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The 2005 Koufax Awards Finalists: Best Series

Michael Berube for his posts about his son, Jamie. (Examples: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5)

The Fat Lady Sings for her series on Subic Bay. (Subic Bay, Subic Bay - Part Two, Subic Bay - Part Three, Subic Bay - Finale)

Firedoglake for Reddhedd (Christy Smith) and Jane Hamsher's coverage of the Plame matter

First Draft for Holden's Obsession with the Gaggle

Happy Furry Puppy Story with Norbizness for his series of Annotated Presidential Comments

Scott Lemieux of Lawyers, Guns, and Money for his Supreme Court coverage

eRiposte of The Left Coaster for his series on Treasongate: The Niger Forgeries

Obsidian Wings for coverage of the Graham Amendment by Katherine and Hilzoy. (Links to all the posts on this page.)

Pharyngula's PZ Myers for his series on sex. Invertebrate sex that is. Lobster sex Octopus sex Spider Kama Sutra Tentacle sex Tentacle sex, part deux, and Worm porn

My Left Wing RubDMC for Iraq War Grief Daily Witness.

Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo on Social Security privatization.

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Firedoglake

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Katherine (i.e. me) and hilzoy, Graham amendment.

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firedoglake for plame

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firedoglake

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Dang it. Invertebrate sex doesn't stand a chance against Jamie...so I've got to vote for Bérubé.

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My Left Wing's RubDMC, Iraq War Grief

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The Fat Lady Sings

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Talking Points Memo

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Firedoglake

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Hey, I'm voting for invertebrate sex! Don't give up, PZ.

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My Left Wing: RubDMC for Iraq War Grief Daily Witness.

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RubDMC from My Left Wing for Iraq War Grief Daily Witness

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My Left Wing: RubDMC's Iraq War Grief series

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RubDMC's Iraq War Grief

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Pharyngula, PZ's sexy squids by a tentacle.

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Talking Points Memo.

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rubdmc's iraq war series. we must face this reality with our eyes open.

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firedoglake for plame

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Berube

MKK

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My Left Wing RubDMC for Iraq War Grief Daily Witness.

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FireDogLake's relentless Plame-ocity.

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Firedoglake for Reddhedd (Christy Smith) and Jane Hamsher's coverage of the Plame matter

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The Fat Lady Sings

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Congratulations to everyone here. Amazing work. I am in wonderful company! Now - I would like to cast a vote for myself, please:

The Fat Lady Sings

Thank you and best of luck!

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Obsidian Wings.

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RubDMC's Iraq War Daily Grief Witness at MLW

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Firedoglake

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Josh Marshall on Social Security Privatization. I think his posts helped to defeat Bush's privatization plan. His strategy of asking readers to contact legislators to see where they stood on privatization--and keeping track of what each one said on his blog--was brilliant! Now there is a record that can be used during the '06 elections!

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Josh Marshall

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Scott Lemieux (Lawyers, Guns and Money)

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Obsidian Wings

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Pharyngula

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Phayngula on tentacle sex

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Firedoglake

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firedoglake

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Pharyngula

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Firedoglake

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Again, FDL.

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LeftCoaster - Treasongate-Niger Forgeries

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firedoglake - plame

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Firedoglake for Reddhedd (Christy Smith) and Jane Hamsher's coverage of the Plame matter

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Obsidian Wings

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Obsidian Wings.

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TPM on social security.

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Obsidian Wings--Katherine and Hilzoy

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Obsidian Wings.

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Michael Berube

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RubDMC's Daily War Witness

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Firedoglake

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Hilzoy and Katherine of Obsidian Wings -- their writing was so passionate and relentless

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Obsidian Wings (Katherine and Hilzoy, Graham Amendment)

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Hilzoy/Katherine - Obsidian Wings

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RubDMC, the guy is relentless.

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Scott Lemieux.

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Firedoglake, again -- their serious and professional reporting and insight is/was the very best source available on PlameGate, and why it should matter.

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TPM (again).

Can I give an honourable mention to Holden? The scope and depth of Scotty's daily obfuscation and outright lies have, of late, finally made it into the blogosphere's wider spotlight, with a little now trickling into MSM. Thank you Holden.

