powerlineblog.com - 12/3/2008
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Michael Ramirez neatly sums up the disadvantage American automakers face in trying to keep up with their more nimble competition; click to enlarge:
A bailout will only feed the beast for a few more years. The only solution, I think is bankruptcy, which Nancy Pelosi says is out of the ...
nbcconnecticut.com - 12/1/2008
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nbcconnecticut.com —
Two Connecticut Daily Newspapers and nearly a dozen
weekly papers could be shutting down the presses in...
January, if a buyer doesn't come forward. The Bristol Free Press and the Herald in New Britain are owned by the financially troubled Journal ...
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Extra! Extra! Help Save the ...
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In A Minneapolis Churchyard
Sadly, No! —
... companion will shudder and sing to her some version or another of the Ballad of Old John Henraker, at least one collected incidence of which features the line, “Rackin’ his hind in a trailer-home quarter, a dragster front-rocketing from’t,” which will puzzle future ethnographers no further since apparently they have just found the stack of printed-out posts that we left wrapped in plastic under a certain equestrian statue (hello!)
Pulling Some Extra Weight
Michael Ramirez neatly sums up the ...
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From NBC's Wendy Jones Under the calm gaze of the Statue of Freedom (actually a replica of the statue which graces the dome of the Capitol), leaders of Congress presided over the dedication -- finally -- of the Capitol Visitors Center.
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General Motors, an icon of American manufacturing and the world's largest automaker, yesterday threw itself at the mercy of Congress, saying it needed $4 billion to avert a cash crisis by the end of the month and as much as $18 billion in federal ...
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