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Archive: Oct 2008

Ifill on George Bush: “Part Tom Cruise, part Ronald Reagan”

I’ve already said that I can understand why some Republicans are complaining about Gwen Ifill being the moderator for tonight’s debate, even though the charges about Ifill’s partisanship are wildly…

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A Revival of Reverend Wright?

The Judicial Confirmation Network (JCN), a conservative independent group, is running new anti-Obama TV ads in battleground states that feature the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. “Obama chose as his pastor a…

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Ifill and Blather

“It is a blatant conflict of interest,” Bay Buchanan said on CNN last night. “There’s no question about that.” “She’s tough as nails right down the middle,” Paul Begala said…

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He Pretended to Be Deaf and Dumb

“The things I’ve seen in Antwerp are not to be described,” Sholem Aleichem (1859–1916), né Rabinovich, writes in his novel Motl, the Cantor’s Son. Aleichem wrote in Yiddish, and the…

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Lobbyists and Fred Starr Team Up to Promote Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan has been heavily criticized by international observers for its human rights violations, descriptions of which run to the horrifying and lurid, for its rigged elections, and for the fact…

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Striking Voters: If you look hard, you might see a pattern

From the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law: Election officials across the country are routinely striking millions of voters from the rolls through a process that is…

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