Vincenzo Kolchak comments again…
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You know this would be more tolerable if the press and especially papers like the LA TIMES didn’t wrap themselves in the rhetoric of their sacred mission.
The Daily News, as you have many times suggested, has the decency to be what it appears to be and the ‘trinity that includes the STAR, […]
For a second, I wondered if this were a “When did you stop beating your wife?” question. Then I noticed it was on
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL site.
That’s bad, but it could be worse…
“Bull Durham County Debt Collectors Accused of Buffaloing”
The New York Post
Beyonce sings for a KhadafyLast Updated: 4:20 PM, January 5, 2010Posted: 1:27 AM, January 5, 2010
Beyonce performed for an hour on New Year’s Eve at a party thrown by terror-backing Libyan dictator Moammar Khadafy’s son,Hannibal, who has a long record of violence against women.
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Image: (Album) 3-bp-blogspot.com via my-retrospace.blogspot.com; (Strongman) via misspoibntless.files.wordpress.com; (Beyonce) […]
Courts Roll Back Limits on Spending in Election Law
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
Published: January 8, 2010
WASHINGTON — Even before a landmark Supreme Court ruling on campaign finance law expected within days, a series of other court decisions is reshaping the political battlefield by freeing corporations, unions and other interest groups from many of the restrictions on […]
Dick Armey has always been one of my least favorite Republicans. During his halcyon days of Kenny Starr & the Stained Blue Dress, I shall never forget reading that Dick’s wife wanted to sue her retail landlord because her McLean dress shop folded. That doesn’t sound too free-market to me.
What truly amazes me is the […]
Post publisher apologizes for paid dinner plan
The Associated Press
Sunday, July 5, 2009; 6:59 AM
WASHINGTON — The Washington Post’s publisher apologized to readers Sunday for a plan to charge business leaders and lobbyists for intimate dinner discussions with government officials and the newspaper’s journalists.
A flier surfaced last week promoting a plan to charge $25,000 to sponsor […]
By LOUISE RADNOFSKY and T.W. FARNAM
WASHINGTON — Florida Rep. Alcee Hastings spent $24,730 in taxpayer money last year to lease a 2008 luxury Lexus hybrid sedan. Ohio Rep. Michael Turner expensed a $1,435 digital camera. Eni Faleomavaega, the House delegate from American Samoa, bought two 46-inch Sony TVs.
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The expenditures were legal, properly accounted for and […]
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Image:(John Ryan) via findagrave.com
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(Reporting by Yinka Adegoke)
Sun Jan 25, 2009 7:59pm EST
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fallen Lehman Brothers Chief Executive Richard Fuld sold his $13.3 million mansion to his wife for just $100 last November, according to Florida real estate records.
The 62-year old executive, who could face civil lawsuits after overseeing the storied investment bank’s collapse into Chapter […]
Anchorage Daily News
Apprenticeship raises questions about Palin
Dan Fagan
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Have you noticed how our governor seems to have convinced herself only some of the rules apply to her?
This attitude was really at the heart of Troopergate. It also allows her to do things like take cash from the state for spending more than 300 nights in […]