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Welcome to a New Day...
9:00pm PT: Cuz someone had to say it. That man's got a lotta balls...
1:32pm PT: Rock star...
12:13pm PT: MSNBC has details on Kennedy and Byrd. [UPDATE: Kennedy now "feeling well", Byrd's office denies illness. Details...]
12:04pm PT: ALSO BREAKING - CNN Reports Sen. Byrd has also collapsed during the Inaugural luncheon.
11:55am ...
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Deep Thought...
I'm not certain, but I think I just saw the minute hand on my clock move backwards.
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I Have a Dream Too...
...It goes like this:
(As Obama finishes taking his oath...)
OBAMA: ...and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. So help me God...
JUSTICE ROBERTS: Congratulations, Mr. President.
OBAMA: Thank you.
(The 44th President of the United States then turns, and points to George W. ...
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VIDEO: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have A Dream'
Three years ago, BRAD BLOG alum David Edwards first ran this rarely-seen full version of Dr. Martin Luther King's August 28, 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech on these pages.
We're happy to post it in full again today, of all days -- on Martin Luther King Day, and the day ...
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OK, Tell Me You Didn't Blubber Like a Baby Watching This
Guest Blogged by Jill C. of Brilliant at Breakfast
You know, I almost always feel cynical about this country. I have for as long as I can remember, even back when I was a thirteen-year-old stuffing envelopes for a Congressional candidate who ended up losing. I don't think you ...
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'Daily Voting News' For January 17 and 18, 2009
Recently we have spent a bit of time discussing the cost over-runs found during an audit of Hillsborough Co Florida’s election office. Now the county has revealed that they just discovered 440 uncounted ballots that were found in their warehouse. These ballots came from two Temple Terrace precincts that had ...
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Pelosi Weighs Prosecution: 'Do We Have a Right to Ignore' Violations of Law?
Her words are more impressive when read, than when seen in the video, I think. Nonetheless, both seem to reveal a Pelosi at a bit of a crossroads. Perhaps. Could the woman who took impeachment "off the table" be ready to now move in a different direction?
In a Sunday morning ...
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Letterman's 'Great Moments in Presidential Speeches' Final Montage...
David Letterman's good riddance montage(s) of his "Great Moments in Presidential Speeches"...
Montage 1 (4:03)Montage 2 (4:49)
Don't let the door hit ya, Decider.
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Yes We Did
For the next few days -- at least through Tuesday, if possible -- we intend to do our best to try and take in this extraordinary moment in history, as we hadn't previously been able to enjoy it during the Primaries, on Election Night, or even thereafter while our duties ...
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Krugman: Obama's Oath Will Require Him to Bring Accountability for Bush Administration Crimes
Last week, President-elect Barack Obama said he was open to "good ideas" from anyone, even from the New York Times' Paul Krugman. (Video here.)
"If Paul Krugman has a good idea...then we're gonna do it," said Obama. He was speaking about "good ideas" for his economic stimulus package at the time, ...
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Old Man Take a Look at Yourself...
September 21, 2001...
January 15, 2009...
And if you think he looks bad, imagine how our country looks. Thanks to him, unfortunately, thousands of Americans won't get to take that look.
And no, he didn't "keep us safe," no matter how many times they keep repeating it...
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'Daily Voting News' For January 16, 2009
VotersUnite.Org is really two dedicated voters who care about how our votes are counted and who does the vote counting. We aren’t the types who find it easy to ask for money but it is a necessary evil that we have to take on occasionally. Even though the big, 2008 ...
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Bill O'Reilly: Now I'll be Paul Revere
TV and Radio flim-flam artist and Bush-era dinosaur Bill O'Reilly told listeners of his radio show today that his role in the next few years will be "to be Paul Revere." (Audio clip at end of article.)
O'Reilly had little explanation for his new-found patriotism and why he had decided, over ...
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'Daily Voting News' For January 15, 2009
The Pew Center on the States has just released a report on military and overseas voting (our featured article). This report “found that more than a third of states do not provide military voters stationed abroad with enough time to vote or are at high risk of not providing enough ...
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Holder: Waterboarding is Torture, Torture is Illegal
Okay. Holder gets our vote. Courtesy of David Swanson:
Eric Holder just told the Senate Judiciary Committee that the behavior of president Bush has been illegal, and that he, Eric Holder, will uphold the rule of law. It will be very hard to maintain those positions and not prosecute or ...
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AG Holder Would Review Bush Administration Decision to NOT Prosecute Schlozman
If he's confirmed, Attorney General nominee Eric Holder told the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee during confirmation hearings today, he'll review the Bush U.S. Attorney's decision to not prosecute former DoJ Civil Rights attorney Bradley Schlozman for his grotesque bastardization and politicization of the department as we detailed earlier this week. ...
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Burris Sworn In, Reid Still Majority Leader
As usual, BRAD BLOG readers were right in overwhelmingly determining, in our poll just after the New Year, that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid would fold on his previous rhetoric promising to disallow the seating of anybody appointed by Gov. Rod Blagojevich to replace Barack Obama in the U.S. Senate. ...
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'Daily Voting News' For January 14, 2009
A large majority of today’s news is, again, from Minnesota. The ballots are counted and lawsuits have been filed, now by both candidates. Its going to take some time for things to shake-out. $1,850 for a ballot box? That’s what Diebold/Premier charged Hillsborough Co Florida for 220 boxes to ...
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'Daily Voting News' For January 13, 2009
Recently it was revealed that the Humboldt Election Transparency Project had found that the county’s Diebold/Premier voting system had lost 197 ballots. Today Kim Zetter of WiredBlog, in one of our featured articles, revealed that the GEMS audit logs not only don’t answer questions about how the 197 ballots were ...
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MediaBloodhound's 2008 Fact or Fiction Challenge
Guest blogged by Brad Jacobson of MediaBloodhound
[Please note: While the "Challenge" is based on material from MediaBloodhound's pages, the experience of this annual trainwreck is universal. As one editor put it today, "This is funny and sad." - B. Jacobson, MBH]
The following are quotes and headlines culled from this past ...
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