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Can Anchorage work on renaming the Ted Stevens International Airport now?

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Talking Points Memo: Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens has been convicted of lying about free home renovations and other gifts he received from a wealthy oil contractor. The Senate’s longest-serving Republican, Stevens was found guilty on all seven counts of making false statements on Senate financial documents. The verdict throws the upcoming election into disarray. Stevens [...]

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David Sirota writes on a subject I’ve been thinking a lot about lately: The Village freakout continues, this time in the form of Peter Wehner’s op-ed in the Washington Post today. With most Republican candidates explicitly running on a platform promising a revival of Reagan conservatism and berating the supposed “socialism” of Democrats, this former [...]

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Well, a tweet I wrote about the Ashley Todd hoax gets quoted by Sarah Lai Stirland at Wired’s Threat Level blog: Todd was one of the members of a group called 50 College Republicans that has been publicizing its activities through a blog and Twitter feed on a website called Life in the Field. The [...]

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This is incredible. Dalai Lama says he has given up on China talks The Dalai Lama said Saturday he has given up on efforts to convince Beijing to allow greater autonomy for Tibet under Chinese rule. By ASHWINI BHATIA Associated Press DHARMSALA, India — The Dalai Lama said Saturday he has given up on efforts [...]

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Paul Wellstone died six years ago today. The video above was made by Senate Democrats last year. I’m not going to add much to the tribute above, other than to say that Paul Wellstone remains one of my few real role models in Democratic politics. He’s still teaching me, six years after his death, through [...]

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Simply genius.

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This is a day late, but my most sincere congratulations to Hu Jia, a Chinese dissident who advocates for human rights and democracy, for winning the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. Hu was up for the Nobel Peace Prize and I was very disappointed he didn’t win it this year, but this is still [...]

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You’d think that Nick Kristof’s conversation with a friend from Beijing would give him perspective on the underlying ethnic tensions and prejudices in China and not, you know, merely an opportunity to wax poetic about the bounty to come from Obama’s election. Seriously. Kristof is the Times’ biggest Sinophile and he can’t even identify the [...]

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Ilan Goldberg has an important post on Sarah Palin’s lack of understanding of a basic foreign policy term, “precondition.”  In short, Goldberg makes a convincing case that Palin doesn’t know what the word “precondition” means, as evidenced by her interview with Brian Williams this week. Josh Schrei takes the Things Palin Doesn’t Know game a [...]

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