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President Kerry's first week initiatives
Looking beyond the election with increasing confidence, I am beginning to think about what actions President Kerry will take during his first week(s) in office. I know he has already made a statement...
View ArticleNews coverage of Bush on King
If you didn't see G-Dub's performance on Larry King, and if you haven't read the play by play in the diary below, you might want to catch the whole thing on one of its repeats later. It was one of...
View ArticleRNC staffers flood Oregon in last-minute Nader ballot push
OK, that's a little sensationalistic, but it's the word on the street in Portland. I didn't spread it when I first heard it, but now that its posted on blueoregon (www.blueoregon.com), I think it's OK...
View ArticleThis just in: Nader not on Oregon Ballot
Secretary of State Bill Bradbury just announced that Ralph Nader failed to make Oregon's ballot for the general election. I know the rule about no one-sentence diaries, but I wanted to get the news...
View ArticleFrank Rich jumps his own fucking shark
In a peculiar mix of unremarkable but real insight and blinkered doltishness in today's New York Times, Frank Rich uses James Carville and Paul Begala's occasional advising role in the Kerry campaign...
View ArticleContest: Edwards on TCM; what about Cheney?
Contest! Future Vice President John Edwards is going to host a showing of Dr. Strangelove on Turner Classic Movies this Thursday. In a promo, he says he was struck with the thought that this (nuclear...
View ArticleKerry solid in Oregon: Hibbitts poll
Friday's Oregonian and tonight's KATU newscasts report the latest results from Tim Hibbitt's poll on the presidential race and ballot measures in Oregon. Great news: Kerry leads Bush 49 percent to 43,...
View ArticleMy vagina, my shame
Yes, stories about Eve Ensler's controversial play, "The Vagina Monologues" can be almost as tiresome as the play itself, but when they involve freedom of expression they can be important. In the...
View ArticleIn Oregon, public sex is protected expression
The Supreme Court of Oregon announced a 5-1 decision today in two cases that would have decreased our freedom of expression in this state, which, I believe, has the most expansive right of expression...
View ArticleShuster and Santorum on Hardball
OK, this is a brief diary, but I doubt my comment in the last Open Thread is going to be read by anyone. On Hardball now, Little Ricky is bombing under some tough, though occasionally confused,...
View ArticleThom Hartmann, Frank Gaffney and the definition of fascism
This week, Thom Hartmann had the slimy Frank Gaffney on his local show here in Portland. Gaffney is one of the primary promoters of the term "Islamofascism," part of Bush's efforts to suggest that his...
View ArticleOR-Sen: Merkley's chances improve
AP is reporting that Independent Party candidate John Frohnmayer has dropped out of the Oregon US Senate race, which should improve Jeff Merkley's chances of defeating the much-unloved Prince of Peas,...
View ArticleMy fantasy Meet the Press program that will never happen
Several of the diaries and comments posted on the occasion of Tim Russert’s death hailed him as the Journalist of the Century, the Best of the Best, He Who Could Do No Wrong. Just as improbably, others...
View ArticleHappy Magna Carta Day!
A mere 793 years ago today, a group of English nobleman cornered King John on a peaceful sward in England's green and pleasant land persuaded him to sign Magna Carta, generally considered the first...
View ArticleThe Oregonian stinks up the place, again, but. . .
The Oregonian has endorsed Sen. Barack Obama for president. Not a particularly gutsy call in this blue state. It does go against tradition to support a Democrat, but it has endorsed Dem presidential...
View ArticleEagleburger vs. Powell on Morning Joe
Former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger made a fool out of himself this morning as he attempted to balance out Colin Powell's Obama endorsement by appearing on Morning Joe.As Morning Joe is to...
View ArticleBehind the Olbermann v. O'Reilly truce
This has probably been kicked around here before, but, hey, it's summer, and I haven't been around to catch up on everything.I remember seeing KO announce, after his devastating demonstration that...
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