| September 1 |
- Scenes from St. Paul -- Democracy Now's Amy Goodman arrested
- Scores of people are tear-gassed. At least 250 people are arrested. And St. Paul is as militarized a scene as one will see in an American city.
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| September 3 |
- Sarah Palin and Mark Halperin's complaints of "liberal media"
- The Time magazine reporter proclaims that "Palin is being so very scrutinized" due in part to "anti-Republican bias" in the press.
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| September 4 |
- The GOP's cheerful viciousness
- Yet again, the GOP launches brutal personality and cultural attacks on the Democratic candidate. Yet again, Democrats seem determined to allow it to do so.
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| September 5 |
- Will the GOP's negativity produce a backlash?
- Democrats like to tell themselves that Americans dislike the character attacks in which the GOP specializes. But that comforting thought is untrue.
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| September 6 |
- The mighty, scary press corps
- Journalists convince themselves that Sarah Palin is afraid to face their aggressive, adversarial questioning.
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| September 8 |
- The right dictates MSNBC's programming decisions
- The "liberal" cable outlet demotes and diminishes its most popular and valuable news personality after the White House, the McCain campaign and the right demand it does so.
- Salon Radio: Jeff Guntzel on the St. Paul protests
- A reporter for the Minnesota Independent discusses the indiscriminate use of force and mass arrests at the GOP Convention.
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| September 9 |
- Do journalists have any obligations beyond their self-interest?
- One current Atlantic reporter and one former one agree that the answer is "no."
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| September 10 |
- New heights of stupidity
- Anyone who thought the 2008 election would be "different" should examine the "Obama called Palin a pig" story.
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| September 11 |
- The government, the media and Afghanistan
- The U.S. military relied on an "independent journalist" to deny villagers' claims of large-scale civilian deaths. It turned out the "journalist" is Fox's Oliver North.
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| September 12 |
- AP's Tom Raum confuses his fantasies for fact
- The longtime AP writer makes up a story line and narrative for an article and then, when pressed, goes on a futile search for facts to support it.
- Salon Radio: Matthew Yglesias
- What are the most glaring deficiencies in media coverage of the campaign and what can be done to combat them? Plus: Is the Obama campaign excessively minimizing foreign policy differences with the GOP?
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| September 14 |
- Where is the debate over the Bush Doctrine?
- Until Sarah Palin made clear she had never heard of it, nobody -- including the presidential candidates -- had trouble understanding what it was.
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| September 15 |
- What illegal "things" was the government doing in 2001-2004?
- A book on the Cheney vice presidency by a Washington Post reporter sheds new light on the extreme surveillance lawbreaking that took place, and how little we still know about it.
- Time's Karen Tumulty: Unlike reporters, bloggers don't have to use proof
- A reporter from one of the nation's most fact-challenged "news" magazines claims that bloggers enjoy a "luxury" her colleagues don't -- the ability to say things without evidence.
- Salon Radio: ACLU's Caroline Frederickson
- Why aren't constitutional issues receiving any campaign attention and what can be done about it? Plus: updates on the FISA lawsuits.
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| September 16 |
- The oversight joke
- The FBI director appears at a House hearing expressly designed to get answers on the anthrax investigation. As always with congressional hearings, no answers are obtained.
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| September 17 |
- Key senators dispute FBI's anthrax case against Bruce Ivins
- The FBI director faces emphatic doubts about his claims that the anthrax attacker has been identified.
- Salon Radio: Rep. Jerry Nadler
- Why is Congress so weak, who is to blame, and what can be done about it? Plus: will any of that change depending on the outcome of the election?
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| September 18 |
- What does Sarah Palin have to hide in her Yahoo e-mails?
- The same authoritarians who cheered on every last illegal act of the Bush surveillance state today cry over the sanctity of e-mail privacy.
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| September 19 |
- The Bush/McCain/Palin contempt for subpoenas and the rule of law
- Gov. Palin's husband and top aides announce they will ignore legislative subpoenas even though doing so is a crime in Alaska.
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| September 20 |
- The complete (though ever-changing) elite consensus over the financial collapse
- The most traumatic events in the Bush era produce almost no debate.
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| September 22 |
- Growing right-wing opposition to the Paulson plan
- With the election looming, the same right-wing faction that spent eight years cheering on every instance of unlimited executive power suddenly fears such power.
- Single funniest blog post I ever read
- A right-wing commentator denounces unlimited presidential power as "un-American" because "America exists precisely because of our desire to rein in government and make it accountable to the people."
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| September 23 |
- David Brooks thinks he sees a "new establishment" to run economic policy
- The New York Times columnist calls for trust and faith to be vested in the very same people who have wielded power for decades.
- Salon Radio: Notre Dame finance professor Richard Sheehan
- Several key claims from Hank Paulson are inaccurate and misleading. Plus: Paulson's role in the financial crisis he's now supposed to solve.
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| September 24 |
- Why is a U.S. Army brigade being assigned to the "Homeland"?
- For the first time in 100 years, and contrary to a long-standing legal prohibition, an active duty military unit is permanently assigned inside the U.S.
- Salon Radio: Digby on the bailout
- What are the dangers for Democrats in supporting a bailout? And why are they about to do it?
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| September 25 |
- Correction on Sarah Palin
- My prior defenses of Palin's candidacy have been proven wrong.
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| September 26 |
- National Review asks: Did WaMu fail because it employed minorities?
- And a conservative professor warns that Barack Obama was assisted by affirmative action and has a "thinly veiled hatred for this country's unique culture and institutions."
- McCain's flailing panic
- In less than 48 hours, he went from "I'm too patriotic to debate unless there's a deal" to "I'm going to the debate even though there's no deal."
- Salon Radio: Murray Waas
- Bush's involvement in the disputes over his illegal spying program, and his involvement in other related crimes, may be more extensive than previously known.
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| September 29 |
- Bailout follows the 10 normal principles for how our government functions
- The transfer of hundreds of billions of dollars to Wall Street is anything but "extraordinary."
- Salon Radio: ACLU's Mike German on new FBI spying powers
- With three months left in the Bush administration, Attorney General Michael Mukasey is about to vest broad new FBI investigative powers aimed at U.S. citizens.
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| September 30 |
- The simultaneous rejection of the bailout and a corrupt ruling class
- Monday was the rarest event in American politics: Public opinion actually influenced what the government did.
- The people in urgent need of long-term banishment
- A right-wing Bush follower condemns liberals for exploiting crises "to expand the power of government at the expense of the individual."
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