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washingtonmonthly.com - 1/28/2009
Pulling a Specter
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PULLING A SPECTER.... This guy is hard to figure out sometimes. It may be time to coin the phrase "pulling a Specter," because Sen. Arlen Specter (PA), the senior Republican on the Judiciary Committee, just did it again. After making...

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corner.nationalreview.com - 1/24/2009
Will Obama Revive the Fairness Doctrine?
— corner.nationalreview.com — Those of us who fear a revival, directly or indirectly, of the Fairness Doctrine need to be aware of the following exchanges that occurred during the Senate Judiciary Committee's January 15th confirmation hearing for Attorney General-Designate Eric ... (more) Will Obama Revive the Fairness Doctrine?

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Talking Points Memo | Holder Aide: We Made No Special Promises to Bond
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 1/28/2009
Talking Points Memo | Holder Aide: We Made No Special Promises to Bond
— tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com — My colleague Zack at TPMmuck just heard from an aide to Attorney General nominee Eric Holder. The aide definitively denied Sen. Kit Bond's (R-MO) claim that Holder had given him "assurances" of avoiding future prosecutions of Bush intelligence ... (more) Talking Points Memo | Holder Aide: We Made No Special ...

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corner.nationalreview.com - 1/31/2009
Steele
— corner.nationalreview.com — I like Michael Steele -- he's one of those charismatic guys who'd be impossible not to like if you were trying not to like him. I've only met him a couple of times, but one was in a green room where we both found ourselves with an hour to kill.  ... (more) Steele

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Things Heard: e52v3
Stones Cry Out — ... on. Why big projects today aren’t “shovel ready” … that would be, uhm, obstruction from the left. Put that in your stimulus pipe and smoke it. Nero’s political trajectory, dates, and St. Paul’s Romans. When Gay bashing is mostly from the left. More on the SSPX reconciliation … more here. Moscow. Heh. Spector dissed … for doing exactly what I’d advised (and done). A Silver Star. ...

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