Month: May 2010

Wall Street Reforms Pass the Senate

It’s interesting that Specter showed up to vote for cloture on the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009 but then blew off the manager’s amendment and the vote on final passage. I mean, this was an...

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The Paulists’ Racism is Transparent

Well, I guess someone had to defend Rand Paul against the charge that he’s a racist. But, as DougJ points out, a Paul campaign spokesman had to resign after this: In December, Chris Hightower, the spokesman for Paul’s...

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What Israel did to Miss USA’s hometown

Desert of trapped corpses testifies to Israel’s failure Robert Fisk Tuesday, 15 August 2006 They made a desert and called it peace. Srifa – or what was once the village of Srifa – is a place of pancaked homes,...

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PA-06: The Ugly Side of Politics

Two times in a row the Democratic establishment tried to foist a Philadelphia journalist on the Democratic Party of Pennsylvania’s Sixth District. The first was Larry Platt, the editor of Philadelphia Magazine, who wrote...

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