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Thursday, February 17, 2005

 

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Contributors

• Charles
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News Links

• Google News
• UK Guardian
• Salon.com
• Air America Radio
• Democracy Radio
• Amy Goodman's Democracy Now! (a truly independent radio AND TV news organization)
• MediaChannel.org (watching the watchdogs)
• Make Them Accountable (just what the name says)
• TruthOut.org (they get the truth out)
• Asia Times (Good English-language reporting of Asian and world events)
• The Consortium (Robert Parry's excellent news site)
• World Link TV (Cher approved!)
• Democratic Underground (just plain indispensable)
• BuzzFlash (also just plain indispensable)
• Johnny Wendell (The Aggressive Progressive at KTLK-AM 1150!)
• LeftyBlogs.com (a national compendium of local blogs)

Reference Links

• Failure Is Impossible
• Media Matters
• ConWebWatch (reads the ConMedia and gives you the heads-up on the themes they intend to inflict on the rest of us)
• GOTV
• Ballot Paper (on how the Republicans gained control of the US media)
• Terrorist Strategy 101: A Quiz (Al-Qaeda's game plan. Seriously.)
• Public Campaign (because the only real campaign finance reform is to make it so that only public money funds elections)
• No Quarter (the blog of Larry Johnson, former CIA agent and friend of Valerie Plame)
• Patrick Fitzgerald's TreasonGate Website
• GOP Corruption Scorecard(keeping track of current and future makers of license plates within the Republican Party)
• Handy-dandy guide to the Bush Illegal Wiretapping Scandal (with a view to debunking RNC-propagated myths relating thereto)
• Bob Geiger's Senate Blog (old archive link) (keeping tabs on the Senate)
• Bob Geiger's Senate Blog (new link)
• The Bonddad Blog (Bonddad & Co. on the economy)

Blog and
Opinion Links --

America's Best Political Blogs

• Atrios' Eschaton blog
• DailyKos
• Steve Gilliard
• David Neiwert's Orcinus blog
• American Politics Journal
• It Affects You (Exposing GOP myths)
• Josh Marshall's TPM
• Noblesseoblog
• SirotaBlog
• The Poor Man
• Ballot Paper
• The All Spin Zone
• Fire Dog Lake
• Blog for America (the DFA blog)
• First Draft (wherein you will find excellent coverage of the daily WH Press Cons)
• The Rude Pundit (as rude as they wanna be)
• The MahaBlog (they are a blog, and their name is Maha)
• JuliusBlog (home of the Terror Warning/Bush Poll Numbers Correlation Chart)
• Informed Comment (Juan Cole's blog on the Middle East)
• ConyersBlog (a great blog by a great man)
• Whatever Already (Primo Freelancer Murray Waas' excellent blog)
• Mandate, My Ass (an online magazine of kicking ass and taking names, and the occasional catchy ditty)
• Bareknuckles.org (home of Ferguson Foont's Bare-Knuckles Politics message boards)
• Unclaimed Territory (Glenn Greenwald's blog)
• The Big Question (Eric Black's blog at the StarTribune)
• Deadline Pundit (Ian Williams' excellent blog)
• Mark Crispin Miller (author of The Bush Dyslexicon and other nifty things)
• Brad Blog (blogging and interviews the SCLM won't do)
• DemBloggers (more blogging and interviews the SCLM won't do)
• Take It To Karl (liberals in uniform)
• CapitolBuzz (documenting how the GOP is abusing its majority status)
• Whiskey Bar (free thinking in a dirty glass)
• Dependable Renegade (delectable snarkitude)
• How The Neocons Stole Freedom (Melinda Pillsbury-Foster lays it out for you)

Outside America

• New European Times (A UK/Euro-oriented message board started by a few UK Kossacks)
• Blah Blah Flowers (a UK blog)
• Baghdad Burning (the Riverbend blog)
• Designated Driver of North America (in which Canada tries to take the car keys from a drunken US)
• The Sideshow (Avedon Carol's global perspective)

Oaxaca and Mexico in General

• BrownFemiPower
• La Luchita
• Ojitos In Mexico
• Dream Antilles
• Encuentro Gathering
• The Unapologetic Mexican

Regions of America

• Lively Writhing (Washington State musings)
• Dakota Today (all about South Dakota)
• LetterMan's Lair (a blog from Alaska)
• New Frames (an Oregon blog)
• Hypothetically Speaking (Keep up with Ohio scandals...if you can)
• Left in the West (a Montana blog)
• MNSpeak (it's this weird online magazine-like thing that covers Minnesota happenings)
• Rising Hegemon (We're gonna win, Twins, We're gonna score!)
• Norwegianity (a good Scandihoovian-style Minnesota blog)
• Tildology (Minnesota Politics! National Politics! Words of the Day!)
• Minnesota Politics (all about Minnesota politics)
• Minnesota Campaign Report
• Minvolved (the go-to folks on Minnesota Republican silliness)
• MN Publius (yet another good MN blog)
• Yowling From The Fencepost (it's got a black cat)
• Backbone Minnesota (a new MN blog based on the DKos model)
• Blog of the Moderate Left
• Lloydletta (prominent MN blogger/journalist)
• Pharyngula (a Minnesota blog that's also about SCIENCE! and fighting off the creationist/ID loony tunes)
• Attytood (a Philly blog, and the best Big-Media-sponsored blog I've seen)
• Abstract Appeal (all about the Florida legal system)
• Driftglass (a Chicago blogger who reads like Oscar Wilde on crank)
• Gotham Image (as goes Gotham, so goes the US)
• Shrimplate (the Pride of Phoenix, Arizona)
• South Knox Bubba (all about Knoxville and environs)

Beyond Pure Politics

• Amor Mundi (Oscar Wilde. Hannah Arendt. Enough said.)
• BlogMaverick (the intersection of sports and politics)
• Richard Thompson (the intersection of politics and music)
• Susie Bright's Journal (the intersection of politics, feminism and sex)
• ExFundie (an ex-fundie explains her life journey)
• Lectio Divinae (the website)
• Lectio Divinae (the blog)
• Brewed Nature (it's whatever it wants to be)
• One Reporter's Opinion (aka Andy Axel's blog on rock and roll, Cadillacs, and politics)

Useful Things in General (Emphasis on Freeware and Open Source)

• (Not paid ads -- I get no money for these)
• CleanUp! (computer maintenance freeware)
• Firefox (beats MSIE into the dirt, and it's free)
• War on Terror (the board game) (Just. Go. Buy. It.)

Social Security
Links

• Social Security: Graphically Explained
• Kevin Drum debunks the Social Security "crisis" myth
• Roger Lowenstein's in-depth debunking of the SSA "crisis" myth (putting together all the debunkings into one article)
• Social Security (information you can use)
• Paul Krugman debunks the BushCo/Heritage Foundation "Social Security hurts blacks" lie
• Senator Debbie Stabenow's Social Security Web Page
• AARP Blog
• Paul Krugman debunks Kotlikoff and Burns' privatization puff piece
• Play the Social Security Game — Select your favorite reform and calculate its effect on the long-term financing "crisis"

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