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• Kilgore campaign used faked, spliced robo-calls.
• Judicial Nuts
• Wingnut watch: Show Us You're Nuts
• Moron taxes
• Moron taxes
• The Plame Game
• Bye bye Harriet
• Tax the rich. And feed the poor
  As part of our "Death and Taxes" series we will continue to debunk wingnut tax economics.
• Oh Harriet
  Despite the fun we're all having watching them turn against each other, we need to beware of the underlying assumptions taken as Gospel.
• Green ink
  Right wing commentary on the environment is like klan lit on civil rights - it's just wrong.
• John Roberts, Chief Justice?
  A calculated political move that enables Bush to limit the number of confirmation battles.
• Got gas?
  Katrina lays bare our nation's need for a new energy policy
• Katrina
  A natural and political disaster
• Death and taxes, again
  When did the "straight-talk express" derail?
• Katrina, continued
  It’s unfortunate that it took a natural disaster to bring the media into poor urban neighborhoods.
• Democracy Inaction
  Democracy is great, and we all love it, ok. So shut up already. But what we don't love is Rightwing jingoism. Especially when it's used to marginalize dissent.
• Death and taxes, again
  The Right must have run out of good reasons for the estate tax’s repeal this week, because they have gone back to the same boring tall-tale about the death of family farms.
• Burn baby burn
  Why the Right is way wrong on energy.
• Here come da' judge
  Senate Democrats, who audaciously believe they have a right to know something about the nominee for the highest judicial position in the nation before they vote to confirm him.
• This week's top conservative lies
  Cliff Kincaid writes: "One of the fascinating questions about the Valerie Plame affair is why Joseph Wilson lied about his wife's role in sending him on that mission to investigate the Iraq-uranium link." What, you expect him to out his own wife?
• Show us the money
  Why conservative economic reporting is dangerous and wrong
• Medicaid
  Why a government-run, single-payer system is good for business, and good for you and me.
• CAFTA
  Bad trade legislation and conservative pork.
• Stem cells: Cloning bad religion
  Unless Pfizer discovers that embryonic stem cell research cures erectile dysfunction, there is little reason for optimism that private companies will make meaningful progress in embryonic stem cell research.
• Neanderthal evolution: Intelligent design?
  To evolve, or not to evolve.
• Conservative hot air adds to climate change
  Conservatives are impervious to logic on the subject of the environment. Surely it’s just a happy coincidence that there are powerful vested interests that stand to benefit from these principled positions they take.
• Bolton: Recess disappointment
  It’s been a busy week for the foreign policy propagandists on the right.
• You tell me that it's evolution...
  The ID monkeys go bananas
• Rock and roll
  Bob Dylan and Nirvana are not neocons
• That crazy liberal media
  Still looking for someone to blame
• Chickenhawk macho
  Painting lipstick on a pig, or "why don't they enlist"?
• Supreme Court: Secret lawyer man
  Conservatives' faith-based approach to John Roberts belies the importance of this nomination -- and they know it.
• Right-wing sightings
  What the groups are up to. This week, it's all about stem-cells. Dr. Al Weir of the Christian Medical and Dental Association says:
• Fringe bytes
  Nutty morsels from the lunatic right. R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., the editor of the American Spectator and a man with too many doubled consonants, writes ... "Now there does not seem to be a great deal of intelligence on the left, only anger and name-calling
• The Federalist Society
  It's not the membership. It's the ideological agenda. John Roberts may or may not be an "active member" -- but the real question is whether he signs on to the group's radical movement ideology.

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• Kilgore campaign used faked, spliced robo-calls.
• Lucky 13
• Oil company profits
• Men and Women Who Have Died Serving in Iraq
• Steve Clemons reports indictments coming tomorrow
• Is Cheney in trouble?
• Iran, Iraq and Khobar Towers
• How Many More Mike Browns Are Out There?
• Frist's political stock tumbles
• 25 Mind-Numbingly Stupid Quotes About Hurricane Katrina And Its Aftermath
• From ABC News' The Note, today:
• Help the hurricane victims
• We missed one
• Kansas School Board and the Flying Spaghetti Monster
• BUSH WHACKED BY THE STONES!
• Hypocrisy Now
• "Telephone" over Internet
• Religious Wrong
• Joe Queenan, Edward Klein, and Hillary

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