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Firedoglake on the Plame affair.

No ponies for Holden???

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Firedoglake.

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Happy Furry Puppy Story with Norbizness

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firedoglake

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Firedoglake duo

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Talking Points Memo

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Katherine and hilzoy of Obsidian Wings

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Josh Marshall and TPM for the excellent Social Security coverage.

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The Fat Lady Sings

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Firedoglake for the Plame matter.

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Tough. ObWi is my sentimental favorite, and their team play on torture with Marty Lederman has been really important.

But for real impact--for acting as Minority Whip in Exile--it's gotta be

Josh Marshall's TPM series on Soc. Sec.

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firedoglake

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Berube on Jamie

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Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo on Social Security privatization.

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firedoglake

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Obsidian Wings for coverage of the Graham Amendment by Katherine and Hilzoy. (Links to all the posts on this page.)

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Josh Marshall on Social Security

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Norbizness!

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Josh Marshall on Social Security made a difference in that debate -- which we actually won.

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Norbizness

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Obsidian Wings' on the Graham Amendment.

All of the contenders are worthy and wonderful; and all of their stories are important. However, the destruction of Constitutional law, the establishment of an above-the-law Executive, and the use of that power to torture, is IMO the most important of all the important stories.

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Katherine and Hilzoy of ObWi for the Graham amendment.

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Holden's gaggles.

He was gaggling before it was cool.

A.

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Holden's obsession with the Gaggle, First Draft

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All worthy, but Holden's obssession with the gaggle is what gets me through the afternoon. A daily must read.

As I said, the other contenders are all great and any other excellent adjective you can come up with, but Holden's got my vote.

Plus, his pony awards are one of the best general jokes in the blogosphere.

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RubDMC for Iraq War Grief Daily Witness

LOVE YOU RUBDMC!!!!!!

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FDL. Hilzoy is great - I read her every day - PZ is great, Scott's great, they are all great, but for a series, FDL and Plame is the best there is.

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Scott Lemieux for his supreme Supreme Court coverage.

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Holden's Obsession With the Gaggle. He 'splaned what the gaggle was to me in an email and I've been hooked ever since, Ponyboy!

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My Left Wing RubDMC for Iraq War Grief Daily Witness.

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firedoglake

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Um, Katherine and me (Obsidian Wings).

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Holden!

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Firedoglake

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TalkingPointsMemo - Josh Marshall

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Obsidian Wings

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Scott Lemieux--Lawyers, Guns and Money!

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firedoglake for plame coverage

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Michael Berube

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Obsidian Wings

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Holden

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FireDogLake

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Firedoglake

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Obsidian Wings

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ax da prez, best series, norbizness.

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Firedoglake

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Obsidian Wings

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TPM on Social Security

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My Left Wing / RubDMC for Iraq War Grief Daily Witness.

My daily meditation.

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First Draft

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Holden and his obsession-----------FirstDraft

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Berube

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Josh Marshall

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LeftCoaster/eriposte for Niger forgeries. Dense but insightful.

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Obsidian Wings for coverage of the Graham Amendment by Katherine and Hilzoy.

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Firedoglake - the rosetta stone of Plame

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Josh Marshall

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RubDMC's Iraq War Grief Daily Witness.

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Michael Berube

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Pharyngula - Invertebrate sex

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tough call, but I'm going w/firedoglake

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Josh Marshall, please.

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RubDMC for Iraq War Grief Daily Witness at My Left Wing

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Eriposte/The Left Coaster for the Niger/Iraq series. It stopped the spin.

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Berube

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Obsidian Wings

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Scott Lemieux at LGM.

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firedoglake

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Definitely Obsidian Wings.

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Firedoglake

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eRiposte's Niger Forgery series gets my vote. As a research assistant myself, that was reporting at its most exhaustive and exemplary. Good job.

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eriposte at The Left Coaster!

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FIREDOGLAKE.Best,in-depth coverage of Plame gate.Bar None.

