Government by Control Fraud

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Sunday August 26, 2007 · 6:17 PM PDT

2007/08/26 · 18:17

Why are we still in Iraq? Why does the Bush Administration insist on keeping our troops in Iraq even as we make no progress? It seems so irrational when viewed through political logic. But what if politics and military strategy simply are not sufficient explanation for the Bush Administration's choices?

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Sunday April 22, 2007 · 1:01 PM PDT

2007/04/22 · 13:01

In honor of Stephen Colbert's 435 part series, Better Know a District, I thought that least I could do was to help my fellow citizens better understand my own district by starting a Squidoo lens bringing together information about the district and its Representative (in my case, it's Arizona's fighting 8th, represented by freshman Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D)).

Squidoo has the ability to form groups and when I couldn't find a group of congressional districts to join, I made one. I encourage Kosacks to take up the task of creating Squidoo lenses for your own districts today. Working together, we can finish all 435 districts in no time!

Bush's Positive Legacy Project (No, Really!)

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Wednesday April 18, 2007 · 10:28 AM PDT

2007/04/18 · 10:28

In America, we tend to naively consider politicians to be pure embodiments of either good or bad forces. We seldom view their acts as the products of fallible humans. One bothersome side effect is our personal selective editing of the legacies of every President depending on our political allegiances.

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Tuesday April 17, 2007 · 3:05 AM PDT

2007/04/17 · 03:05

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Monday February 26, 2007 · 2:48 PM PST

2007/02/26 · 14:48

I'm saddened to have to conclude that, following a good start in the 100 hours agenda, the Democratic Congress looks be failing due to a lack of political courage. The failure of our Democratic leadership is playing out along two intimately related axes: the Iraq war and impeachment of Bush and Cheney.

Our utter defeat on impeachment came as a self-inflicted wound when Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid told the world that impeachment was "off the table". Their hope, perhaps, was to induce the GOP to play ball and advance significant policy gains which could be used to further extend a Democratic majority, and elect a Democratic President, in 2008. I might not go so far as to call such a hope naiveté or, worse, political appeasement, but it was certainly lying down with wolves while acting provocatively like a sheep.

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Why can't we all just be Japanese?

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Saturday August 19, 2006 · 3:15 AM PDT

2006/08/19 · 03:15

Why can't we all be Japanese? A very interesting essay, though a bit discursive into unrelated theological matters, introduces a major new cross-cultural study of the correlations between belief in the divine, and violence and sexual behavior.

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Friday August 18, 2006 · 1:30 PM PDT

2006/08/18 · 13:30

This Wednesday Democratic voters all over the Arizona's 8th Congressional district began to get some very odd 'polling' calls. If the resident identified as undecided, or a supporter of Democratic candidate Patty Weiss, they got 'questions' that strongly pushed negative 'would it make yoy more or less likely to support' statements about Weiss, her personal finances, her campaign contributions, and her family. And then to get strongly positive statements about her major rival for the nomination, Democrat Gabrielle Giffords. Local bloggers and activists soon realized that a fairly substantial push polling effort was underway.

This is what we've learned. Please use this diary to collect additional annectdotal and research information on this is GOP ratfucking campaign Read More

Why is Obama contributing to Lieberman in a contested primary?

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Sunday July 16, 2006 · 12:52 AM PDT

2006/07/16 · 00:52

Can anyone explain to me just why Barrak Obama has contributed $2100 to Lieberman's primary campaign against Ned Lamont through his PAC HOPEFUND?
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4th Hottest Race in the Nation: An interview with Alex Rodriguez for AZ's CD 8

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Friday April 21, 2006 · 4:52 PM PDT

2006/04/21 · 16:52

Alex Rodriguez is a man on the move. It might well be that Alex has been preparing himself for the job he now seeks for nearly his whole life. (Alex says we have to draw our own conclusions on this matter.) For a relatively young man, he has built up an impressive array of experiences and credentials, both academic and practical. Read More

Fuck 'Socialized' Medicine

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Tuesday April 04, 2006 · 11:53 PM PDT

2006/04/04 · 23:53

There is little that is more nonsensical than the argument against universal healthcare coverage that goes, "We don't need socialized medicine in this country because..." As if the system of healthcare we currently have isn't 'socialized'. We have a 'socialized' medical system in this country already. It's just a crappy, peicemeal, unequal 'socialized' system.

The choice this county has to make is not between 'socialized' medicine and 'private' medicine (the only people who have private medical care in this country are the uninsured, and they would prefer almost anything else), but between efficient, lower-cost, equitable 'socialized' medicine and ever-more expensive, bloated, profiteering 'socialized' medcine that leaves millions of Americans out. Read More

Interview with Francine Shacter, Democratic for Congress in AZ CD8

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Friday March 10, 2006 · 5:45 PM PST

2006/03/10 · 17:45

Meet Congresswoman Mom.

It's not her chosen campaign slogan, but I think it sums up Francine Shacter's iconoclastic campaign for Congress in Arizona's 8th District pretty well. When asked, Francine chose as her (purely provisional) slogan, "I will listen to people and represent their views and bring back to them good ideas." Not so snappy.

A divorced Jewish woman, 77 years old, who raised four kids by herself in the 1960s and 70s (the result was nearly the Jewish trifecta - she got a lawyer and a doctor, but no Rabbi, just a scientist), Francine is a graduate with honors of the school of life (and of Goddard College in economics). She wants to use her life experiences to represent and work with and for the people of the 8th District. Read More