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A tongue-in-cheek Canadian website is offering to help hook up single American liberals with their Canadian counterparts to dodge four more years of Dubya. Here is what MarryAnAmerican.ca says: Now that George W. Bush has been officially elected, single, sexy, American liberals – already a threatened species – will be desperate to escape. These lonely, [...]
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The New Yorker ran an article in the spring called Fight on the Right. It was about Republican Senator Arlen Specter's fight in Pennsylvania to retain his party's nomination. Ultimately, the old-skool Republican moderate did that and went on to win Tuesday night. This, however, is the phrase that stuck with me. It's from conservative activist Grover [...]
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Read this excerpt from what I think will become known as a seminal article on Dubya by Ron Suskind in the Oct. 17 NYT Magazine – “Faith, Certainty and the presidency of George W. Bush“: (BTW, the headline refers to this post)
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I attach for your linking pleasure columns from Thomas L. Friedman, Maureen Dowd and William Safire on the U.S. election, plus a bonus editorial:
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“I never thought I’d say this, but I really miss voter fraud.” :) That was preceded by Stewart saying that he passed out around 10:40 p.m. Tuesday night and woke up naked and bruised outside his studio. “Anything happen?” he deadpanned. Correspondent Ed Helms said tonight was the last night in America for going to [...]
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