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Monday, May 8th, 2006

Most of the news I find interesting runs on Mondays for some reason. Usually Mondays are a bad day for news. Limited readership means limited ad dollars, smaller papers, and less news. That’s why Sunday papers are enormous. More subscribers means more ads and more space for news.
But really, I find [...]

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Monday, April 17th, 2006

It’s Rumsfeld 2, Opposition 6. Two retired generals have come to the aid of the embattled Secretary of Defense. That’s one third the number that have called for his ouster, but still a far cry from the roughly 8,000 retired generals still alive.
8,000 retired generals? Can that be right? The media [...]

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Thursday, March 30th, 2006

I was talking to a friend and former colleague on the phone a few minutes ago and we discussed the increasingly vile depths to which the Democrats will sink in their quest for political victory. Specifically, we were discussing the fact that the Democrats seem to be spending more time looking into the operatives [...]

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Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

The WaPo has a good little read on the dysfunction gripping the Republican Party.
Republicans insist they remain united around core principles of smaller government, lower taxes and a strong national defense, but can no longer agree on how to implement that philosophy and are squabbling over their delivery on those commitments.
For any elected GOPers who [...]

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Friday, February 24th, 2006

The FEC has set March 16th as the date for a vote on FEC regulation of the Internet. The decision has been eagerly anticipated by the online political community.
I suspect what we’ll see is passage of regulations that exempt individual speech through a vehicle like blogs, but full reporting and disclosure of advertising run [...]

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