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Stuck in the muck: Mudlslinging isn’t new. Here’s the messy truth.

Posted by Bill Swiggard, Monday, October 13, 2008

RFK Jr: The Last Refuge of a Scoundrel

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"In 2004, America's malleable mainstream media allowed itself to be manipulated by artful Republican operatives into devoting weeks of broadcast attention and drums of ink to unfairly desecrating John Kerry's genuine Vietnam heroics while obligingly muzzling serious discussion of George W. Bush's shameful wartime record of evasion and cowardice. Last week found the American media once again boarding Republican swift boats" - RFK Jr
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Sunday, October 12, 2008

NYT Op-Eds (6)

"The McCain campaign has crossed the line between tough negative campaigning and inciting vigilantism, and each day the mob howls louder" (Rich); "The decline and fall of the American Empire echoes the experience of the Romans, who also tumbled into the trap of becoming overleveraged empire hussies" (Dowd); "The market is re-evaluating and re-pricing every asset in the world, without mercy. It is going to do whatever it’s going to do — whichever way greed and fear tug it" (Friedman); "How financial panic influenced the philosophies of Ralph Waldo Emerson" (Bloom); "How the philosophies of a physicist, a wizard and a serial killer warned us of this financial crisis" (Guest Op-Ed); "I can speak with authority: Gov. Sarah Palin’s mocked claim that Alaska’s proximity to Russia gives one a leg up on matters of national security was, in effect, official United States policy. Consider Operation Moosehorn" (Navasky)
Posted by Ian Alterman, Sunday, October 12, 2008

Going negative: Pathetic, but it works

Posted by Bill Swiggard, Sunday, October 12, 2008

What honeymoon? The proposals that could bind Obama

Posted by Bill Swiggard, Sunday, October 12, 2008

Voter election guide to human rights and civil liberties

Posted by Bill Swiggard, Sunday, October 12, 2008

t r u t h o u t | Marilou Johanek | Financial Crisis Buries DoJ Bombshell

Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, October 11, 2008

Alaska probe finds Palin ‘abused her power’

Posted by Bill Swiggard, Saturday, October 11, 2008

Will McCain do anything to win?

Posted by Bill Swiggard, Saturday, October 11, 2008

Troopergate investigator: Palin ‘unlawfully abused her authority’

Posted by Bill Swiggard, Saturday, October 11, 2008

What don’t they know?

Posted by Bill Swiggard, Friday, October 10, 2008

Hoover vs. Roosevelt?

Posted by Bill Swiggard, Friday, October 10, 2008

12 New stomach-turning revelations about Sarah Palin

Posted by Bill Swiggard, Friday, October 10, 2008

Reality intrudes and McCain buckles

Posted by Bill Swiggard, Thursday, October 9, 2008

Running from reality

Posted by Bill Swiggard, Thursday, October 9, 2008

How low will Palin go in her mudslinging?

Posted by Bill Swiggard, Thursday, October 9, 2008

Now who doesn’t get it?

Posted by Bill Swiggard, Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Debate II: Who is John McCain?

Posted by Bill Swiggard, Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Obama vs. McCain: Who won?

Posted by Bill Swiggard, Wednesday, October 8, 2008

NYT (3): International News

Georgia's "culture of censorship"; the indigenous Yanomamis claim that religion was doing better than politics in helping them; and Muslims gain power in Indonesia.
Posted by Ian Alterman, Tuesday, October 7, 2008

The destructive policies of President Bush

Posted by Bill Swiggard, Tuesday, October 7, 2008

The flimflam strategy

Posted by Bill Swiggard, Tuesday, October 7, 2008

A country in shambles under GOP rule

Posted by Bill Swiggard, Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Charles Kaiser on conservative pundits’ love affair with Palin

Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, October 6, 2008

Petraeus - McCain’s real running mate

Posted by Bill Swiggard, Monday, October 6, 2008