Look who sent a Christmas card! Haven’t seen these two in YEARS…
“Merreh Christmas… Love, Bill & Hill”
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Seems Karl Rove is not going to be sitting quietly on the sidelines. Indeed, it’s hard to figure out what to make of the new, available, accessible, public and on the record Karl Rove, columnist, talking head and blogger.
Rove may have royally screwed the pooch with his revisionist version of the lead up to war […]

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There’s a growing thread over at WebmasterWorld today about the very much unsettled legal matters involving blog and web publishers being held legally responsible for the comments and content posted by other users.
In our burgeoning social media internet, online defamation, libel and slander are becoming an enormous problem - both because of the very […]

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TP has the story on a RIDICULOUS tirade about the Eagle’s new album, “Long Road Out of Eden“, their first new studio album since 1979. Incredibly, Newsbusters whines about the lack of attention paid to islamofacism and the plight of women in the war torn middle-east(!).
It’s well worth a read for a laugh. We participated […]

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Dave Johnson exposes Republicans’ attempt to smear Democrats with a false story about them suggesting immunizations prior to visiting NASCAR events.
Johnson reveals:
In fact the aides were visiting “health care centers, detention facilities and other operations where they could be exposed to communicable diseases” and the immunizations are routine.
The Drudge Report has been headlining the smear […]

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Krugman succinctly states the obvious:
the Graeme Frost case is a perfect illustration of the modern right-wing political machine at work, and in particular its routine reliance on character assassination in place of honest debate.
If service members oppose a Republican war, they’re “phony soldiers”;
if Michael J. Fox opposes Bush policy on stem cells, he’s […]

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In a remarkably weak post on Huffington Post entitled: Scrubbed: Edwards Filmmakers Deleted Website Raises Questions author Sam Stein (de)posits on the controversy he apparently invented specifically for himself regarding a “mystery website” that *gasp* disappeared from the internet, inferring some vaguely nefarious but entirely unspecified conspiracy about presidential candidate John Edwards and the non-political, […]

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Law.com - Judge: Bloggers Entitled to Immunity Under Communications Act
Bloggers cannot be hit with libel suits on the basis of anonymous postings on their Web sites because federal law grants them immunity by explicitly stating that they cannot be treated as the “publisher” of such comments, a federal judge has ruled.
In his 22-page opinion in […]

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Why do people fall for obvious FUD and manipulation so easily? What is it that causes us to suspend rational and intellectual honesty in favor of the emotional “charge” we get out of propaganda?
The quote below summarizes things quite well:
If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it […]

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Doesn’t anyone remember Kenneth Starr?
The White House has indicated no willingness to move beyond Bush’s initial offer to let Rove, Miers and their deputies to speak to committee members in private, without being sworn. Conyers , meanwhile, has signed a contract with the law firm Arnold & Porter worth up to $225,000 through the […]

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