Apr 17, 2009 -
Hail the tea bag, weapon of terror
By Wesley Pruden
These are not your granny's tea parties. One tea party even panicked Secret Service bodyguards when a foolish tea-sipper threw a harmless tea bag over the White House fence.
"Tea-bag parties" erupted — and "erupted" is the correct verb — across the country on April 15, celebrated by joyous "progressive" taxpayers and loathed by everybody else as the day to report the intimate details of your life, along with cash, to the Internal Revenue Bureau (which the bureau insists that we call not a bureau but a "service").
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Jun 10, 2009 -
At first I thought they were talking about a poison or maybe contaminated cat food, then I read the story. There are some sick and twisted people in this world.
MIAMI – The black cat's body was found in the grass, just feet from the hedges where she slept each day.
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Feb 01, 2007 -
Boston officials livid over ad stunt By KEN MAGUIRE, Associated Press Writer
BOSTON - Livid about a publicity campaign that disrupted the city by stirring fears of terrorism, Boston officials vowed to prosecute those responsible and seek restitution, while others mocked authorities on Thursday for what they called an overreaction.
Officials found a slew of blinking electronic signs adorning bridges and other high-profile spots across the city Wednesday, prompting the closing of a highway and part of the Charles River and the deployment of bomb squads.
The 38 signs were part of a promotion for the Cartoon Network TV show "Aqua Teen Hunger Force," a surreal series about a talking milkshake, a box of fries and a meatball.
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Jan 14, 2009 -
http://www.slate.com/id/2208132/
The top 25 Bushisms of all time.
By Jacob Weisberg
Posted Monday, Jan. 12, 2009, at 3:43 PM ET
I started gathering Bush's verbal slip-ups while covering his first presidential campaign.
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Jan 09, 2009 -
The Note, 1/9/09: Obama Pressed From Left on Stimulus
January 09, 2009 8:37 AM
By RICK KLEIN
With the rollout comes the blowback. And with them both comes the presidential-sized challenge for the not-yet president.
It turns out you don’t have to look very hard to find the fault lines in President-elect Barack Obama’s bid for a massive stimulus bill.
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Oct 31, 2008 -
Voting In America 2008
By Greg Crosby
Election Day is almost upon us, and so many disturbing facts linger on. All of the following are actual news items gathered in the final days before the presidential election.
From The Columbus Dispatch.
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Feb 12, 2008 -
I was reading an article in Vanity Fair magazine, that referred to the one below published in 1991 on Time magazine about the intrincate dealings inside the "church" of Scientology.
Monday, May. 06, 1991
Cover Story: The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power
By RICHARD BEHAR
By all appearances, Noah Lottick of Kingston, Pa., had been a normal, happy 24-year-old who was looking for his place in the world.
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