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Time was, the Albany office of the Department of Motor Vehicles lived up to its stereotype: dingy, chaotic, and staffed with ornery people — or, to be fair, people probably rendered ornery by their dingy and chaotic surroundings. (more…)

In the real world , this would appear to be a non-story:

In an e-mail to the McCain campaign, Opinion Page Editor David Shipley said he could not accept the piece as written, but would be “pleased, though, to look at another draft.” (more…)

On Chris Matthews’ Sunday Gaborama, an icicle of insight:

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Ever since I was little I voted. Even when I was in (what at the time was called) Junior High, there were these big honking lever voting machines we’d use for student council voting — just to give us a feel for how the real grown-ups voted. I voted on those same big steel lever machine in in 2006 because  (drumroll) (more…)

Congress’s oversight authority derives from its implied powers in the Constitution. So when Congress wants to oversee anything related to the Bush Administration, the Bush Administration and anyone who worked for the Bush administration who is so inclined, repond thusly: (more…)

For the record, Barack Obama appears still capable of taking an actual stand on something. The text of his letter to the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club in California. (more…)

It seems this is the outrage of the weekend:

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I remember Dean Skelos when he was a young guy. He was distinguished by his dream. Everyone knew back then that Dean Skelos wanted to be Senate Majority Leader some day. And so it has come to pass: (more…)

Well, knock us over with a feather.

Joseph L. Bruno, the Senate majority leader and New York State’s highest-ranking Republican, said Monday evening that he would not seek re-election in November, after a 32-year career in the Senate. (more…)

So what if every day the media reported that, oh, I don’t know, some African American shot some other African Ameican in the inner city. D’ya think white folks might buy into the myth (obviously false) that black folks are more dangerous than white folks are? No need to ponder this too much. It’s been done to death for so many decades that it only needs a dog whistle here and there to get a significant population salivating.

Along these lines, what if the media decided to angle a story on a public policy so that the merits were leached out, and you were left with pro-democracy good guys and gals and anti-democracy “special interests?” (more…)