<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Latest LinkBlogs from dotcommonsense.blog-city.com</title><link>http://dotcommonsense.blog-city.com/</link><description>(Latest LinkBlog) </description><copyright>Copyright 2008 dotcommonsense.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 09:44:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Latest LinkBlogs from dotcommonsense.blog-city.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://dotcommonsense.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Bob Herbert:  Yes We Can</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotcommonsense.blog-city.com/linkblog/jump/?i=504909</guid><link>http://dotcommonsense.blog-city.com/linkblog/jump/?i=504909</link><pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 08:20:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Actually about Al Gore, not Senator Obama, in case you're wondering.]]></description><category>al gore</category><category>barack</category><category>obama</category></item><item><title>Paul Krugman: L-ish Economic Prospects</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotcommonsense.blog-city.com/linkblog/jump/?i=504906</guid><link>http://dotcommonsense.blog-city.com/linkblog/jump/?i=504906</link><pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:49:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Pay particular attention to the letter Krugman has chosen.  It is an L not a V or even a U.]]></description><category>krugman</category></item><item><title>CNN:  U.S. aims to reduce cluster bomb casualties</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotcommonsense.blog-city.com/linkblog/jump/?i=504874</guid><link>http://dotcommonsense.blog-city.com/linkblog/jump/?i=504874</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:42:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Will change to reduce delayed explosion of bomblets.  But not until 2018.  Report ignores the fact that cluster bombs are inherently evil in our increasingly crowded world, and should be designated as WMDs.  In a few years our nation went from trying to kill Osama bin Laden with cluster bombs in remote mountains (which was good) to selling them to Israel when we knew they were using them in populated areas, which was very bad.  Maybe they should be banned altogether since some leaders will use them to push war, even for poll numbers.]]></description><category>cluster bombs</category><category>war</category><category>wmds</category></item><item><title>Reuters:  U.S. still flunks healthcare test, group says</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotcommonsense.blog-city.com/linkblog/jump/?i=504873</guid><link>http://dotcommonsense.blog-city.com/linkblog/jump/?i=504873</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:31:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[]]></description><category>health care</category><category>health</category></item><item><title>The McCain campaign falsely claims that Obama voted to raise income taxes on individuals earning &quot;as little as $32,000 per year.&quot;</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotcommonsense.blog-city.com/linkblog/jump/?i=504826</guid><link>http://dotcommonsense.blog-city.com/linkblog/jump/?i=504826</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:19:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Notice how the McCain camp repeats false rebuttals in an attempt to squash this report]]></description></item><item><title>Frank Rich: The Real-Life ‘24’ of Summer 2008</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotcommonsense.blog-city.com/linkblog/jump/?i=504825</guid><link>http://dotcommonsense.blog-city.com/linkblog/jump/?i=504825</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:05:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Excerpt: Red Cross investigators flatly told the C.I.A. last year that America was practicing torture and vulnerable to war-crimes charges.
Top Bush hands are starting to get sweaty about where they left their fingerprints.
a major incentive for Mr. Cheney’s descent into the dark side was to cover up for the Bush White House’s failure to heed the Qaeda threat in 2001. Jack Cloonan, a special agent for the F.B.I.’s Osama bin Laden unit until 2002, told Ms. Mayer that Sept. 11 was “all preventable.”]]></description><category>rrank rich</category><category>bush administration</category></item><item><title>New York Daily News:  New Yorker Magazine Raises Ruckus with Cover Illustration Showing Terrorist Obamas in Oval Office</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotcommonsense.blog-city.com/linkblog/jump/?i=504814</guid><link>http://dotcommonsense.blog-city.com/linkblog/jump/?i=504814</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:51:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Magazine staff says putting all elements of stories about Obama's together in 'satire' exposes the 'caricature' the right has tried to insert as an actual depiction of the pair, but the Obama campaign believes the picture is "tasteless and offensive".  I agree with both sides.  But isn't this a little more Mad's type of stuff?  Picture of New Yorker cover at linked site.  (Warning graphic depiction of 'fist bump'.  Please make sure that sensitive individuals are out of room before viewing. /sarcasm)]]></description><category>barack</category><category>obama</category><category>michelle obama</category><category>new yorker magazine</category></item><item><title>AlterNet -- Gareth Porter: With Unexpected Iraqi Withdrawal Demand, Bush Has Lost the War</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotcommonsense.blog-city.com/linkblog/jump/?i=504807</guid><link>http://dotcommonsense.blog-city.com/linkblog/jump/?i=504807</link><pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:58:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Porter explains the growing rift between the US and the people who control all that oil.]]></description><category>iraq</category><category>war</category><category>dawa party</category><category>al sistani</category></item><item><title>Errol Louis: Gramm&apos;s words were an outrage; his actions have been worse</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotcommonsense.blog-city.com/linkblog/jump/?i=504806</guid><link>http://dotcommonsense.blog-city.com/linkblog/jump/?i=504806</link><pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 05:41:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[]]></description><category>phil gramm</category><category>john mccain</category></item><item><title>FactChecker-- McCain  Two Pinnochios:  Says He&apos;s For Equal Pay For Equal Work, but Doesn&apos;t Back Bill To Ensure Equality</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotcommonsense.blog-city.com/linkblog/jump/?i=504803</guid><link>http://dotcommonsense.blog-city.com/linkblog/jump/?i=504803</link><pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:05:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[]]></description><category>john mccain</category></item><item><title>FactCheck.org: An RNC ad claims Obama has &quot;no new solutions&quot; to the energy problem, when he actually proposes $150 billion worth.