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Karl Rove? Hah. A weenie. - TB - 11/14/2006 5:01:45 PM
- A view from the other side. - Tony - 11/15/2006 4:25:31 PM
  - "exaggerating" is a mild way of putting it. - TB - 11/15/2006 10:06:00 PM
    - Why is Lamont a blog win, but Webb, Murphy, Casey (OK, anti-Santorum) etc aren't? - Tony - 11/16/2006 12:55:49 AM
- He may be a SOB, but he's our SOB. :-) - Tony - 11/14/2006 8:44:40 PM

How news is made - alcaray - 11/15/2006 3:53:11 PM
- Good reporting, Al - ER - 11/15/2006 5:58:31 PM
- If it were a "liberal" network - dtb - 11/15/2006 5:43:51 PM
  - Give me a break. - TB - 11/15/2006 9:57:56 PM
    - And who screams about the liberal media? Who, oh, who? - Bowser - 11/15/2006 10:35:52 PM
      - Who's excusing anyone? - TB - 11/15/2006 11:56:55 PM
  - If it were a "liberal" network someone would have to retire - alcaray - 11/15/2006 6:07:38 PM
    - I'd almost forgotten those conservative circle-jerks. - Bowser - 11/15/2006 7:01:32 PM

Sick. "Fox to broadcast interview with O.J. Simpson" Very sick. - Bowser - 11/15/2006 5:31:39 AM
- It seems like Fox is on a roll these days. (n/t) - ER - 11/15/2006 9:07:20 PM
- Were I on the jury.... - azstrummer - 11/15/2006 6:09:27 PM

Al Jazeera in english - Raoul - 11/15/2006 7:32:47 PM

Realpolitik - SDAI-Tech1 - 11/15/2006 7:01:55 PM

The Bush Pickle In Iraq - Donald - 11/14/2006 4:01:24 AM
- If anyone else has a solution besides a maaive UN deployment to the West Bank and Gaza, please share it - E.P. - 11/14/2006 9:24:26 PM
  - That's just part of the picture. - SDAI-Tech1 - 11/15/2006 2:20:36 AM
    - "Easy as Pie" - Lindy - 11/15/2006 3:11:29 AM
  - you mispelled naive. (n/t) - Tony - 11/14/2006 10:01:18 PM
    - I thought he was going for mauve - alcaray - 11/15/2006 6:26:48 PM
- We're in a box over there. Thinking outside the box the only way out.. (n/t) - Bowser - 11/14/2006 5:55:25 PM
- I hope Premier Bush drinks blood of every man, woman, and child in Iraq! (n/t) - Borat - 11/14/2006 6:40:17 AM
- Sure. And we should have enlisted Italy and Japan to help us beat Hitler. - TB - 11/14/2006 5:56:20 AM
  - Yeap. - Scott Evil - 11/14/2006 4:55:40 PM
    - There is one thing the Democrats can do. - TB - 11/14/2006 5:06:35 PM
      - My guess: Bush will do a little bit of "caving", and a little bit of "standing firm" - Scott Evil - 11/14/2006 9:26:46 PM
        
        The Ticket Will Be The Same - ID - 11/14/2006 10:42:19 PM
  - Unfathomable. "- - - that this war is a lot older than Bush's administration- - - " - Bowser - 11/14/2006 3:41:38 PM
    - It isn't just about Iraq. - TB - 11/14/2006 4:28:23 PM
      - TB, you must face reality... We don't have the money to stay in Iraq indefinitly - A. Leftleaner - 11/14/2006 4:58:44 PM
      - Obviously you want us to fail. You must be a traitor. (n/t) - alcaray - 11/14/2006 4:51:21 PM
  - Good grief - Donald - 11/14/2006 3:29:18 PM
  - An old war? What war? - Raoul - 11/14/2006 2:18:00 PM
    - The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is widely portrayed here as a continuation - E.P. - 11/14/2006 9:11:17 PM
    - re: What war? - TB - 11/14/2006 4:24:27 PM
      - You are forgetting that 9/11 didn't happen. - A. Leftleaner - 11/14/2006 5:00:41 PM

