POLITICS: In “Hillary’s Labor Problem,” Joe Conason points out that Hillary Clinton’s top political strategist, Mark Penn, is the CEO of a union-busting law firm. “Having started in a tiny, two-man polling operation in a New York City mayoral campaign, he is now the CEO of Burson-Marsteller Inc., one of the planet’s largest P.R. shops, […]
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Roundup: Tiny Four-Eyed Turtle Edition
Posted by Ocelopotamus on June 18th, 2007 at 10:21 am
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Roundup: Kansas Twister Edition
Posted by Ocelopotamus on May 9th, 2007 at 2:13 pm
Kansas governor says it’s been harder to deal with the recent tornado disaster because the war in Iraq has put such a drain on the state’s National Guard. Both personnel and equipment that should have been available to the state are currently tied up in Iraq. “Here in Kansas, about 50 percent of our trucks […]
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The Two Faces of the Tribune
Posted by Ocelopotamus on March 20th, 2007 at 4:51 am
Media Matters calls out the Chicago Tribune on its Clinton/Bush double standard:
We’ve previously detailed the bizarre Bush-era tendency of major newspaper editorial boards to disregard principles they held dear during the Clinton administration. The Chicago Tribune, for example, editorialized in 1998 that Clinton should resign because his statements about the Monica Lewinsky matter would make […]
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