tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60408832011-08-10T10:33:25.676-04:00An inside look at politics and cultureArthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18389904532082323023noreply@blogger.comBlogger4631100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6040883.post-37303233858110666542011-05-24T02:30:00.011-04:002011-05-24T15:51:16.395-04:00

High Noon: Tuesday Protests Take on "Fully Loaded" Chairman, GOP-Style Dems Over DC Cuts to PoorThe scandal-plagued chairman of the DC Council, Kwame Brown, best known for asking city taxpayers to pay for a "fully loaded" Lincoln Navigator worth $2,000 a month, is joining with other GOP-style Democrats to slash city services for the poor. At the same time, they're opposing the mayor's

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Watch more free documentaries

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Meltdown Risk? How to Help and Follow Breaking News from JapanThe new explosion at the third Japanese reactor indicates likely damage to the nuclear fuel container, Japanese nuclear experts say, but that's still not clear. One of the best sources of recent news is the NHK World live stream. Here's multi-streams in English and Japanese: http://www.ustwrap.info/multi/nhk-gtv::tbstv::yokosonews::

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The great Sonny Rollins improvising on the American Songbook and jazz standards

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Charlie Rose - Economy / Lawrence Summers February 18, 2009

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inspiring song from the Superbowl rock and roll champ

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The New Unionbusting TacticArt Levine: Big Business's Threat to America: Bust Unions or We'll Go Overseas

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Hear our latest interviews on political controversies on the "D'Antoni and Levine Show." This week's guests: Salon's Washington bureau chief, Walter Shapiro, and Cliff Schecter, author of The Real McCain.

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Here's my updated MediaMaster Radio station, drawn from my Itunes collection. Enjoy!

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Live: Streaming Video Live ConcertsFuzzyTV: LinkList

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Hear Kate Rusby, the Folksinger with England's Most Beautiful Voice.It's all courtesty of Imeem, a legal music sharing website. Anyone can join www.imeem.com and access on-demand playlists of practically any artist. (If you don't want the hassle of registering, feel free to use my log-in info: artslevine@yahoo.com and password: delta1) After logging in, you click on the Art name in upper-right

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Joan Osborne Sings Her Heart OutTo get a full sense of Joan Osborne's singing power, check out this excerpt from the Motown documentary, Standing in the Shadows of Motown, "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted." She didn't perform the song at Thursday night's Birchmere show, but she still blew the crowd away with the power, range and versatility of her singing. After the first Motown song plays,

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Joan Osborne sings, from a Imeem streaming music playlist. She performed tonight at Birchmere in Alexandria, VA and did a great job. She's far more versatile than just the offbeat folkie singer-songwriter known for "If God were One of Us." Check out her smoldering version of "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted" from the great documentary on the Motown sidemen,Standing in the Shadow of Motown. You

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Hear the D'Antoni and Levine Show, every Thursday at 5:30 p.m. EST:

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Here's Where to Go for the Latest On Our Radio Show:D'Antoni and Levine|2008

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Hear more streaming music from my MediaMaster Radio Station:

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Here's My Last.Fm Playlist. Even more streaming music offering eclectic music can be found a few postings below in the "My Radio" icon from Media Master, and on the left side of this web page with the Pandora link. Click any one of them and enjoy:table.lfmWidgetblogger_playlist_445b7c134e85c61521f27d186445be9c td {margin:0 !important;padding:0 !important;border:0 !important;}

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After grabbing Hillary's voters, Obama's powerful victory speech links the drive to end the Iraq war with economic reform in a new attack on McCain. And his victories Tuesday, especially in Maryland and Virginia, erode the base of support for Hillary Clinton, as he scores with women, men and union members, although Hillary still garners an important advantage -- although shrinking -- among white

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Here's a track from a new media storage service, humyo.com, that's Lucinda Williams covering Bob Dylan's "Positively 4th Street."

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Listen to the lovely British folksinger Kate Rusby do a great version of Richard Thompson's "Withered and Died."

