There's a saying among the left (as a counterpoint to the "liberal media" meme) that the facts have a liberal bias. What's interesting (and maddening) is how intensely the low-information voters on the right believe the liberal media nonsense, and purposely ignore those facts. These people (mostly Tea Partiers) definitely have been showing up at the polls during the primaries. The question is: how will they number during the general, and will they be able to sway the moderates and undecideds?
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80 comments (Latest Comment: 05/10/2012 00:05:28 by Will in Chicago)

Good Morning and welcome to a new week. Over the weekend, in what has been touted as officially the beginning of his campaign, President Obama had rallies in Ohio and Virginia. Mitt Romeny surrogates and conservatives have made the claim that Obama is experiencing an enthusiasm gap with his supporters. The reason? He's not filling up arenas.
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41 comments (Latest Comment: 05/08/2012 02:12:05 by Will in Chicago)

Good Morning.

It's an early blog, but no platelet donation today. (In fact, I've changed habits - there's a donation center in Worcester a mere 4 miles from the office. I was out there last Monday evening after work. You should still donate.) Nay, it's a "classroom day" for ol' Mr. Bean. It's almost kayak season and we'll be reviewing all our policies and procedures to get ready for opening weekend this Memorial day.

In any case....I've been made aware this week of a story that seems to be gaining traction among the conspiracy websites, and I'm wondering what everyone might make of all this. Dan Rea of WBZ, host of the "Nightside" program here most evenings, has started running an add wondering about where all his liberal friends are on this issue. Like I said...I never heard about it until I went digging for it.
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15 comments (Latest Comment: 05/06/2012 01:52:20 by Raine)

Too many times I hear or read of these stories-- Gunman shoots family, self in murder suicide and I lament gun violence in our society... and then I think -- was it a Fox News viewer? Was it what we call a wingnut? I know that this has often created much ire, and people get pissed off if I write of this ponderance. The Arizona shooting yesterday proved to be no different.
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24 comments (Latest Comment: 05/03/2012 22:53:59 by livingonli)

Good Morning.

Today is our 3,859th day in Afghanistan.

We'll start this morning as we always do; with the latest casualty figures from our ongoing war, courtesy of Antiwar.com:


US Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 1,954
Other Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 1,030

We find this morning's cost of war passing through:

$ 1, 327, 676, 875, 000. 00
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35 comments (Latest Comment: 05/01/2012 21:55:28 by Mondobubba)