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To Catch a Thief
by Maureen Dowd
Lenny and Squiggy were nowhere in sight.But Hillary was doing her best to come across as a “Laverne & Shirley” factory girl as she headed away from not-a-chance Wisconsin and on to gotta-have Ohio.She was drinking red wine and talking up the virtues of imported Blue Moon beer with a slice of citrus on her plane and putting up an ad in Ohio about how she works the night shift, too, just like the waitresses, hairdressers, hospital workers and other blue-collar constituents that she’s hoping to attract. | US Supreme Court Throws Out Wire-Tapping Case
by CommonDreams.org
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out a bid by journalists and professors to challenge the legality of the US administration’s wire-tapping program.0219 10The program, brought in after the September 11, 2001 attacks, allows US national security agencies to monitor suspect telephone calls and emails between the United States and overseas without first obtaining a judge’s order. | Beyond CheneyBush: A Realistic (Cynical?) View of Change
by Bernard Weiner
Here's a brief survey of where we are now in the Election 2008 cycle, which might help progressives figure out where we want to go and maybe even what the post-CheneyBush future might look like. Four quick observations:1. WHAT IF....Let's assume, at least for the sake of argument, that the November election proceeds without attempts at intervention or "postponement" by CheneyBush, and that it is a reasonably honest one, with a minimum of electoral fraud involved. (Certainly, what we've witnessed in the primaries should make us all nervous: a hundred thousand votes not counted in Los Angeles, unsecured ballot boxes left overnight in poll workers' homes in New Mexico, votes not being recorded or going to other candidates on touchscreen voting machines in New Hampshire, etc. etc.) | Can Clinton pull out of this nose dive?
by Doug Thompson
With 10 straight losses and the latest trouncing in Wisconsin and Hawaii, Hillary Rodham Clinton’s nose diving campaign is spiraling downward towards political oblivion.At Clinton’s national campaign headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, senior aides screamed and shouted into the early morning hours with one side urging the New York Senator and former First Lady to attack frontrunner Barack Obama without mercy and the other pushing her to be calm, collected and Presidential. | Clinton campaign fingerprints on Obama plagiarism charge
by Raw Story
Hillary Rodham Clinton says reporters, not her campaign, uncovered evidence of Democratic rival Barack Obama sharing speech lines with Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick.She made the claim Tuesday despite the fact her campaign posted video clips on YouTube illustrating similarities in the speeches and has suggested in several instances that the shared lines amount to plagiarism. | Pat Robertson 'sort of outed' own producer as cocaine user
by David Edwards and Muriel Kane
MSNBC's Willie Geist noted with astonishment on Morning Joe that Pat Robertson, a leader of the religious right, "sort of outed his producer on his show the other day.""Our producer showed me something several years ago," Robertson stated on a broadcast of the 700 Club. "He was bragging that he doesn't drink any alcoholic beverages ... but he does ingest a paste of cocoa -- not cocoa like chocolate, but coca like cocaine -- and he said that's what keeps him strong. He gets it from Evo Morales down in Bolivia." | FEMA misspent money from trailer sales
by Eileen Sullavan
The Federal Emergency Management Agency misspent millions of dollars it received from selling used travel trailers, government investigators have found.Instead of buying more trailers — as allowed under the law — FEMA used more than $13 million toward fully loaded sport utility vehicles, travel expenses and purchase card accounts, according to a draft report by the Homeland Security Department's inspector general obtained by The Associated Press. The report is to be released Friday. | Author: Right wing intellectuals make wishful thinking sound rational
by Mike Aivaz and Nick Juliano
Susan Jacoby, a prominent intellectual who worries about the growing disregard for reason in American political debates, says the dumbing down of political discourse is affecting how citizens choose their leaders and is letting candidates manipulate their audience. | Obama Foes: Mad As Hell and They're Not Going to Take It Anymore
by Steve Young
