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The Politician’s Guide To Twitter

1. Obscene tile background of yourself doing something bureaucratic: like giving a speech, mouth dangling open, pray you don’t have a poppy seed from your bagel breakfast stuck in your teeth. Smile for the cameras. 2. You follow 30 people … Continue reading

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In Abbottabad

Check this out. President Obama says he does not want to release the Osama death pic because he’s worried it will incite militant Islamists. Why, then, are the death photos of Osama’s people flooding the net? Why is that OK—those … Continue reading

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McMahon for Senate 2010

I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and gosh darn it, people like me. Continue reading

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Bienvenidos de Mexico

Arturo Valenzuela, the U.S. State Department’s top official for Latin America, said that the new organization “should not be an effort that would replace the OAS [Organization of American States].” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-weisbrot/independent-latin-america_b_478140.html?just_reloaded=1 Continue reading

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