This is hilarious:Citing a lack of interest, the Nevada Republican Party has called off its state convention and will instead pick its delegates to the national convention by private conference call.The state party broke up its original convention in April when supporters of Ron Paul hijacked the proceedings and tried to elect delegates for their candidate to the national GOP convention in September. Party officials tried to reconvene on July 26, but they needed a ...

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The wonderful Congresswoman Donna Edwards just took the stage here in Austin to deliver the final address for Saturday. So far, her remarks have covered her upstart and successful campaign against the corrupt Al Wynn, life as a politician in Washington, D.C., and what the netroots community collectively stands for.The focus of her speech, though, was the need for more and better Democrats."We need more voices like mine and yours in that Democratic caucus. So ...

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The evening keynote has just begun here in Austin, and the opening act is a video message from Barack Obama, thanking the netroots community for its support and apologizing for not being able to attend the convention in person.Obama asked the netroots to stand behind him, and agree to disagree when necessary on issues like FISA or telecom immunity.Obama praised Governor Dean's fifty state strategy, declaring that his campaign would be committed through November to ...

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Lewis Black on XM Radio's "Unmasked," hosted by Ron Bennington. http://www.xmradio.com/onxm/series/unmasked.xmc

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Art'The Violet Hour' at Henry Art Gallery For being so grim, this three-person show is remarkably entertaining: Jen Liu's videos feature Pink Floyd standards sung in Latin plainchant, Black Sabbath's "Iron Man" performed by a community brass band, cannibalism, brutalist architecture, and pretty young men. In David Maljkovic's videos, young people in a postcommunist daze linger under burdensome modernist architecture, loitering around immobilized cars. Matthew Day Jackson has actually immobilized a Corvette, which sits in the ...

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