He Raised Half A Billion Online (4)
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Yes we did. The true dimension of the revolution that Obama realized in American politics is now quantified. This changes everything in every future campaign, and has just as much resonance for media and fundraising in general. I don't believe that Obama would have ever been able to become president in the era before the Internet. And I don't believe the implications of that have yet to fully sink in.
Seven Years (1)
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Today a federal district judge ordered that five Gitmo detainees be released. Greenwald:The five men ordered released today have been imprisoned in a cage by the Bush administration for 7 straight years without being charged with any crimes and without there being any credible evidence that they did anything wrong. If the members of Congress who voted for the Military Commissions Act had their way (see them here and here), or if the four Supreme ...
The Brand Collapses (3)
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The Power Of Love (1)
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A reader writes:I am a 26 year old heterosexual, white male who is in the best relationship of my life. She is a 26 year old Egyptian woman. We're very happy and recently she met most of my family and extended family. They loved her as well. We even hope to marry someday. I am so grateful that I live in a country that would honor that bond. As you know, it wasn't too long ...
McCarthy Concedes (1)
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When even the Cheney-Addington fan writes the following, you have some idea of just how dumb and counter-productive Bush's detainee policy has been: It seems pretty clear that the Bush administration did not help matters here. Nearly seven years ago, the President publicly claimed the Algerians were planning a bomb attack on the U.S. embassy in Sarajevo. Last month, however, the Justice Department suddenly informed the Court that it was no longer relying on that ...
Progress? (2)
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SurveyUSA writes that the prop 8 protests "have not changed many minds":Of the those adults who tell SurveyUSA they voted FOR Prop 8, 90% of them told us recent rallies held by “No on Prop 8″ Protesters have not changed their minds about the issue. 8% say protesters have changed their minds.But an 8 percent swing among Yes on 8 voters would have made the difference. Imagine if we had run ads with gay couples ...
The Fringe (1)
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Suderman is enthralled by it:Today, for example, I’ve gotten emails urging me to "Save Rush Limbaugh, Hannity, O’Reilly Before It Is Too Late" and — one of my favorites so far — an offer to teach me how to "Obama-proof" my financial portfolio. Part of me still worries that this sort of paranoia, which isn’t new (wacky political newsletters of all political stripes were huge in the 80s and early 90s), but is now far ...
Mental Health Break (1)
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Dog Whistles (3)
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Thoreau has an epiphany:For a long time, I was kind of amazed by the libertarian rhetoric of the GOP, the way that somebody could argue for torture and corporate welfare and unchecked police powers and massive deficits and a global empire, and then follow it up with “Because I believe in limited government and the free market.” The cognitive dissonance wasn’t what bugged me (I’m cynical enough to take it as a given that politicians ...
Modernity, Faith, And Marriage (6)
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Reading this piece by Rod Dreher is saddening to me. What separates Rod from many others on the right is his passionate sincerity. Even when he goes overboard, it's all real. He's not a cynic; and he grapples in ways many others on the social right do not with the fact of modernity, which makes the dream of cultural conservatives just that ... a dream. And not of the future, but of the past. Rod ...
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this is a great piece by Sullivan on modernity. key graf: "If conservatism is to recover as a force in the modern world, the theocons and Christianists have to understand that their concept of a unified polis with a telos guiding all of us to a theologically-understood social good is a non-starter. Modernity has smashed it into a million little pieces. Women will never return in their consciousness to the child-bearing subservience of the not-so-distant past. Gay people will never again internalize a sense of their own "objective disorder" to acquiesce to a civil regime where they are willingly second-class citizens. Straight men and women are never again going to avoid divorce to the degree our parents did. Nor are they going to have kids because contraception is illicit. The only way to force all these genies back into the bottle would require the kind of oppressive police state Rod would not want to live under."
Hot For Daschle (1)
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Ezra Klein is ecstatic:You don't tap the former Senate Majority Leader to run your health care bureaucracy. That's not his skill set. You tap him to get your health care plan through Congress. You tap him because he understands the parliamentary tricks and has a deep knowledge of the ideologies and incentives of the relevant players. You tap him because you understand that health care reform runs through the Senate. And he accepts because he ...
eQuality? (1)
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eHarmony settled a legal dispute and will now cater to gay clientele. Dan Savage has a hard time getting worked up:I've never understood the outrage about eHarmony. Yes, it's a dating website for heteros, and they don't match up queers and, yes, that smacks of discrimination. Hell, it actually is discriminatory. But there are tons of dating websites out there for homos—lots of which don't match up heteros—and as rights violations go, eHarmony was pretty ...
What's Your Type? (2)
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This site claims to be able to analyze a blog and determine its "type." I plugged the Dish in and it spat back this: The independent and problem-solving type. They are especially attuned to the demands of the moment are masters of responding to challenges that arise spontaneously. They generally prefer to think things out for themselves and often avoid inter-personal conflicts. The Mechanics enjoy working together with other independent and highly skilled people and ...
Pizza Via Tivo, Ctd. (1)
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Drum isn't impressed:Oh please. I worked for a video-on-demand company back in 2002, and even then "pizza on demand" was a cliche. It turns out that just about the first thing every shiny new broadband offering offers is....pizza delivery via your TV. I think the first time was 1994. It never went anywhere, though, because it turned out that ordering pizza by phone isn't really much of a hassle.
"Conservative" "Intellectuals" (2)
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The Economist puts the boot in:Another reason is the degeneracy of the conservative intelligentsia itself, a modern-day version of the 1970s liberals it arose to do battle with: trapped in an ideological cocoon, defined by its outer fringes, ruled by dynasties and incapable of adjusting to a changed world. The movement has little to say about today’s pressing problems, such as global warming and the debacle in Iraq, and expends too much of its energy ...
The Rise Of Gay Conservatives? (1)
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Freddie DeBoer makes a prediction: As homosexuality becomes less and less differentiated from conventional life, and there are more and more victories for gay normalcy and gay acceptance, there will likewise be less reason for a gay rights movement. And as gay people become fully integrated into the American experience as equal participants, the need for gay people to ally with any one partisan or ideological apparatus will shrink. What do you think we've been ...
A Day's Blogging (1)
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A reader writes:I don’t know how you routinely evaluate your blogging performance (hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, etc), but today has been a good day of blogging on the whole. On top of the usual interesting topics, I enjoyed today’s variety. When you woke up today, did you think you’d be posting about Nigerian Email Scams, Nate Silver getting in some guy’s grill, Stephen Baldwin, Thomas Kinkade movies, Kirk Cameron (Oh, the hathos!), and hot chicks ...
Obama Pwns Zawahiri (2)
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