"Cut and Run" - Bowser - 11/15/2006 3:12:31 AM
- I think "cut and run" has more to do with shirking responsibilities than it does cowardice. (n/t) - RobVG - 11/15/2006 5:06:57 AM
  - Sloganeering - Lindy - 11/15/2006 2:55:47 PM

Bush: 'As the Iraqis stand up, we will stand down'. - Bowser - 11/14/2006 6:47:40 PM
- If this was the police who did this, who arrested them? (n/t) - TB - 11/15/2006 2:34:10 AM
  - re: If this was the police who did this, who arrested them? - dtb - 11/15/2006 4:31:16 AM
  - Well, now, Bush says there are 325,000 of them. - Bowser - 11/15/2006 3:42:07 AM
- It's time to let them fly. - Lindy - 11/14/2006 11:53:31 PM

Gonna take another D to pay off another Bush's debts. - Bowser - 11/14/2006 7:34:59 PM
- re: another D? - TB - 11/15/2006 2:30:54 AM
  - How 'bout another Clinton to clean up after another Bush? - Bowser - 11/15/2006 3:39:43 AM

Iran update - TB - 11/14/2006 5:55:55 PM
- Victor Davis Hanson - TB - 11/15/2006 2:35:13 AM

Quick quiz - Tony - 11/13/2006 10:22:01 PM
- re: Quick quiz - REB - 11/13/2006 10:28:29 PM
  - re: Quick quiz - Fox - 11/14/2006 2:19:07 AM
    - Thanks Fox and REB - Tony - 11/14/2006 8:46:43 PM
      - Kyl - TB - 11/14/2006 11:48:30 PM
      - Bienvenido (n/t) - REB - 11/14/2006 10:28:54 PM

Shea Stadium Bites the dust in NYC - carl - 11/14/2006 5:18:25 PM

Lebanon update - TB - 11/14/2006 12:23:09 AM
- re: Lebanon update, another article - TB - 11/14/2006 6:50:20 AM
- Lessee. Is the IDF rearming? - Bowser - 11/14/2006 12:36:50 AM

â€œa government that can sustain, govern and defend itself and serve as an ally in this war on terrorâ€ - Bowser - 11/14/2006 12:00:23 AM
- The facts on the CBS news "story." - TB - 11/14/2006 2:15:34 AM

Drudge: "China Sub Stalks USS Kitty Hawk." Why is this news? - TB - 11/13/2006 4:18:42 AM
- Stuff like this gets released for a reason. - A. Leftleaner - 11/13/2006 2:41:22 PM
  - re: Stuff like this gets released for a reason. - ER - 11/13/2006 4:12:42 PM
- re: Drudge: "China Sub Stalks USS Kitty Hawk." Why is this news? - ER - 11/13/2006 4:43:27 AM
  - Chinese subs. - Bowser - 11/13/2006 5:32:23 AM
    - re: Chinese subs. - ER - 11/13/2006 12:21:04 PM
    - According to FAS, they do. (n/t) - Bowser - 11/13/2006 6:22:01 AM
      - Links from FAS - TB - 11/14/2006 1:51:22 AM
  - re: Why is this news? - TB - 11/13/2006 4:48:53 AM

So What Now Department - TB - 11/10/2006 1:39:39 AM
- Torture & Death Taxes Questionable - Mark Eby - 11/10/2006 4:03:51 AM
- re: So What Now Department - ER - 11/10/2006 1:47:06 AM
  - The best part is that now good things can be allowed to happen. - TB - 11/10/2006 2:36:32 AM
    - Hey Tom sing along, "Happy Days Are Here Again" (n/t) - Publius - 11/10/2006 1:14:44 PM
    - What I have been saying all along - FrankC - 11/10/2006 7:10:36 AM
      - What really might be a surprise... - TB - 11/10/2006 7:20:00 AM
    - And that's a good thing... - ER - 11/10/2006 3:24:51 AM
      - And that's the nature...... - Publius - 11/10/2006 1:25:09 PM
        
        Sure. Ask Lieberman about the "big tent." - TB - 11/10/2006 6:38:58 PM
        
        What does Pelosi have to do with Lieberman? - alcaray - 11/10/2006 7:01:27 PM
        
        The Democrats can't push Libermann too hard, though - Yeti - 11/10/2006 7:14:55 PM
        
