Thursday, December 22, 2005
Wanted: Honest (or at least principled) Conservatives
Michael Bérubé's looking for them. This fella is probably one. Glenn Greenwald is another.
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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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