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Interview with framing guru George Lakoff

Kennedy speaks at the Convention

Biden named as the VP candidate for Obama

Saturday morning community discussion at FDL

Of the many alarming parts of this article in the Washington Post about biological weapons research, which one would keep you awake at night? "On July 10, the day he was taken to a hospital for psychiatric evaluation, for example, Ivins spent part of the afternoon at a sensitive briefing on a new bubonic plague vaccine under development at the Army's elite biological weapons testing center, according to a former colleague who talked with him there."

This is a special post to thank Christy for all she does politically and for us here at FDL. I think we take for granted that we see Senators and other high level folks willing to come in and talk with us for a while, but you know what? That takes a lot of planning and persuading.

Froomkin = One. Of. Us. quoting Robert Brodsky, on Webb’s reaction to Bush trying to drag his feet on the Webb-McCaskill Truman Commission on war profiteering -- Webb immediately pushed back, criticizing the statement as an ‘impingement on the rights’ of Congress. Any questions?

We've spent so much time on the primaries, let's take a step back today and look at the larger picture of building progressive infrastructure. What kinds of political organizations are we building, what networks can we develop? Who can be brought into the process and at what level? For those of us who are relatively new to political activism, how do we take that next step?

Saturday 24 May 2008 firedoglake community discussion

Think you're exempt? A member of Congress had a house foreclosed and turned over to the bank.