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Archive: Jul 2009

A Lady of Loose Virtues

Gone forever is the Washington Post of Katherine Graham and Ben Bradlee. The new Washington Post reflects the world and values of Fred Hiatt and Katherine Weymouth. As Ken Silverstein…

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Administrative Note

Ken Silverstein is away until July 13. Washington Babylon will return then.

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A Few Facts About the Honduran Military Coup

There’s very little truth to anything you’ve read about the coup in American newspapers. President Manuel Zelaya is no radical. He approved a big minimum wage increase, which was desperately…

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Other Pay-to-Play Schemes at the Washington Post?

So the Washington Post got busted for its pay-to-play scheme. But publisher Katharine Weymouth clearly doesn’t see the problem — to hear it from her, the newspaper’s pitch to corporate…

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Editor Bill Wasik at Politics and Prose Monday Night

Attention Harper’s readers in Washington, D.C.: Make sure to go to Politics and Prose bookstore (5015 Connecticut Avenue) tonight at 7 p.m. to see senior editor Bill Wasik discuss his…

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Frost – The Gift Outright

The land was ours before we were the land’s. She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people. She was ours In Massachusetts, in Virginia,…

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Jefferson – The Risk of Too Much Confidence in Elected Government

It would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men of our choice to silence our fears for the safety of our rights; that confidence is every where…

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Links

Even as the biggest banks have reached up for billions in federal aid, they have reached down to collect more and more penalty fees from consumers… The rates are rising…

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The Clinton Foundation: It depends on how you define “is”

When Barack Obama nominated Hillary Clinton as secretary of state, he made her appointment contingent on her husband revealing the contributors to his foundation in order to avoid any questions…

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Absolute Last Word on Soccer: Fans make PETA activists look open-minded

Not since endorsing horse slaughter have I received so many angry emails from readers of this blog as I have in response to my recent posts about the lamentable American…

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Washington Post and Reporters For Sale to Highest Bidder

From Politico: For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post is offering lobbyists and association executives off-the-record, nonconfrontational access to “those powerful few” — Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and…

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Links

Every Afghan ruler in the 20th century was assassinated, lynched or deposed. The Communist government tried to tear down the old structures of mullah and khan; the anti-Soviet jihad set…

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Correction

Because of an editing error, “The Less You Know” [Readings, June], an abridged transcript of a December 19, 2005, telephone conversation between Bernard Madoff and executives of the Fairfield Greenwich…

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For Your Morning Viewing Pleasure

The Daily Show and the Colbert Report were both unmissable last night. The former featured segments on Iraq and Dick Cheney (whose balls are so big they can be seen…

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Clinton Boner Picture Identified

Yesterday I posted an item describing a picture (sent to me by several sources) of former President Bill Clinton posing for the camera with Gulnara Karimova, daughter of the dictator…

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More on the Awful American Soccer Team

I received dozens of replies to yesterday’s post about why I hate the American soccer team and was so happy to see it seize defeat from the jaws of victory…

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“Just Following Orders”

Often enough, commentators talk about the prospect that some foreign prosecutors will open criminal cases against Americans involved in some of the Bush Administration’s criminal enterprises, such as the operation…

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