Recommended Links
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Some of Winston's Faves for News & Background
actual news - smart people - good writing-
Highly credible breaking news, muckraking, source documents. Josh uncovers and breaks corruption stories ( bipartisan), maintains an archive of original documents, and hosts a (left) discussion cafe. Find newsmaker video here on a daily basis. Great site.
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position papers, candidate schedule, campaign updates
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High quality legal guidance on torture, indefinite detention, secret prisons, rendition, signing statements, the unitary executive, and new books, from Jack, Marty and the gang
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Pacific Northwest's Dave Neiwert, author of In God’s Country, Death on the Fourth of July, and Strawberry Days, saves the whales and chronicles white supremacists, xenophobes, Limbaugh, and all manner of hateful extremists, in literate style.
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provocative site that deconstructs the visual rhetoric of the week's news photos
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Digby writes like a dream about each fresh outrage in the best Howard Beale tradition, along with compatriots Tristero, Dday and movie guru Hartley
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Links For Fun
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(A Different) Josh Reads the Comics So You Don't Have To: High quality snark about the funny pages
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Video of one of The Daily Show's all-time great shows: Rampaging Veep Goes Wild in Potentially Lethal Shooting Spree. Thanks to Crooks & Liars!
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Nothing says hysterically hateful reliably wrong lying poisonous batsh*t cuh-raze-ee 'Nooshan like the Queen of Mean.
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Harry is not politically correct. Harry is a misanthrope and an offensive throwback. Harry is funny as hell. Don't miss his archives.
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Media Critique
"On the News": the corporate-owned clowns whose jibber-jabbering defines our world-
Terrific, clear, delightful writing. Cold, harsh, angry, unimpeachable insight. The incomparable Bob Somerby, horrified at the train wreck that is modern scribery, limns its abusive absurdities. Once Al Gore's college roommate, now national treasure.
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The Democrats aren't running against John McCain this year. They're running against the traditional media in whose eyes the first postmodern Presidential candidate can do no wrong.
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You'll giggle, you'll snicker, you'll roar, you won't believe your eyes.
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Opinions You Could Actually Very Nicely Live Without
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Some tubby Pennsylvania lawyer and some even tubbier Cow Hampshire GOP political consultant stop by twice a month to whine and bloviate. Good harmless fun. Except sometimes fights break out.
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Stylish urban gal's always-entertaining musings on politics, culture, and contemporary life
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Why I Post
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suffer them to come unto me
