Month: June 2014

Casual Observation

Bill O’Reilly will turn 65 on September 10th, so it isn’t all that surprising that his audience skews old, but his median viewer is seventy-two. That’s astonishing. By the presidential election of 2024,...

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Must Read & Must See

To read: everything you need to know about the Bowe Bergdahl issue is in Michael Hastings his June 2012 Rolling Stone article: America’s Last Prisoner of War.  It’s long – ten pages – but an easy...

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We Need a Reporters’ Shield Law

The James Risen case in concerning and confusing. That the Supreme Court has refused to hear his case is frustrating. I don’t understand Attorney General Eric Holder’s position on the case. He said just last week...

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Good Guy or Bad Guy?

It’s so hard to know these days. For example, was the father teaching his 7 year old daughter the bad guy or the good guy in this story? ROSEMOUNT, Minn. (KMSP) – It’s yet another instance of a neighbor puling...

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Lunch Buffet

Ed Kilgore is traveling home today after paying tribute to his departed mother, so I’m helping out a bit at the Political Animal. For starters, here’s a Lunch Buffet: Markos Kounalakis says “What we are...

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