Last night, I settled in to watch Right At Your Door, a movie that I read a memorably positive review of about a year back. It's set in Los Angeles, just after an unidentified group of terrorists set off a series of dirty bombs. When I was a kid, I was simultaneously repulsed by and attracted to nuclear holocaust-type books and movies, especially the 'realistic' kind, with nuclear winter and rotting body parts. Based ...

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Doing the Job American Journalism Won't Do By Counting the Jobs They Will: The Olberman Counter: Obama Media BJs To Date ce to Copy Code]

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Tomorrow, while the rest of us kick around in flip-flops drinking sunshiny cans of beer and playing on the slip and slide, a dedicated few will meet to determine what happens next in Washington's contribution to the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. We checked in with two Capitol Hill residents hoping to make it through the next round of the process at tomorrow's congressional district caucus. First, from the Obama side of the fence, ...

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In our own Capitol Hill version of equal time, here is a conversation we had with another convention hopeful. You've heard from a Capitol Hill Obama-ite -- now hear from Hong Chhuor, a Clinton delegation candidate who makes his home on Capitol Hill.CHS: You're a candidate to be a Washington state delegate from Capitol Hill's district at the national convention. Briefly (18 words or less, please), tell us how the process works and how you ...

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I'm running to become a 7th Congressional District national delegate for Obama tomorrow. I've been working my butt off for SIFF for the last few week and haven't had much of a chance to campaign, so I don't rate my chances very highly. But what chance I do have is largely due to you, Slog politics junkies, and I thank you. (Even you, Big Sven--I love wrasslin' in the comments.) Has this primary been fun or ...

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Somebody pointing a gun at Barack Obama—hilarious! During a speech before the National Rifle Association convention Friday afternoon in Louisville, Kentucky, former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee—who has endorsed presumptive GOP nominee John McCain—joked that an unexpected offstage noise was Democrat Barack Obama looking to avoid a gunman. “That was Barack Obama, he just tripped off a chair, he's getting ready to speak,” said the former Arkansas governor, to audience laughter. “Somebody aimed a gun at him ...

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Joshua Green (The Atlantic): Obama is a gifted politician by anyone’s measure, but what distinguishes him from earlier insurgents is his ability to fully harness the excitement that his candidacy has created, in votes and in dollars. Three forces had to come together for this to happen: the effect of campaign-finance laws in broadening the number and types of people who fund the political process; the emergence of Northern California as one of the biggest ...

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