washingtonmonthly.com - 2/20/2009
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THURSDAY'S MINI-REPORT.... Today's edition of quick hits: * The Dow Jones closed down at its lowest level in six years. * Disaster averted in California. * The FBI tracked down R. Allen Stanford in Virginia today, and "served him with...
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com - 2/17/2009
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We may have found our favorite mini- (or
maybe not so mini-!) Madoff yet... The FBI, SEC,
and IRS are all looking into the business activities of the Stanford Financial Group, a Houston-based private investment group run by the "flamboyant Texas ...
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Meet Texas Billionaire (And Mini-Madoff?) "Sir" Allen ...
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No More Mister Nice Blog —
... is that cops had to put two bullet holes in Nancy Pelosi. Oh, that's much less offensive than cops shooting Obama, right? (And notice that Limbaugh also gets in the GOP propaganda charge that Harry Reid "stuck his train in there" -- yuk yuk -- a reference to analleged appropriation specifically aimed at building a high-speed train between Disneyland and Las Vegas, which is an apparently unkillable lie.) ***** Also on today's Limbaugh show (hat tip Steve Benen), Limbaugh compared Democrats to murderers, rapists, and "this Muslim guy" ...
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