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Update On The Shaquanda Cotton Case
Posted on March 26th, 2007 on Donklephant
Southwest Bureau Chief for the Chicago Tribune, Howard Witt, just contacted me with an important update about the remarkably unjust, race-...

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Still Think Valerie Plame Wasn’t Covert?
Posted on March 22nd, 2007 on Donklephant
(NOTE: I’ve revised this one from March 16th, and included the bloggers who commented.) Seriously. Let’s get a blogosphere sho...

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Still Think Valerie Plame Wasn’t Covert?
Posted on March 16th, 2007 on Donklephant
Seriously. Let’s get a blogosphere show of hands. See, the reason I’d like to hear from you is I’ve read that she wasnR...

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Midday open thread
Posted on February 26th, 2007 on Daily Kos
David Broder scratches his head, wondering why people don't just agree to agree with each other. I contacted Bailey recently to ask what had...

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Getting separated from the herd.
Posted on February 13th, 2007 on Daily Kos
Think the Edwards campaign's blog troubles ended with Amanda Marcotte's resignation? Think the Edwards campaign's blog troubles end with Edwards? Think...

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The Blogosphere and American Politics
Posted on February 8th, 2007 on Donklephant
American politics is about to become even dirtier and more trivial, thanks to the blogosphere, the efforts of candidates to harness it, and th...

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Score One For Blogger’s Rights
Posted on January 30th, 2007 on Donklephant
Jobs must be pissed. Apple sued a couple bloggers for leaking some inside info and demanded they reveal their sources. The courts said no...

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Manufacturing a scandal
Posted on January 18th, 2007 on Donklephant
A few days ago I slammed Democrats for hypocritically exempting American Samoa from the new minimum wage law. In passing, I noted that one of the be...

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Did David Duke Comment on Donklephant?
Posted on December 13th, 2006 on Donklephant
(UPDATE: It’s the real guy. See below original post for his email response.) In Sean’s great post about restricting free speech...

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Putting Out The Tip Jar
Posted on December 2nd, 2006 on Donklephant
Hi all, In addition to the new ads being served up by FeedBurner, I’ve also decided to put a tip jar on the middle column to give anyb...

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Keeping Your Brain Sharp
Posted on December 2nd, 2006 on Donklephant
I just ran across a great post about the mind and some tips to ensure it’ll be happy, healthy and wise for many years to come. Here&...

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