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First Draft for "Holden's Obsession With the Gaggle"

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Scott Lemieux

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eRiposte Left Coaster

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First Draft - Holden's Gaggle Obsession

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scott lemieux

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firedoglake, for l'Affair Plame

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Bérubé

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Talking Points Memo, social security

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First Draft & Holden's Obsession.

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Firedoglake

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RubDMC for his Iraq War Grief Daily Witness series

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Firedoglake.

(Tough choice actually, some really good competition)

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Berube

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RubDMC for his Iraq War Grief Daily Witness

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All are worthy of winning, but with only one vote, mine goes to Jane and Christy @ firedoglake.

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Berube

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Firedoglake

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My Left Wing RubDMC for Iraq War Grief Daily Witness.

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Scott Lemieux

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Josh Marshall - for his brilliant series on Social Security.

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Scott Lemieux of Lawyers, Guns, and Money

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Berube.

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Firedoglake

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Josh Marshall.

While it's tough to vote against Jane and Redd, especially on the series that rocketed them out of obscurity, Josh stepped into the breach on Social Security at the beginning of 2005, and probably did more to turn the tide on that issue than anyone. There are many ways to be a hero, and some are less obvious than others. Last year, Josh was a hero.

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RubDMC's Iraq War Grief Daily at MLW

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eRiposte laid it out brick by brick, like a real god damned reporter.

No. 2 would be Holden's Gaggle obsession because there's nothing like the smell of burning Little Spinnin' Scottie in the morning.

And no. 3 has to be Josh Marshall for Saving Social Security.

But really, we're all winners, the readers and the writers!

Thanks to all, thanks to Wampum, send them some turkee for hosting this thing!

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katherine and hilzoy of ObsWi

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Berube's posts about Jamie.

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Josh Marshall at TPM. Truly there was no place to run, no place to hide. I'm convinced he made the difference.

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eriposte for the Niger Forgeries --- superb

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ObWi Katherine / Hilzoy

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firedoglake

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Firedoglake.

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PZ Myers: sex beats politics hands-down...

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eRiposte of The Left Coaster for his series on Treasongate: The Niger Forgeries

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Josh Marshall on Social Security.

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Josh Marshall

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Josh Marshall - I agree that he helped defeat Bush's plan.

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eRiposte for Niger Forgeries. Dogged attention to detail.

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Firedoglake for Plame- potential for high impact.

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eRiposte -- Niger series.

Original research, persued with determination,
precise with detail, horrifying in its conclusion
that most of the evidence for this war was fake.

eRiposte's work will be used in historical studies
for decades to come. Thank you eR for this
stunning contribution.

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Pharyngula

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Obsidian Wings

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Holden!

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Katherine and Hilzoy at Obsidian Wings on the Graham Amendment

It was a heroic example of effective intellectual and political response to a moment of crisis for our legal system. The posts were written under intense time pressure, for practical use in countering the 'arguments' put forward by the Enablers -- yet much of the writing stands up well as writing.

I'm an activist. Writing that motivates and equips for action impresses me far more than writing for reflection, or recreation, or the many other purposes possible. This series, to me, exemplified the "highest and best use" to which blogs can be put.

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The Fat Lady Sings

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Firedoglake's Plamegate coverage

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Obsidian Wings, Katherine and Hilzoy

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Holden's Gaggle at First Draft. It's the only way to get your daily dose of WH spin.

My most sincere honorable mention for Josh Marshall's Social Security posts -- I believe they made a huge difference.

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Firedoglake

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eRiposte

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Obsidian Wings.

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Firedoglake for Plame

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ObWi

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Obsidian Wings-- Hilzoy/Katherine

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Josh/TPM/Social Security

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TPM. Far and away the most important thing any Blog has ever done, and we won.

PS I think Kevin Drum's contribution on the same issue was equally important.

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firedoglake

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The Fat Lady Sings for her series on Subic Bay.

Isn't there a better link for this series?????

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Holden's Obsession With The Gaggle.

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Sirotablog

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RubDMC; Iraq War Grief Daily Witness

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My Left Wing

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Obsidian Wings in a narrow edge over firedoglake.

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Michael Berube

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Berube for his Jamie series

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josh marshall/tpm

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RubDMC for Iraq War Grief Daily Witness.

