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Kevin on June 13th, 2008

This has to be the biggest non-story of the year. Jon Keller, a leading political commentator in these parts for years is being taken to task by the few Patrick administration cheerleaders who are still hanging on for having the audacity to make fun of Deval’s Top 20 accomplishments list. And what exactly is Keller’s […]

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Here is my letter to the editor submitted yesterday in response to their front page innacurate and misleading headline on the front page yesterday, “Massachusetts lives happily with same-sex marriage law.” Your above the fold headline in today’s LA Times, “Massachusetts lives happily with same-sex marriage law,” by Elizabeth Mehren is totally inaccurate and misleading, […]

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If it’s spring sweeps period, the world needs to know, Where in the World is Matt Lauer? This year, Matt started his week-long magical mystery tour in Patagonia, with a live shot from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Monday: NYC to Buenos Aires Argentina Assuming three people are travelling with Lauer (a conservative estimate) the CarbonFootprint.com calculator, […]

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Kevin on April 4th, 2008

Five years ago yesterday the great editor/columnist/reporter Michael Kelly became the first US journalist to die in Iraq. I wrote at the time, This is a tragic day for anyone who loves political commentary. Michael Kelly, America’s greatest columnist, died in Iraq today. He was the first American and first embedded reporter killed in the […]

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Kevin on March 12th, 2008

Oh, well, that’s not so much, In an earlier version of this story, the Associated Press erroneously reported that Blackstone co-founder Stephen Schwarzman’s total compensation for 2007 was $5.13 billion. Schwarzman’s compensation for 2007 was $350.7 million. Full story here.

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Kevin on February 29th, 2008

A proxy war, NEW YORK (AP) – A dissident investor stepped up pressure on The New York Times Co. Friday, formally proposing its own slate of four directors and saying the company needs to take more drastic action to compete online. Harbinger Capital, an investment firm that now owns about 19 percent of the company, […]

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Gregg on February 19th, 2008

My article in today’s Townhall.com: Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, and Ann Coulter and many others in the conservative media have been attacking Senator McCain relentlessly, assailing him as a liberal and referring to him as “Juan McCain.” Limbaugh has claimed that a McCain (or Huckabee) nomination would “destroy the Republican Party.” Frankly, it […]

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