        Libermann could be the tie-breaker on many Senate votes over the next two years. - REB - 11/10/2006 8:47:36 PM
        
        not gonna happen. The only way lieberman runs on a presidential ticket is as a "moderate counterbalance" to the top of the ticket. - Carl Rove - 11/13/2006 4:34:37 PM
        
        Of course you are right - alcaray - 11/10/2006 7:21:51 PM
        
        good points, al. - Yeti - 11/10/2006 7:55:59 PM
        
        The future of politics may belong to the "Independents." - TB - 11/10/2006 8:24:43 PM
        
        its not gonna happen. - Karl Rove - 11/13/2006 4:43:53 PM
        
        re: The future of politics may belong to the "Independents." - Yeti - 11/10/2006 9:00:34 PM
        
        3 agree. Can we start an independent movement? - Tony - 11/10/2006 9:23:56 PM
        
        You mean kinda like his notion of a libertatian? ;-D (n/t) - Yeti - 11/11/2006 3:23:28 AM
        
        Bravo, Pub! - ER - 11/10/2006 3:01:42 PM
        
        Of course, my bad - Publius - 11/11/2006 1:11:14 AM
      - Where did I give anyone the idea that it was "coordinated?" - TB - 11/10/2006 6:35:20 AM
        
        No evangelical monsters in "7th Heaven" for one (n/t) - Tony - 11/10/2006 2:22:36 PM
        
        The first time I saw "7th Heaven"... - ER - 11/10/2006 2:51:48 PM
        
        Used to be good - azstrummer - 11/10/2006 7:35:55 PM
        
        Psychohistory - ER - 11/10/2006 7:25:55 AM
        
        A very good observation. - TB - 11/10/2006 6:03:28 PM
        
        very good observations. - Robert - 11/10/2006 8:06:18 PM
        
        re: very good observations. - TB - 11/10/2006 9:00:06 PM
        
        How about... - Laurie Street - 11/10/2006 10:40:50 PM
        
        re: How about... - TB - 11/11/2006 4:05:22 AM
        
        Economics major - azstrummer - 11/11/2006 10:52:10 PM
        
        Incidentally... - TB - 11/11/2006 11:11:43 PM
        
        re: Economics major - TB - 11/11/2006 11:08:57 PM
        
        Not an Economics major either - ER - 11/12/2006 12:46:06 AM
        
        re: Not an Economics major either - TB - 11/12/2006 2:31:40 AM
        
        Little town folk - ER - 11/12/2006 4:49:15 AM
        
        Reading Marx - TB - 11/12/2006 5:00:53 PM
        
        re: Reading Marx - ER - 11/12/2006 6:14:00 PM
        
        I'm not disagreeing with you. - TB - 11/13/2006 3:08:51 AM
        
        re: Reading Marx - Publius - 11/13/2006 1:50:45 AM
        
        re: Reading Marx - ER - 11/13/2006 3:14:31 AM
        
        re: Reading Marx - Publius - 11/13/2006 10:30:43 PM
        
        It'll be a town without a sheriff. - ER - 11/13/2006 11:28:46 PM
        
        And please, don't forget India.................. - Publius - 11/14/2006 1:00:07 AM
        
        Not a lousy presentation at all. - ER - 11/10/2006 6:19:19 PM
        
        the "take away" message: - TB - 11/10/2006 6:36:34 PM
        
        Yes, but if that's the case, - ER - 11/10/2006 7:29:46 PM
        
        the takeaway msg - ER - 11/10/2006 7:41:04 PM
        
        In general, I agree. - TB - 11/10/2006 9:04:00 PM
        
        Anti-Americanism Advanced Lesson - SDAI-Tech1 - 11/10/2006 12:06:39 PM
        
        As a work of fiction, I'll give that about a 3 out of 10. - Yeti - 11/12/2006 7:32:44 AM
        
        3 out of 6 ain't bad - ER - 11/10/2006 2:28:01 PM
        
        Anti-Americanism as defined leaves a void Techi.... - Publius - 11/10/2006 2:02:44 PM
        
        Out of context.. - SDAI-Tech1 - 11/10/2006 2:32:51 PM
    - Losing a two-bit war with a trillion dollar budget. - Bowser - 11/10/2006 3:09:25 AM
      - Try and remember how we won WWII. That's why it ended quickly. (n/t) - TB - 11/10/2006 6:39:52 AM
        
