What Israel says; what Israel believes; and why it matters

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Tuesday June 01, 2010 · 12:53 PM PDT

2010/06/01 · 12:53

It doesn't matter how many condemnations Israel gets from outside. Netanyahu is changing nothing.

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Tuesday May 18, 2010 · 8:49 AM PDT

2010/05/18 · 08:49

By building a war chest of unregulated campaign cash – an unprecedented $135 million to be raised by these three groups alone – Rove would be able to wage the midterm elections on his own terms: electing candidates loyal to the GOP's wealthiest donors and corporate patrons. With the media's attention diverted by the noisy revolt being waged by the Tea Party, the man known as "Bush's brain" was staging a stealthier but no less significant coup of the Republican Party.

"What they've cooked up is brilliant," says a prominent Democrat. "Evil, but brilliant."

—Tim Dickinson, Rove Rides Again (Rolling Stone)

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Friday January 29, 2010 · 6:19 PM PST

2010/01/29 · 18:19

...it's easy to smack down the opposition, especially when you have logic on your side and the wind at your back.

It's a lot HARDER to smack down the nominal "Dems" who act like Republicans—the Liebermans, the Bayhs, the Baucuses, the Nelsons and the Stupaks. And their enablers—the Rahms, the Reids.

These "Dems" are functionally giving the Republicans a majority right now. Sweet as today's smackdown has been to watch, it doesn't MATTER if Obama can singlehandedly talk tough to the Republicans. If at the end of the day, "Dems" hand the Republicans the actual power anyway—out of cowardice, "bipartisanship," or corporate fealty, any one will do—then the Republicans win.

As they have won on health care, for the moment at least.

When Obama can take on these "Dems" and win, then he'll have the real problem solved. And that's the change I'm waiting for.

NYT on Trig: People Magazine fluff, NO discussion of issues

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Sunday September 07, 2008 · 8:24 PM PDT

2008/09/07 · 20:24

This is the future:

http://www.nytimes.com/...

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Tuesday August 26, 2008 · 7:36 PM PDT

2008/08/26 · 19:36

Lots of us discuss whether McCain's "Celeb" ad, and his Obama-the-celebrity meme in general, has one effect or another on voters and viewers.

But in truth, it was never aimed at us. Or at swing state voters who view it during a commercial break. Or at the TV viewing audience at all. That was a decoy, and an extremely effective one.

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Thursday October 14, 2004 · 11:28 AM PDT

2004/10/14 · 11:28

The Sinclair discussion seems to have died down here of late.

Some of us have been speaking cheerfully as if it was a sure thing... the FCC would most certainly penalize Sinclair for misuse of the airwaves.
But our winning the debates, sadly, doesn't mean everything's going our way. Here's news of the FCC giving Sinclair a free pass to let their freep asses shine:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041014/ap_en_ot/kerry_film&cid=487&n cid=2043 Read More

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Smackdowns are fun, BUT...

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Bush FCC is (big surprise!) pro-Sinclair... the fight must go on.