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Firedoglake/Plame

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eRiposte/the Left Coaster

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Josh marshall on social security

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Michael Berube

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Berube

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Scott Lemieux

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firedoglake

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FireDogLake for Plame coverage

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Talking Points Memo on Social Security

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Firedoglake

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Michael Berube for his posts about his son, Jamie.

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Holden and his ponies!

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I've been obsessed with Holden's Obsession with the Gaggle for years--gotta go with the sentimental favorite here.

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talking points memo

sorry for multiple votes on other votes . it seems to take so long that i think it has not gone through

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Firedoglake for Reddhedd (Christy Smith) and Jane Hamsher's coverage of the Plame matter

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Berube

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Firedoglake

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RubDMC, Iraq War Grief Daily Witness, wherever s/he decides to post it

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firedoglake

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Pharyngula

If I had a second choice, Holden and the Gaggle!

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firedoglake

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Firedoglake!

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Michael Berube for his posts about his son, Jamie

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Michael BĂŠrubĂŠ for his posts on Jamie

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Firedoglake, potentially the biggest blog influence on the *other* media.

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Berube

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firedoglake

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firedoglake caught flame with Plame.

Again, a hearty, healthy hurrah for Jane and Christy (Reddhedd) for their great work.

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Firedoglake - Plame story

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First Draft - Holden

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Josh Marshall.

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Norbizness!

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Josh Marshall; Social Security

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FireDogLake for Plame coverage

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Firedoglake/Plame

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Happy Furry Puppy Story with Norbizness for his series of Annotated Presidential Comments

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Firedoglake for Reddhedd (Christy Smith) and Jane Hamsher's coverage of the Plame matter!

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Firedoglake for Reddhedd (Christy Smith) and Jane Hamsher's coverage of the Plame matter

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My Left Wing RubDMC for the Iraq War Grief Daily Witness

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Firedoglake.

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eRiposte of The Left Coaster for his series on Treasongate: The Niger Forgeries

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Firedoglake for ReddHedd (Christy Smith) and Jane Hamsher's coverage of the Plame matter.

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Michael Berube for his posts about his son, Jamie

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ax da prezident, from happy furry puppy story time. remixed truth beats truth telling anytime.

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FireDogLake

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Talking Points Memo

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Talking Points Memo

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fat lady sings (subic bay)

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eRiposte of The Left Coaster for Treasongate: The Niger Forgeries --

This is a really tough choice, but eRiposte of The Left Coaster is doing better research than ANY corporate media reporter.

All of the nominees are deserving, and it's tough not voting for TPM and FDL -- but this TLC series is a benchmark for in depth investigative journalism.

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michael berube, on jamie

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firedoglake

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Obsidian Wings - Katherine/hilzoy

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firedoglake

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Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo on Social Security privatization.

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Berube

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Josh Marshall

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tough call, but I'm going w/firedoglake

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TPM. The series basically led the entire country against Bush and succeeded. Can't beat that with a stick.

ash
['I mean, really.']

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Obsidian Wings

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Berube

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Obsidian wings: Hilzoy and Katherine. (PS, this may be a double vote. I think the last time I tried to vote it failed to post, but am not sure. I apologize if so.)

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Talking Points Memo

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The Fat Lady Sings

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FIREDOGLAKE

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Firedoglake for Reddhedd (Christy Smith) and Jane Hamsher's coverage of the Plame matter

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Michael Berube

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Obsidian Wings.

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almost a tie, but I have to give a light edge to eRiposte over firedoglake

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Firedoglake for Reddhedd (Christy Smith) and Jane Hamsher's coverage of the Plame matter

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firedoglake.

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Happy Furry Puppy Story with Norbizness

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Lawyers, Guns and Money.

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Katherine and hilzoy at Obsidian Wings

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berube

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holden by a pony nose!

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Talking Points Memo's social security series

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Pharyngula

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Talking Points Memo: Social Security Privatization

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Norbizness

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RubDMC - My Left Wing series on Iraq. Powerful every single day.

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firedoglake

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Obsidian Wings for extraordinary rendition.

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Invertebrate sex!

I mean, Pharyngula!

