Rethinking Watergate

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Monday March 11, 2013 · 1:03 PM PDT

2013/03/11 · 13:03

Robert Parry has published a very troubling article about events leading up to the Watergate burglary.

In the case of Watergate – the foiled Republican break-in at the Democratic National Committee in June 1972 and Richard Nixon’s botched cover-up leading to his resignation in August 1974 – the evidence is now clear that Nixon created the Watergate burglars out of his panic that the Democrats might possess a file on his sabotage of Vietnam peace talks in 1968.

A shocking prequel to one of the shabbiest chapters in American history. More below. Read More

The Surprising History of the NRA

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Sunday January 13, 2013 · 5:14 PM PST

2013/01/13 · 17:14

Steve Rosenfeld, at Alternet, has posted a revealing history of the National Rifle Association.

For nearly a century after, its founding in 1871, the National Rifle Association was America’s foremost pro-gun control organization. It was not until 1977 when the NRA that Americans know today emerged, after paranoid libertarians who equated owning a gun with the epitome of freedom and fomented widespread distrust against government—if not armed insurrection—emerged after staging a hostile leadership coup.

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Joe McGinniss Takes Legal Action Against Sarah Palin

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Friday November 05, 2010 · 6:46 PM PDT

2010/11/05 · 18:46

This is currently being reported by the Anchorage Press.

Sarah Palin's neighbor Joe McGinniss is evidently taking legal action against Sarah Palin's Discovery Channel show for invasion of privacy. He claims he was video-taped without his permission or knowledge while reading on his own backporch.

This could get fun.

Below is a copy of the letter from McGinniss' attorney posted by the Anchorage Press.

Updated: From the comments, here's a link to Slate article on this. Thanks to agoldnyc.

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Friday March 28, 2008 · 4:04 PM PDT

2008/03/28 · 16:04

One of the first comments I posted about Senator Barack Obama here on Daily Kos was "If he runs, he'll stir up some excitement, energize some new democratic voters, and raise the bar for public speaking. That can't be a bad thing even if he doesn't make it on to the ticket." I seem to have drastically understated things.

However, it remains true that one of the most exciting and most progressive aspects of Obama's candidacy is the incredibly wide range of people he continues to energize and inspire. The appeal of Obama, though, has already spread far beyond the borders of U.S. politics. He is a world figure now, and the people he is inspiring are not just those here at home, but people around the globe. One way this can be seen is in the music Obama is inspiring globally.

Below is a sampling of some of the tastiest worldbeat music currently being produced as tributes to the hope Barack Obama is bringing to people everywhere. It's hard to overemphasize how much a President Obama will mean not just here at home, but to the entire world. Enjoy!

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Tuesday October 02, 2007 · 7:54 AM PDT

2007/10/02 · 07:54

Here is a nugget by way of Limited, Inc. and The Virginian-Pilot. It's a profile of just one of the current players involved in the tangled evils of Blackwater. His name is Joseph Schmitz, and he is the "chief operating officer and general counsel of the Prince Group," Blackwater's parent company.

It briefly traces his connection to scandals ranging from the predictable fraud and abuse at the Pentagon through a littany of less likely connections including Ed Meese, George Wallace, Joseph McCarthy, and Mary Kay LeTourneau!

I would have trouble believing one person could have connections to so many scandals, past and present, if this were a made for TV movie, yet our reality seems to have become exactly this twisted and unbelievable now.

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Saturday July 15, 2006 · 1:56 PM PDT

2006/07/15 · 13:56

I am ashamed. Congresswoman Virginia Foxx, who represents myself and the citizens of NC-05, was one of only 33 members of Congress to vote against extending the Voting Rights Act. I am ashamed. And I am angry.

Foxx has racked up many damaging and embarrassing votes during this, her first and hopefully last, term in Congress. She was one of only 11 representatives heartless enough to vote against Katrina relief money. Now she distinguishes herself yet again by voting against extending the Voting Rights Act. She is an embarrassment.