        And Bowser's Old Enough to Remember Personally - Mark Eby - 11/10/2006 7:16:01 PM
      - You Must Like "Mourning" The Dead - Mark Eby - 11/10/2006 3:23:20 AM
        
        Seems like a stretch. Back to "disagree with me and it's treason". - Bowser - 11/10/2006 5:00:25 AM
        
        Never Ever Said That - Mark Eby - 11/10/2006 5:29:56 AM

Whatever happened to Sadam Hussein? - Lindy - 11/13/2006 3:24:49 PM
- Sadam who? - Lindy - 11/13/2006 11:03:09 PM

Russ Feingold rules out 2008 run for President - TB - 11/13/2006 4:58:37 AM
- Why sweat? (n/t) - Tony - 11/13/2006 2:40:44 PM
  - re: Why sweat? - TB - 11/13/2006 5:22:10 PM
    - More consistency please. - Tony - 11/13/2006 6:22:58 PM
      - What I think she is isn't the point. - TB - 11/13/2006 8:38:17 PM
        
        Sooner or later you'll have to admit it. - Tony - 11/13/2006 10:16:28 PM
- Murtha 2008! (n/t) - A. Leftleaner - 11/13/2006 2:25:07 PM

OMG, Gas up 12 cents last Fri!!!!! - carl - 11/13/2006 5:49:52 PM
- It always goes up before Thanksgiving. - REB - 11/13/2006 5:53:38 PM
  - Ever feel YOUR on a DOWNHILL SLOPE - carl - 11/13/2006 7:37:33 PM

This guy knows how to manage unruley customers! - Karl Rove - 11/13/2006 4:55:36 PM
- re: This guy knows how to manage unruley customers! - Karl Rove - 11/13/2006 4:57:26 PM
  - Anybody we know? (n/t) - ER - 11/13/2006 6:22:14 PM
    - It's Scott Evil - Lindy - 11/13/2006 6:55:39 PM
      - I meant the shooter, not the poster. - ER - 11/13/2006 7:14:27 PM

Progress - TB - 11/12/2006 4:36:27 AM
- Even though cherry picking heavily - Tony - 11/12/2006 1:05:19 PM
  - "record breaking" - TB - 11/12/2006 4:46:57 PM
    - Yer right, TB. A damned tragedy for the Democrats. And US. - Bowser - 11/12/2006 5:54:43 PM
      - Storming the tallying places - TB - 11/13/2006 2:41:50 AM
        
        Republican stunt to prevent votes from being counted. See "Florida". (n/t) - Bowser - 11/13/2006 5:40:12 AM
        
        I flattened this myth a while ago. - TB - 11/13/2006 6:00:28 AM
        
        Only in your own mind. Saw the film, myself. - Bowser - 11/13/2006 6:40:56 PM

Pelosi should push for Single Payor Healthcare. - A. Leftleaner - 11/13/2006 3:29:36 PM
- Bush will cave-in! - A. Leftleaner - 11/13/2006 4:39:12 PM

New York Times editorial on Iraq - TB - 11/13/2006 4:50:50 AM
- It's Humpty Dumpty. NO ONE can undo the damage Bush has done. - Bowser - 11/13/2006 5:29:41 AM
  - I've just noticed something. - TB - 11/13/2006 6:09:33 AM

Zawahiri missed death by two hours? - TB - 11/12/2006 4:54:54 AM
- US, Paks use that to calm Paks, justify killing civilians. - Bowser - 11/13/2006 1:22:23 AM
  - Tell me, Bowser... - TB - 11/13/2006 2:39:46 AM
    - I get tired of reading the US is killing innocent people, thousands upon thousands. - Bowser - 11/13/2006 5:38:09 AM
      - Tell me, Bowser... - TB - 11/13/2006 5:59:27 AM
- Skeptical...but - Deacon - 11/12/2006 4:35:26 PM
  - re: Skeptical - TB - 11/12/2006 4:42:51 PM
- Incidentally, for the record... - TB - 11/12/2006 4:56:33 AM

CU Professor Worries About Possible Mega-Quake - Eric - 11/13/2006 4:23:54 AM
- Why do journalists even bother? - dtb - 11/13/2006 5:34:15 AM

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