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eRiposte for the Niger Forgeries (see especially the links in the Preface of the linked page -- e.g. the series on the SSCI).

Not to slight the other excellent entries (some of which, like Josh Marshall's series, have obviously had a far greater immediate political impact), but this is in a class of its own. eRiposte's series is quite simply the best work currently available, academic or otherwise, on its subject. It is a rich, exhaustively researched and meticulously rigorous treatment of the Bush Administration's claims about Iraq and uranium from Africa. Based entirely on the public record, it is doing the kind of careful and penetrating investigative work that the existing official reports (SSCI Phase I, Robb-Silberman, Butler, Taylor (British Intelligence and Security Committee) Report, Australian Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence Report) have manifestly failed to engage in. It is what SSCI Phase II should but almost certainly will not look like. It will be a valuable resource for researchers for years to come. I can't recommend it highly enough.

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Firedoglake for Reddhedd (Christy Smith) and Jane Hamsher's coverage of the Plame matter

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By God, this is tough! I have to go with the sentimental favorite:

Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo on Social Security privatization.

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Got to be Berube.

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RubDMC

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FDL

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Pharyngula.

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Michael Berube for his posts about his son, Jamie.

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Pharingula's P Z Myers

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Scott Lemieux

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RubDMC for Iraq War Grief Daily Witness.

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Berube

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firedoglake on plame

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eRiposte/Left Coaster for Treasongate -- obsessively thorough deconstruction of the forged documents the war was based on.

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FireDogLake

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talking points memo

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Michael Berube

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Pharyngula. Hurray for the spineless!

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Rub's Iraq War Grief Daily Witness

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Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo on Social Security privatization

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Hilzoy and Katherine (Obsidian Wings) on the Graham Amendment!

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The Fat Lady Sings for her series on Subic Bay.

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firedoglake

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firedoglake

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Pharyngula

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Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo on Social Security privatization.

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Michael Berube

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Katherine & Hiltzoy- Graham Amendment

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Firedoglake

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Firedoglake for Plame.

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Michael Berube

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Michael Berube

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Michael Berube

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Talking Points Memo -- keep up the good work JMM

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first-draft Holden's obsession with the gaggle

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Josh Marshall for Social Security -- truly important and tenacious as all hell.

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Josh Marshall at TPM

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TPM on Social Security Privatization.

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TPM

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Josh Marshall at TPM on Social Security Privatization

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Firedoglake

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Left Coaster, Niger forgeries

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Berube

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Berube the Jamie series

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Josh Marshall.

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firedoglake

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It has to be TheLeftCoaster Series on the Niger forgeries.

I really don't care about all this voting stuff, but that was incredible blogging.

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Scott Lemieux of LGM for his Supreme Court coverage.

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Scott Lemieux of LGM -- insightful analysis.

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dammit! wampun folks: we're Liberals & Progressives, right? so let's get with the program, and start IRV here. this is just to f*cking hard to choose!!

that said: eriposte's work is probably the most valuable, and the most eloquent. i love holden's dedication, and i'm really amazed and impressed with jane and redd's work this past year. i nod to JMM, but i've always known that SS wouldn't be there for me when i'm old; raygun made that a sureity. anyhoo- eriposte has correctly identified the story that is "the heart of the matter," and for that reason gets my vote.

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Pharyngula!

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firedoglake for their awesome Plamegate coverage

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The nominated series here pale by comparison to the action series Microsoft Abandons Gays (or Gates-gate) seen at AMERICAblog. Results matter, or should.

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RubDMC's Iraq War Grief--Glad it's FP'd on MLW. Should be on Kos also

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Pharyngula

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Michael and Jamie Berube

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Talking Points Memo on Social Security

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Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo on Social Security privatization.

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josh marshall

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Josh Marshall

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Michael Berube

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Firedoglake.

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Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo on Social Security privatization.

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Berube

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Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo re: Social Security.

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Firedoglake for Reddhedd (Christy Smith) and Jane Hamsher's coverage of the Plame matter

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Talking Points Memo: Social Security Privatization

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My Left Wing RubDMC for Iraq War Grief Daily Witness.

