Stealing the White House Reprise

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Posted to Politics on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 07:42:49 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

If Obama is elected President in November, two scandals already threaten to become rallying cries for Republicans in 2008 the way "oil money" and "Diebold" were for Democrats in 2000.

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Going Down The Memory Hole Sounds Like "BoingBoing"

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Posted to Media on Thu Jul 03, 2008 at 05:54:25 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

BoingBoing.net is one of the web's oldest and widely read blog. The host site for contributors like Cory Doctrow, Mark Frauenfelder and Xeni Jardin, BoingBoing had become a respected champion of freedom of speech and exposing censorship -- until now.

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Kerry On, My Wayward Son

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Posted to Politics on Wed Jun 25, 2008 at 10:40:57 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

Flip-flopper. Elitist. Egotist. Insider politician. These are some of the labels which were branded to John Kerry in his presidential bid in 2004.

Someone needs to remind Barack Obama that the Democrats lost that election, because it increasingly appears that he's begun to follow Kerry's playbook.

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We Are Scientists - Brain Thrust Mastery [Review]

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Posted to Music on Tue Jun 17, 2008 at 03:01:04 AM EST (promoted by 1fastdog). RSS.

With its sophomore effort, We Are Scientists mines the early 80s to produce a thoroughly enjoyable 11-track album.

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When "Give Peace A Chance" Becomes "Killing Me Softly"

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Posted to Politics on Fri Mar 14, 2008 at 03:05:22 AM EST (promoted by 1fastdog). RSS.

Anti-war advocates have long insisted that vocally opposing the war was their way of supporting US troops. Conservatives, in contrast, argued that anti-war rhetoric does nothing but embolden the enemies of the United States. A new study appears to indicate that during the Iraq War, the conservatives were right.

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A Quarter-pounder of a Tragedy

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Posted to Legal on Tue Jan 22, 2008 at 09:15:18 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

After decades of silence, and in a story sure to please no one, two men have come forward with evidence of a murder --the lack of which kept an innocent man behind bars for 25 years.

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