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Negative reaction to $100 rebate plan
The Republican plan to refund $100 to taxpayers to compensate for higher gas taxes doesn’t seem to be very popular: Aides for several Republican senators reported a surge of calls and e-mail messages from constituents ridiculing the rebate as a paltry and transparent effort to pander to voters before the midterm elections in November. “The
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Watch Woody Wittman
If you haven’t been following Dateline Hollywood, the satirical entertainment news website co-edited by my friend and former Spinsanity colleague Ben Fritz, make sure to check out the weekly film reviews of their new critic Woody Wittman: Woody is like The Today Show’s Gene Shalit if he lived in his mother’s basement. Or as Fishbowl
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Life imitates The Simpsons: A Ford reality show
Ford is considering a reality show in which contestants compete to design a new model, with the winner’s idea being built as a concept car: Under one situation Ford is considering, aspiring car designers would compete against one another to design the next hot Ford vehicle. The script would play out something like this: Each
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The Wall Street Journal dissembles again
The Wall Street Journal editorial board is twisting evidence: Scan the Web sites of the major environmental groups and you will find long tracts on the evils of fossil fuels and how wonderful it would be if only selfish Americans were more like the enlightened and eco-friendly Europeans. You will find plenty of articles with
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Kathleen Parker on George Allen
Syndicated conservative columnist Kathleen Parker is defending George Allen against Ryan Lizza’s New Republic profile. Her main defenses are (a) Lizza and others are saying Allen is a racist because they’re worried about him as a 2008 candidate; (b) Allen was a “rebel” in high school, not a racist; and (c) everyone makes mistakes in
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Allen ’08 futures: Largely unaffected by TNR
Weirdly enough, the release of The New Republic’s profile on George Allen had little effect on the prices of futures shares that pay off if he wins the 2008 GOP presidential nomination (though trading volume increased substantially): So why did his share prices not move very much? Here are some possibilities: 1. Allen’s share prices
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Duke accuser previously reported gang rape
The Duke lacrosse story just keeps getting more surreal. The AP is reporting that the accuser also claimed she was raped by three men back in 1996, but no charges were ever filed: The woman who says she was raped by three members of Duke’s lacrosse team also told police 10 years ago she was
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Deroy Murdock blames the flack
Via Josh Marshall, syndicated conservative columnist Deroy Murdock says Scott McClellan’s ineffective propaganda efforts helped the terrorists: I shudder to imagine how much McClellan’s haplessness has weakened America’s image overseas during wartime. Talk about shooting the messenger. If Murdock is actually concerned about America’s image overseas, shouldn’t he be worrying about George W. Bush? In
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Duke accuser’s father: Broomstick used
The latest from the nexus of Duke and cable news: the accuser’s father claims she was raped with a broomstick: The father of the accuser in the rape case involving Duke University lacrosse players said his daughter was raped with a broomstick during a party last month, and that explains defense lawyers’ claims that no
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TNR’s Ryan Lizza on George Allen
Ryan Lizza’s profile of Senator George Allen (mentioned below) is now online at The New Republic’s website. It’s fair but devastating. Please make sure you read the whole thing. One of the most striking aspects of the story is the extent to which Allen resembles George W. Bush. Like Bush, Allen was a child of