BRAZENLY LIBERAL — a fact-based initiative

Oh yeah, baby! Finally! A Democratic candidate who doesn’t roll over and tremble at the appearance of the swiftboat assholes.
From Rolling Stone, via the New York Times:
It was not all about pop culture. When Mr. Wenner asked how Mr. Obama might respond to harsh attacks from Republicans, suggesting that Democrats have “cowered” in [...]

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Ron Paul to End Campaign
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…and keep me honest.

This scallop has about SIXTY eyes

This scallop has about sixty bright blue eyes, lined up in rows along those fang-y looking bits. Think
about that the next time you tell tall tales over a seafood lunch.
Honesty may well be the best policy, but it often deserts us when no one is watching, [...]

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As amusing as it was to follow New Jersey’s quest for a new state slogan (Our favorite: “New Jersey - it always smells like this.”), one city in the heartland really should go with the obvious: “Des Moines: A Town with Balls!”
From the Des Moines Register, an aerial photo of their two year [...]

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Booze, charm, drugs - your mama told you to watch out for men plying you with these. They can subvert the survival instincts of your lizard brain until next thing you know, you’re saying “yeah, sure, I’d love to see your etchings of the Bushes making wild monkey pumpo!”
But coffee? Everybody’s favorite “safe [...]

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Lawyer: Rice Allegedly Leaked Defense Info
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice leaked national defense information to a pro-Israel lobbyist in the same manner that landed a lower-level Pentagon official a 12-year prison sentence, the lobbyist’s lawyer said Friday.Prosecutors disputed the claim.
The allegations against Rice came as a federal judge granted a defense request to issue subpoenas [...]

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to all the others who won the 2005 James Aronson Awards for Social Justice Journalism. Well deserved!
Juan Cole’s blog, Informed Comment, is regularly featured in our “Hot Blogs and Rabble Rousers” section for good reason.
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Thanks to those who offered advice via comments, email and one rather strange phone call.
It looks as though the archive problem is fixed. Please don’t ask me how I did it. I tried everything and God only knows what worked!
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GRRRR!!!!!!! Once again, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Thus, we have run into the ugly brick wall that is the limit of our technical knowledge. As a result, the links on the right that should take you to the archive files are instead going to the 404 page. [...]

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Scientists have caught a fossil fish in the act of adapting toward a life on land, a discovery that sheds new light one of the greatest transformations in the history of animals.
Scientists have long known that fish evolved into the first creatures on land with four legs and backbones more than 365 million years ago, [...]

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The answer to this would be………yes.
After the screenwriter Walter Bernstein was placed on the blacklist during the McCarthyite era he said his life “seemed to move in ever-decreasing circles”. “Few of my friends dropped away but the list of acquaintances diminished,” he wrote in Inside Out, a memoir of the blacklist. “I appeared contaminated and [...]

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Someone recently asked if anyone remembered the sixties.
I do.
I remember seeing the Beatles perform live at Comiskey Park and bringing my infant son to Love-Ins every Sunday in Grant Park.
I remember Laugh-In and the look of horror on my mother’s face when she saw the Rolling Stones on TV.
I remember getting sick when I tried [...]

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WHY????
WASHINGTON Feb 24, 2006 (AP)— The Bush administration said Friday it won’t reconsider its approval for a United Arab Emirates company to take over significant operations at six U.S. ports.
The chimp didn’t even know the port deal was happening until Congresspeople started bitching to him about it. (Katrina redux)
The former head of the Sept. [...]

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