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Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc

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Regressive Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio, the Republican minority leader, offered a textbook example of this classic form of faulty reasoning today. According to the NYT, Bohner urged Congress members to sustain the president's … [Read more...]

Neocons Applaud Vietraq Surge

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Since today seems to be Gawk at the Journalistically Incontinent here at BMG, I thought it might be helpful to share the current excited NeoCon assessment about how splendidly the Vietraq "surge" is going: "Friends, Enemies and Spoilers: … [Read more...]

American Life Lays it out on Guantanamo

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Don't miss the brilliant This American Life episode "Habeas Schmabeas," winner of a 2006 Peabody Award, which is now available for free as an MP3 for a limited time. The show is being re-broadcast this week."Act One. There's No U.S. in … [Read more...]

Sal Dimasi owes us $15,400/year

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Will the hackery never stop in Massachusetts? Is the state government really nothing more than a machine to generate payments for friends of well-connected legislators? Andrea Estes reports today in the Globe:The state retirement board … [Read more...]

Don’t Ban Bags, Tax Them

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The Boston City Council is right to address the problem of plastic bag pollution. The bags are cheap to manufacture, but it costs the rest of us a huge amount to clean them up -- not to mention the cost of having to look at them in bushes … [Read more...]

Media Descend on Norco High School

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The Norco High School walk-out of Mike Daisy's theatrical performance Tuesday appears not have been a pre-arranged publicity stunt.According to the Press Enterprise newspaper: A parent went to Boston to supervise Norco High choir members … [Read more...]

WaPo Tells it Like it is in Vietraq

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Hats off to the Washington Post, which brought its readers straight to the uncomfortable reality of the hell hole that the Bush administration has stuck us all in in Vietraq. If there is a more perfect metaphor for the Bush administration's … [Read more...]

Bush Being Overwhelmed by Iraq

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I did a double-take today when I read Bush's attack on the Democratic plan to begin withdrawing from Iraq by 1 October:It makes no sense to tell the enemy when you plan to start withdrawing. If we were to do so, the enemy would simply mark … [Read more...]

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