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Here's my new radio station, with perhaps the most eclectic range of music on the Web, guaranteed 100% schlock-free:

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Hear Art Levine tell Thom Hartmann about union-busting -- and read more. Here's a link to my talk with Thom Hartmann today on union-busting. Click on the player icon to play the interview of about 10 minutes. Then you can read an informative blog posting about the highlights of my article, and the article itself, on the AFL-CIO blog. The writer observes:Polls show most Americans are

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Who made the biggest blunder of the war, dismantling the Iraqi army? The Village Voice offers a comprehensive look at the conflicting claims, and shows that, in fact, according to the top British liaison with the Bush administration, the Home Secretary David Blunkett, it was, yet again, Rumsfeld and Cheney. All that's been missed in the recent news accounts about Paul Bremer telling Bush

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Lessons for the anti-war left: How progressives and Dems folded on FISA.With progressive groups facing Democrats in Congress seemingly more willing to cave in on demands for a firm withdrawal deadlines from Iraq, it's worth looking at how Democrats and progressives caved in to Bush's "War on Terror" politicking earlier this month on the draconian FISA bill. But traditional progressive groups and

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A Brilliant Take-Down of Iraq hawk's dubious mea culpa Check out cartoonist David Rees's satiric look at Michael Ignatieff's New York Times Magazine essay on why he's changed his mind on the war -- but is still smarter than everyone else. Ignatieff's latest essay is what Latin people call a "mea culpa," which is Greek for "Attention publishers: I am ready to write a book about the huge colossal

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GREAT SOLO PERFORMERS AT THIS WEEK'S FRINGE FESTIVAL Plus: Closing party this Sunday...You've still got time to see some great shows of remarkable performers. Here's a rundown of whom I've already seen and have heard great things about, drawn from a posting I did at The Washington City Paper's audience commentary, more useful than the reviewers' own comments. Some of the best one-person shows

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GREAT FREE MUSIC -- AND HOW TO SAVE IT Here's Internet radio's "killer app" -- totally free software called "BOOMbox Internet Radio," that allows you to select from thousands of stations, and, then, simply, click on the "Super Duper Recorder" and it captures the streaming audio, separates them into separate tracks with song/artist ID and saves it to your hard drive. CAUTION: don't click

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How to get the Iraqis to reconcile before we pull out of there.The Blog | Art Levine: A Modest Proposal: Benchmarks or Green Zone Eviction | The Huffington Post Check out my latest semi-ironic suggestion on getting the warring factions to cooperate before we pull out, and some of the responses my ideas prompted. My basic premise:The President's tentative agreement to include benchmarks in

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How Jewish humor changed the world.On Point : Jewish Humor - Jewish Humor

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Surgeon General Kiley: Walter Reed isn't his first coverup.The Blog | Art Levine: Lt. General "Coverup" Kiley: From Abused Detainees to Neglected Soldiers | The Huffington Post In a piece in Huffington Post, I look at Kiley's disagraceful legacy of hiding the ill-treatment of both detainees and soldiers, pointing out:But the Walter Reed scandal isn't the first time that Kiley has covered up

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See Bob Woodruff's powerful report on recovering from traumatic brain injury in Iraq.ABC News: For the Latest Breaking News, Turn to World News

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Bill Maher cites Art Levine's chemical security article.Five years after 9/11, you figure our government would have already solved the obvious security concerns, like protecting our chemical plants or keeping razors away from Britney. But we've failed miserably. Why? Meet Philip Perry. Already, I can tell you don't like him. Because his name's Philip Perry, which sounds like the name of a guy who

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Judge Seidlin: the worst judge ever? The moron handling the Anna Nicole Smith case in South Florida makes Judge Ito look like Louis Brandeis. Broward judge in Anna Nicole Smith case shoots from the lip: South Florida Sun-Sentinel

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Art Levine goes up against the chemical industry's top lobbyist -- hear the streaming audio. Industrial Chemicals and Homeland Security — KCRW | 89.9FM

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I'm is scheduled to be on KCRW radio program talking about my article on Cheney's son-in-law, Phil Perry, and chemical security. See the local listings and times list below:...But it's being taped, so there's no guarantee I will be broadcast. Station List — KCRW | 89.9FM Also, Salon columnist Joe Conason mentioned my article in his recent column:But the true scandal of Perry's career in

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Keep up to date on Libby trial. Check out the links in the "updates" section in this posting about investigative reporter Murray Waas, who lectured on the Libby trial and administration cover-ups at a "Drinking Liberally" progressive social group Thursday. DCDL

