The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
    Doctor Cleveland's picture

    Bailout II: The Sequel

    By Doctor Cleveland on Wed, 10/13/2010 - 3:25pm | Politics, Business

    So, the story about bad mortgages, by which I mean not simply ill-conceived loans on houses that have hemorrhaged value but loan transfers with forged or non-existent paperwork, is beginning to make it into the daily news. We're going to hear much more about it, I'm afraid.

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    How Sharron Angle Raised $14 Million

    By Michael Wolraich on Wed, 10/13/2010 - 12:24pm | Politics

    How did Nevada Senate candidate and Tea Party favorite Sharron Angle raise an impressive $14 million dollars in three months?

    Elementary, my dear Watson.

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    William K. Wolfrum's picture

    William K. Wolfrum's Morning: Boobie Wednesday

    By William K. Wolfrum on Wed, 10/13/2010 - 6:32am | Health, Media

    Duchess
    Always a woman to me.

    Wolfrum’s Word

    Part of having a recurring blog called “William K. Wolfrum’s Morning” means that some mornings William K. Wolfrum will be busier than normal. This is one of those mornings, as I’ll be taking in my 7-year-old Australian Shepherd, Duchess will be undergoing a mastectomy today as a preventative measure against breast cancer.

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    Breaking: Chilean Miners On Their Way to the Surface, One by One

    By Orlando on Wed, 10/13/2010 - 1:36am | World Affairs

    Updated: I awoke this morning to the fantastic news that all of the miners are on the surface, as of approximate 1 am, GMT. Two rescue workers are also up. Three men still underground.

     

    As of 6:30 a.m. GMT, the first three miners are out. The BBC has a fantastic live feed and live blog, which you can see here:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-11489439

     

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    Does Obama Have the Guts to let DADT Die?

    By NCD on Wed, 10/13/2010 - 12:08am |

    A federal district court judge has driven a stake through the heart of the 17 year old 'don't ask, don't tell' policy on gays in the military, placing an injunction on its enforcement throughout the military and declaring it unconstitutional. The judiciary is a co-equal branch of government, and the judge was doing what the judiciary is supposed to do, ruling to defend the rights of Americans under the Constitution.

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    2010 National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior

    By we are stardust on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 5:32pm |

    Peter Paul Reubens

    It’s been sixty years since Alfred Kinsey’s groundbreaking reports, separate ones on male and female sexuality, opened the lid on the hidden sexual lives of Americans.  It caused discomfort in many circles, but allowed for discussions that were off-limits in social circles, and probably even academic circles.

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    Women Against Christine O'Donnell

    By Doctor Cleveland on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 4:03pm | Politics

    Monmouth University has a new poll on the Delaware Senate and Congressional races, and it's painful for the Republicans, especially for Senate nominee Christine O'Donnell. The top line: Chris Coons is leading O'Donnell 57% to 38%. O'Donnell has a grisly 58% disapproval rating with only 31% favorable, and Delaware voters consider her unqualified for the Senate by a margin of 57% to 35%. That's pretty painful.

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    Please watch and pass it along

    By AmiBlue on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 1:16pm |

    Steve Benen at Political Animal has put together this video.  I don't know about you, but I'm tired of all the political ads smearing candidates.  This one is very convincing in a subtle way.  Please send it along to people you know who are thinking of opting out in 2010.

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    Rebuilding U.S. Infrastructure

    By GotToBeMe on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 9:20am |

    Political Cartoon: Building U.S. Infrastructure

    Jobs are needed in America.  There are many who are willing and able to get to work. Others choose to be asleep at "their" job.

    Crossposted at www.Kavehadel.com/blog

    Artwork 2010©KavehAdel.com

    For more Political Cartoons, sketches or just thoughts visit Kaveh Adel's Art & Humanity Blog

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    How Many Senate Seats Will the Democrats Hold (Including Lieberman and Sanders)

    By Barack Obama on Mon, 10/11/2010 - 10:36pm |
    54 or more
    8% (2 votes)
    52-53
    36% (9 votes)
    50-51
    52% (13 votes)
    49 or fewer
    4% (1 vote)
    Total votes: 25
    Michael Maiello's picture

    An Elitist Takes On Obama

    By Michael Maiello on Mon, 10/11/2010 - 5:22pm |

    Subject: While You Were Not Elite H/T: Atrios.

    (A complete, paragraph by paragraph rebuttal to Time’s Mark Halperin.

    Barack Obama is being politically crushed in a vise. From above, by elite opinion about his competence. From below, by mass anger and anxiety over unemployment. And it is too late for him to do anything about this predicament until after November's elections.

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    Supplicants

    By Richard Day on Mon, 10/11/2010 - 3:27pm |

    15th CENTURY GIRLY-MAN

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    William K. Wolfrum’s Morning: Get the Hunger

    By William K. Wolfrum on Mon, 10/11/2010 - 7:51am | Humor & Satire, Food & Drink, World Affairs

    Hunger

    1,000,000,000 human beings were hungry around the globe in 2010.

    News/Politics

    Hunger: A billion people are hungry. You can't understand that. It's too enormous. Stop, think. Again - A billion people are hungry. Get it, yet?  

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    Stuff I Want to Learn: Sociology Edition

    By Orlando on Sun, 10/10/2010 - 9:49pm | Potpourri

    Yesterday, I went to the mall. This is not a new occurrence. I go to the mall almost every day. It is where the grocery store and the office supply store are, as well as the Starbucks and many, many restaurants. To get to the mall, I ride for about 10 minutes on a mini-bus, filled with people heading in my direction. Yesterday, the driver stopped on the way to fill up his tires. The compressor was owned by a guy who had set up a little business for himself on the side of the road. That’s also no big deal.

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    GotToBeMe's picture

    Political Cartoon: Uncle Sam, People will Speak

    By GotToBeMe on Sun, 10/10/2010 - 8:00pm |

    Uncle Sam is stuck

    No need to bomb, no need to install another "authority" figure, worse than the other.

    People will speak, whether in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan or the United States of America.

    Time to come home. We've got to take care of people here.

    Crossposted at www.Kavehadel.com/blog

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    Countering the Enthusiasm Gap

    By coatesd on Sun, 10/10/2010 - 7:09pm |

                What a difference two years make in times as serious as these. Two Novembers ago, all was hope and glory on the center-left in American politics, all was despair and despondency on the center-right. But that is not how things stand now. The political momentum has shifted back, and shifted back very quickly, into the hands of the very conservative forces whose future looked so bleak when Obama first entered the White House.

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    Christian Pastor's call for avoiding yoga doesn't go far enough

    By Reverend Ezekie... on Sun, 10/10/2010 - 10:55am |

    Dear friends in our Lord Jesus Christ.  Pastor Ezekiel Leviticus here writing to you from the church compound in Amarillo Texas.  I would like to express my support for a fellow brother in Christ who's come under fire for some comments he made while speaking the truth about the evils of Yoga.

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