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Tuesday, November 25, 2008
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Too funny!
Annals Of Unfortunate Headlines <a href="http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/11/25/you-aint-gotta-keep-it-on-the-low/";>Spencer Ackerman reports on news that you probably already know: namely, that <a href="http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZTY0NDM3NmZkY2Y5ZGNhYjY4YjdjNGZjYzAyMTVkYzc=";>Jay Nordlinger and his crew at the National Review should spend some more time perusing the Urban Dictionary, or at the very least, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down-low_(sexual_slang)">the Wikipedia.
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Yes, yes. Insert your best Larry Craig jokes, by all means.
Also, <a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlDC/online_media/wapo_restarts_iraq_war_101806.asp?c=rss";>via FishbowlDC, here's the incredibly true story of how the Washington Post restarted the Iraq War today.
Read more: Jay Nordlinger, Spencer Ackerman, National Review, Unfortunate Headlines, Media News - The Huffington Post News Team [Huffpolitics on The Huffington Post]
5:37:02 PM 
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Disposable Youth in a Suspect Society. Youth and the crisis of the future.
While there is little question that the United States - with its
burgeoning police state, its infamous title as the world leader in
jailing its own citizens, and its history of foreign and domestic
"torture factories" [1] - has moved into lockdown (and lockout) mode
both
at home and abroad, it is a mistake to assume that the Bush
administration is solely responsible for transforming the United States
to the degree that it has now become unrecognizable to itself as a
democratic nation.
Such claims risk reducing the serious social ills now
plaguing the United States read more  [Truthout - All Articles]
11:11:54 AM
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Franken Camp: Margin Now 84 Votes, Ballots Still Missing The Franken campaign, citing internal numbers, say the recount election deficit that they face against Sen. Norm Coleman is now down to a mere 84 votes.
The results, announced by Franken's chief counsel, Marc Elias, present a mixed bag of sorts for the Democratic challenger. While Franken has narrowed the post election gap by some 61 percent (he started roughly 215 votes behind Coleman), the numbers were taken after a survey of 78.9 percent of the November 4 vote.
Elias, sounding a somewhat optimistic tone, said that the remaining recount will come from areas that lean (51 percent) Democratic.
"We believe that an overall subset of the vote yet to be included in the recount is overall bluer," he said.
In addition to updating reporters on the new margin -- which differs from the count of Minnesota's Secretary of State -- Elias rang the alarm, once more, over rejected absentee ballots and ballots that have gone missing from the recount process.
Noting that some of the 6,400 absentee ballots were rightfully rejected because they did not meet election compliance laws, he added that the campaign had taken legal action to ensure that the process was transparent.
"We made clear that our lawsuit for the data was to understand what the scope of the rejected absentees were," he said of the suit, filed roughly a week ago.
Elias estimated that there were somewhere in the range of 150 missing ballots -- a margin that could favor Coleman or Franken or, in the historically close race, could affect the outcome of the election.
Read more: Minnesota Election, Recount Minnesota, Franken Coleman, Franken Campaign, Absentee Ballots Franken, Margin Election, Al Franken, Politics News - The Huffington Post News Team [Huffpolitics on The Huffington Post]
10:27:57 AM
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