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Cheney Family to U.S.: Drop Dead How Dick Cheney's behind-the-scenes son-in-law, Phil Perry, made you vulnerable to chemical terrorism. The Blog | Art Levine: Dick Cheney's Dangerous Son-in-Law | The Huffington Post

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Catch jazz virtuoso Eric Lewis live on YouTube. The former lead pianist for Wynton Marsalis and Cassandra Wilson tears up the keyboards in his blazing live performances, and you can catch a sample with this video. YouTube - Pianist Eric Lewis

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Why did psychologists help keep Bush's torture operation running? I take a look in the latest issue of the Washington Monthly. The Washington Monthly

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How the psychological association abetted abuse at Gitmo.Collective Unconscionable - Arthur Levine

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In tough political times, take refuge in the compelling sound of early blues. You'll find at the end of this posting one of the best, most varied Internet radio stations playing rural blues -- and you can even make requests. Thanks for the lead , and a tip o' the music hat to my friend, Tom D'Antoni,musical afficionado and author, for turning me on to a station so obscure that sometimes only a

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Rediscover Leonard Cohen A new movie, Leonard Cohen:I'm Your Man, features probing interviews with Cohen, his powerful singing of the "Tower of Song" with U2, and a tribute concert to Cohen by a generally younger generation of artists who revere him, including Nick Cave, Linda Thompson, Rufus Wainright and the odd, adrogynous but striking falsetto singer Antony. Here's Antony's version of "If It

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Long live the Godfather: the inside story of Jame Brown's first big break. The Blog | Art Levine: What James Brown Showed Us, Live and In Person | The Huffington Post

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How do Jews --and Bob Dylan -- feel about Christmas? Some Jewish humorists (including me) take a look at the topic. Here's Lewis Black's take on the topic: YouTube - Lewis Black ChristmasHere's "Christmastime for the Jews," written by a Jewish animator, Robert Smigel, on Saturday Night Live. And here's my view, "Chanukka vs. Christmas: Which is Better?", as reprinted in beliefnet.com.Update: The

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Wofgang's Vault, part of the late Bill Graham's music empire, features 300 live concerts. Type in the name of an artist you admire, and he's likely to be here, in the live concert archive. Here is a sample of Van Morrison live in the 70s. (Note: If you put your mouse over the speaker icon, and click once or twice, an audio player image should appear, then click on that.) Here's a tentative but

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The hidden mesage in Mel's new movie. "SNL's" Gibson Movie Trailer -- Hilarious!! - TMZ.com

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Dylan on WBAI's all night radio with hosst Bob Fass: the way it really was in the '60sThe New Yorker : online : content

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The best overview on how we got into the mess in Iraq. The New York Review of Books: Iraq: The War of the Imagination

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The best overview on how we get out of the mess in Iraq.The Blog | Art Levine: The Best Thinking on How to Exit Iraq | The Huffington Post

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The country's smartest journalist on Iraq offers the least-worst exit-strategy options when there are no good choices left. The Blog | James Fallows: Getting Out of Iraq: What's the Right Idea When All Ideas Are Bad? | The Huffington Post

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Countering spin on the November election results: the surprising populist mandate.The Blog | Art Levine: Common-Sense Populists: The Real Winners in November | The Huffington Post

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Hear the new Beatles album -- a sound collage from George Martin -- for free. As described in this news article, it's a "mash-up" done with the surviving Beatles' approval to accompany a Cirque du Soleil show. I find it a gorgeous sonic blending of Beatles songs that reminds you how great they were, and you might, too, along with the critics who've greeted it with near universal acclaim.Here it

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See John Murtha during the Abascam sting. He wasn't indicted or condemned by the House ethics committee. Was his conduct ethical? You be the judge.The American Spectator: Full video of Murtha's Abscam meeting with the FBI. - Google Video

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Election meltdown begins. Don't let it deter your vote. Poll workers struggle with e-ballots - Yahoo! News

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Protecting the vote: what you can do. The Blog | Art Levine: 1-866-OUR-VOTE and other ways to fight vote suppression | The Huffington Post

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See "Borat's" edgy humor for yourself. YouTube - Borat - Throw The Jew Down The Well He's actually an observant British Jew, Sacha Baron Cohen, with a flair for pushing the envelope.

