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Posted at 11:07pm on Jul. 9, 2008 An Ethics Cage Match: ACORN v. Points Of Light

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

It's not even a contest.

Posted at 11:06pm on Jul. 9, 2008 The Great Obamian Netroots Betrayal--A Continuing Series

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

Glenn Greenwald continues his attacks on Barack Obama for Obama's support of FISA reforms. Needless to say, other people are upset as well. Of course, if Obama's stark and amazing reversal on FISA does not prove that he is just an ordinary politician--as opposed to being the vehicle of Hope and Change he portrayed himself as being--then I don't know what to think. But for now, at least, it seems clear that Obama's campaign has enraged its base. If centrists and center-right voters are reminded that contrary to the contentions of the Obama campaign, the presumptive Democratic nominee is nowhere near the center or the center-right in terms of votes and rhetoric, then we might see the Obama campaign isolated not only from its base, but from the very people it is seeking to reach out to in the general election campaign.

Posted at 11:05pm on Jul. 9, 2008 "Oh, The Tide Is Turning!"

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

When the senior Senator from the home state of the presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee--who is the Senate Democratic Whip to boot--comes out in favor of offshore drilling, you have to know that there is a change in the political landscape. I figure that it is only a matter of time before Barack Obama changes his position on this issue as well.

Posted at 9:34pm on Jul. 9, 2008 "McCain hits Obama on Abortion"

By Feddie

More of this, please:

"Sen Obama voted against, as a member of the Illinois state legislature, a ban on partial-birth abortion," McCain noted, calling the procedure "one of the most odious things I’ve ever heard of."

Posted at 7:56pm on Jul. 9, 2008 Let Our Congress Tweet

By Ben Domenech

Well, that didn't take long. The Sunlight Foundation has launched Let Our Congress Tweet, and posted a fairly good statement on the matter. Good for them. Go sign up to follow their feed.

Posted at 6:09pm on Jul. 9, 2008 "A bit dog barks."

By Moe Lane

Confederate Yankee's infinitely better putdown of Andrew Sullivan's attempt to ad-hom him for this article discussing our modern Copperheads. You could hear the sound of that particular impact for miles...

Posted at 5:08pm on Jul. 9, 2008 The Sufficiently Pure Democratic List on FISA.

By Moe Lane

Anybody not crossed out on the list below voted the full Netroot line on FISA. Everybody else... sic 'em, Netrooters! Sic 'em!

Akaka Baucus Bayh Biden Bingaman Boxer Brown Byrd Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Clinton Conrad Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feingold Feinstein Harkin Inouye Johnson Kennedy* Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lincoln McCaskill Menendez Mikulski Murray Nelson Nelson Obama Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Salazar Sanders Schumer Stabenow Tester Webb Whitehouse Wyden

Posted at 4:46pm on Jul. 9, 2008 Culberson is mad as hell about the prospect of losing his Twitter

By Ben Domenech

Following up on the Directors post on this issue, Rep. John Culberson is staying on top of the Congressional online authorization fallout, and sharing his outrage via his very active Twitter feed.

You can read the letter that started the whole process here, focused primarily on video content, but stretches to more than that, covering all content produced by members that appears on outside websites. As Culberson summarizes it: "my post would have to meet "existing content rules" and would need a disclaimer (140 characters at least!)"

This is just silly, people. A Congressman shouldn't have to put a disclaimer on YouTube: the American people know it's YouTube. They're not going to call up and say "How dare you link to some videotape of a dog on a skateboard! That's against the laws of nature! Dog on a skateboard - I swear, this whole planet's going to heck in a handbasket."

Let's hope the transparency groups like Sunlight and OpenCongress start talking about this...they've been disturbingly silent thus far.

Posted at 11:17pm on Jul. 8, 2008 Pope Griswold Schools The Head Of Zimbabwe's Central Bank

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

I know that's a weird title to a blog post, but it does make sense if you read this.

Posted at 10:52pm on Jul. 8, 2008 "Just Another Ordinary Politician" Watch

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

Bob Herbert is disillusioned. Seems to be a trend these days for supporters of Senator Obama.

Posted at 11:45pm on Jul. 7, 2008 Sad Story

By Dan McLaughlin

Set aside for a moment the debates over phony suicide statistics and the other tropes of the anti-war movement - nobody denies that some of the casualties of war are men who are forever changed, in some cases fatally, by what they see and experience in battle. This is one such story, and a very sad one at that. RIP, Army Spc. Joseph Patrick Dwyer.

Posted at 9:52pm on Jul. 7, 2008 In Defense Of Oil Speculators

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

The rundown of links can be found at Greg Mankiw's place.

Posted at 9:51pm on Jul. 7, 2008 Question Of The Day

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

Why is Congress willing to put teacher's unions above and ahead of the ability of DC students to pursue and obtain an excellent education?

Posted at 9:49pm on Jul. 7, 2008 Celebrating America: Some Historical Context

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

This post by Tim Sandefur is awesome and cannot possibly be "awesomer." Sandefur is to be applauded for all of the ways in which he reveals that there was no way for the American colonies to "compromise" with the British Crown without losing and compromising away essential freedoms that were won through the American Revolution. In the aftermath of the July 4th celebration--and in advance of the one we look forward to having next year and for many millennia--Sandefur's post makes for excellent reading. (Via Ilya Shapiro.)

Posted at 9:48pm on Jul. 7, 2008 Quotes That Catch My Fancy

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

This one, this one and this one go together quite well, no?

Posted at 9:44pm on Jul. 7, 2008 Better Late Than Never

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

Adam Smith finally gets his due.

Posted at 6:36pm on Jul. 7, 2008 The most fundamentally conservative thing you will ever read about the movies.

By Dan McLaughlin

Yes, really: from Cracked.com.

Posted at 2:47pm on Jul. 7, 2008 When the socialists break off from the communists, good things *can* happen

By Jeff Emanuel

In India they have, anyway. Legislators in the nation's socialist Samajwadi Party have broken away from their communist brethren and given Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh the support he needs to implement the U.S.-Indian nuclear trade agreement without risking a forced early election, which the communists in government had been threatening to trigger if the nuclear deal was agreed to.

PM Singh said he would complete a nuclear inspection agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency as soon as possible.

"The nuclear deal is in the interest of the nation," said Samajwadi Party senior leader Amar Singh. "We should have come out in support of the deal a year ago."

A further positive aspect of this deal? "The communist opposition has become far less important now that the Samajwadi Party has backed the deal," says the NTI's Global Security Newswire.

Posted at 10:13pm on Jul. 6, 2008 So the Netroots are angry, Pej. Why should the Democrats care?

By Moe Lane

Like you, I find it funny - any sane man would - but let's face it: the netroots exist solely to give Democrats money and votes. If they stop giving either, the knouts will come out.

They know this, of course.