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Political Blogs: The best from all over
werehippy
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Since the recent election cycle, I've been making an effort to stay more informed, and the traditional news outlets aren't really cutting it for me any more. With that in mind, I've been looking for some political blogs to follow, ideally as many of the best, from all over the political spectra, as possible.
Ones I can recommend as interesting either in and of themselves, or as windows on a completely foreign world view:
Game Politics - Your source for anything and everything related to videogames and politics.
Free Republic and Little Green Footballs - Deep, DEEP right blogs/news outlets who came up during the midterm elections for their Declaration of Surrender in the War on Terror and some of the vilest anti-Muslim rhetoric I've seen respectively.
That's all I've got at this point (Hey, I didn't say I haven't been following politics). What's the general consensus as to the best blogs to get a good view at all the different schools of thought in modern politics, and why do you like (or hate) whatever you like (or hate)?
Ones I can recommend as interesting either in and of themselves, or as windows on a completely foreign world view:
Game Politics - Your source for anything and everything related to videogames and politics.
Free Republic and Little Green Footballs - Deep, DEEP right blogs/news outlets who came up during the midterm elections for their Declaration of Surrender in the War on Terror and some of the vilest anti-Muslim rhetoric I've seen respectively.
That's all I've got at this point (Hey, I didn't say I haven't been following politics). What's the general consensus as to the best blogs to get a good view at all the different schools of thought in modern politics, and why do you like (or hate) whatever you like (or hate)?
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... yeah, that's about the size of it, he's been building grass-roots support so that he can maintain a steady stream of fanatics for his personal war...
Unfortunately, that really is true. What happened in Abu Ghraib is appaling and a violation of the spirit of everything this country stands for.
... buh? o_O
I just... don't get what kind of point he's trying to make. At all. That first one, especially, is factually accurate. Yes, we're helping (sort of) in Iraq and Afghanistan now and elsewhere to a degree, but Bin Laden has been financing schools, hospitals and the like with his money for years and years. His popularity should not be a surprise and if we're to undermine him, one of our goals needs to be exceeding his charity in some fashion. We must show the world that yes, America really doesn't want to just rape your country for oil and then shoot you in the head in a jail cell. Right now, that's how we are percieved.
Oowww, my brain...
I'll be fine, just give me a minute, a man's got a limit, I can't get a life if my heart's not in it.
I basically read Free Republic and LGF as entertainment, with the slight added benefit of it allowing me to occasionally dip into the fringe right mindset and see what has their panties currently twisted up.
What empire does that site even refer to?...
The blatant racism is worthy of a lol as well, but then it makes you sad.
Also, Lawyers, Guns and Money.
Politics blogs are mostly terrible.
Unless you count Metafilter.
Also, isn't LGF the home of those retards who were calling that Ellison guy who's now the first Muslim Senator a terrorist and stupid shit like that
LOL. Sadly there are a lot of blogs, that make anyone who questions
anything the Bush administration has said or done in the last 5 years into a "terrorist".
As much as people yap on about the Arab world's virulent anti Jewish propaganda, the anti Arab/Muslim propaganda is just as strong...AND they are the ones with the heavy duty weapons.
NeoRamen: panoramic cyberpunk gamer comic
I'd not seen this one before. I love it.
(Also, I made a visit to Free Republic last night to see what they had to say about that guy who sent the fake anthrax to Olbermann and a couple other people. Apparently he got banned from FR about four or five times under several different names.)
I've never heard of marmaduke but that is the funniest thing I've seen in a very long time.
The same goes for DU. Reading the forums will give you just as much brain-damage as reading the FreeRepublic forums, but the front page works pretty well as an aggregator for links to interesting news pieces.
Just yesterday I learned that he really won't be joining the Greens, but will stay on as in Independent. He seems to be positively giddy over his new involvement in Question Period and how that led to income splitting for seniors. I know it doesn't sound exciting, but I love it.
There was this speech Bush gave that day, and I was very curious what the implications of the speech and what people's responses to it were.
They spent two full slashdot-sized threads talking about his makeup during the speech. Two.
I don't read DailyKos anymore
You can imagine what happened during the debate with Kerry and the suit bunching thing. Every now and again it has a good article but the 300 parts shit to that 1 part useful just isn't worth the filter time.
The Daily Howler
Political Animal
Tapped
Talking Points Memo
The Huffington Post
There are a few more, but those are the ones I enjoy the most.
Then you love shit. Because Drudge is shit. And you like him.
Andrew Sullivan
Instapundit
Sullivan is definitely a little bit confused about his admixture of homosexuality and catholicism, but he's a decent writer and basically a moderate libertarian.
Instapundit parrots the republican party line a bit more than I'd like, but is pretty moderate and does a good job selecting articles to link. I don't always agree but it makes me think.
Political rumors and news, no slant:
Political Wire
Can't say I can tolerate any other blogs consistently.
Hasn't been updated for a while though.
:P