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I’ve now officially begun my search for a new web hosting provider. Having had increasingly bad service from Dreamhost since Day 1, it has taken me this long to finally bite the bullet and search for a new host because I was naive in paying for 2 years of hosting up front. As of now [...]

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In The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama tells an amusing story about his first tour through downstate Illinois, when he had the audacity to order Dijon mustard on his cheeseburger at a TGI Friday’s. His political aide hastily informed the waitress that Obama didn’t want Dijon at all, and thrust a yellow bottle of ordinary-American [...]

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The Pope, originally uploaded by joelhousman.

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LOS ANGELES — Last Thursday, about a year too late, I read the “2008 Delegate Selection Rules for the Democratic National Convention.” Not a fun read, I must add, which may be the reason Sen. Hillary Clinton, or her people, and most of the press, did not read or understand its 25 dense pages.
Sen. Barack [...]

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By JAN HOFFMAN of the New York Times

The daily phone calls. The midnight e-mail. And, when college lets out, those dinner table declamations? Oh, please.
Senator Barack Obama’s devotees just won’t give their parents a break.
As the race for the Democratic presidential nomination continues, youthful volunteers for each candidate have been campaigning with bright-eyed brio, [...]

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As a rule, insulting U.S. troops trying to keep you safe in Iraq doesn’t seem like an especially good idea. And yet, there was Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.), one of Congress’ most right-wing members, reflecting on his recent visit to Baghdad, and calling one soldier he met a “two-bit security guard.”
“We spent the night in [...]

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By Robert S. McElvaine

“As far as history goes and all of these quotes about people trying to guess what the history of the Bush administration is going to be, you know, I take great comfort in knowing that they don’t know what they are talking about, because history takes a long time for us [...]

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So sayeth the NY Times/CBS poll. And this is not going to help John McCain win an election (nor help John Boehner keep his job… who wants to be a Republican? The answer is no one).
Americans are more dissatisfied with the country’s direction than at any time since the New York Times/CBS News poll began [...]

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by DHinMI

Yesterday it was speculated that that Hillary Clinton’s campaign was getting caught under growing debt while Barack Obama continues to raise massive amounts of money.
Today we learned more about the finances of the two campaigns.  First, Obama’s fundraising:
Senator Barack Obama’s campaign announced today that more than 442,000 contributors across the country gave more than [...]

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