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Grover Virus Fells California

September 18, 2008

Now 81 days without a budget, just today I learned the cause of the stalemate in Sacramento:  we are the first to go swirling down the drain of Grover Norquist’s bathtub. John Laird, the Democrat who chairs the budget committee in the lower house, the Assembly, told me today that the reason the Republicans have [...]

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9-16-08

September 16, 2008

Ari Melber is a great young reporter who covers Netroots for The Nation and is posting frequent dispatches from the Obama campaign trail at The Washington Independent (www.washingtonindependent.com )  His real-time account of the origins of the lipstick-on-pig faux controversy last week was priceless. I’m cross-posting this item he’s running today, based on his appearance [...]

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MSG 4 NANCY: CONTEMPT 4 ROVE

September 16, 2008

This past Sunday morning, I was guest host on The Peter Laufer Show on Green 960, the Air America station in San Francisco.  On Sundays, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has brunch and holds court at her favorite spot along the waterfront, just a few blocks from the station. So she just might have been listening when [...]

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Sugar Sugar

September 16, 2008

If you consume sugar today, in almost any form, you will likely be patronizing the Fanjul family of Florida.  They control 32% of the sugar market in the US, and large swaths of land in Florida, including 40,000 acres between Lake Okeechobee (say it 5 times fast) and the Everglades. The Fanjuls are also big [...]

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Lipstick Lies

September 11, 2008

Sarah Palin injected lipstick into the political lexicon in her speech in St. Paul, which is the script she uses all the time.  She was reeling off the zingers that had been written for her and seemed to veer from the (tele)Prompter to add a joke about hockey moms and pit bulls with lipstick as [...]

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09-09-09

September 9, 2008

OMG, There’s a Lib on My Tee Vee!! After hearing Giuliani, Palin and others demonize the “liberal media” at the RNC last week, it’s so damn refreshing to see a new progressive face in prime time on cable news. Rachel Maddow had a pretty smooth launch on MSNBC tonight, and delivered nooz and perspective with [...]

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Pulling the Pin on the Palin Grenade

September 8, 2008

McCain and his lobbyist-heavy campaign team have lobbed the grenade named Sarah Palin into this year’s political combat. While they will go to great lengths to protect the young governor from close scrutiny by the press or Obama/Biden, I think it will be hard to keep her leashed and on script. Her extreme religious zealotry [...]

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08-27-08

August 27, 2008

We’re in Denver, offering progressive coverage of the Democratic Convention. It’s crazy here, but great to see politically active people from all over the country. Interesting to see some of the corporate sponsors–A T & T was complicit in the Bush illegal eavesdropping, and are celebrating the FISA cave-in with a big party here Monday–will [...]

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So much going on….

August 8, 2008

This has been quite a week. Ron Suskind’s revelations about Bush/Cheney’s attempts to get the CIA to forge a document creating a connection between Saddam and 9/11, Bush’s reported berating of the FBI director who wasn’t willing to falsely blame Al Qaeda for the anthrax incidents, and the corporate media offering healthy skepticsm (for a [...]

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Peter B in Madison, WI

July 30, 2008

This Friday, August 1, we will be live from Madison, Wisconsin, site of the Nonstop Radio conference. Get the details at www.nonstopradio.com Guests include Thom Hartmann, John Nichols (The Nation, media reform leader) and Matthew Rothschild of the Progressive. PBC will be leading several panels at the conference on Saturday and Sunday. If you can, [...]

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