politics.theatlantic.com - 10/16/2009
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My colleague, James Fallows, made an excellent point about The Washington Post 's op-ed lamenting that the Nobel peace prize didn't go to the martyred Iranian protestor. He noted that the award can't be given posthumously and thus never went to Gandhi and others who have been overlooked--a point ...
tnr.com - 10/18/2009
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Today's New York Times includes a "post-script" to
the paper's Sept.12 piece that reported on the resignation...
of Charles Pelton, the former Washington Post executive at the center of the salon-gate controversy. In July, Politico broke news ...
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Post Off: The Behind the Scenes Feud between the ...
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The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Pareene goes in for the kill. Matt Cooper rubber-necks.
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WaPo OpEd Flies Their Obama Derangement Nobel Fetish Flag Freely: Questions Constitutionality of NPP
Crooks and Liars —
... Is it possible for Conservatives to offer even one well-reasoned argument? Or is it too difficult because, as Colbert says, facts have a liberal bias? Shame on WaPo's editorial board for being so eager to feed their Obama haters. (h/t Ambinder) ...
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The Caucus —
... have been awarded such prizes that were not returned. One problem: the hero of the first Gulf War, Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, received an honorary Knighthood from Queen Elizabeth (which technically makes him a “Knight of the British Empire”) in May of 1991 while still on active duty. Even Conservatives acquiesced that a Knighthood was not in violation of the Emolument Clause. I assume the same logic applies to a Nobel Prize. Matthew Cooper names another example in the Atlantic. I’m not a constitutional scholar or an attorney but it seems pretty clear that Obama’s Nobel is ...
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