Boston.com / News / Local / Mass. / Inoffensive, ineffective: "Before Kerry strategist Bob Shrum convinces the next crop of Democratic losers to shun gays, shoot geese, and embrace Jesus, he ought to consider the possibility that voters did not reject John Kerry because he is a Massachusetts liberal. They rejected him because they could not figure out who he is or what his party stands for."

Oliver Kamm:"One of the most incredible sentences I've ever seen..." : "Chomsky is an intelligent man who knows how to use language. In this case he is using language to depict the United States as incomparably evil; in order to do that he must distort not only the US record in foreign policy, but also the historical record of the regime in recent history that really was incomparably evil. And that is what Chomsky does. "

diary of an anti-chomskyite: What Uncle Sam Really Wants: A Review

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More Good News!: "Bush's victory sparked speculation that disconsolate Democrats and others might decide to start a new life in Canada, a land that tilts more to the left than the United States. " Don't let the door....

The New York Times > Business > Labor Market Snaps Out of Lull to Add 337,000 New Jobs: "Economists cautioned, however, that a one-month gain did not constitute a trend, since the economy has recorded encouraging spurts of job growth before that have just fizzled out in subsequent months." Let me add, having watched numbers like this being created by the federal government that the methodology used is mostly bogus, consisting of: 1. announce results to public. (First iteration you can just make up a number) 2. compare announce results to results from other sources. 3. take measurements and compare with announced number. 4. average old number, new measurements, measurements from other sources to generate next months number 5. Repeat.

Why Americans Hate Democrats?A DialogueRobert Reich: "Let's be clear: Bush ran on a moral agenda?God, guns, gays, and true grit in fighting the evils of Saddam Hussein and terrorism. Kerry ran on a policy agenda?affordable health care, deficit reduction, and combating terrorism through stronger international alliances and a smarter strategy." No let's be REAL clear: Many of us, when asked by liberal friends examined Kerry's plan and found it wanting (seriously). Many of us when urged to do so viewed Fahrenheit 911 and found it infantile. We wondered how thinking people could buy into these half-baked concepts. The notion that the right won the election based on the votes of ignorant people is belied by the well known fact that the left resorts to busing people who would otherwise not vote at all to the poles.

Yahoo! News - Bush Wins Iowa to Claim Last Three States: "Along with Wisconsin and Minnesota, Iowa and its seven electoral votes are part of the once-Democratic Upper Midwest that is growing more conservative with each presidential election. Kerry won Minnesota by just 3 percentage points, Wisconsin by a single point."

Yahoo! News - WE DIDN'T TELL YOU SO: "The Democrats will need to devise a means of making state socialism a reborn faith. Either that, or just go back to obstructionist tactics in Congress, and a renewed search for the golden boy. Maybe Edwards. He is photogenic and wears his afflatus confidently. "

Yahoo! News - ONE LAST FLIP-FLOP: "To Michael Moore, George Soros, Terry McAuliffe, Dan Rather, Al Franken and the whole gang at Air America Radio -- you were great, guys! Thanks for the help! We couldn't have done it without you!"

My Way News: "JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Palestinian President Yasser Arafat was declared clinically dead on Thursday in a French hospital, Israeli television said citing French sources." "But Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie denied the report, saying: 'I have just spoken to the officials in Paris and they say the situation is still as it was. He is still in the intensive care unit.'"

Walter Williams - Is politics the way?

The New York Times > Science > New Evidence on Main Cause of Cerebral Palsy Too late for all the OBGYNs that John Edwards sued to get a refund?

New UAE president elected - (United Press International) Elected? Let us not ever take REAL elections for granted.

Adobe dipping toes into desktop Linux waters | CNET News.com Good news!

My Way News - Stocks Surge on Presumed Bush Victory: "Stocks surged Wednesday, with the Dow Jones industrials posting a triple-digit gain moments after the opening bell, as investors expressed relief following the election and what's widely believed to be a victory for President Bush."

Global monitors find faults: printer friendly version: "As for electronic voting, Gould said he preferred Venezuela's system over the calculator-sized touchpads in Miami. 'Each electronic vote in Venezuela also produces a ticket that voters then drop into a ballot box,' Gould said. 'Unlike fully electronic systems, this gives a backup that can be used to counter claims of massive fraud.'"

VOTE.COM | Column | MISSING BIN LADEN

Guardian Unlimited | US elections 2004 |Tom Wolf: 'The liberal elite hasn't got a clue': "And John Kerry? 'He is a man no one should worry about, because he has no beliefs at all. He is not going to introduce some manic radical plan, because he is poll-driven, and it is therefore impossible to know where or for what he stands.'"

MadBlast - Political Rhapsody