Author: BooMan

Tonight’s House Votes

Just to follow up on Steven’s post this morning about the Blue Dog coalition: all of the following Blue Dogs, except the ones that are struck out, voted against James McGovern’s Out of Iraq bill. Notice that my...

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Grateful Dead Day, Thirty Years Later

Thirty years ago the Grateful Dead rolled into Ithaca, New York to play a concert in Cornell University’s Barton Hall. The spring tour of 1977 contains a higher concentration of ‘classic’ Dead shows than any...

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Blair Announces Resignation; Congress Votes

In an announcement that can only induce in Americans a strong feeling of Anglo-envy, Tony Blair said today that he would step down on June 27th. Would that it were so for George W. Bush and his quail-hunting sidekick. “I ask you...

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The GOP is Cracking

Think Progress has the video, here is the transcript from tonight’s NBC News. Tim Russert reports on a bit of a palace revolt. WILLIAMS: Tonight we’re also able to report new and exclusive details on the politics of the...

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