newsbusters.org - 9/22/2008
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When I saw the headline at WashingtonPost.com " Closing the Whopper Gap " with Ruth Marcus's name next to it, I naturally assumed this had to be another hit piece on John McCain akin to what my colleague Mark Finkelstein reported last week. Yet, upon closer examination, it turned ...
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Stones Cry Out —
Stupid bible tricks … coming to Letterman? or not.
Chesterton’s prediction and the modern atheist.
Private vice … a myth.
Washington Post defends McCain against Obama … a first?
Doubt on Mr Obama’s past as an “organizer.”
What books would you suggest? Some Mark Twain? Horatio Alger? Dostoevsky?
A little satire.
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