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Explaining media bias — to a biased member of the media
Eric Alterman criticizes my recent commentary in The Sun on major media bias ("Liberal media bias is beyond doubt, March 18) because, he claims, I lacked "supporting evidence" in claiming his book, ""What Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias and the News,"...
Tags: Radio, Book, Personal Weapon Control, NPR, Interior Policy
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The Sunday Conversation: Lawrence O'Donnell
Political pundit Lawrence O'Donnell, a former writer and producer of "The West Wing," has hosted "The Last Word" on MSNBC for 21/2 years, often kicking up a ruckus for his blunt opinions. What's your connection to L.A.? Are you bicoastal? I live in...
Tags: CEO Pay, Corporate Officers, Politics, MSNBC (tv network), John D. Rockefeller IV
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A filibuster fit for Joe McCarthy
WASHINGTON -- Chuck Hagel's confirmation as secretary of defense ended as it began -- with a smear. "Senator Hagel has accused Israel of quote 'playing games' and committing, quote, 'sickening slaughter,'" Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., said before...
Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Chuck Hagel, Dan Coats, John Boehner, Israel
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Piers Morgan, David Gregory and guns - We're pathetic
The Baltimore SunRemember all the big, high-sounding media talk right after the massacre at Sandy Hook about how maybe now we will have a "national dialogue" about guns? Remember how many members of the media vowed to put aside their own little, selfish, partisan...Tags: Television Industry, Piers Morgan, Meet the Press (tv program), Katie Couric, Jeff Zucker
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Looking at the LVC's state-wide competition
The Varsity BlogEarlier today, we ran through the local teams who received spots in the Harrisburg Patriot-News preseason state football rankings. Now we’re taking a look at how some of the Lehigh Valley Conference's teams might size up against the best teams...... -
As Rome Burns
At least Nero played the fiddle while rome burned. But us? Apparently we can’t even read a thermometer. While evidence of climate change piles up around us like withering piles of corn stalks our esteemed leaders are only allowing us to head...
Tags: Conservation, Manhattan (New York City), Google Inc., Barack Obama, Meteorological Disasters
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Don't expect much excitement at the GOP convention
In the long lull before the Republican National Convention in Tampa in late August, party leaders and strategists for Mitt Romney are calculating how they can put their collective best foot forward. This year, it will not be easy. The usual...
Tags: Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, John Boehner
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'American exceptionalism,' our tedious boast
Change of SubjectFrank Rich discusses the frequent adversions to "American exceptionalism" This once little-heard term, sometimes wrongly attributed to Tocqueville, was coined by Joseph Stalin in a 1929 anti-American sneer. Now it is flung about as the ubiquitous,... -
Mitt Romney has much more important things to talk about than his taxes
To call Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid a "mad dog," as Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank did, is an affront to the canine community and those suffering from legitimate mental illness. Mr. Reid was completely sane when he spread hearsay about an...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Harry Reid, USA Today, The Washington Post, Pension and Welfare
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Bachmann-McCarthy Overdrive
Orlando Opinionators - Orlando SentinelBy Dick J. Batchelor First, I have to admit that I know Huma Abedin, and we have met on a number occasions. So yes, guilty as charged of rubbing elbows with the deputy chief of staff and trusted aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. It is... -
Kirk Douglas on the blacklist: Why Hollywood showed so little courage
24 FramesKirk Douglas has written a lively new memoir about one of his greatest triumphs. Titled “I Am Spartacus!” it recounts how Douglas helped break the midcentury anti-communist blacklist by secretly hiring Dalton Trumbo to write “Spartacus,&... -
Political books by Lit Fest authors
Tribune columnistFor those made glum by the campaign battle for the White House, a backward glance might afford a clearer view of the present. The 34th president was written off as a bit of an empty suit, but biographer Jim Newton has rendered a more nuanced portrait of...Tags: Elizabeth Taylor, Earl Warren Jr., Chicago Tribune
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