The latest links to the information you need to counter right-wing spin...
The Reality of Abortion
Colbert, Stewart viewers more well-informed than those watching O’Reilly, Dobbs
And here's a whole lot of ammunition on Jerome Corsi's anti-Obama book/crusade:
Bark Bark Woof Woof: Hitting Back
MyDD: Smear Merchant Also A 9/11 Truther?
Daily Kos: What a Surprise: Jerome Corsi Promoting Book On White Supremacist Radio Show
Media Matters: Weekly Standard's Hayes notes "significant problems" with Corsi book, but promotes problematic Freddoso book
Frameshop: Frameshop: Corsi Frequent Guest on White Supremacist Radio
AMERICAblog: Cheney aide Mary Matalin published the Corsi smear book -- and Corsi is a 9/11 conspiracy theorist to boot
Media Matters: Despite "all my apologies" for bigoted comments, Corsi reportedly scheduled to appear on "pro-White" radio show
Frameshop: Frameshop: What America Needs To Hear About Jerome Corsi
Media Matters: Corsi appeared on show hosted by "9/11 Truth Movement" leader, who said having non-American parents should be disqualification for president
Media Matters: Corsi: Critics of Obama might be "put ... in jail" if he's president
Thursday, August 21, 2008
The Road to the White House
What are Florida bloggers saying about the presidential race? Here are the top 5 posts from yesterday...
1. Smashed Frog: Obama on Roberts
2. BlueHerald 2.0: Bigots Oppose Obama 1000-1
3. FLA Politics (FDP): Straight Talk On McCain's Failed NASA Record
4. BlueHerald 2.0: The Two Faces Of John McCain
5. Bark Bark Woof Woof: Civics Lesson 101
6. Bark Bark Woof Woof: The Old Fashioned Way
7. Incertus (Brian): Enough Already
8. BeThink: Lady Clinton
9. Betty Cracker: Cone O' Doom
10. Workbench: Media Ignored McCain's Faith Forum Fumble
1. Smashed Frog: Obama on Roberts
2. BlueHerald 2.0: Bigots Oppose Obama 1000-1
3. FLA Politics (FDP): Straight Talk On McCain's Failed NASA Record
4. BlueHerald 2.0: The Two Faces Of John McCain
5. Bark Bark Woof Woof: Civics Lesson 101
6. Bark Bark Woof Woof: The Old Fashioned Way
7. Incertus (Brian): Enough Already
8. BeThink: Lady Clinton
9. Betty Cracker: Cone O' Doom
10. Workbench: Media Ignored McCain's Faith Forum Fumble
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Action Alerts
The latest action alerts from around the country...
Send an e-mail: Tell Congress: Stand firm on energy (TWS)
Send an e-mail: Tell your member of Congress to make the Gulf Coast Civic Works Act a reality (COC)
Send an e-mail: Birth Control is NOT Abortion (NOW)
Send an e-mail: Urge the Department of Agriculture to act now to save bees (NRDC)
Send an e-mail: Help Hold Congress Accountable at the Conventions (PC)
Donate money: Can you help inform voters about McCain's tax breaks for big oil? (MoveOn)
Sign the petition: Demand Congress investigate the Army's cover-up of LaVena Johnson's murder (COC)
Sign the petition: Help Write the Prescription for Change in the U.S. Healthcare System (HU)
Send an e-mail: Tell Congress: Stand firm on energy (TWS)
Send an e-mail: Tell your member of Congress to make the Gulf Coast Civic Works Act a reality (COC)
Send an e-mail: Birth Control is NOT Abortion (NOW)
Send an e-mail: Urge the Department of Agriculture to act now to save bees (NRDC)
Send an e-mail: Help Hold Congress Accountable at the Conventions (PC)
Donate money: Can you help inform voters about McCain's tax breaks for big oil? (MoveOn)
Sign the petition: Demand Congress investigate the Army's cover-up of LaVena Johnson's murder (COC)
Sign the petition: Help Write the Prescription for Change in the U.S. Healthcare System (HU)
Monday, August 18, 2008
10 Stories to Read
This is our regular feature where every day I do a post with the top 10 blog posts that I think people should read from the previous day. Posts are included here and ranked based on a combination of originality, focus on Florida, length (longer, more thorough analysis is better), quality of writing and impact of the story.