Sure, I stole it. But isn't that the point? That's what it's there for.Barack Obama uses a line or two from someone else and all of a sudden it's a big campaign story. But should it be a story at all? Plagiarism is such a fuzzy area. Just because someone once used it, doesn't mean it can't be used again. Ask Sylvester Stallone. Ask any network executive who ever pitched a sitcom idea. Do you think Garry Marshall said, "I call it Laverne & Shirley and it's an exact ripoff of I Love Lucy." Of course not. Why? Because it's American capitalism at its best. Oh, we may change a word or two, but since when is recycling bad. It's not stealing. It's protecting the environment. | McCain's Media Mastermind Will Quit if Obama Is Nominated
by Rory O'Connor
If you're a Democratic primary voter in Ohio, Texas or Pennsylvania, and you're still torn between Obama and the Clintons, here's the best reason I know to throw your support to Obama: Mark McKinnon.Love him or hate him, there's general agreement that McKinnon -- the chief media adviser and strategist for presumptive Republican nominee John McCain -- is a genius at what he does. So it's no surprise that, even though it's relatively old 'news,' word that McKinnon will stop working for McCain if Obama is the Democratic nominee has been freshly burning up cyberspace of late. | Clintons Plumb Absurd Depths
by Robert Parry
Like the Bushes, the Clintons seem to believe they have some special entitlement to the White House, and thus whatever they do to get there is justified. The two ruling families function with a monarchical air that is unique – or foreign – to the American experience. | Small donations add up for Obama
by Michael Luo
A cluster of cramped cubicles, tucked away in a rear corner of Senator Barack Obama's campaign headquarters here, serves as the heart of a fund-raising machine that has reshaped the calculus of the 2008 election.Obama's finance director, Julianna Smoot, who has helped him raise more than $150 million so far, does not even have her own office. A Ping-Pong table is the gathering spot for Friday lunches for her team. | Assassination plots and schemes: Castro in the crosshairs
by Don Bohning
Before disappearing from public life in 2006 and officially stepping down as Cuba's president Tuesday, Fidel Castro ruled the country with an iron fist, despite numerous attempts by his enemies to do away with him.The CIA-directed April 1961 invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs was just the tip of the iceberg when it came to U.S. government efforts to rid Cuba of Castro. | The History of Hope
by Peter Dreier
America seems to be holding its breath, trying to decide what kind of country we want to be. The current presidential election may provide an answer.Political campaigns don’t ignite grassroots movements for change, but politicians, by their rhetoric and actions, can encourage or discourage people from joining crusades for social justice. They can give voice and lend credibility to people working for a better society. | At Gitmo, even acquittal may not set you free
by Muriel Kane
On February 11, the Pentagon announced it would be trying six Guantanamo detainees for war crimes and seeking the death penalty. However, according to Russ Tuttle of The Nation, "the trials are rigged from the start."Tuttle interviewed Col. Morris Davis, the former chief prosecutor for the military commissions, who resigned last fall, calling the system "deeply politicized." Davis has suggested that the cases are being tried in 2008 purely because of the presidential election. | Rigged Trials at Gitmo
by Ross Tuttle
Secret evidence. Denial of habeas corpus. Evidence obtained by waterboarding. Indefinite detention. The litany of complaints about the legal treatment of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay is long, disturbing and by now familiar. Nonetheless, a new wave of shock and criticism greeted the Pentagon’s announcement on February 11 that it was charging six Guantánamo detainees, including alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, with war crimes–and seeking the death penalty for all of them. | For McCain, Self-Confidence on Ethics Poses Its Own Risk
by Jim Rutenberg
Early in Senator John McCain’s first run for the White House eight years ago, waves of anxiety swept through his small circle of advisers.A female lobbyist had been turning up with him at fund-raisers, visiting his offices and accompanying him on a client’s corporate jet. Convinced the relationship had become romantic, some of his top advisers intervened to protect the candidate from himself — instructing staff members to block the woman’s access, privately warning her away and repeatedly confronting him, several people involved in the campaign said on the condition of anonymity. |
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