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Archive: Apr 2009

Maddow, Powell, and the Need for a Torture Commission

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow presents Colin Powell, whom she clearly admires, with a series of very tough questions. Most of the Washington press corps could learn from this technique: Powell doesn’t…

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The Politics of Reconciliation: How to count to $15 trillion

The Daily Show nails Judd Gregg. Nancy Pelosi too, though the Gregg clip is the highlight.

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Republican Math

From Conor Clarke : I’m still reading the Republicans’ alternative budget (pdf), but I did want to highlight this graph from Republican Paul Ryan’s Wall Street Journal op-ed on the…

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Lobbyists Hit Bailout Gold

From the Sunlight Foundation: Lobbying firms and special interests have filed nearly 1,700 new registration forms so far in the first quarter of 2009, a review of lobbying disclosure forms…

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The Evil Thoughts of Man

Monday, I mentioned close reading as a practice indivisible from literary criticism. The thought was sparked by a letter I’d just received in response to an essay of mine in…

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Harper’s Magazine Scholarship in Memory of I.F. Stone Awarded

This year’s Harper’s Magazine Scholarship in Memory of I.F. Stone was awarded to Jonathan Jones, a post-graduate fellow of the Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Endowed by Harper’s Publisher John…

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MIA: $300 Million worth of helicopters

From Wired: Over the past two years, the U.S. military has paid $241 million to supply the Iraqi government with Russian helicopters – and received exactly none of those copters.…

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Justice on Stevens

Attorney General Eric Holder has decided that the Justice Department should abandon the corruption conviction secured against former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens. The bombshell decision has nothing to do with…

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