1. Alan Farago - Crimes against the state: the Florida Mortgage Crisis: "It is also perfect timing for the editorial boards to connect the dots between the failure of the Florida Office of Financial Regulation and the dominant political ideology of the past decade that abjured regulation in favor of 'the free market'. This may be easier to do, now that real estate advertisement revenue from the Growth Machine has dried up."
2. Dan Gelber - Forecast: Darker skies ahead: "This Friday, Florida's Revenue Estimating Conference will convene to present their official budget forecast for the upcoming year and beyond. Prior to Friday they believed Florida's declining revenue might show a slight uptick. Prepare yourselves for more bad news as conditions have only worsened and their forecast is likely to reflect darker skies."
3. FLA Politics (FDP) - How Did We End Up With The Looming Space Flight Gap? Just Ask John McCain: "McCain's NASA stance went from 'downright schizophrenic' to outright delusional yesterday with his campaign boasting of his influence on space policy in his former role as Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation - without mentioning that, under McCain's watch, the impending five-year gap between the retirement of the Shuttle and the development of the next generation vehicle was created, putting thousands of Space Coast jobs at risk."
4. Progress Florida (Ray Seaman) - High Noon at the Florida Supreme Court: "The fate of 3 key right wing backed amendments to the Florida constitution will be decided by the Florida Supreme Court in the very near future."
5. Progress Florida (Ray Seaman) - Who Will Fill the Widening Press Gap?: "I can't say I've ever really been a fan of the press. There are some really great reporters and columnists which still operate in the traditional press, but I lament the sheer lack of coverage of state and local politics that has existed even before this latest round of layoffs. The traditional press has been largely complicit, and indeed an enabler, in a lot of the failed politics and policies of the last quarter century."
6. Eye on Miami (gimleteye) - Have courage, Governor Crist...: "We, the public, don't have the full story on 'who knew, what' about the US Sugar buyout offer that Governor Crist proposed. One thing is for certain: Governor Crist took an intractable problem-- an Everglades restoration plan that cannot work-- and proposed a big step in the one direction that has the chance, at some point in the future, of helping the Everglades."
7. Florida Politics - The elephant in the room: "It is worth recalling that Florida's current system of public finance is a house of cards built by pusillanimous pols owned and operated by the no-taxes under any circumstances crowd (a/k/a the Chamber of Commerce, the Associated Industries of Florida, and other such denizens of the Jeb!'s hole in the ground). Now, with no backstop, we Floridians get exactly what Jebbie's patrons bought and paid for..."
8. Southern District of Florida - Juror research: "Julie Kay examines the new trend of investigating jurors here..."
9. Incertus (Brian) - Evolution and the Classroom: "Olivia Judson makes (as usual) a compelling case for teaching evolution in the classroom. It bothers me greatly that this is even an issue, considering how poorly US students do on the world stage in math and science scores--deliberately handicapping them by allowing nonsense like ID and Creationism in the public schools is criminal in my mind."
10. spacecoastweb - FDP promotes Kosmas with push poll in FL-24: "Could this be a subtle way for the FDP to prompt Democratic voters into supporting the establishment’s chosen candidate? It might as well have been. There was no mistaking the intent behind this call. I wasn’t being asked whom I supported; Instead, I was being led to accept the FDP’s suggestion."
1. Alan Farago - Crimes against the state: the Florida Mortgage Crisis: "It is also perfect timing for the editorial boards to connect the dots between the failure of the Florida Office of Financial Regulation and the dominant political ideology of the past decade that abjured regulation in favor of 'the free market'. This may be easier to do, now that real estate advertisement revenue from the Growth Machine has dried up."
2. Dan Gelber - Forecast: Darker skies ahead: "This Friday, Florida's Revenue Estimating Conference will convene to present their official budget forecast for the upcoming year and beyond. Prior to Friday they believed Florida's declining revenue might show a slight uptick. Prepare yourselves for more bad news as conditions have only worsened and their forecast is likely to reflect darker skies."
