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    Colombians Briefed McCain: Fixing Up The Image

    Colombians Briefed McCain Before Rescue – washingtonpost.com CARTAGENA, Colombia, July 2 — Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) spoke repeatedly Tuesday and early Wednesday about how he would work as president to free three American hostages held by leftist guerrillas in Colombia, but he declined to reveal one key fact: Colombian President Álvaro Uribe and his aides had briefed him Tuesday evening about the plan to rescue the Americans, along with 12 other captives.

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    Firedoglake » Rabble Rousers Post Subversive “Declaration” in NYT

    A couple of years ago, I toyed with the idea of recasting the Declaration of Independence, but it wouldn’t have been as good as this. There’s a video, too. Firedoglake » Rabble Rousers Post Subversive “Declaration” in NYT INDEPENDENCE DAYJuly 4, 1776 – 2008 When in the course of human events the government becomes destructive of the ends for which it was established, it is the Right of the People to alter it and demand restoration of those Constitutional Principles that have so long assured their Liberty, Safety, and Happiness. Therefore, on the anniversary of our Independence, we offer this…

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    I Voted For Forrest Claypool: Stroger and the Daleys Must Go

    …and the next time Todd Stroger comes up in the Democratic primary, I’ll vote for whoever opposes him in the race for Cook County Board President – I hope that will be Forrest Claypool again. Because starting tomorrow, Cook County will have the highest taxes in the country, brought to us by Todd Stroger and his cronies on the Board, along with assists from other local pols and unions and jamokes with a little clout. Your Stroger-Daley Tax — chicagotribune.com Fourth, think summer 2009. Relentlessly. There’s barely a year until candidates begin collecting petition signatures to get their names on…

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    Obama’s War Chest Drives a 50-State Strategy – NYTimes.com

    Obama’s War Chest Drives a 50-State Strategy – NYTimes.com Less than three weeks after securing the Democratic nomination, Mr. Obama is already dispatching paid staff members to all 50 states, an unusual move by the standards of modern presidential campaigns so often fought in just a contained group of contested territories. His aides and advisers said they did not believe Obama necessarily has a serious chance of winning in many of the traditionally Republican states, but rather that he can at least draw Mr. McCain into spending time and money there while also swelling the rolls of Democratic voters and…

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    A Test Of One’s Own Google Reader Shared Items

    Recently, Dave over at DDtB noted that Google Reader’s shared items can scroll off one’s web page widget pretty quickly, but that it set up a fairly nice unordered list if you copied it off the widget for further commentary on your blog. And so it does, especially if you choose Paste Special > Remove MS Word formatting, which also removes Mozilla- and Google-added style elements. This is handy if you have a number of links grouped together and want to grab them for a quick omnibus post. Not so easy if they’ve already scrolled off the widget and are on either your…

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    Tit for Tat: As Ye Ambush, So Shall Ye Be Ambushed

    Check it out: a producer for FOX’s Bill O’Reilly attempts to beard the dragon in his den, and ambushes Bill Moyers at the National Conference for Media Reform. He tried the “repeat the question, repeat the question” badgering tactic, asking Moyers about his political affiliation, with the obvious implication that the conference is a nest of disloyal, pinko leftists. But Bill turns the tables on him, attempting to engage him, upbraiding him for acting as a shill for a man he calls “not a journalist, but a pugilist,” and challenges him to go back to his boss with an offer…

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    I Am A Demographic Anomaly

    This is one of the top stories of the day: Democrats Agree to Compromise on Delegates : NPR I’ve heard or read dozens of stories in the lead-up to this decision, listened with only passing attention to soundbites, and frankly, I’m tired of being lumped in with the wrong demographic group. I am a white, middle-aged suburban woman. I am a Democrat. I am NOT a Hillary Clinton supporter – in fact, I’ve never liked her, although I gave her grudging props during her husband’s term for trying to get her health policies through a hostile Congress. When she insisted…