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Myra Breckinridge Cookbook
by Howard Austen and Beverly Pepper
Fine, Collector's Copy (Paperback) $100
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Former attorney general and amateur singer/songwriter John Ashcroft appeared Wednesday on “The Daily Show” to defend the president’s various abuses of power, including torture, which he characterized as stern questioning.
Posted on Oct 19, 2006
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Stephen Colbert interviews David Kuo, whose new book, “Tempting Faith,” exposes the Bush administration’s cynical exploitation of religion.
Posted on Oct 19, 2006
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Biologist Richard Dawkins, author of “The God Delusion,” debates Stephen Colbert on the irrationality of religion, the misrepresentation of evolution and the idiocy of intelligent design.
Posted on Oct 18, 2006
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California residents: Check out this fact-sheet to educate yourself about Prop. 89, the California Clean Money and Fair Elections Act, which provides “clean money” financing to qualified candidates.
Posted on Oct 17, 2006
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In case you lost track, Stephen Colbert offers this rundown of Republican debacles. From phantom WMDs to Mark Foley, the “Report” host highlights the greatest hits of GOP mania.
Posted on Oct 17, 2006
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Jon Stewart digests the latest Abramoff developments, including Bob Ney’s abuse of the “drinking problem” defense: “If you’re keeping score at home, that now makes alcohol responsible for corruption, anti-Semitism and homosexual pedophilia.”
Posted on Oct 17, 2006
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David Kuo, the former deputy in Bush’s Office of Faith-Based Initiatives and author of the new book “Tempting Faith,” told Leslie Stahl on “60 Minutes” that “the name of God is being destroyed in the name of politics.” (Watch it)
Posted on Oct 16, 2006
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The Dove “Campaign for Real Beauty” outfit has posted a video showing the unbelievable makeup, styling and Photoshop efforts that go into making a model into a billboard beauty. It’s an effective indictment of how we view “beauty.” (Watch it)
Posted on Oct 16, 2006
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An ad produced by an advocacy group features a small girl saying this about an anti-stem-cell congressman: “How come he thinks he gets to decide who lives and dies?”
Posted on Oct 14, 2006
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The Nation’s Christian Parenti goes inside Taliban communities and fighting groups in this excellent article and video, which document “the mounting frustration in Afghanistan with government corruption, military occupation and a seemingly endless war.”
Posted on Oct 14, 2006
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“Airplane” director David Zucker has produced a satirical ad criticizing the Clinton administration’s dealings with North Korea that is so inflammatory that GOP strategists have refused to use it in campaigns.
Posted on Oct 14, 2006
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This week’s slew of Truthdig-flavored videos includes two (gasp!) conservatives: Andrew Sullivan and Dennis Miller. Please listen to what they have to say—even if only to sharpen your debating skills. Also check out Robert Scheer on North Korea and Iran and Wolf Blitzer humiliating a GOP’er over Foleygate.
Posted on Oct 13, 2006
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When the president is asked why he refuses to change strategies in Iraq, he often says: “I listen to our generals.” On Thursday’s “Daily Show,” Jon Stewart ripped apart that statement with a series of clips that showed top brass criticizing the war and the administration.
Posted on Oct 13, 2006
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Conservative blogger and gay activist Andrew Sullivan visited “The Colbert Report” to discuss the GOP’s double standard when it comes to homosexuality: “They can’t pretend to be tolerant in private, and intolerant in public. They’re either going to have to purge all the gays from the Republican Party or they’re going to start having to behave like grown-ups and treat us like human beings.”
Posted on Oct 13, 2006
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In the latest installment of the Truthdig Podcast, Robert Scheer offers his take on North Korea’s nuclear test, Iran, diplomacy, Democratic prospects and much more.
Posted on Oct 12, 2006
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Wolf Blitzer made GOP Rep. Patrick McHenry look foolish on CNN by exposing McHenry’s baseless charges that Democrats were orchestrating Foleygate. (It’s actually a “Daily Show” clip, and Stewart nails it, too.)
Posted on Oct 12, 2006
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“The Daily Show” host does a hilarious spoof on Dennis Hastert’s recent graveyard press conference.
Posted on Oct 12, 2006
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Lou Dobbs on ‘the Daily Show’ calls for a return to progressive values: “Why don’t we take on the concept that’s held the country in pretty good stead for 200 years and return to a national vision of shared burdens, shared responsibilities and shared sacrifice.”
Posted on Oct 12, 2006
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Keith Olbermann responded to the passage of the torture bill with this tongue-in-cheek investigative report on habeas corpus. (Video & Transcript)
Posted on Oct 11, 2006
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Dennis Miller tells Jon Stewart that Dick Cheney keeps the country safe; if the VP will blast his friend with a shotgun, what might he have in store for the evildoers?
Posted on Oct 10, 2006
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Bill O’Reilly claims Iran is “upping the violence” in Iraq to give Democrats a boost in the November election. O’Reilly then hypocritically encourages Bush to use military action to achieve a political end. (Video & Transcript)
Posted on Oct 10, 2006
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Jon Stewart took CNN to task on Monday over the frenzied tone of its North Korea nuclear test coverage. With little to offer in the way of fact and 24 hours of programming to fill, the news network turned instead to conjecture and doomsday prophecy, prompting this observation from Stewart: “CNN: It’s 99.9 percent what they don’t know.”
Posted on Oct 10, 2006
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Bob Woodward said Dick Cheney in a phone call cursed at him over Woodward’s revelations about the White House’s meetings with Henry Kissinger. Cheney then hung up on him, the reporter said.
Woodward called it a “metaphor” of how the White House reacts these days to news it doesn’t like.
Posted on Oct 9, 2006
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Yes He Can
