End of the Month Blog Roundup!

More on this here via TPM.

The NRA's Political Spending infographic by JLMC. 

First up, The Atlantic's been serving up some excellent and relevant analysis this month:

James Fallows breaks down Obama's Inauguration rhetoric.
Senior Editor, Richard Florida, looks at the geography of gun-related deaths as well as what role gun regulations and factors including the economic, social and political characteristics play in contributing to gun violence.

Tomdispatch gets deep into the Obama cabinet shakeup as well as Defense Secretary nominee, Chuck Hagel and Vietnam via Nick Turse.

A new year,  a new war. Mali: Another country that (probably) most of us have had to wikipedia in recent weeks. Chris Hayes hosts a very comprehensive panel about why Mali matters:

Blog Roundup!: Presidential Debate Style

It has hardly been two days since the first debate between President Barack Obama and Republican nominee, Mitt Romney, yet the blogosphere and the news media are still analyzing and criticizing the event. The word is, Buzzfeed declared Romney the winner before the debate was even over - and the general consensus since has been that Romney won the debate.

However, as Mediamatters points out, an equally valid interpretation is that Jim Lehrer lost the debate.

Nevertheless, as Truthdig notes, the debate was definitely more style over substance.

Maddow also breaks down the numbers, further soothing the worries of Obama supporters who may be frustrated at the rather abrupt and widespread conclusion that he lost, to show that incumbents usually do lose the first debate.

Democracy Now! provided an alternative debate for third party candidates on Wednesday.

And besides Buzzfeed apparently calling the debate for Romney before halftime, it also declared "silly memes" the winner of the night. 

Blog roundup!: DNC coverage

Not only has North Carolina had the nation's attention, its also had corporate attention. The race for Governor is expected to be the most expensive in the state's history.
The Center for Public Integrity has more.

Truthdig recaps day two of the DNC.

The late Senator Ted Kennedy still pisses Bill O'Reilly off.

Shakesville has three concerns about the DNC.

Livestream and open thread on DailyKos of tonight's final DNC speeches.

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Lida Vasilevskaya gives an insider's account of what was going on in the courtroom during the Pussy Riot trial.

Game of Thrones author George R. R. Martin airs his frustrations over GOP voter suppression efforts (and ended up having to shut down the comments section on his blog as a result).

Pressthink dissects everything that's wrong with political journalism in one Washington Post item.

Informed Comment lists the top ten differences in media language when reporting on white terrorists and other terrorists.

Occupy Wallstreet crackdowns: Tyranny isn't always centralized.

And finally, the power of the press release: Doubtful Newsblog shows how dozens of major media outlets, including The Guardian and ABC, proliferated an erroneous story about a women-only city to be built in Saudi Arabia, all based on misreading (or not reading) one press release.

Blog Roundup!

It's blog roundup time again:

Comedian Joe Mande sums up HBO's "Game Change" in 43 seconds.

Lawfare blogger, Benjamin Wittes, discusses his new project for the Brookings Institute, "The project, about which I am deeply excited, is at one level an attempt to bring to life the most important document in American history that nobody ever reads: [James] Madison’s Notes of the Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787."

Alternet's Alex Henderson talks about the Bible Belt's love affair with porn.

Barbara Ehrenreich, author of "Nickled and Dimed: On Not Getting By in America" revisits American poverty 50 years later.

Blog Roundup! Time Warp Edition

Let's do the Time Warp!

Not too long ago, the Republican party faced a choice after losing control of Congress and the Presidential race in 2008: they could moderate their tone and disassociate from Rovian propaganda tactics or they could push harder towards normalizing the extreme right. Well, we all know how its been going in American politics, so let's not kid ourselves here. The only question after the election ended and the Congressional theatrics began was, how far would the GOP go?

Now fast forward to now, where dropping in on mainstream media political discourse is like tuning into an alternate dimension, or even a time warp. This week's Blog Roundup: the top campaign season related stories that everyone on the internet seems to be talking about. Welcome to what could be the 1950's, 60's, 70's or even a touch of the 80's:

Talking Points Memo writer Evan McMorris-Santoro breaks down the GOPs time warp to the 1950s.

Crooksandliars delves into the classic Aspirin between the legs Foster Friess cure for conceiving.

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Alex Hern of Left Foot Forward, busts four myths about the UK's austerity measures targeted at public sector workers.

The Revolution continues, according to Gilbert Achcar of ZNet.

The Hunting of the Snark says you are what you buy.

Author James Howards Kuntsler talks about your new American dream.

Brilliant at breakfast on the "Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011" and the Dems that support it.

Barry Deutsch of Lefty Cartoons has 10 ways the teacher's unions caused the economic crisis.

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Crooksandliars explains how the GOP's infamous "magic asterisk," works.

Jay Ackroyd of Eschaton discusses the new political philosophy that pervades the Democratic party, referred to as "progressive realism." A brief analysis of why Democrats are no longer New Deal Liberals.

Balloon Juice delves into the tensions in small communities caused by fracking operations.

Amy Goodman's blog has this new interview up: Bloomberg Law interviews Goodman about the landmark settlement that followed her and the Democracy Now! crew's arrest outside of the 2008 RNC.

The Sandwichman of EconoSpeak goes into the "problem of unemployment."

Happy Halloween!




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Perrspectives has a great piece with loads of fancy and informative charts that show how the GOP has already won the class war they claim the Dems are waging.

Firedoglakes' Kevin Gosztola live blogs the Wall Street protest. 

Progress Missouri discusses how secret corporate groups have introduced controversial bills in legislatures across the country.

Progressive populist argues end the war, save the postal service.

Swerve Left has the movie we are all waiting to see.

Human Voices talks privatizing disaster.