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Archive: May 2009

Dictator/oil consultant being considered for senior administration position

Two sources have told me that David Goldwyn, a long-time advocate and consultant for the oil industry and energy-rich Third World countries, is on the short list for a top…

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Death in Libya: Political prisoner latest victim of Bush’s “Freedom Agenda”

Former President George W. Bush’s “Freedom Agenda,” a set of policies that exists only in the minds of Washington Post editorial page writers and senior fellows at the American Enterprise…

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Obama’s Flip-Flops on National Security

From, God help me, Charles Krauthammer: Observers of all political stripes are stunned by how much of the Bush national security agenda is being adopted by this new Democratic government.…

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Dick Cheney IS 9/11

Jon Stewart describes the sexual potency of the Obama-Cheney “duel”on the Daily Show last night : “There is one unifying thread that runs through every strata of our media, and…

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I attend auctions primarily to study the behavior of the kill buyer, whose main client is a slaughterhouse, and to provide more transparency to this aspect of the horse industry.…

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From Harper’s: Paul Reyes on cleaning up after the mortgage crisis From “Bleak Houses: Digging through the ruins of the mortgage crisis” in the October 2008 Harper’s Foreclosures are our…

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Texas’s Latest Great Idea: Give guns to drunk frat boys

From the Houston Chronicle: The Senate today tentatively passed a controversial bill to allow college students who are at least 21 years old and licensed to carry concealed handguns to…

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And You Thought Congress Was Bad

From the Washington Post: Public fury has been rising over items that politicians have charged to taxpayers — a massage chair, pornographic movies, a moat cleaning, a plasma TV, horse…

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The Sound of the Revolving Door

From USA Today: More than one in four members of President George W. Bush’s Cabinet have landed jobs with consulting or lobbying firms in which they can help clients navigate…

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As Hitler Tightened the Screws: Hypocrisy and conniving in France

John R. MacArthur is publisher of Harper’s Magazine and author of the book You Can’t Be President: The Outrageous Barriers to Democracy in America. This column originally appeared in the…

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A strike mission on the three nuclear facilities would require no fewer than 90 combat aircraft, including all 25 F-15Es in the IAF inventory and another 65 F-16I/Cs. On top…

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Weekly Review

The Sri Lankan government declared an end to their 26-year war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, or Tamil Tigers, after a final battle in which Tiger leader Vellupillai…

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The Chartist’s Plight: Six Questions for Sha Yexin

“The Chinese people, who have endured human rights disasters and uncountable struggles across these same years, now include many who see clearly that freedom, equality, and human rights are universal…

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Much has been written about the Insight, Honda’s new low-priced hybrid. We’ve been told how much carbon dioxide it produces, how its dashboard encourages frugal driving by glowing green when…

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The Stimulus And The Nuclear Option

From the Washington Post: A private company was being paid $300 million by the federal government to clean up radioactive waste at two abandoned Cold War plants in Tennessee when…

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FDA Asks Industry to Help It Defend Miscarriage-Inducing Chemical

From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: As federal regulators hold fast to their claim that a chemical in baby bottles is safe, e-mails obtained by the Journal Sentinel show that they…

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Business Week: The Great Ethanol Scam

From the magazine’s current issue: More than one major transportation-based industry in America besides Detroit is on the ropes. For the fourth time in our history the ethanol industry has…

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Death, Lobbyists and Sri Lanka

I recently posted an item about the ongoing bloodshed in Sri Lanka and reported that the lobbying firm of Patton Boggs was being paid $35,000 per month by that country’s…

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Saint-Amant/Purcell – Solitude

O que j’ayme la solitude! Que ces lieux sacrez à la nuit, Esloignez du monde et du bruit, Plaisent à mon inquietude! Mon Dieu! que mes yeux sont contens De…

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Mill – Progress Through Contact With the Unknown

It is hardly possible to overstate the value, in the present low state of human improvement, of placing human beings in contact with persons dissimilar to themselves, and with modes…

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From Harper’s: Eleanor Roosevelt and TV From “Mrs. Roosevelt does a TV commercial,” November 1963. Booraem and I worked out the details, including Mrs. Roosevelt’s right to approve the text…

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Corporate Front Man: Richard Berman manages the news on key labor-backed bill

Richard Berman, a prominent lobbyist for the food and restaurant industry, is one of the leading opponents of the hotly-debated Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), which would make it easier…

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The Cyril Wecht Case Continues to Disintegrate

Four months into the Obama Administration, loyal Bushie Mary Beth Buchanan is still clinging tenaciously to her post as U.S. attorney in Pittsburgh and is pursuing a politically flavored prosecution…

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Dig a little deeper, though, and Citi’s stress-test results look more like an F than the B+ the bank seemed to get. Among the 19 banks the government probed, Citi…

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The Jay Bybee Question

Today, Senate Judiciary Chair Patrick Leahy announced that Judge Jay Bybee, notwithstanding the interviews he has granted to newspapers, has refused the committee’s invitation to appear and explain his role…

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FBI Investigates Former Senator Coleman: an empty suit?

From Huffington Post: The FBI is investigating allegations that former Senator Norm Coleman had clothing and other items purchased on his behalf by a longtime friend and businessman Nasser Kazeminy,…

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The More Things Change…

Via michaelmoore.com: Obama ’09: In a reversal, President Barack Obama objected on Wednesday to the release of dozens of photographs showing the abuse of terrorism suspects, fearing the pictures could…

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