Help me. Help yourself. Help our country. Help get rid of Virginia Foxx... Read More

Universal Press says Coulter NOT a Plagiarist

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Monday July 10, 2006 · 3:21 PM PDT

2006/07/10 · 15:21

The AP is reporting this:

NEW YORK (AP) -- The syndicator of Ann Coulter's newspaper columns rejected allegations that she had lifted material from other sources, saying a review of the work in question turned up nothing that merited concern.
There are only so many ways you can rewrite a fact, and minimal matching text is not plagiarism," Lee Salem, editor and president of Universal Press Syndicate, said Monday in a statement. "Universal Press Syndicate is confident in the ability of Ms. Coulter, an attorney and frequent media target, to know when to make attribution and when not to.

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Thursday June 08, 2006 · 2:46 PM PDT

2006/06/08 · 14:46

This diary is occasioned by the recent outpouring of response to the Libertarian Democrat discussion. While I am one of those who find this formulation problematic, I was also struck by the passionate response kos' original post provoked in so many here at dKos. Near the end of his post, kos writes:

The key here isn't universal liberty from government intrusion, but policies that maximize individual freedom, and who can protect those individual freedoms best from those who would infringe.

Clearly the idea of individual freedom moves a great many people very deeply -- as it should. However, there is another concept that also incites the passions of many of us here in the dKos community. That is the concept of social justice. Read More

Bush and Blair Lip-Syncing

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Tuesday May 30, 2006 · 1:08 PM PDT

2006/05/30 · 13:08

Here's some humor for you posted over on Alternet. It's a video of Bush and Blair lip-syncing a touching duet to Lionel Richie and Diana Ross' Endless Love.

Bush and Blair have kept their love for one another more hidden than WMDs in Iraq. Until now. This clever clip from Atmo productions shows President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair attesting their love for one another in song. Set to the touching Lionel Richie/Diana Ross classic 'Endless Love,' Bush and Blair show that maybe their real talents lie in crooning, not leading the free world.

John Dean Compares Wartime Dirty Tricks of Bush and Nixon

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Saturday May 20, 2006 · 7:45 AM PDT

2006/05/20 · 07:45

In an article published yesterday, John Dean, a man who knows dirty tricks when he sees them, takes a look at the wartime deceptions of both Nixon and Bush and argues that the Bush administration wins hands down. Dean writes, "it is clear that they plan to outdo all their predecessors when it comes to dramatic infringements of civil liberties in the name of wartime necessity."

Karl Marx and the Neo-Con Agenda

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Friday May 19, 2006 · 2:55 PM PDT

2006/05/19 · 14:55

Here is a speculation. There is no author more despised by the right in general, and by the neo-cons in particular, than Karl Marx. Given this, it is probably safe to assume that if Marx was for something, then the neo-cons will be against it.

At the end of the fiery second chapter of their Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels give a surprisingly modest top-10 list of progressive steps that would be "generally applicable" to "most advanced countries" of their day. The list includes such radical ideas as a progressive income tax and free public education for kids. In fact, most of the steps they proposed no longer strike modern readers as particularly radical, having long ago passed into the realm of political common sense. That is, until now.

Recently the far right has attacked, successfully in most cases, almost every item on this 19th century wish list for progressive politics. Read More

Remember José Gutiérrez

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Thursday May 18, 2006 · 7:21 AM PDT

2006/05/18 · 07:21

Marine Lance Corporal José Gutiérrez holds the sad honor of being the first U. S. soldier killed in the Iraqi conflict. José Gutiérrez was not a U. S. citizen. He was an illegal immigrant.

There are so many tragedies, contradictions and ironies surrounding the story of José Gutiérrez; it is hard to do justice to them all. He was an orphan from Guatemala. He made his way 3000 miles to the U. S. on his own. He was arrested at the U.S. border but because he had no family and lied about his age, rather than being deported he was placed in foster care. He graduated high school. He got a green card. He joined the Marines. He was killed on the first day of the Iraqi invasion. He was killed by friendly fire. He is not buried in Arlington National Cemetery, but in Guatemala City. Read More

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Obama's Worldbeat

Blackwater Stranger than Fiction

My Congresscritter voted against the Voting Rights Act and I'm pissed

Universal Press says Coulter NOT a Plagiarist

With Liberty and Justice for All

Bush and Blair Lip-Syncing

John Dean Compares Wartime Dirty Tricks of Bush and Nixon

Karl Marx and the Neo-Con Agenda

Remember José Gutiérrez