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Open Thread and Diary Rescue
Tonight's Rescue Rangers are Elise, blank frank, HoosierDeb, dopper0189, vcmvo2, and dadanation with vcmvo2 editing. The diaries up for rescue are: AZDem highlights some fascinating dialog from Lyndon Johnson's secret… Read more »
Glenn Beck, brought to you by...
Media Matters presents Glenn Beck’s corporate sponsors: As ColorOfChange diaried earlier, GEICO has now joined the growing list of advertisers pulling their corporate advertising from Beck's show. Fortunately for Beck's… Read more »
Why Kidney Selling Bothers Me
by publius I missed the latest round of the “should we sell our kidneys” debate. To recap, various libertarian conservatives say yes, arguing that the donors’ health risks are small… Read more »
Shameful
by publius Like Steve Benen, I was shocked to learn that Karl Rove played a greater role than previously known in the U.S. Attorney firings. Of all the various DOJ… Read more »
Guests, Like Fish, Begin to Smell after Three Days
by Eric Martin A senior U.S. military official and adviser to the Iraqi military’s Baghdad command, Col. Timothy R. Reese, wrote a rather blunt memo that has recently found the… Read more »
Fighting For The Public Option
by publius Scott Lemieux and Ezra Klein recently had a back and forth on whether a health coverage reform bill without a public option was worth supporting. I agree with… Read more »
A Good Offense Is The Best Defense
by publius Under the "breakthrough" in the House, there will be no vote on health care before the August recess. Politico adds: Republicans, meanwhile, are ready to use the August… Read more »
I'd Rather be Famous than Righteous or Holy
by Eric Martin Ben Smith is impressed with the Obama administration's relatively low-key approach to counterterrorism: One of the most striking differences between the Obama and Bush administration is the… Read more »
Health Care: The Wyden-Bennett Plan
by von Among the articles of faith circulating in the liberal blogosphere is that killing the House Democrats' health care package (HR 3200) amounts to killing health care reform.* The… Read more »
But Now I Don't Know Why I Feel So Tongue-Tied
by Eric Martin A little over a month ago, Andrew Sullivan had a fascinating piece on the evolution of the New York Times' willingness, or lack thereof, to use the… Read more »
