- Choreography
- True Colors
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- Ahhh, for Yestermonth
- New Polls Have Obama Running Strong In Key States
- Obama To Hold Huge Rally Tuesday Night At Site Of 2008 GOP Convention
- Obama Hammers McCain On "Not About Issues" Quote
- Another Line Blurred?
- Why Is It So Easy To Accept Torture?
- Security From What?
Kate O'Hara
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Where the Rubber Meets the Rove
Planned Parenthood Federation of America is asking for your help in sending a message to the Republican National Convention. For a small donation you can send a condom to a delegate at the DNC.Go here: https://secure.ga0.org/02/rnc08condoms2/nr1_rNmM1IVsS?qp_source=rnc08afe2 Maybe TPM will block...more »
Posted on September 1, 2008 8:20 PM
The U.K. and Ireland Love Obama
I just spent 10 days in the U.K. and Ireland (as in the Irish Republic). Mostly I was there for work—research on neurological and related genetic disorders, mostly focused on the commonalities among bipolar illness, PTSD, stroke, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and...more »
Posted on July 19, 2008 8:28 PM
A Limited Assessment of Obama's European Acceptance
This weekend I head to London for several days, then to Central England, and then to Dublin. I have work to do, meeting with geneticists and neuroscientists in some of the U.K.'s and Ireland's best research facilities. We will be...more »
Posted on July 3, 2008 9:45 PM
Thanks to my New TPM Friends
I spent the day in the lobby area of the massive Marriott on Conn. Ave, NW, DC today where the DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee convened its meeting on the fate of MI and FL. I was here as a...more »
Posted on May 31, 2008 9:32 PM
Memorial Day Honors
Just wanted TPM readers to take a moment this weekend to remember the war dead. These Americans lost their lives defending their country in too many wars—just and unjust. Many volunteered, others were drafted. Let’s remember these fathers, sons,...more »
Posted on May 25, 2008 11:07 AM
Two more SDs for Obama
From the great state of Maryland:Two MD supers for Obama PolitickerMD reports that State Democratic Party Chairman Michael Cryor and Vice Chairwoman Lauren Dugas Glover will endorse Illinois Senator Barack Obama this afternoon....more »
Posted on May 5, 2008 1:58 PM
My Divorce From the Clintons
George McGovern’s campaign was my first. I was just shy of voting age but threw myself into going door to door and electioneering at the polls. He lost but I was not deterred. I volunteered for every Democratic presidential...more »
Posted on May 2, 2008 7:20 PM
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Accck. Don't give him any ideas!
Posted at September 7, 2008 10:15 PM in response to Help Charlie Gibson
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It's a false economy in Alaska, what with the oil companies and rebates checks. It's really not like any other state in the Union.
Posted at September 7, 2008 7:41 PM in response to From One Small-town Person To Another
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What is your salary as governor of Alaska and what types of additional benefits do you receive (housing, health insurance, life insurance, etc...)? Do you think basic benefits such as paid sick leave and health insurance should be available to all working mothers?
Posted at September 7, 2008 11:01 AM in response to Batter Up! Tapper requests queries for Palin (updated)
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Jane: Welcome to the club of the worried well. We are like dogs who have been beaten and we are waiting for the next blow. For me, the first strike was Bush stealing the 2000 election. The second was his getting re-elected under shady circumstances in Ohio. The third has been his Supreme Court appointments. We have been conditioned to expect the worst and it's really hard to believe the worst is not inevitable. Right (and I don't mean that in the partisan sense)no longer prevails in this country. So we are anxious and waiting for that open hand to come at us again.
Take a break for awhile. I did for about a month. Helps a lot. Rent some good long movies (I recommend There Will Be Blood--watched it last night), go for long walks, get out around people going about their everyday lives. Someone else said volunteer. I coach a Special Olympics soccer team and twice a week these wonderful people bring me back to earth.
And, now it's a gorgeous day here on the Chesapeake Bay. Hanna is gone and I'm going outside to pick up the debris.
Posted at September 7, 2008 10:55 AM in response to Full Blown Paranoia
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Thanks for putting this all together in once place. Save me a lot of time. Recommended!
Posted at September 7, 2008 10:39 AM in response to On The Cusp of a Landslide. Keep Fighting!
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Welcome to the party! Great post, really. You forgot that they hate you if you are a community organizer, like a member of the PTSA, a volunteer for Special Olympics, a fundraiser for local veterans benefits programs, a voter registration volunteer. You know, the stuff that small towns and big cities, and all of America relies on.
Jason, you are seeing the damage wrought by all three branches of government controlled by the Neocons. And the slim Democratic majority in Congress not been enough to overcome the Bush veto. I don't think the Republicans have earned the right to keep the White House for another 4-8 years. And they have the Supreme Court, at least for awhile.
I do wish, however, there were more Republicans like you. I wouldn't be as afraid of their control. So, I admire you for sticking with them. Good luck! Why don't you run for office??
Posted at September 6, 2008 6:17 PM in response to The Republican Party Hates Me
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Kenga and Mason, thanks for these ideas. Back to the garden I go for more tomatoes (the rain has slowed). Good idea on the basil. Anyone have any ideas for cucumbers (besides pickles)? Tons of those to deal with. I have dealt with my weekend freakout in the kitchen with the TV and radio OFF.
Posted at September 6, 2008 4:19 PM in response to Weekend Freakout Alert
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The greatest irony to me is that these "small town is the heart of America" folks are the most willing to fear monger and talk about the threat of terrorism, telling us "elitists" in cities on the East Coast, that actually WERE attacked on 9/11, that we are not patriots. Telling city dwellers on the West Coast, another set of targets, that they are the better Americans. It's really outrageous.
Posted at September 6, 2008 12:58 PM in response to Dancing After the Towers Fell
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Thanks for this! The Sage of Baltimore. One of my literary heroes! Great stuff.
Posted at September 6, 2008 11:47 AM in response to McCain's Fighting Words
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I think that's perhaps the most arrogant thing I have ever read on this site, and that's saying something. The Republican party has exploited 9/11 for its own purposes for 7 years. So Top Gun McCain is going to combat the philosophy that spawned it? And we should pick up our pompoms and cheer him on, dance to his music? Well, someone needs to tell him he's being flying his plane over the wrong country. Tsk yourself. What happened on 9/11 is intensely personal to many, as Bslev writes above. I am surprised by his reaction, but I understand what he's saying. I don't get you at all.
Posted at September 6, 2008 10:47 AM in response to Dancing After the Towers Fell
