax!

"Streamtime is a loose network of media activists dedicated to assist local media to get connected. Streamtime uses old and new media for the production of content and networks in the fields of media, arts, culture and activism in crisis areas, like Iraq." Read More

Joe Sacco on torture

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Friday January 20, 2006 · 9:13 PM PST

2006/01/20 · 21:13

Joe Sacco has a new work online at the Guardian: "Trauma on Loan" (pdf file). For those who don't know his work, it includes Safe Area Goražde: The War in Eastern Bosnia, 1992-1995 and Palestine. In this short piece, he interviews Thahe Sabbar and Sherzad Khalid, plaintiffs in the lawsuit against Rumsfeld.

Advantages & disadvantages of Rice as SoS

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Tuesday November 16, 2004 · 3:41 AM PST

2004/11/16 · 03:41

1. She is the quintessential mouthpiece for the Bush administration. We may cite this as a flaw, a sign that she is merely a puppet, but from a diplomatic perspective, I can imagine that it would be easier to deal with a Secretary of State who one knew was speaking directly for the President. There would be no ambiguity or mixed messages.

More below the fold. Feel free to add on. Read More

Is anyone watching Crazy Rulers of the World (C4, UK)?

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Monday November 15, 2004 · 4:57 AM PST

2004/11/15 · 04:57

Crazy Rulers of the World is a three-part series and last night was episode 2. I don't know if it will every play in the U.S. - somehow I doubt it - but if you can find a DVD copy somehow, get it. Director and journalist Jon Ronson has also just published a book to accompany the series, The Men Who Stare at Goats (Picador). Read More

Social Darwinism & the disconnect of the political right

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Saturday November 13, 2004 · 5:10 AM PST

2004/11/13 · 05:10

When a Wisconsin school district jumped on board with the other red-state Creationists this week and, borrowing a bit of postmodern rhetoric, publicly proclaimed their determination to insure that the science curriculum is not monologic, i.e. "totally inclusive of just one scientific theory," I started to think a bit more about the disconnect between Scientific and Social Darwinism and contemporary American politics.

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McCain book proceeds?

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Planting questions

The scandal of airport bathrooms: why Craig will likely resign this week

New rules for voting security in FL: protect the vendors

Feinstein Primary - what to do?

Support Iraqi Bloggers

Joe Sacco on torture

Advantages & disadvantages of Rice as SoS

Is anyone watching Crazy Rulers of the World (C4, UK)?

Social Darwinism & the disconnect of the political right