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Being an optimist and believer in the American people, I'm seeing a big "W" win in November. Assuming this will come to pass, I thought it might be fun to create a list of "spin" we'll surely see the day after the election. We can then run this again on that day and see how close to reality we were back in June. Here are a few to get us started: Katie Couric, Today Show (wearing a black suit and black veiled hat, talking to Terry McCauliffe): "Terry, this landslide non-loss by the president is not being seen so much...

Keep our slaves safe By Reggie Rivers Our military is one of the last bastions of slavery in the United States. At the moment, our slaves are stuck in a combat zone, getting killed and maimed, and there's nothing they can do about it except hunker down and pray. Yes, our slaves signed up of their own free will, but most of them were as misled about their job as the rest of us were about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. And I don't think "slave" is too strong a word to describe someone who is not permitted to...

Years from Now, They'll Call It "Payback Tuesday" Dear Friends, Well, folks, Tuesday is the day! The day that George W. gets taught a long overdue lesson. The day that we, the MAJORITY -- the 52% who never elected him -- get our chance to reclaim a bit of our former democracy (back when ALL the votes used to be counted). What if, on Tuesday, all of us, regardless of our political stripe, and just for the fun of it, decided to serve one big-ass eviction notice that said, you have two years to remove yourself from the premises-and you...

Years from Now, They'll Call It "Payback Tuesday" Dear Friends, Well, folks, Tuesday is the day! The day that George W. gets taught a long overdue lesson. The day that we, the MAJORITY -- the 52% who never elected him -- get our chance to reclaim a bit of our former democracy (back when ALL the votes used to be counted). What if, on Tuesday, all of us, regardless of our political stripe, and just for the fun of it, decided to serve one big-ass eviction notice that said, you have two years to remove yourself from the premises-and you...