'I'm going to do good work for God'

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 16:06:25 +0000

By: Byron York Chief Political Correspondent 11/08/09 10:01 AM EST The words of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a few hours before authorities say he opened fire on fellow soldiers at Ft. Hood, Texas, killing 13 and wounding 29. The Washington Post reports Hasan made the statement to a neighbor in his ...

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Obama Gives Shout Out to 'Congressional Medal of Honor Winner' Who Isn't

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 12:37:38 +0000

The Washington Post this afternoon reported "President Obama delivers remarks on Ft. Hood shooting at end of tribal leaders conference." The transcript begins: SPEAKER: PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA [*] OBAMA: Please, everybody, have a seat. Let me first of all just thank Ken and the ...

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Think Again: This Fish Rots from the Head Down

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 17:46:37 +0000

George Will was repudiated by his own newspaper’s newsroom, whose reporters, Juliet Eilperin and Mary Beth Sheridan, noted satellite data showing that the average multiyear wintertime sea ice cover in the Arctic in 2005 had declined, which “contradicts data cited in widely circulated

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Washington Post Company Crashed-and-Burned-and-Smoking Watch

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 13:00:00 +0000

Why oh why can't we have a better press corps? Shut it down right now. If it were going to educate and inform the public, API would not be doing it, would they? Zachary Roth: Newsweek And Oil Lobby Team Up To Host Climate Change Event With Lawmakers : Newsweek magazine is teaming up ...

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Biizy Blog: The Business End Of The Blogosphere

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 05:50:39 +0000

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Weekend Lineup

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 18:00:31 +0000

Here are the scheduled guests for the Sunday public affairs shows and other weekend programs: SUNDAY Meet the Press hosts MS Gov. Haley Barbour (R) and PA Gov. Ed Rendell (D). The roundtable will feature New York Times ' David Brooks, Washington Post 's E.J. Dionne, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, ...

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Fort Hood has felt the strain of repeated deployments

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 07:04:36 +0000

Base leads Army posts in number of suicides since Iraq invasion Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, November 6, 2009

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Ft Hood shooter was member of extremist Salafi mosque in DC area

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 08:04:00 +0000

The Washington Post has a good background article on the Ft Hood shooter, Malik Nidal Hasan: Hasan attended the Muslim Community Center in Silver Spring and was "very devout," according to Faizul Khan, a former imam at the center. Khan...

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House Democrats Line Up Votes

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 14:45:00 +0000

House Democrats "are scrambling" to secure votes to pass President Obama's health care reform effort, "working to soothe last-minute concerns from rank-and-file Democrats ahead of a make-or-break vote," the AP reports. Voting is set for Saturday on the 10-year, $1.2 trillion legislation. The ...

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In Virginia, 14 Out of 26 Candidates Endorsed by WaPo Lose

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 19:09:30 +0000

How much is a Washington Post endorsement worth? Not a lot, apparently. The Post endorsed 26 candidates in Virginia’s November 4 elections. Only 12 of them won. The liberal newspaper’s picks for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general, all Democrats, lost, averaging only 42.4 percent ...

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WaPo Chronicles How McDonnell Survived Its Smear Campaign

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 19:05:58 +0000

Today's Metro section front-pager by Washington Post's Amy Gardner -- "McDonnell team rose to challenge in darkest hour" -- reminded me of a line from "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy" "From deep down in my stomach, with every inch of me, I pure, straight hate ...

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MATLOCK!!!

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 19:59:10 +0000

You can’t have conventional wisdom in Washington without David Broder cutting and pasting his column from 1961, 1965, 1977, and 1993. If it’s an off-year election (or a day ending in “Y”) it’s always good news for Republicans . Tuesday’s defeats in ...

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Kirk Seeking Palin's Endorsement For Senate Run -- After Badmouthing Her In 2008

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 22:52:38 +0000

Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL) has been actively seeking seeking the endorsement of none other than Sarah Palin in his race for Senate, the Washington Post reports, a sharp turnaround from prior image as a moderate and even his own open criticism of Palin herself. In a memo, Kirk wrote that he was ...

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Franzia: From the Beginning

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 22:30:44 +0000

When one man hauls off and punches another in the face, the conflict often has a long-tailed provenance. Such appears to be the case with Washington Post Style section staffers Manuel Roig-Franzia and Henry Allen . Those two got into a tussle on Friday afternoon in the vicinity of Executive ...

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What Do Women Want? -- By: Kathryn Jean Lopez

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 20:00:08 +0000

E verything you need to know about sex and politics begins with reading the results of the Virginia gubernatorial race. As any Washington Post reader knows, Governor-elect Bob McDonnell wrote in a 1989 thesis that every level of government should statutorily and procedurally prefer married ...

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Abdullah Out

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 21:37:00 +0000

I'm not sure how to assess Abdullah Abdullah's exit from the Afghan runoff election, which renders Hamid Karzai the unchallenged Afghan president. A runoff election certainly did promise to be tainted by the same fraud we saw last time around--quite likely more, in fact, given how fast they ...

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Dozens in Congress under ethics inquiry

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:43:49 +0000

AN ACCIDENTAL DISCLOSURE Document was found on file-sharing network Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, October 30, 2009

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Virginia Elections 2009: Governor Map (washingtonpost.com)

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 12:23:48 +0000

INTERACTIVE Governor Map Note: Please upgrade your Flash plug-in to view our enhanced content. GRAPHIC: Kat Downs, Chris Hopkins and Hailong Wang The Washington Post Company

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Brauchli on WaPo fight: 'We take this incident seriously'

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 18:51:00 +0000

Washington Post executive editor Marcus Brauchli found himself in the middle of a fight Friday evening between Style reporter Manuel Roig-Franzia and editor Henry Allen, but will not say whether the two have been reprimanded by the paper. “We take this incident seriously and ...

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