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Gotta Get Away From Me 
(author unknown) via Matthew Yglesias on Wed, 23 Jul. 2008
Ben Smith notes that with McCain's press corps eager to ask some followup questions about McCain (a) not knowing when the surge happened, and (b) accusing Barack Obama of seeking to deliberately lose wars for political gain his campaign decided to cancel his press availability. What Smith doesn't
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Contra Klein
Andrew Sullivan via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sul on Wed, 23 Jul. 2008
By Patrick AppelJoyner on McCain's statement about Obama losing the war to win a campaign: Most of the reaction to this has come from the Left and, as one would expect, they find it “outrageous” and “appalling” and “scurri
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Stop Google Analytics From Stealing Your Valuable AdWords Keyword Data
Jason Billingsley via Get Elastic Ecommerce Blog on Wed, 23 Jul. 2008
Are you a Google AdWords advertiser using Google Analytics? STOP! You MUST read this post because you are losing money daily and we are going to help you stop the bleeding.
There is a problem with the default functionality of Google Analytics when used in conjunction with AdWords. Google Analytics (GA) doesn’t report the actual phrase a shopper entered into the search
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Black Gold
(author unknown) via Matthew Yglesias on Wed, 23 Jul. 2008
Today's Washington Post editorial on Iraq has a very definite Pravda vibe to it -- sure we all saw, watched, and heard the Iraqi government repeatedly endorse an Iraq strategy along the lines of what Barack Obama has proposed, and repeatedly reject an I
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Polls: Europe Hearts Obama
Eric Kleefeld via TPM Election Central on Wed, 23 Jul. 2008
It's too bad for Barack Obama that European countries don't have electoral votes -- a new set of polls from Gallup shows that he'd win by a landslide:
United Kingdom: Obama 60%, McCain 15%.
France: Obama 64%, McCain 4%.
Germany: Obama 62%, McCain 10%.
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Quote of the Day
(author unknown) via Matthew Yglesias on Wed, 23 Jul. 2008
Joe Lieberman on John Hagee: "Dear friends, I can only imagine what the bloggers of today would have had to say about Moses and Miriam.” But of course it's hardly just "bloggers" who are upset about Lieberman's recent antics -- polls show that such people as Connecticuters (Connecticutians?)
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A Good Question
(author unknown) via Matthew Yglesias on Wed, 23 Jul. 2008
Tim Fernholtz, a new American Prospect writing fellow, is becoming must-reading. Here he is with a good question about McCain's "listen to the Generals"-centric policy agenda:
But it raises this important question: If John McCain knows nothing about the economy and
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Driver with gun: feast on this Grey Poupon!
Tim Nudd via AdFreak on Wed, 23 Jul. 2008
This may be our favorite story of the year so far. On June 18, somewhere in Utah, one motorist (and apparent fan of
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Washington Post Editorial Falsely Claims Iraqi Political Leaders Don't Support Obama's Withdrawal Plan
Greg Sargent via TPM Election Central on Wed, 23 Jul. 2008
Pro-war Washington Post editorial page editor Fred Hiatt has come up with a creative way to deal with al-Maliki's inconvenient endorsement of Obama's pull-out timeline: Pretend it never happened.
A WaPo editorial today On Obama's Iraq trip begins as follows
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From The Candidate's Mouth
Andrew Sullivan via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sul on Wed, 23 Jul. 2008
By Patrick AppelJoe Klein responds to McCain saying "Obama would rather lose a war in order to win a political campaign":This is the ninth presidential campaign I've covered. I can't remember a more scurrilous statement by a major p
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You, too, can enjoy loads of Facebook ads
Tim Nudd via AdFreak on Wed, 23 Jul. 2008
Mark Zuckerberg promised that advertising would change forever when he rolled out Facebook's new ad p
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Errors in WordPress RSS Feeds Related to the iPhone App ?
Amit Agarwal via Digital Inspiration on Wed, 23 Jul. 2008
This morning I saw these strange strings (!$title$! & $!text$!) in the RSS feeds of popular sites like TechCrunch and Inside CBC.
Just a wild guess but I think this bug is somewhere
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McCain On The Anbar Awakening
hilzoy via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sul on Wed, 23 Jul. 2008
by hilzoy
From a CBS interview with John McCain today:
"Couric: Senator McCain, Sen. Obama says, while the increased number of U.S. troops contributed to increased security in Iraq, he also credits the Sunni awakening and the Shiite government going after militias. And says that
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McCain(s) on Ambition
Andrew Sullivan via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sul on Wed, 23 Jul. 2008
By Jessie Roberts
"Putting the Country First", July 4, 2008:
Patriotism is deeper than its symbolic expressions, than sentiments about place and kinship that move us to hold our hands over our hearts during the national anthem. It is putting the country fi
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Not A Slip Of The Tongue
Andrew Sullivan via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sul on Tue, 22 Jul. 2008
By Patrick AppelZvika Krieger gets some info from a Der Spiegel writer:The reason the magazine scores so many high level interviews is that the editors agree to allow the subjects to "authorize" the interviews before they go to press. It was
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Google App Engine: A Glimpse of Things to Come
Guest Writer via Mashable! on Tue, 22 Jul. 2008
This is a guest post written by Waleed Abdulla, a software engineer and the founder and CEO of Ninua, Inc. You can follow his projects on his blog at selfdebugging.com.
At a technical meetup in Santa
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Fascinating
Josh Marshall via Talking Points Memo on Tue, 22 Jul. 2008
Just to add more confirmation to the painfully obvious, it turns out that not only did Prime Minister Maliki say what he said. According to Der Spiegel, his office signed off on this specific quote before the article went to press. In other words, the entire mis
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#7: Moscow Rules
(author unknown) via Amazon.com: Bestsellers in The on Tue, 22 Jul. 2008
Shared by Rick Klau
What's up with the prices? Thought all Kindle bestsellers were going to be $9.99...
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Bush's 12-Step Economic Analysis
(author unknown) via Talking Points Memo on Tue, 22 Jul. 2008
Shared by SWVL
"drunk"? surely he should be able to recognize the signs of a raging egomaniacal coke bender!
The Houston Chronicle has posted some video by the local ABC affiliate down there from inside a fundraiser President Bush attended there last week
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