Georgia Claims on Russia War Called Into Question
http://voxverax.blogspot.com/2008/11/georgia-claims-on-russia-war-called.html
9 days ago
By TM
By C. J. CHIVERS and ELLEN BARRYNYTTBILISI, Georgia — Newly available accounts by independent military observers of the beginning of the war between Georgia and Russia this summer call into question the longstanding Georgian assertion that it was acting defensively against separatist and Russian aggression.Instead, the accounts suggest that Georgia’s inexperienced military attacked the isolated ...
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Report: 2008 Election Turnout Not Nearly As Spectacular As Fawning Obama Fans In The Media Thought
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SayAnything/~3/445042292/
9 days ago
... by Republicans who didn’t act like conservatives (looking at you, Senator McCain) and not turning out to vote.
And then there’s this:
“Many people were fooled (including this student of politics although less so than many others) by this year’s increase in registration (more than 10 million added to the rolls), citizens’ willingness to stand for hours even in inclement weather to vote early, ...
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The logic of emotion
http://damienroc.livejournal.com/215519.html
9 days ago
By K. Jeffery Petersen
I read this at my sister's wedding. It was a christian wedding, with my grandfather (a Lutheran minister) helping with the presiding. My parents read it at my brother's wedding, which was an extremely secular wedding where the wedding party was holding beer during the important bits of the ceremony. ...
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Are you for… impeaching Arroyo?
http://www.filipinovoices.com/are-you-for-impeaching-arroyo
9 days ago
By cocoy
My opinion on the matter is better political parties, not impeachment, but I’d like to ask you if you are for impeaching Arroyo. Why are you for or against it? Do you think Congress should go through with it or not? Is the latest move in congress nothing more than politics and theater? Tags: 2010 el ...
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A little late
http://geb1966ky.livejournal.com/181849.html
9 days ago
By geb1966ky
But someone just sent this to me. Does it make me a bad friend that I sent it to the only gay Republican I know... and still love... except for that whole Republican thing. Yes, Chris, our little table kitty. =0) Dear Red States : If you manage to steal this election too we've decided we're leaving. ...
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CAFFEINE WITHDRAWAL DAY 4.
http://lyricaldelirium.livejournal.com/213179.html
9 days ago
By Nora Ismail
Photo by albaflickr. Because most blog entries (and tweets and Facebook statuses) published recently are made up of Barack Obama's historic victory in this year's United States presidential election, I'll spare the congratulatory and celebratory redundancy. But noticed how by saying that, I've alrea ...
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A good day for Scotland
http://tomcharris.wordpress.com/2008/11/07/a-good-day-for-scotland/
9 days ago
By Tom Harris
NOW I’ve had the opportunity to consider last night’s result, here are a couple of points you may have missed: Labour’s vote in Glenrothes was UP by three per cent over the general election result in 2005; Both the Tories and the LibDems lost their deposits; In other news, Labour won a council by-el ...
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The flip side of Obama's election
http://techn0goddess.livejournal.com/138078.html
9 days ago
By techn0goddess
Ugh. This is a mildly disturbing AP news photo with this caption: A poster showing Barack Obama is seen in the background as customers line up to look at firearms at a gun shop in Fort Worth, Texas, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008. The Cheaper Than Dirt gun store recorded a record day of gun sales the day af ...
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America and the Falklands
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/best-of-the-politics/2008/11/obama-america-gay
9 days ago
Paul Evan's round-up of the top stories covered by the world's political bloggers
Good morning America
Entering Google Trends Top 10 this week: inauguration day 2009 tickets. Barack Obamas victory in the election to decide the 44th president of the United States of America represents a victory fought even more fiercely online than on the ground. His own Fight the Smears website (weirdly, a ...
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politics and energy
http://writebrain.livejournal.com/592650.html
9 days ago
By Cynthia
We still have champagne in the fridge. Never opened it on Tuesday. Not sure when we will... maybe an Inauguration party in January. But on a more private note, we are thinking of celebrating Obama's win by installing a solar water heater. We were thinking about it before, but somehow it seems a more ...
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