Oct 24, 2009 -
Even before Barack Obama was elected to the presidency, Rupert Murdoch had declared war on him via the personalities of Fox News Channel, a subsidiary of Murdoch's media conglomerate, News Corp.
Since Obama's election, the cable channel's hosts and paid analysts have launched a full frontal assault on the president, smearing his nominees, calling him a racist and suggesting that his administration was trying to persuade disabled veterans to off themselves.
Now the fearmongers at Fox are crying foul since the president and his aides declared Fox not to be a news organization.
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Oct 13, 2009 -
Written by Sherwood Ross
Posted: 13 October 2009 10:06
Tne reason for the decline of newspaper circulation is that 42 million Americans are illiterate and roughly 50 million more are semi-literate, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Christopher Hedges says. What’s more, he adds, 80 percent of U.S. households last year did not buy a book.
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Aug 06, 2009 -
Citizen Informants
By Bart Willruth
In 1930's Germany, the new socialist government of Adolf Hitler (NAZI National Socialist Workers' Party) began indoctrinating children in the quasi-military organization, the Hitler Youth, to inform on their parents should they overhear discussions subversive to the policies of the Leader. As the noose was tightened, local community organizers were appointed to watch their neighbors and were told to report subversive comments to the bureaucrats above them. Neighbors informed on neighbors, some for reasons of patriotism or loyalty, some from fear.
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Jun 05, 2009 -
We've already heard that some drugstores were starting to treat people for minor problems...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-tc-biz-retail-clinics-0605-jun05,0,515234.story
Amid the economic downturn and slow growth for retail and outpatient medical-care services, pharmacy giants Walgreen Co. and CVS Caremark Corp.
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May 01, 2009 -
I have some sad, sad news now: the Costume Institute Gala will be Lagerfeld-less this time. He's a good friend of Anna Wintour, and one of the most important people ever in the industry, but due to a busy travel schedule involving London, Moscow and Venice. Matthew Williamson, Valentino designers Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli are also not going to be in attendance this year.
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Mar 03, 2009 -
George Phillips, an elderly man, from Meridian, Mississippi, was going up to bed, when his wife told him that he'd left the light on in the garden shed, which she could see from the bedroom window. George opened the back door to go turn off the light, but saw that there were people in the shed stealing things. He phoned the police, who asked 'Is someone in your house?'
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Aug 05, 2008 -
Seth Rogen tells OK! he made the ultimate sacrifice to help his former Freaks and Geeks co-star James Franco get a role in his new pot comedy Pineapple Express. He gave up his part!
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Dec 12, 2008 -
HOW TO CALL THE POLICE WHEN YOU'RE OLD
George Phillips of Meridian , Mississippi was going up to bed, when his wife told him that he'd left the light on in the garden shed, which she could see from the bedroom window. George opened the back door to go turn off the light, but saw that there were people in the shed stealing things.
He phoned the police, who asked "Is someone in your house?"
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Jan 17, 2009 -
Born Ira Grossel to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, he attended Erasmus Hall High School, the alma mater of many stage and film personalities. Later, he took a drama course and spent two years in stock companies before serving in World War II. After being discharged from the military, he was a busy radio actor both in drama (such as episodes of Escape) and comedy (playing bashful biology teacher Phillip Boynton on Our Miss Brooks).
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Oct 22, 2008 -
How Palin Governed
Behind all the criticism and controversy, what really happened.
By Byron York
Editor’s note: Byron York’s recent article in National Review on Sarah Palin’s time as governor of Alaska became a campaign issue Tuesday when CNN’s Drew Griffin distorted its meaning in a high-profile interview with Palin. CNN’s problems aside, what was the story really about?
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