Abramoff Emails: Quid Pro Quo
Looks like Casino Jack's emails provide circumstanial evidence of a quid pro quo: 10k to the RNCC on behalf of Ney and Ney suddenly feels compelled to make nice statements about Adam Kidan and negative...
View ArticleUniversity of Miami Students Take Over Admin Building
At Discourse.net Professor Froomkin reports that 20 students have taken over the Ashe Administration Building at the University of Miami and asks why is Donna Shalala afraid of Father Frank...
View ArticleClass Warfare: 18 Families financed Estate Tax Repeal Campaign
Public Citizen has released a report (warning pdf file) detailing how "18 families worth a total of $185.5 billion have financed and coordinated a 10-year effort to repeal the estate tax, a move that...
View ArticleTalk Shows: Dean Shows How It Is Done
As an unabashed Howard Dean fan, I reveled in this. Crooks and Liars has the video. You have to suffer through Tom Delay first, but it is worth it. Some quoteables below the fold. On the Tom Delay's...
View ArticleAbramoff Partner Names 4: Bob Ney, Shelley Moore Capito, Don Young & Steven...
Oddly enough, they're all Republicans... If I am not mistaken, Shelley Moore Capito, Don Young and Steven LaTourette are new additions to the roll call or if you prefer the Grand Ole Docket. Highlights...
View ArticleStabbed in the Back: The Past and Future of a Rightwing Myth
TPM in making a point about Pete Hoekstra pointed me to this article by Kevin Baker in Harper's entitled Stabbed in the Back: The Past and Future of a Rightwing Myth. Below is a brief summary. I don't...
View ArticleI was a Republican until they lost their minds. Reader participation requested
The full quote from the Round Mound of Rebound: "I was a Republican until they lost their minds," he said. "The word 'conservative' means 'discriminatory,' practically. It's a form of political...
View ArticleApproximately 260 Absentee Ballots in Palm Beach Rejected for Lack of...
This diary is mainly for Florida voters. If you know a Florida voter- GET THE WORD OUT. SIGN THE OUTSIDE ENVELOPE. I can't be any plainer than that. Without a signature it will not be counted. The...
View ArticleDR Show 11:00AM EDT Today: Douglas Feith
The Diane Rehm Show today will have Douglas Feith discussing his new novel.. er... memoir.. "War and Decision" (Harper).I am thinking it would be good to have polite knowledgeable listeners call...
View ArticleThe L Word Almost Debuts in the NY TIMES
Looks like tomorrow's NY Times almost uses the word lie. Michael Cooper and Jim Rutenberg find all sorts of ways to almost say the word lie. Maybe the week is turning out all right after all.Somewhere...
View ArticleGOP's Admission in Court- No Mass Challenges in FL
I am going to violate all diary rules due to the nature of the news.The Republicans' concession came under questioning by Florida Circuit Judge P. Kevin Davey, who demanded specific assurances that the...
View ArticleA Rarity: Judge Declares Note Cancelled
I have prosecuted and defended mortgage foreclosure. I have friends on both sides of the issue. This is a rare, I only know of maybe 3 to 5 cases where something similar has happened here in Florida....
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