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Coyote Nation

Coyotes have come to the city. I sit here writing in the foreshortened suburban night and listen to them howling and singing out back, hidden in what we used to call a gulch but is now called a green belt. A coyote can hold a note a lot longer than you ...

From GLENN W. SMITH, Firedoglake,  30 Nov 2008

Listen for the Truth

Here's a paradox of the internet revolution and the rise of net-based activism: As more and more citizens outgrow 20th-Century media-induced passivity and political consumerism, as it becomes easier to speak out, it becomes harder to listen. This ...

From GLENN W. SMITH, Firedoglake,  23 Nov 2008

Charleston, S.C., security camera project gains support

Charleston Police Chief Greg Mullen spent the past year easing concerns and building support for putting the Holy City under the all-seeing eyes of video surveillance cameras. Momentum seems to be building for the plan, and even some early skeptics say ...

From GLENN SMITH, Security Info Watch,  11 Nov 2008

Beyond 2008: Hard Work

Pundits almost never get post-presidential election analyses right. Remember 2004's "value voters" who, it was believed, emerged from the church sanctuaries to re-elect George W. Bush? Stupid exit poll methodology contributed to that blunder. Usually, ...

From GLENN W. SMITH, Firedoglake,  9 Nov 2008

Year of Reckoning: 2008 is when Karl Rove’s “genius” is measured

Karl Rove's deepest fantasy was that in the future, some lonely and ambitious young person would read of him as he once read of Mark Hanna, the political operative who guided President William McKinley's successful 1896 campaign. He saw himself as a ...

From GLENN W. SMITH, Firedoglake,  2 Nov 2008

We’re All Socialists! The McCain/Palin Campaign for Big Insurance

Not too many years ago in Texas, a right wing operative told the mainstream press I was a communist. Even in Texas the accusation (based solely on my mocking of '60s John Birchers in an old news story) was laughed at. Nobody'd seen a communist for a ...

From GLENN W. SMITH, Firedoglake,  26 Oct 2008

A Message for Republicans Who May Not Know What Their Leaders Are Doing

KHOU-TV in Houston last night aired a powerful story about Republican voter suppression tactics in Harris County, tactics being carried out by GOP Tax Assessor-Collector Paul Bettencourt. Republicans have been pressing for sweeping voter purges in many ...

From GLENN SMITH, Burnt Orange Report,  23 Oct 2008

Race Boating: Swift Boat funder Bob Perry funds racist direct mail

Swift Boat funder Robert Perry, a top national Republican donor, is funding overtly racist attack mail this cycle. It's not Swift Boating. It's Race Boating. A group called "Empower Texans," chaired by Tim Dunn of Midland, an associate of Republican ...

From GLENN SMITH, Burnt Orange Report,  22 Oct 2008

Imprison Voter Suppression Conspirators

As television network and cable reporting on the collapsing economy diminished last week, John McCain gained an inch or two on Barack Obama. Three cable news shows I watched on MSNBC on Friday - Hardball, Countdown, and Rachel Maddow - devoted ...

From GLENN W. SMITH, Firedoglake,  19 Oct 2008

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