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The Shad Plank (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
The Week magazine, which modestly describes its contents as "all you need to know about everything that matters," gave Virginia Sen. Jim Webb a bit of space on its Arts page this week for its "best books" feature. Here are the books on the senator's list, and excerpts from his comments. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway. "Hemingway reinvented the narrative style of the novel," Webb writes. "He...
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The Utube Blog (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Video here Sen. Jim Webb just got an important GI bill passed for returning soldiers from Iraq to receive support for an education. His son is serving in Iraq. He himself was Secretary of Navy for Ronald Reagan, though he is a Democrat now. He took himself out of the running for the VP slot with [...]
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Raising Kaine - Front Page (Free subscription) | yesterday
Excerpts from my interview with Annabel Park for the book "Netroots Rising" are now online . For those of you who don't know about her, Annabel was truly one of the most extraordinary members of Jim Webb's 2006 "rag tag army." Among other things, Annabel came up with the idea of "Real Virginians for Webb" and almost single-handedly turned around the Korean-American community in northern Virginia from...
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News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he wants details on the military's use of private contracting firms such as Blackwater for training.In a letter sent to Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., last week, Gates said he expects a preliminary response this week, The Virginian Pilot reported.This month, Gates asked Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for the review.In a memo to Mullen, he...
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Pajamas Media (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Week 5 votes have been counted! Bill Richardson continues to lead the Dems with 14%, followed by Jim Webb (11%), Kathleen Sebelius (9%), Wes Clark (9%), and Hillary Clinton (7%). For the GOP, it's Mitt Romney (21%), Sarah Palin (18%), Tim Pawlenty (9%), Bobby Jindal (9%), and Mike Huckabee (7%). Don't miss your chance to [...]
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
In a heavy-on-the-substance interview on the Charlie Rose Monday evening, Sen. Jim Webb touched on a variety of political topics: his early opposition to the Iraq war, the passage of his 21st Century G.I. Bill, trade, and corporate responsibility. The frankness with which he spoke was driven home - tellingly - when the Virginia Democrat explained why he took his name out of Barack Obama's vice presidential...
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TV Squad (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Filed under: Late Night , TV Royalty , Programming , Celebrities , Talk Show , Reality-Free Here's who's on the late night shows tonight. Charlie Rose: Senator Jim Webb, and a discussion of Apple's new iPhone The Daily Show: Richard Bitner The Colbert Report: Senator Jim Webb The Late Show with David Letterman: Will Ferrell and the guys from Mythbusters Jay Leno: Kyra Sedgwick, Chris Matthews, and...
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The Tiger in Somerville (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
More good stuff from the New York Times on Veep-watching. I’ve already made my call on the Republican side — I’m for Mitt. So how about the Dems? Now that Jim Webb is out of the way, the Veep race is a lot less interesting. Who do I think is a good pick? The non-American of my immediate [...]
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Follow Me Here... (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Reversing Mass Imprisonment : "For the first time in decades, political leaders seem willing to consider the toll of rising incarceration rates. In October last year, Senator Jim Webb convened hearings of the Joint Economic Committee on the social costs of mass incarceration. In opening the hearings, Senator Webb made a remarkable observation, “With the world’s largest prison population,” he said,...
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Raising Kaine - Front Page (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
(Cross-posted with a title change from Daily Kos . Also posted at Cobalt6 .) ...I was volunteering in Phase I of the Virginia Democratic Party's ground game. I laugh at myself and think of it as "Webb 2.0" (heh), because my first protracted and sincere canvass efforts were for Jim Webb two years ago. Today, I joined the ranks of the very early canvassers and it was absolutely fascinating. Details...
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The Shad Plank (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
On Monday, U.S. Sen. Jim Webb is going to sit down for some big time TV interviews - and let's just say that the questions are probably going to be very different in tone, tenor and substance - not to mention fingerpointing. Webb is sitting down with Charlie Rose on PBS - the interview show of significant substance that is rarely if ever confrontational. The hour long show is notable for is sole focus...
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The Shad Plank (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Sen. Jim Webb signed on as a co-sponsor today to two bills designed to rein in speculation in crude oil and other energy futures markets, which some analysts say is the real reason behind the soaring oil and gas prices of the last few months. Webb signed onto S. 3134, proposed by Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL), which bans unregulated speculative trading of oil futures and other energy commodities, and S....
