Month: May 2007

David Broder: Man of the People

This is hysterical. From Greenwald, citing Radar Online: Beaming after the Columbia event, [Presidential candidate Mike] Gravel walks with [Newsweek’s Jonathan] Alter to a nearby Cuban restaurant for a late lunch. On the...

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Eight Bucks an Hour to Babysit a Civil War

Even regular babysitters make more than that. But that is a (generous) estimate of what the average private serving in Iraq makes per hour. I say generous estimate because that article from last year pegs the average annual...

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Michael Nutter Surges Into the Lead

Michael Nutter is surging at just the right time. The latest Daily News/Keystone poll shows former City Councilman Michael Nutter with a commanding lead over the four other major candidates in the Democratic mayoral primary. The...

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Keith Olbermann=Molly Ivins

Well, not quite, but the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies sees a parallel: From Editor & Publisher: NEW YORK MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann will receive the first Molly Ivins Award from the Association of Alternative...

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Iraq: Being the Target

Monday night, during a FOX News interview with Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes, right-wing pundit Dick Morris made one of the most insane pro-Iraq war statements I’ve heard to date (transcript courtesy of Think Progress)....

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