Author: BooMan

The NDC and BDC Sold Us Out

With Markos Moulitsas meeting DLC Chairman Harold Ford, Jr. on this week’s Meet the Press, I thought I’d point how strong the correlation is between membership in the New Democratic Coalition (NDC) and the Blue Dog...

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Frivolous Friday Open Thread

My heart bleeds: PARIS (Reuters) – Jet setters in Saint-Tropez may be grounded after French authorities limited helicopter flights to the exclusive resort following complaints about the noise. What/who is breaking your...

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Two Profiles in Courage

E.J. Dionne has a very interesting column in today’s Washington Post, entitled “Why the Democrats Caved”. Of special interest to me was the role of two Blue Dog Democrats: Heath Shuler of North Carolina and...

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The Media Trashed Itself

Whenever I talk to print reporters about blogging I hear the same refrain: We’re destroying their credibility, we don’t give them enough credit for how hard they work, and people need to have faith in their...

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Serious Journalists

We need another 9/11, and: “Americans loved the 1991 Gulf War.”- Stu Bykofsky, Philly Daily News The article just gets worse from there. This guy probably gets health care. That’d be...

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