Posted on April 8th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
Ad revenue is down given the economy and some of the top liberal bloggers including Jane Hamsher of FireDogLake and Markos Moulitsas, the founder of DailyKos, spoke out on the record today about the fact that some “major progressive groups— and in some cases, the Democratic Party committees” have been ”failing to spend money advertising” on the blogs [...]
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Posted on August 24th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Political bloggers are heading to Denver on the eve of the Convention. The NY Times has a piece in Fashion & Style that surely belongs in the political section of the Times: “The Year of the Political Blogger Has Arrived.”
Jane Hamsher of FireDogLake is there. She says, ”Let the Madness Begin.”
Although I am not among the [...]
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Posted on July 28th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
I can’t even begin to wrap my head around the tragedy at a Universalist Unitarian church in Knoxville yesterday. The first paragraph from Knoxville News -Sentinel says it all:
Police found right-wing political books, brass knuckles, empty shotgun shell boxes and a handgun in the Powell home of a man who said he attacked a church [...]
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Posted on May 31st, 2008 by Alegre
Well as you might have guessed, I was at the protest in DC today as the DNC’s Rules and Bylaws Committee (RBC) met to decide what to do with the votes my family all cast back in Michigan, and those in Florida.
We turned up to make our voices heard in the hopes that the RBC [...]
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Posted on May 1st, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Oh my… From the HuffPo:
At a town hall forum in Iowa today, Sen. John McCain was asked about a story from Cliff Schecter’s controversial recent book, The Real McCain, which alleges that during a 1992 campaign stop, McCain angrily called his wife a “trollop” and a “c**t” in front of aides and reporters.
Cliff Schecter has more [...]
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Posted on September 19th, 2007 by Hart Williams
In 1215, King John was forced to sign the Magna Carta, the ‘great charter’ from whence, arguably, our modern sense of criminal justice, of common law, and a big chunk of our Constitution derive.
Habeas Corpus was a central portion of that document: limiting the King’s ability to simply arrest and hold his enemies indefinitely and [...]
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Posted on August 16th, 2005 by Pamela Leavey
On Sunday bloggers from the L.A. area were treated to a BBQ at the home of blogger SteveAudio that was co-hosted by Jane of FireDogLake.
Among the L.A. bloggers in attendance were TBogg, Skippy, Elton — BusyBusyBusy, John — Crooks & Liars (shamelessly promoting Crooks & Liars wearing a C&L T Shirt), Greg — The Talent [...]
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