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Freddie O’Connell catches conservative radio talker Phil Valentine at the Southern Festival of Books over the weekend:

Tim Chavez reports:

Kenneth Eaton channels the folks over at Pith and attacks Bob Tuke for his law firm's clientele, specifically in the area of globalization:

In a press release, Kenneth Eaton expands on the vague reference to his opponent Bob Tuke’s legal work costing Tennesseans their jobs contained in his blog post of yesterday.

There’s a difference between moderates and centrists:

Barack Obama has opted out of public funding for his presidential campaign.

Good.

I’ve never understood taking public funding in the first place. Oh, I know there is a science behind government and politics. There is also science behind bacteria growing.

There is a great book available called Manufacturing Consent that addresses how our media frames the issues and is complicit in advancing the status quo inte

Mike Byrd discusses the difficulty in questioning the economics of Wall Street

As much as he would like to see Barack Obama set a progressive economic agenda, economist Dean Baker acknowledges the political realities partly dictated by the mainstream media. He sees more Wall Street than Main Street in Obama's team.