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This year, it all comes down to the turnout. The Blog | Art Levine: Kerry flap makes turnout more important: will Dems overcome GOP? | The Huffington Post Some exerpts, comparing the Democratic vs. Republican turn-out campaigns. One benefit for Democrats: calling Democratic-leaning voters from home with software from moveon.org, compared to the Republicans' well-organized get-out-the-vote

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Saddam emerging as a new rolemodel for a stable Iraq. The Blog | Art Levine: Possible "Plan B" for Iraq: bringing back a Saddam? | The Huffington Post

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New ABC 9/11 film under fire. It's so biased that even a conservative author critical of Bill Clinton's response to terrorism says it has "zero factual basis." You can write a protest letter, with suggested wording here, that will be sent to ABC to ask it to fix the inaccuracies or flag them. Think Progress

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Pandering to bigotry, from the GOP to the far right-wing.The Blog | Art Levine: Far Right's Dilemma: Hate Jews or just blacks, Hispanics and Muslims? | The Huffington Post

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The horrific inside story of FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security: it's worse than you think. In an important new book, Disaster: Hurricane Katrina and the failure of Homeland Security, co-author Christopher Cooper looks at the Katrina disaster from inside the highest levels of the federal bureaucracy. One nugget among many: the top information gate-keeper at the Department of Homeland

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Great roots music, blues and jazz show -- three hour's worth. After Dylan's XM radio show and Neil Spitzer's American Routes show (which has limited online replay optins), Laura Cantrell's 3-hour radio show may be one of the very best shows featuing roots music, often with country flavorings, and early jazz. She's a strong singer in her own right who has toured with Elvis Costello, and modestly

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A smart take by a British paper on the most influential records of the modern era. Anything missing here? The Observer | Review | The 50

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A biologist offers a Mencken-style takedown of Ann Coulter's harebrained book on evolution, scientists and liberals. My friend David Dennie tipped me to this very useful critique of Coulter's nutty ideas and her appeal to hundreds of thousands of Americans who believe her. Powell's Books - Review-a-Day - Godless: The Church of Liberalism by Ann Coulter, reviewed by The New Republic Online As

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George Allen's multi-lingual racial slur: a history. George Allen wrecked his chances for a presidential bid with his "macaca" slur aimed at an Indian-American filming his talks for an opponent.Stepping in "macaca" | Salon News As Salon explains:But those three syllables do not often come together by accident. In fact, George Allen may well have been the only one at the rally whose family

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My latest investigative piece: How the GOP is scheming to block voting rights this year.Salon's shameful six | Salon News Here's the opening section (FYI: if you're not a subscriber, there will be a short ad displayed before you access the Salon site):Eva Steele has a son in the military who is supposed to be fighting for freedom in Iraq, but sitting in a wheelchair in her room in a Mesa, Ariz.,

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Just what we need during the war on terror: firing Arabic linguists who "may" be gay.The Blog | Chris Durang: Hey Bush � What's All This Firing of Gay Arabic Linguist Specialists? | The Huffington Post

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New artist -- Bob Dylan -- seeks attention and friends on MySpace.www.myspace.com/bobdylan

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Check it out: Mother Jones has upgraded its website, with useful round-ups of the most trenchant coverage on the Mideast and links to breaking stories from Raw Story.MotherJones.com | Home - Daily News, Political Commentary and Analysis

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See where Mel gets his anti-Semitism. ABC News: Like Father, Like Son?

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Looking for summer reading? Here's a place to start.Writers' favorite beach reading.

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Tom Friedman, brilliant on Israel, dumb on Iraq, finally throws in the towel on the U.S. occupation of Iraq.Truthdig - Ear to the Ground - Friedman Jumps on the Anti-War Bandwagon

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Here's some easily accessible Jean Shepherd stories for your listening pleasure presented by Max Schmid on WBAI. Radio buffs: check out the wandering but amusing tale of his "private radio hell" on July 27th.Max Schmid on Mass Backwards Here are working links to the Harry Shearer tribute show on Shepherd, A Voice in the Night, parts I and II. The links to the KCRW website aren't working

