challenger Marcy Winograd neck-and-neck with Jane Harman?
You can feel it making phone calls, feel it walking the precincts. Something has shifted here in CA-36. Our gerrymandered Caifornia district, where antiwar progressive Marcy Winograd is challenging...
View Article'Fahrenheit 9/11' Marine killed in Iraq (with update)
Sgt. Raymond J. Plouhar, 30, died in a roadside bombing in Iraq"while conducting combat operations" in Iraq's volatile Anbar province, according to a Defense Department announcement yesterday. From the...
View Articlenote from Libby jury bodes well
Yesterday's note from the Libby jurors was revealed this morning, and is being discussed right now on firedoglake:We would like clarification on the charge as stated under Count 3 specifically:Page 74...
View ArticleWhither the LA Times? Zell family political donations (UPDATE)
Sam Zell, the Chicago real estate billionaire, has prevailed in his efforts to purchase the Los Angeles Times (by buying its parent, the Tribune Company). Local suitors were rebuffed, including David...
View ArticleThe Not-So-Quiet American
Is the Department of Homeland Security currently working to spring a wealthy, politically-connected American pedophile now being held in a Phnom Penh prison? If true, what sort of political favor is...
View ArticleLibby worked directly for Bush
Throughout his career, Libby almost never gave media interviews.But his vanity got the best of him when The Apprentice was released in paperback in 2002, and he agreed to discuss it on the Diane Rehm...
View Article'Merv Griffin died a closeted homosexual' [UPDATE]
In a nutshell, that's his epitaph—from the gay community, at least.You would expect editorials about Griffin from the Washington Blade and other gay publications. But yesterday, the not-so-totally-gay...
View ArticleHillary re-brands 'superdelegates' as 'automatic' delegates
This just in a couple hours ago, to Clinton supporters... Terry McAuliffe explains the "misconceptions" about the delegate situation:Dear QuickSilver,You've probably seen some of the news about the...
View ArticleUPDATE: Barack Obama surpasses one million donors!
I just saw the number of donors a couple minutes ago... 999,841.You can check out the number here on the index page. They are updating that number in real time. Tick tick tick...If I remember...
View ArticleProp 8: "Hate Talk Express" bus tour
Here's the inside scoop from the California "Yes on 8" campaign: a statewide bus tour next week to promote their discriminatory agenda.They're driving the bus to Sacramento, Chico, Oakland, Modesto,...
View ArticleMormons marry Prop 8 (New York Times)
I just read the announcement in the New York Times—the Mormons and Prop 8 got married!Mormons Tipped Scale in Ban on Gay MarriageNot really married, just pretend-married... But who will be able to...
View ArticleVicki Iseman settles suit against the New York Times (UPDATE)
Remember Vicki Iseman, the lovely, blonde lobbyist who spent all that time back in 1999 with Senator John McCain? She settled earlier today with the New York Times, which did not retract the Feb 28,...
View ArticleProp 8 Calif. Supreme Court liveblog Part I MOTHERSHIP
Prop 8 hearing live blog PART II (a.k.a. "Child #1 diary.")New thread (part II) is up. I know there are some great discussions going on, but please un-rec this diary and rec the other, so we can...
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