{"id":656,"date":"2006-11-21T15:19:15","date_gmt":"2006-11-21T21:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/clue-by-four\/"},"modified":"2006-11-21T15:19:15","modified_gmt":"2006-11-21T21:19:15","slug":"clue-by-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/clue-by-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Clue By Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>A <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Class Struggle: American workers have a chance to be heard\" href=\"http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/editorial\/feature.html?id=110009246\">WSJ editorial<\/a> from Virginia senator-elect Jim Webb who defeated racist incumbent George &#8220;Macaca&#8221; Allen. I have no illusions that any of the democrats are going to make it better for the vast majority of the working and middle class, but it can&#8217;t be any worse. The fact that this senate race was as close as it was is a sad commentary on the state of things.<\/li>\n<li>Keith Olbermann with a <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Olbermann Delivers A Special Comment Educating Bush on Vietnam\" href=\"http:\/\/www.crooksandliars.com\/2006\/11\/20\/olbermann-delivers-a-special-comment-educating-bush-on-vietnam\/\">commentary on Bush in Vietnam<\/a> and his answer to the question of whether or not lessons from Vietnam could be applied to the current situation in Iraq. He&#8217;s a bit overly dramatic, but he makes some really good points. I&#8217;m glad someone&#8217;s doing it.<\/li>\n<li>An <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Iraq: The greatest strategic disaster in American History\" href=\"http:\/\/nevadathunder.com\/?p=2984\">excerpt<\/a> from reporter Patrick Cockburn&#8217;s book, The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq (Verso, 2006) on Nevada Thunder, an excellent repository for articles pointing out the myriad of problems with the current administration&#8217;s policies.<\/li>\n<li>And Texas <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Texas court rebuffs President on treaty powers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/movabletype\/archives\/2006\/11\/texas_court_reb.html\">proposes a clue<\/a> but <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Texans paying $15,000 a month for a GOP lobby in a Democratic Capitol\" href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/opinion\/content\/editorial\/stories\/11\/14\/14lobbyists_edit.html?COXnetJSessionIDbuild172=FjtYgwowHO1iP1JrOvUXhtfrXRVejWEDuPiNzQJ8qVwwDEmthv1a!1344985633&#038;cxtype=rss&#038;cxsvc=7&#038;cxcat=45&#038;UrAuth=aN%60NUOaNUUbTTUWUXUWUZTZUbUWU_UWUZU%60U_UcTYWVVZV&#038;urcm=y\">continues to show incredible stupidity<\/a> thanks to Governor Goodhair and The Hammer.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A WSJ editorial from Virginia senator-elect Jim Webb who defeated racist incumbent George &#8220;Macaca&#8221; Allen. I have no illusions that any of the democrats are going to make it better for the vast majority of the working and middle class, but it can&#8217;t be any worse. The fact that this senate race was as close <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/clue-by-four\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-10-id","category-2-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-aA","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}