Thursday, June 22, 2006
What Steve Said
Gilliard says it all. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. We're currently at Stage Three.
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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)
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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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