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Quote o’ the Day (John Keats Edition)

Posted on May 1, 2013 by

From our Late to the Poet desk Several weeks ago Michael Dirda wrote a review in the Weekly Standard of John Keats: A New Life by Nicholas Roe. It starts out this way: Poet of Loss Dead at 25, Keats … Continue reading →

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NYT’s Cruise To Nowhere

Posted on January 14, 2013 by

From Politico’s Playbook: N.Y. TIMES GOES CRUISING: A full-page ad in Friday’s Times offers a “European Cruise” from Oct. 12-24 (England to Paris to Bordeaux to Spain to Portugal) with Elisabeth Bumiller talking defense, Timothy Egan talking opinion and David Sanger … Continue reading →

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Let The Wild Chuck Hagel Rumpus Begin! (ChuckHagel.com Edition)

Posted on January 8, 2013 by

As former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Aggressively Nay) battles his way to Secretary of Defense, one skirmish he’s already lost is control of his domain name. Home page of ChuckHagel.com:   ChuckHagel.com happens to be the exclusive province of Weekly … Continue reading →

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What We Caught In The Big Town

Posted on December 27, 2012 by

Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Big Town for most of last week, and here’s a taste of the arts seen there. Wednesday After an uneventful, if costly, drive to the City (seriously – they’re raising the extortionate … Continue reading →

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Weekly Standard: Factchecking The Factcheckers

Posted on October 7, 2012 by

The hardworking staff freely admits that we’ve often relied on sites such as FactCheck.org, PolitiFact.com, and the Washington Post’s Fact Checker to question the campaign ads currently swarming the TV airwaves like gnats at a summer barbecue. But we also … Continue reading →

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Ads ‘n’ Ends From The Massachusetts Congressional Races

Posted on October 6, 2012 by

Once around the Public Garden, James, and don’t spare the horses. Sean Bielat: Hits and Missus Fourth Congressional district repeat candidate Sean Bielat (R-I Won’t Be Frank) has launched his first TV spot in the race against Joe Kennedy III … Continue reading →

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Healing Waters For Disabled Vets

Posted on August 17, 2012 by

In the wake of CNN anchor Anderson Cooper’s admirable exposé of the disgraceful Disabled Veterans National Foundation fundraising scam, it was nice to see this piece in Thursday’s Wall Street Journal about Project Healing Waters, a nonprofit organization “dedicated to … Continue reading →

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Quote o’ the Day (Paul Ryan Edition)

Posted on August 12, 2012 by

Now that GOP Great White Hope Mitt Romney has tapped Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Hey, Privatize This), lots of folks are bookmarking Ryan (!) Lizza’s recent New Yorker profile of the Ayn Rand acolyte. But it’s also worth taking a … Continue reading →

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Cass Sunstein And The Obama Nanny State

Posted on August 5, 2012 by

There was plenty of hoopla yesterday as the news media reported the departure of Cass Sunstein from the White House Office of Information an Regulatory Affairs, which is sort of the hall monitor of Capitol Hill. From the Boston Globe: … Continue reading →

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The Making (And Faking) Of Barack Obama

Posted on June 18, 2012 by

From our Compare and Contrast in Clear Idiomatic English desk: David Maraniss’s new biography, Barack Obama: The Story, has spawned any number of stories about Obama’s story of his formative years. An excerpt from the book in the Washington Post is … Continue reading →

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