The following story at
Ish’s request.

It was only luck that woke me up a little before 4:00 on Friday morning, but it was a good opportunity to see if the automated newsletter we’d written for Congressional staffers had been sent successfully. So I waited until four, checked my email, saw the message had gone [...] Read more »

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Obama recently said something about autism and vaccinations:

We’ve seen just a skyrocketing autism rate. Some people are suspicious that it’s connected to the vaccines. This person included. The science right now is inconclusive, but we have to research it. [
Washington Post ]

According to the Obama campaign, “this person” refers to someone in the crowd [...] Read more »

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Just throwing this out there.
Obama’s come off a rather long stretch of having people call him elitist and Hillary Clinton trying to prove both that she’s a regular joe and qualified to handle a 3 AM emergency phone call.
Then we have a content free debate where we talk about flag pins, and [...] Read more »

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Talking Points Memo on last night’s primary:

There’s a lot of crowing from Hillary’s campaign tonight about a shift in momentum and doubts about Obama. Tomorrow there will be a lot of chatter from Obama’s campaign that none of that really matters because of the reality of the delegate numbers which won’t change much.
Like I said, [...] Read more »

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If you are a commenter here, I owe you an apology. Yesterday I integrated the
SezWho comment plugin which allows comment and reputation-tracking across weblogs. I assumed that only registered users of SezWho would be subject to this tracking. That assumption was incorrect.
When I activated the plugin, it transmitted six years worth of unencrypted commenter [...] Read more »

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