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Yet, the media treat this as if it were a mainstream event.
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Drug Industry to Run Ads Favoring White House Plan
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
Published: August 8, 2009
WASHINGTON — The drug industry has authorized its lobbyists to spend as much as $150 million on television commercials supporting President Obama’s health care overhaul, beginning over the August Congressional recess, people briefed on the plans said Saturday.
The unusually large scale […]
OPINION
Timothy Egan - A New York Times Blog
July 20, 2009, 11:05 pm
Methland vs. Mythland
Like a brief, intense summer squall, a media storm passed over small-town America a few years ago, stripping away what was left of the myth of the rural idyll to reveal a cast of hollow-cheeked white people smoking meth behind the corn […]
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The story is here.
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It’s the IDES of MARCH,
and you’d have thought President Obama would have
hung back from the need for any pastor
after his roller coaster ride with
Good Time Jerry Wright.
Now, Obama goes for the Quinella
of having five times the chance of embarrassment.
He has allowed hubris to leave the mistaken impression
that the press will not take a look at
past […]
I thought he had already done a good job in achieving that goal.
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Publicist: Ousted Illinois governor to write book
2 hrs 17 mins ago
CHICAGO – A publicist for Rod Blagojevich (blah-GOY’-uh-vich) says the former Illinois governor plans to write a book “exposing the dark side of politics.”
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HOW ABOUT NO TAX EXEMPTION FOR JAY SCOTT NEWMAN’S PARISH?
Does this Newman feller withhold Communion from those who believe in capital punishment, unjust war and contributing to the increased poverty of the country. These three areas are a special question from a pal in Scranton, where the Bishop would not allow Joe Biden to receive […]
The Sunday Times
November 2, 2008
The Republicans accuse Obama of ‘palling around’ with Ayers
Sarah Baxter in Washington
The Republicans have made a last-minute attempt to prevent Barack Obama’s ascent to the White House by trying to recruit an Oxford academic to “prove” that his autobiography was ghostwritten by a former terrorist.
With two days before the election, Obama […]