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YouTube - "Indoctrinate U" Trailer (FC2)
A documentary film covering the assault on free speech and free thought on college campuses
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-zz1HwxIjg
George F. Will - McCain in a Bear Market - washingtonpost.com
George Will is scathing on McCain. Seen on Cee Bee's Friendfeed stream.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/08/AR2008100802926.html
Survey: Evangelicals back John McCain; other religious voters shift to Barack Obama | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Religion | The Dallas Morning News
Excerpt:" In a significant shift in party support from four years ago, monthly churchgoers are backing Democrat Barack Obama in this year’s presidential race, according to a new poll."
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http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/religion/stories/100908dnpolevangelicalvoters...
Indicting the hacker who broke into Sarah Palin's private email - Harpers.org
The DOJ has mounted an extraordinary case against the hacker who revealed Sarah Palin's apparent systematic violation of the Open Records Act (by using a private email address to conduct ...
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http://harpers.org/archive/2008/10/hbc-90003672
Doonesbury, Sept. 28, 2008 on "24" and torture
Sort of funny. Sort of ... not.
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http://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2008/09/28
Tim Dickinson, "Make-Believe Maverick," Rolling Stone (Oct. 16, 2008) - an exposé on McCain
Rolling Stone publishes one of its standard attack pieces on McCain. They manage to get a lot of pretty damning quotations from some former close associates, even some current friends, an...
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http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/make_believe_maverick_the_real_john_mccain
Corvus Consulting : Obama App: Is this the Future of Electoral Campaigns?
"Elections are probably the most complicated and drawn out conversion processes, aiming to capture the ultimate clickthrough: someone’s vote. The ingenuity and imagination of the Obama ...
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http://www.corvusconsulting.ca/articles/2008/10/03/obama-app-is-this-the-future-of-electoral...
DISBARRED! | GamePolitics
Na Na Na Na, Na Na Na Na. Hey hey-ey, good bye!
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http://www.gamepolitics.com/2008/09/25/disbarred
A Cartoon—By Mr. Fish (Harper's Magazine)
Sort of funny. And sort of not.
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http://harpers.org/archive/2008/10/hbc-90003649
Please tip, we are trying to raise $700 billion
Seen on Vinay's Friendfeed stream.
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http://www.gigglesugar.com/2170612
Political Conservatives Fear Chaos; Liberals Fear Emptiness
From the page: "“Political conservatives envision a world without God in which baser human impulses go unchecked, social institutions (marriage, government, family) fall apart and chaos...
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080924124549.htm
Bobby May, McCain operative in Buchanan County, VA, says he's not a racist
You can't make this stuff up. If elected, Obama will "hire rapper Ludacris to 'paint [the White House] black... Mandatory Black Liberation Theolgy courses taught in all churches... Change...
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http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2008/10/why-we-campaign.html
Another arugula-eating professor for Obama Bumper sticker from Zazzle.com
As a professor who also happens to enjoy the occasional arugula leaf in my salads, I found this kind of amusing.
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http://www.zazzle.com/another_arugula_eating_professor_for_obama_bumpersticker-1289832182426...
Your chance to ask Sarah Palin a question, sort of
What an idea. The Democrats have set up a mobile electronic billboard near a Palin rally near LA, and anyone can text a "question for Sarah Palin" to an SMS shortcode and it will be displ...
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http://www.cadem.org/site/c.jrLZK2PyHmF/b.4594449/apps/ka/ct/contactcustom.asp
Arugula, the salad green of America-hating elitist professor types!
I knew there had to be a story on this somewhere. Arugula, the salad green of elitists, America haters, and "pointy-headed professor types" everywhere. But what evidence do we really have...
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/22/AR2008082202958.html
newsobserver.com | All politics is arugula this year
I knew there had to be a story on this somewhere. Arugula, the salad green of elitists and "pointy-headed professor types" everywhere.
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http://www.newsobserver.com/105/story/1201969.html
Fake pollsters' scare tactics target Obama | World news | The Guardian
Anti-Obama push-polling starts to appear in Pennsylvania, Florida, and elsewhere in the U.S., including questions like, "Would you be less likely to vote for Obama if you knew he were sup...
