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Hats off to a blogger in the Netherlands who is cooking his way through Heston Blumenthal's bible of molecular gastronomy, the Fat Duck Cookbook. He's documenting his culinary odyssey at The Big Fat Undertaking . One of the early recipes he tried was grapefruit and crisp candied beets ...
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Eliminationist wags were selling bumper stickers that read "Pray for Obama: Psalm 109:8" on Cafe Press. Psalm 109:8 reads: "Let his days be few. Let another take is his office." The next verse is, "Let his children be fatherless And his wife a widow." Followed by , "Let his children wander ...
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Like Jill , I've got misgivings about the provision in the senate healthcare bill that would defray the costs of reform by levying a 5% tax on cosmetic surgery. In practice, a plastic surgery tax would be relatively economically progressive. Plastic surgery is, after all, a luxury. But if ...
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Health care
My first Newsweek story, on the Stupak Amendment , the senate, and what's next in the fight over abortion access under health reform.
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Bart Stupak
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This story should put the annoying "bad mommy"
confessional genre out of its misery. Nothing can top
this. Bad mommies have officially jumped the shark: An Arkansas mom allegedly allowed a police office to taze her 10-year-old daughter because the ...
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Bad Mommies Jump the Shark: Mom let cop taze her ...
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The IRS finally figured out that the fundamentalist flophouse on C Street owned by the secretive Christian group known as "The Family" is a dorm . Until recently, the C Street home for legislators avoided paying property taxes by claiming to be a church. If I understand correctly, claiming to ...
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Bart Stupak
majikthise.typepad.com - 3 days ago
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Newsweek used this photograph of Sarah Palin as
a cover shot. The headline reads, "How do you
solve a problem like Sarah? She's bad news for the GOP and everyone else." It's a damned good question, and I couldn't think of a better image to make ...
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The truth hurts: Newsweek's Palin cover
A little known provision in the House health care bill would require the $1 billion continuing medical education (CME) industry to disclose more about what it's teaching the nation's doctors : WASHINGTON—Health legislation moving through Congress would force
drug makers to disclose how much ...
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Ken Silverstein on the widespread phenomenon of lobbyists writing talking points and even whole statements for members of Congress: (A few years ago I found that the lobby firm of Patton Boggs had
drafted a statement for Congressman Joe Barton of Texas in support of
it’s client Kazakhstan. “Mr ...
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Joe Barton
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Robert Pear of the New York Times exposes an old fashioned bipartisan scandal ; Genentech lobbyists wrote talking points for legislators and dozens of legislators used them: WASHINGTON — In the official record of
the historic House debate on overhauling health care, the speeches of
many ...
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The New York Times
One fake news show spots another. Jon Stewart catches Sean Hannity's producer trying to pass off footage of Glenn Beck's 70,000 teabagger march as Michelle Bachmann's 10,000 teabagger Superbowl of Freedom:
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c Sean Hannity Uses Glenn ...
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Glenn Beck
Michelle Malkin
Michele Bachmann
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David Carr of Tech Crunch proclaims: After Fort Hood, another example of how ‘citizen journalists’ can’t handle the truth . It's a post assailing Tearah Moore, a soldier who tweeted her experiences inside Fort Hood after last week's massacre. Pretty big talk for a blogger. That kind of ...
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Michael Moore
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AP reporter Brett Blackledge should be ashamed of
this lead: WASHINGTON (AP) -- His name appears on
radical Internet postings. A fellow officer says he fought his deployment to Iraq and argued with soldiers who supported U.S. wars. He required ...
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AP trafficks in innuendo over Ft. Hood shootings
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Hamid Karzai
The New York Times
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