</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotcommonsense.blog-city.com/linkblog/jump/?i=504802</guid><link>http://dotcommonsense.blog-city.com/linkblog/jump/?i=504802</link><pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:51:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Remember this is the kind of ad that Senator Obama warned about, which makes an end run around the public financing system and therefore is 'gaming' the system.]]></description><category>public financing</category><category>john mccain</category><category>barack</category><category>obama</category></item><item><title>Bob Herbert: Feeling No Pain</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotcommonsense.blog-city.com/linkblog/jump/?i=504785</guid><link>http://dotcommonsense.blog-city.com/linkblog/jump/?i=504785</link><pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 05:45:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Herbert notes the lack of empathy from the McCain campaign with Phil Gramm's comments old and new, and then asks the Democratic candidates to raise holy hell to be different than the Republicans.  Sorry, Mr. H., like many of us you chose to be a little lazy and blame our candidates.  Who need to raise holy hell is you and me and all us rank and file liberals, even undecideds who are decided that our nation is going down the drain.  We need to stop being lazy and/or timid and remind our friends and family just what really is at stake in our nation.  Then our candidates can be bolder.  We are the ones that let us down. We are the ones that can fix it.]]></description><category>bob herbert</category><category>john mccain</category><category>phil gramm</category></item><item><title>Harold Myerson: Why Were We in Vietnam?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotcommonsense.blog-city.com/linkblog/jump/?i=504784</guid><link>http://dotcommonsense.blog-city.com/linkblog/jump/?i=504784</link><pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 04:23:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[We fought the Vietnam war to keep it from being communist.  Yet, now business wants to take production to Vietnam instead of Thailand (both cheaper than China now) specifically because it's communist and has great control of its workers.  Myerson may be making implications about getting what we want from Iraq war.]]></description><category>vietnam war</category><category>globalized business</category></item><item><title>Court tosses White House appeal on visitor logs</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotcommonsense.blog-city.com/linkblog/jump/?i=504782</guid><link>http://dotcommonsense.blog-city.com/linkblog/jump/?i=504782</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:42:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[]]></description></item><item><title>I knew I like this guy -- Harold Myerson on one of my favorite subjects, Zellow Journalism:</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotcommonsense.blog-city.com/linkblog/jump/?i=504736</guid><link>http://dotcommonsense.blog-city.com/linkblog/jump/?i=504736</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:16:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Excerpt: 
Zell, for those of you fortunate enough not to follow news of the newspaper business, is the Chicago real estate magnate who last year purchased the Tribune Co., which owns the Times, the Chicago Tribune and a number of smaller papers. At the rate he's going, he's well on his way to accomplishing a feat that McNamara didn't even contemplate: destroying the L.A. Times.]]></description><category>sam zell</category><category>harold myerson</category><category>los angeles times</category><category>mainstream news</category><category>journalism</category></item><item><title>RWR&apos;s Morning in America is Now Blackout in America.  We Should Have Kept Carter. Richard Cohen (WP Columnist) Explains</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotcommonsense.blog-city.com/linkblog/jump/?i=504723</guid><link>http://dotcommonsense.blog-city.com/linkblog/jump/?i=504723</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:35:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[]]></description></item><item><title>GOP Looks To Redistrict Itself Back Into Power</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotcommonsense.blog-city.com/linkblog/jump/?i=504722</guid><link>http://dotcommonsense.blog-city.com/linkblog/jump/?i=504722</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:34:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[]]></description><category>gop</category><category>republicans</category><category>dirty tricks politics</category><category>redistricting</category></item><item><title>Huffington Post: Companies Begin Quest For Oil And Gas Off Florida Coast</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotcommonsense.blog-city.com/linkblog/jump/?i=504721</guid><link>http://dotcommonsense.blog-city.com/linkblog/jump/?i=504721</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:32:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[]]></description><category>off shore drilling</category><category>oil exploration</category><category>florida</category><category>charlie crisp</category></item><item><title>About Dancing Matt</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotcommonsense.blog-city.com/linkblog/jump/?i=504720</guid><link>http://dotcommonsense.blog-city.com/linkblog/jump/?i=504720</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:35:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Times Did a Report on Matt Harding (the dancing guy whose video I had up for a while.  I even learned more than I did from the interview (available on You Tube)]]></description><category>matt harding</category><category>where the hell is matt</category></item><item><title>McCain and the RNC Scamming of the Public Financing System is Beginning</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotcommonsense.blog-city.com/linkblog/jump/?i=504719</guid><link>http://dotcommonsense.blog-city.com/linkblog/jump/?i=504719</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:33:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Just a couple of weeks ago the Republicans cried foul when Barack Obama refused to go along with the broken public financing system in which a candidate had allies spend overwhelming amounts of money while he collected taxpayer dollars in a supposedly pristine environment.  Now we see the dirty donors that will overwhelmingly enhance McCains virginal public funds.]]></description><category>john mccain</category><category>barack</category><category>obama</category><category>2008 race</category><category>2008 presidential race</category></item></channel></rss>