Hold Fast

Harry Moroz has a post on the DMI Blog about the need for a national infrastructure bank as a means of building a lasting system for improving, maintaining, and creating our infrastructure:
The National Infrastructure Bank is a first step in creating a coherent vision of American infrastructure. First, the use of bonds – rather than […]

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ArchPundit:
Timmeh took his cue from Richard Cohen in the Washington Post column:
Barack Obama is a member of Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ. Its minister, and Obama’s spiritual adviser, is the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. In 1982, the church launched Trumpet Newsmagazine; Wright’s daughters serve as publisher and executive editor. Every year, the magazine […]

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Comic by xkcd
I know everyone is posting this, but it’s probably because this describes my life as a blogger better than just about anything else I’ve come across in the last three plus years.

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I’ll pull the transcript when I can, but the line of questions on Louis Farrakhan and Libya was beyond the pale. What would Obama’s jewish supporters think if…?
The questioning of Clinton on her personal finances and her public schedule was equally badgering, though on a somewhat less explosive issue.
The last 10 minutes of the debate […]

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Lewis Black, via Jane Hamsher:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGSoqfHfcL0

If you don’t understand why this is funny, go below the fold for the original video Black is lampooning…

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McJoan at Daily Kos has a great interview with Scott Kleeb, candidate for Nebraska’s open Senate seat.

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Turkana at The Left Coaster condensces the importance of the Times lobbyist scandal for John McCain’s campaign:
Given his close ties to the most unpopular president in modern polling history, and his support for a devastating and unpopular war, McCain’s entire candidacy depends on his mythical aura of integrity and sincerity. That myth has been shattered, […]

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Video via Scarce.
A bit over a month ago I wrote a post on the upsides of Dodd as a vice presidential pick for Barack Obama. I thought it’d be worth going through the upside of that again today.
Dodd’s experience would be a tremendous asset for any of our nominees. From two and a half decades […]

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Yes, please:
We know it’s time to time to restore our Constitution and the rule of law. This is an issue that was at the heart of Senator Dodd’s candidacy, and I share his passion for restoring the balance between the security we demand and the civil liberties that we cherish.
The American people must be able […]

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The People’s Republic of China, less than six months before the Beijing Olympics, is still not a free society, not even for the Western press. McClatchy Beijing Bureau Chief Tim Johnson writes on his blog China Rises of having a non-fiction book confiscated from his luggage in the Lhasa airport by Chinese security:
One security agent […]

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