julescrittenden.com - 12/31/2008
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It would be pretty funny, I mean tragic, if this $27 million defamation suit by DC lobbyist Vicki L. Iseman, over the NY's famously gutless insinuations of an affair with John McCain the newspaper didn't have the facts to actually report, were to end up being the straw that broke that media ...
julescrittenden.com - 12/30/2008
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Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak wants "war to
the bitter end." Hamas is on the run, its...
terrorist infrastructure and personnel being blown to bits as we speak. All good, but at the end of the day, all that gets you is a pile of rubble and a bunch ...
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So, What Next?
julescrittenden.com - 1/5/2009
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It isn't exactly change you can believe in,
but here's the deal. Obama has advanced from trying...
to be like Bush to trying to outdo him. WSJ, $300 billion tax-cut plan: WASHINGTON -- President-elect Barack Obama and congressional Democrats are ...
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New Deal
julescrittenden.com - 12/27/2008
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Now taking predictions. My own favorite is: Global
warming having been debunked amid dropping temperatures as a...
current natural phenomenon let alone a manmade one; the underlying "settled science" having been shown to be grossly flawed; and the ...
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Vicki Iseman sues the New York Times
TigerHawk —
... to libel, so you can bet your bottom dollar that the NYT is going to do what it can to prove that Iseman and McCain did have an affair. Surely Iseman knows that, which means either that there was no affair or there was, but she figures that the Times cannot prove it. Since they can certainly depose her and ask her the question under oath, if she and McCain did have an affair she would have to perjure herself to sustain her case, which would be insane in a lawsuit of this profile. I'm with Jules (that either Iseman or the Times is insane), with one caveat: Given that a lot of ...
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A Washington lobbyist who said the New York Times implied she had an improper relationship with Sen. John McCain will drop her defamation lawsuit against the newspaper, which today said it never intended that readers conclude the ...
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