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An Israeli miliary expert's analysis of how Israel has failed.The war so far / No goals attained - Haaretz - Israel News

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A Lebanese commentator fears that even a multi-national effort to "rid" Lebanon of Hezbollah will lead to the collapse of his country. Remarkz: Fear and Loathing...: "I hope my hope is not misplaced ... But I now fear the worst and we are at very dangerous moment with Israeli troops massing at the border and the US preparing a multinational force ... Perhaps things will either cool down and

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Find those TV clips online.TVEyes

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See Jon Stewart skewer George Bush's devotion to abandoned stem cells compared to the actual lives of victims of war in Iraq and Lebanon. Here's a partial transcript:Bush: I think it’s important to promote a culture of life. I think a hospitable society is a society where every being counts and every person matters. [End clip] Stewart: Every being counts. Every person matters. [Clip of George

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Why the Mideast is spinning out of control: Both the Islamic extremists and Israel want a wider regional war.Why They Fight - Los Angeles Times

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The right's wedge issues have become double-edged swords dividing the right-wing. A must-read by Ellen Goodman of The Boston Globe, reprinted in Robert Scheer's smart online magazine, truthdig.out. Truthdig - Reports - Ellen Goodman: Putting a Wedge Between the Right and Loony Right

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How to prevent an Election-Day meltdown: what you can do. In a related Huffington Post, I pointed to weaknesses in cooperation and outreach by groups working on these issues. And I reported on a little-known new Florida law that could lead to tens of thousands of voters being challenged at the polls and not having their votes counted:Here, for instance, is a state issue that's not getting enough

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Here's what bloggers from the Mideast are reporting -- on both sides of the unfolding Israel-Lebanese warThe Truth Laid Bear

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GOP failures aren't an accident: it's the goal of their approach to governing. As Alan Wolfe writes:The collapse of the Bush presidency, in other words, is not just due to Bush's incompetence (although his administration has been incompetent beyond belief). Nor is it a response to the president's principled lack of intellectual curiosity and pitbull refusal to admit mistakes (although those

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If Democrats lack backbone on the war, the progressive movement needs to show more strength, too. The Blog | Art Levine: Note to Anti-War Movement: Get Your Act Together | The Huffington Post

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Celebrate the 4th with American humor at its best: the prolific, relatively unsung comic genius of Jean Shepherd. Harry Shearer recently created a two-hour tribute show, with generous helpings of Shepherd's unique brand of humor. There's Twain, Thurber, Lenny Bruce, Woody Allen and Richard Pryor in the pantheon of American comic geniuses, but perhaps the most prolific of them all was

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New campaigns aim to take back the government and aid the poor. Part of the problem: looting of the federal government and U.S. treasury by Bush cronies, as detailed by Frank Rich. MoJo Blog: More than a prayer: activists take on corruption and poverty today

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How the peace movement blew it this year on Iraq.TomPaine.com - Missed Opportunity On Iraq

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Eat The Press | Eric Boehlert: The Press Derides Dems on Iraq; The Public Praises Dems on Iraq | The Huffington Post

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Maybe Karl Rove isn't such a genius after all. Making the Democrats look weak on Iraq might appear to DC insiders to be a winning strategy, but take another look. Eat The Press | Eric Boehlert: The Press Derides Dems on Iraq; The Public Praises Dems on Iraq | The Huffington Post

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Test your knowledge: the Hitler vs. Coulter Quiz Give Up Blog

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Here's what progressives are saying about winning back power, taken from the Yearly Kos in Las Vegas. Check out this account from Wonkette. Even the New York Times takes notice of the power of the bloggers. Then see the talks for yourselves. yearlykos - Google Video

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The best long-running roots music radio show: American Routes on NPR stations. Nick Spitzer's show is one of the best, most eclectic radio shows on roots and American music, but they don't archive full shows, just interviews. So if you want to know when it's playing now on the web, click on the American Routes webcast link I've added. One recent show: Jews and Blues, featuring an interview with

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Hear Dylan live from New Orleans Kwaya Na Kisser: Bob Dylan: Live at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Fair Grounds, Acura Stage, April 28, 2006.

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Another look at the new Congressional concerns over liberties. The Blog | Art Levine: Duke Cunningham to Gitmo? New Congressional outcry | The Huffington Post

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