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  • Achievment gap narrowed!!!!!!!

    Or so proclaimed Maria Glod and Daniel de Vise of the Washington Post (link):Since enactment of the No Child Left Behind law, students from poor families in the Washington area have made major gains on reading and math t…

  • Rush Limbaugh logic

    Obama was born in the US. His mother is white.His dad is from Kenya.That would make Obama an American. Or perhaps an African-American (dad from Africa, mom from America).Not according to Rush Limbaugh. Obama is actual…

  • Glenn Beck

    (seen here with his CNN photo, and as the opera clown in Seinfeld) has a new opinion piece at cnn.com (link). It's Beck at his best -- somewhat cleverly deceptive and dishonest.We know Beck is a skilled at reading RNC …

  • Paul Krugman

    He provides that much needed voice of sanity, in a crazy world (link):Did you hear about how Barack Obama wants to have sex education in kindergarten, and called Sarah Palin a pig? Did you hear about how Ms. Palin told C…

  • Oops she did it again

    Even after the Wall Street Journal and other newspapers called her out for lying, Palin repeated the claim again today:We told Congress, “Thanks, but no thanks for that Bridge to Nowhere up in Alaska.” If our state wante…

  • The Wall Street Journal

    did a pretty good job about reporting the facts about Palin's lies (headline: Record contradicts Palin's bridge claim). Here are the facts:She endorsed the multimillion dollar project during her gubernatorial race in 20…

  • Journalism

    How hard is it to check to see if a statement made by a politician is accurate?McCain and Palin have been talking about how "She took the luxury jet that was acquired by her predecessor and sold it on Ebay — and made a p…

  • Maureen Dowd

    I haven't spent enough time on this blog talking about her. But, her most recent column gives me as good a reason as any (link). She took a break from bashing Obama to bash McCain. Take a look: Now John McCain is …

  • Our corporate media

    From today's Howler: You really can’t run a middle-class democracy with a multimillionaire press corps. It would be easy to dismiss a comment like that. But, really, why else would the media be so focused on trivial …

  • Tim Russert -- stupidest man in the world?

    From last night's debateTIM RUSSERT: If the Iraqi government said, "President Clinton or President Obama, you're pulling out your troops this quickly? You're going to be gone in a year, but you're going to leave a resid…

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