Early last week, a reader flagged a report in the online newspaper Narco News which noted an interesting FEC expense filing from the McCain campaign from June. The filing listed expenses for hotels and airline tickets in Singapore and Vietnam — that seemed to correlate with a trip that Cindy McCain took in June to [...]

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From kos at DailyKos:
Here’s how it works:

Mail forms to hard core Democratic voters, asking them to register to vote by mail.

Have those forms addressed to the wrong county registrar.

Pray overworked registrar workers, swamped with hundreds of mis-addressed forms, forget to forward to the right county, or forward them past the registration deadline.

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Article courtesy of DailyKOS.
Sarah Palin:  Separatist, former mayor of a village, and a wannabe book-burner:
[Former Wasilla mayor John Stein] says that as mayor, Palin continued to inject religious beliefs into her policy at times. “She asked the library how she could go about banning books,” he says, because some voters thought they had inappropriate language [...]

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In his New York Times review of Jane Mayer’s new book, The Dark Side, Alan Brinkley describes how by the end of 2005, torture advocates within the Bush administration were fighting to continue their extreme detainee program “because they feared being prosecuted should the program be halted and exposed.” In one White House meeting described [...]

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Two VECO employees shed new light on who was behind the idea to renovate the home of Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK), the Anchorage Daily News reported yesterday.
The two employees, David Anderson, the nephew of former VECO CEO Bill Allen, and Robert “Rocky” Williams, a trusted VECO worker, told the ADN that they met with Allen [...]

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Reposted from Read Write Web.
The Federal Communications Commission ruled this morning by a 3 to 2 vote that Comcast’s arbitrary throttling of customers’ use of BitTorrent was illegal. Hours before the ruling, the Electronic Frontier Foundation released software that anyone can use to see if their Internet Service Provider (ISP) is engaging in the same [...]

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When you think about the biggest skunk in the Grand Ole Party, does Karl Rove’s eau de turdblossom spring to mind? It should:

We have recently learned that Rove has signed a mid-six figure consulting deal with billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson to oversee the activities of the right-wing shadow group Freedom’s Watch. With the National [...]

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The popular Internet television network Revision3 suffered from a severe DDoS attack, launched by the infamous anti-piracy organization MediaDefender. After targeting The Pirate Bay’s trackers, MediaDefender apparently thought it was a good idea to spread their fake torrents through Revision3.

The CEO of Revision3 - Jim Louderback - was quite surprised when he found out that [...]

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