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Give them the award Now. *Firedoglake* for the "Plame Affaire"

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The Fat Lady Sings for her series on Subic Bay

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The Fat Lady Sings.

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Josh Marshall - TPM on Social Security privatization.

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My vote goes to "The Fat Lady Sings"

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My Left Wing's RubDMC, Iraq War Grief

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My Left Wing RubDMC for Iraq War Grief Daily Witness.

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Katherine and Hilzoy - ObWi

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The Fat Lady Sings for her series on Subic Bay

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My Left Wing RubDMC for Iraq War Grief Daily Witness

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The Fat Lady Sings for her series on Subic Bay. (Subic Bay, Subic Bay - Part Two, Subic Bay - Part Three, Subic Bay - Finale)

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Firedoglake on the Plame matter.

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RubDMC at MLW: Iraq War Grief

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Definitely have to throw in for RubDMC and the Iraq War Daily Grief series.

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Firedoglake

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No other:
My Left Wing, RubDMC for Iraq War Grief Daily Witness.

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Josh Marshall on Social Security

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Firedoglake-- Christy and Jane are the best!

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The Fat Lady Sings for Subic Bay

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Josh Marshall

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The Fat Lady Sings for her series on Subic Bay

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Firedoglake earns the nod on this one.

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Berube, all the way. Read these before you vote!

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Firedoglake for Reddhedd (Christy Smith) and Jane Hamsher's coverage of the Plame matter

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Josh Marshall

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Firedoglake! I'd go for Josh, but whatever good work he's done, isn't really any more important than him and whatever behind-the-scenes people are there supporting him. FDL is OPEN SOURCE. Josh - old school; FDL - new synergy. The Plame coverage at FDL is awesome.

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firedoglake for Plame

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Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo on Social Security privatization.

I know it was almost a year ago but this was the first left blogger victory.

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Scott Lemieux

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firedoglake...Plamegate

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firedoglake

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Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo for Social Security Privatization

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Josh Marshall

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Left Coaster, Niger series.

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My Left Wing RubDMC for Iraq War Grief Daily Witness

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Berube

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Michael B. ...politics come and go..the human spirit is forever..

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Firedoglake

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Michael Berube!

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michael berube.

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The Fat Lady Sings for her series on Subic Bay

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First Draft for Holden's Obsession with the Gaggle

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Michael Berube

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Firedoglake for Plame.

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Josh Marshall, TPM

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eRiposte. This guy simply does not give up! I imagine he/she will still be tracking down information on the Niger Forgeries from some obscure Swiss documents several years from now.

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Michael Berube for his posts about his son, Jamie.

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Michael Berube

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Michael Berube, for his post about Jamie

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Talking Points Memo - that series combined wonkery with advocacy in a breathtakingly brilliant way.
FDL is a distant second (I love their Plame coverage, but it is such a tangled mess), and Berube 3rd.

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Michael Berube for his posts about his son, Jamie

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Michael Berube re: Jamie.

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RubDMC's Iraq War Daily Grief Witness

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The Fat Lady Sings

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Firedog Lake.

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FDL in re: Plame

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Michael Berube

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Berube is the best

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firedoglake

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Talking Points Memo on Social Security privatization

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Josh, on social security privatization. Another tough choice.

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First Draft for Holden's Obsession with the Gaggle

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The Fat Lady Sings.

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Firedog Lake for the ongoing Plame scandal.

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Michael Berube all the way

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Michael and Jamie Bérubé

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Michael Bérubé's Jamie posts.

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FDL

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Josh Marshall

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Michael Berube.

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The Fat Lady Sings for her series on Subic Bay. (Subic Bay, Subic Bay - Part Two, Subic Bay - Part Three, Subic Bay - Finale)

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firedoglake

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Berube

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Firedoglake

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JOSH MARSHALL

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FireDogLake

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Michael Berube...

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Jane & Christy @ FireDogLake for their don't miss coverage of Plamegate.

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bérubé

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Josh Marshall's series on Social Security.

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Josh Marshall

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firedoglake - Thanks to Digby having Jane as a guest poster
I went over to FDL to follow their coverage of the Plame
(Traitorgate) Affair and keep going back

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Firedoglake.