3. FLA Politics (FDP) - How Did We End Up With The Looming Space Flight Gap? Just Ask John McCain: "McCain's NASA stance went from 'downright schizophrenic' to outright delusional yesterday with his campaign boasting of his influence on space policy in his former role as Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation - without mentioning that, under McCain's watch, the impending five-year gap between the retirement of the Shuttle and the development of the next generation vehicle was created, putting thousands of Space Coast jobs at risk."
4. Progress Florida (Ray Seaman) - High Noon at the Florida Supreme Court: "The fate of 3 key right wing backed amendments to the Florida constitution will be decided by the Florida Supreme Court in the very near future."
5. Progress Florida (Ray Seaman) - Who Will Fill the Widening Press Gap?: "I can't say I've ever really been a fan of the press. There are some really great reporters and columnists which still operate in the traditional press, but I lament the sheer lack of coverage of state and local politics that has existed even before this latest round of layoffs. The traditional press has been largely complicit, and indeed an enabler, in a lot of the failed politics and policies of the last quarter century."
6. Eye on Miami (gimleteye) - Have courage, Governor Crist...: "We, the public, don't have the full story on 'who knew, what' about the US Sugar buyout offer that Governor Crist proposed. One thing is for certain: Governor Crist took an intractable problem-- an Everglades restoration plan that cannot work-- and proposed a big step in the one direction that has the chance, at some point in the future, of helping the Everglades."
7. Florida Politics - The elephant in the room: "It is worth recalling that Florida's current system of public finance is a house of cards built by pusillanimous pols owned and operated by the no-taxes under any circumstances crowd (a/k/a the Chamber of Commerce, the Associated Industries of Florida, and other such denizens of the Jeb!'s hole in the ground). Now, with no backstop, we Floridians get exactly what Jebbie's patrons bought and paid for..."
8. Southern District of Florida - Juror research: "Julie Kay examines the new trend of investigating jurors here..."
9. Incertus (Brian) - Evolution and the Classroom: "Olivia Judson makes (as usual) a compelling case for teaching evolution in the classroom. It bothers me greatly that this is even an issue, considering how poorly US students do on the world stage in math and science scores--deliberately handicapping them by allowing nonsense like ID and Creationism in the public schools is criminal in my mind."
10. spacecoastweb - FDP promotes Kosmas with push poll in FL-24: "Could this be a subtle way for the FDP to prompt Democratic voters into supporting the establishment’s chosen candidate? It might as well have been. There was no mistaking the intent behind this call. I wasn’t being asked whom I supported; Instead, I was being led to accept the FDP’s suggestion."
Ammunition
The latest links to the information you need to counter right-wing spin...
Myths and falsehoods about oil policies
The "Drill Here, Drill Now" Myth
Report: Abortion is not a threat to women’s mental health
Myths and falsehoods about oil policies
The "Drill Here, Drill Now" Myth
Report: Abortion is not a threat to women’s mental health
The Road to the White House
What are Florida bloggers saying about the presidential race? Here are the top 5 posts from yesterday...
1. Blast Off!: Today's forecast: mostly Obama, with only a slight chance of McCain
2. FLA Politics (FDP): McCain Plan to Privatize Social Security an Absolute Disgrace
3. Pensito Review (Trish): McCain Plays the POW Card Like a Pro
4. Blast Off!: You gotta have faith ... or not
5. Discourse.net: Obama's New Tack
6. Smashed Frog: Bill Clinton's Bull
7. Betty Cracker: The REAL Presumptuous Nominee
8. tinylittledots: Presumptuous Maverick
9. Discourse.net: Please Not Evan Bayh
10. Blast Off!: John McCain needs a campaign song
1. Blast Off!: Today's forecast: mostly Obama, with only a slight chance of McCain
2. FLA Politics (FDP): McCain Plan to Privatize Social Security an Absolute Disgrace
3. Pensito Review (Trish): McCain Plays the POW Card Like a Pro
4. Blast Off!: You gotta have faith ... or not
5. Discourse.net: Obama's New Tack
6. Smashed Frog: Bill Clinton's Bull
7. Betty Cracker: The REAL Presumptuous Nominee
8. tinylittledots: Presumptuous Maverick
9. Discourse.net: Please Not Evan Bayh
10. Blast Off!: John McCain needs a campaign song
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