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Presidential hopeful Barack Obama met fantasy President Jed Barlet and received some fantasy advice. Bartlet’s voice really comes through at the beginning and there a few funny gems: BARTLET That was a hell of a convention. OBAMA Thank you, I was proud of it. BARTLET I meant the Republicans. The Us versus Them-a-thon. As a Democrat I was [...]

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Bitch magazine has been providing readers a feminist response to popular culture for the past 13 years. In a sea of mediocre media, Bitch consistently and forcefully rises above the fray. Just take a look at the diversity of topics covered — and voices included — in the past 41 issues. Now Bitch needs all the [...]

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Sexism exists, and the only way to fight it is to vote for a woman you may or may not agree with on any of the issues. That’s from the latest edition of “Target Women,” a segment on Current TV’s weekly show InfoMania that looks at the often-ridiculous ways in which the media reaches out to [...]

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Before we say a final goodbye to the Republican National Convention (and the good times had by all!) let’s take a moment to spotlight news stories, columns and an open letter to the Alaskan governor that transform the “R” for Republicans into Reality. Jesus Was a Community Organizer: Joe Klein explains, in language simple enough for [...]

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They’re moving delegates around on the floor to put more women in front of the stage before Gov. Sarah Palin speaks. The gender breakdown of Republican delegates explains the need for the seat shuffle: the number of male delegates overwhelms female delegates by 2 to 1. Speaking of gender, NPR tonight noted that the speech originally [...]

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The McCains, the Palins and the Johnston meet on the tarmac in Minneapolis. Via The New York Times.

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- The Reverend Debra W. Haffner, director of the Religious Institute on Sexual Morality, Justice and Healing, makes a good argument on the limits of family privacy when there are important public issues at stake. In a column reprinted at RH Reality Check, Haffner writes that the unplanned pregnancy of Gov. Sarah Palin’s 17-year-old daughter “raises [...]

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CNN’s Campbell Brown on Monday interviewed a spokesman for John McCain about what experience Sarah Palin, McCain’s pick for VP, has to be commander in chief. The interview began with a discussion of when McCain knew about the pregnancy of Palin’s 17-year-old daughter and whether Palin had thought about the ramifications of putting her daughter in [...]

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Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now! radio program, was arrested Monday afternoon in St. Paul. According to a press release, Goodman was attempting to free two Democracy Now! producers who had been arrested on suspicion of rioting. Video of the arrest is available here. Glenn Greenwald is keeping up with scenes of the protests. The excerpt [...]

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Following Deanna today, we learned of the newly launched Hurricane Gustav Wiki, a centralized site for links to information everywhere else on the web. There’s also the Gustav Information Center, an online community for coordinating volunteer knowledge-sharing related to Hurricane Gustav.

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