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Pat Cunningham offers an unabashedly liberal perspective on national politics. A note of caution: The language gets a litttle salty on some of the sites to which this blog links. So, don’t say you weren’t warned. By the way, this blog’s name is inspired by the Will Rogers quote, “All politics is applesauce.”

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Sad, sad news

8 comments June 13th, 2008

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Not one of Tim Russert’s biggest fans, I nonetheless find myself shocked and deeply saddened at the news that he died unexpectedly this afternoon at the age of only 58.

HERE’s a remembrance of Russert from Freeport native Dan Balz, a correspondent for the Washington Post.

UPDATE: Here’s the video of Tom Brokaw’s bulletin on NBC:

Here’s more on why wealthy folks like me favor McCain’s tax plan over Obama’s

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Two sides of the global-warming debate

3 comments June 13th, 2008

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This is kind of fun, if you have a while to plow through these arguments.

First, we have THIS SPEECH by John Coleman, founder of the Weather Channel and a leading global-warming denier.

Then we have THIS STUFF from climate scientist Gavin Schmidt. (Granted, a lot of the material at this site is complicated scientific data, and there are more than 400 comments attached. But even a layman can derive some useful impressions if you go through it all.)


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