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Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo on Social Security privatization.

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The incomparable dames at Firedoglake are all over the treasonous Plame fiasco.

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firedoglake

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Firedoglake for Plamegate.

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Josh Marshall on Social Security Privitization.

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Berube

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Firedoglake

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Firedoglake

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Firedoglake's coverage of Plame matter.

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Firedoglake Jane and Reddhedd in hot pursuit of Scooter.

Stromthurmonuclear

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Josh Marshall / TPM / Social Security

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FDL

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Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo on Social Security privatization.

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My Left Wing

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Berube

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Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo on Social Security privatization.

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The Fat Lady Sings for Subic Bay

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The Fat Lady Sings

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Firedoglake for Reddhedd (Christy Smith) and Jane Hamsher's coverage of the Plame matter

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Katherine and Hilzoy, Graham Amendment.

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Talking Points Memo

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Michael Berube

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Firedoglake for Reddhedd (Christy Smith) and Jane Hamsher's coverage of the Plame matter

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Firedoglake, please.

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Obsidian Wings for coverage of the Graham Amendment by Katherine and Hilzoy.

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Firedoglake

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My Left Wing RubDMC for Iraq War Grief Daily Witness.

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Firedoglake

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Josh Marshall for Social Security Privatization

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Michael Berube

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Firedoglake for Reddhedd (Christy Smith) and Jane Hamsher's coverage of the Plame matter

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Talking Points Memo on Social Security.

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First Draft. Holden's Obsession became my obsession

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firedoglake on plame

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My Left Wing RubDMC for Iraq War Grief Daily Witness.

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Firedoglake, if not Glenn Greenwald and illegal wiretapping.

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My Left Wing RubDMC for Iraq War Grief Daily Witness.

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Berube!

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You gotta go with Josh Marshall on Social Security for making a difference. He probably had more to do with beating the Bush plan than the Democratic Leadership.

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Berube

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Marshall on Social Security.

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First Draft: Holden and the Gaggle

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berube

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Josh Marshall on SS privatization

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Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo on Social Security privatization

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Firedoglake

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firedoglake--for the Plame-ness. It got me hooked on the FDL and, were it not that it documents the implosion of the Bushies, it would read like a good mystery novel. Actually, those are BOTH good reasons!

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Firedoglake, hands down.

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firedoglake (Jane & Christy)

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Josh Marshall at talkingpointsmemo - for his memorable and effective "Bamboozlepalooza" coverage and compilation of the Fainthearted Faction (etc).

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Firedoglake

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Bérubé

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Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo on Social Security privatization.

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Pharyngula

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The Fat Lady Sings for her series on Subic Bay. (Subic Bay, Subic Bay - Part Two, Subic Bay - Part Three, Subic Bay - Finale)

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firedoglake

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firedoglake (for the coverage of Plame)

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Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo on Social Security privatization.

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TPM, without a doubt. Maybe it didn't have the entertainment value or eloquence of other nominees, but it may well have contributed to changing US history. For chrissakes.

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Josh Marshall

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First Draft for Holden's Obsession with the Gaggle

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Hilzoy and Katherine at ObWi

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Firedoglake. Nobody did the Plame story better.

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Pharyngula's PZ Myers for his series on sex.
Timelessness trumps topicality.

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Scott at LGM.

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Bérubé

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Michael Berube

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Berube

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Holden!

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Berube on Jamie

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Firedoglake.

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Happy Furry Puppy Story with Norbizness for his series of Annotated Presidential Comments

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Scott Lemieux

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Scott Lemieux

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Josh Marshall

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Scott Lemieux

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Yup, that was Subic.

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Michael Berube

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Obsidian Wings for coverage of the Graham Amendment by Katherine and Hilzoy

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Firedoglake for Reddhedd (Christy Smith) and Jane Hamsher's coverage of the Plame matter

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The Fat Lady Sings and her series on Subic Bay.

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Joshua Micah Marshall and Talking Points Memo

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firedoglake

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reddhedd, plame at firedoglake

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The Fat Lady Sings

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Joshua Micah Marshall and Talking Points Memo

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I give up! Please count one genuine vote for Obsidian Wings.

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