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Al Gore had a complete core meltdown today, lashing out at the media, left right, and center in the New York Observer.

Mr. Gore acknowledged his image problem among powerful Democrats, and that the onus will be upon him to recapture the loyalties of those who supported him in 2000. “Maybe I bear the blame for [...]

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By way of following up on the Krugman smear about Republican nepotism, we offer the following from The Political Graveyard on the political geneology of the Bush family. As you see, all of this nepotism started in 1778, so nefarious are these people. Enjoy.

William P. Walker (1778-1858) Father-in-law of Julius Rockwell and David Davis. Born [...]

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Enron’s boy at the New York Times, Paul Krugman, is upset at conservatives again (so, what else is new?) The issue: some of the children of prominent conservatives have jobs in government or media. For shame.

Just ask the Bush brothers. Talk to Elizabeth Cheney, who holds a specially created State Department job, or her [...]

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Not to be outdone on the irresponsible Libertarian voting scandal, Radley Balko’s Cato colleague Randy Barnett blames it on Republicans:

What conservative Republicans often fail to realize is that libertarians are an important constituency that should not be ignored or taken for granted lest their votes be driven to the Libertarian party or even to the [...]

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Christopher Hitchens will be in Berkeley tonight.
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The WaPo has a long series of articles on the Bubble.
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Ben Domenech points out that Libertarian Party faithful are white with rage over an Op-Ed in the New York Times demonstrating their counter-productive effects:

The folks in Oklahoma will have a Democrat governor for the next four years, however — and I’d personally like to know if Radley would’ve voted for Largent, or the Independent. Those [...]

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Nancy Pelosi’s victory over Harold Ford for Minority Leader (it’s official now) is interesting from the standpoint of identity politics, the chief motivator of the Democratic Party in recent years. Pelosi represents a demographic that Democrats desperately need to take back if they’re to be successful as a national party: white women. Clinton won with [...]

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Rapid rise in broadband connections

More than 1 in 4 of U.S. households that go online — and more than 1 in 3 in California and other Pacific Coast states — now do so with a broadband connection, according to a report released Wednesday by market research company Gartner Dataquest.
Based on a June survey of [...]