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/03/uselections2008.barackobama1
Lyndsay Moss, "Pope: Millions are losing their religion and declaring God is dead," The Scotsman (Oct. 6, 2008)
Interesting how Benedict unproblematically draws this connection between religious belief and national identity. Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fnews.scotsman....
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http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Pope-Millions-are-losing-.4560395.jp
Vote411.org
VOTE411 is a one-stop-shop for election related information. It provides nonpartisan general and state-specific information aspects of the election process including Absentee ballot infor...
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http://www.vote411.org
The Nation's Christopher Hayes on the bailout
"Dear American: I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude. I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America...
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http://www.thenation.com/blogs/jstreet/363133/bailout_satire
Clipmark: Think your vote will count in November? Don't be so sure
Interview with Bobby Kennedy, Jr., on various allegations of vote-suppression schemes. My first instinct on reading this is to think, "conspiracy nut." But it's not actually as far-fetche...
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http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/3DE565FF-D8E5-4FA4-B2BD-1133B83B3C16
GOP seeks ban on political clothing at polling places | Philadelphia Inquirer | 09/18/2008
The Pennsylvania GOP, seeking to make polling places into a "safe harbor," wants to deny people entrance to voting booths who show up wearing political T-shirts or buttons. This will be t...
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http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/20080918_GOP_seeks_ban_on_political_clothing_at_p...
"Religion in the News," web publication from Tirnity College (Hartford, CT)
Infrequently updated, but high-quality publication. No RSS feeds or anything like that.
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http://caribou.cc.trincoll.edu/depts_csrpl/RINVol11No1/contents_vol11no1.htm
t r u t h o u t | RFK Jr., Mike Papantonio: "Is Your Vote Safe?"
There is some real doubt as to whose votes will actually get to count in the November 2008 federal elections. It's worth reading the whole interview. Annotated link http://www.diigo.com...
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http://www.truthout.org/article/rfk-jr-and-mike-papantonio-is-your-vote-safe
BuyMyShitPile.com: Hey Washington, can you buy my bad investments too?
How'd you like to get rid of your bad assets? Sell them to the government! They're buyin'!
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http://www.buymyshitpile.com
Voter Suppression Wiki Home - Voter Suppression Wiki
Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fvotersuppressionwiki.wetpaint.com%2F%3Ft%3Danon
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http://votersuppressionwiki.wetpaint.com/?t=anon
Rabbis launch pro-Obama group - JTA, Jewish
Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jta.org%2Fcgi-bin%2Fiowa%2Fnews%2Farticle%2F2008091620080916rabbisforobama.html
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http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/2008091620080916rabbisforobama.html
Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the McCain campaign
After publicly accusing Obama of being in the pocket of the mortgage industry (based largely on the claim that Raines was an Obama adviser, which has since proven to have no basis in fact...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/22/us/politics/22mccain.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Conservatives Try New Tack on Campuses - NYTimes.com
On the changing strategies used by conservative groups to increase their influence on curricular choices in U.S. higher education.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/22/education/22conservative.html?pagewanted=all
ABC News: Easily Startled? It Could Reflect Your Politics
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http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MindMoodNews/story?id=5832571
QOD: David Foster Wallace on voting « SchizoFrenetic
On voting and not voting: the two major parties, "...please rest assured [,] are not dumb, and ... are keenly aware that it is in their interests to keep you disgusted and bored and cynic...
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http://zakstar.wordpress.com/2008/09/13/qod-david-foster-wallace
Frank Schaeffer: Sarah Palin: America's Lipstick Fascist
Don't dismiss Frank Schaeffer's scathing comments on Palin. His conservative bonafides are about as good as they get. Seen on @melmcbride 's Twitter stream.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frank-schaeffer/sarah-palin-americas-lips_b_124213.html
The Weasel, Twelve Monkeys And The Shrub : Rolling Stone
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http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/18420304/the_weasel_twelve_monkeys_and_the_shrub/...
World's Smallest Political Quiz
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http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz.html