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Brookline Crèche Crook: The Incriminating Photos

The sad state of affairs at St. Mary of the Assumption in Brookline Village: Time for the Amber Alert? Photo credit: The Missus

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Geez! Someone Snatched Jesus Of Brookline Village!

There’s a crèche crook at large in the Brookline area, someone who apparently made a New Year’s resolution to steal the Baby Jesus from the Nativity scene at St. Mary of the Assumption. That’s cold – especially since it’s the … Continue reading

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Happy New Year!

The hardworking staff at Campaign Outsider’s Global Worldwide Headquarters thanks all of our splendid readers for their forbearance and comments this past year, and wishes you a happy and prosperous 2012. Cheers!

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Let The $4 Billion Rumpus Begin! (Huntsman’s Destiny Edition)

Headline on this week’s Peggy Noonan Wall Street Journal column: Gingrich Is Making Romney Better Next week’s headline: Huntsman Is Making Romney Battered That will largely be thanks to Our Destiny, a Super PAC backing GOP presidential afterthought Jon Huntsman … Continue reading

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NYT Rips The Lid Off Romney’s Gunsels

Restore Our Future, the pro-Mitt Romney Super PAC that has spent $3 million on TV spots in Iowa during the past three weeks, should really have been named Destroy Newt’s Future. From today’s New York Time Page One feature: Group’s … Continue reading

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Let The $4 Billion Rumpus Begin! (Soul Man Edition)

It’s Come-to-Jesus time in the Iowa airwars. New TV spot from Leaders For Families, a pro-Rick Santorum Super PAC:   That testimonial from sanctimonious Iowa operator Bob Vander Plaats (R-$1 Million Price Tag) uses the code words “One of Us” … Continue reading

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Globe Magazine Picks Carmen Ortiz As Bostonian Of The Year

From the Boston Globe press release: Boston, MA, Dec. 30, 2011 – The Boston Globe Magazine announced today that it has selected US Attorney Carmen Ortiz as “Bostonian of the Year” for 2011.  She will be featured in a special … Continue reading

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The Boston Globe’s Slowbituaries

Every now and again an obituary of a local figure turns up in the Boston Globe sort of . . . er . . . late. Previous case in point: Last year’s Globe two-week-late obituary of Joseph A. Sciacca Sr., father of … Continue reading

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Let The $4 Billion Rumpus Begin! (Iowa Ad-O-Rama Edition)

And the hit jobs just keep on comin’ in the Hawkeye State’s GOP presidential slapfight. • Rick Perry goes cartoon in his latest Iowa TV spot.   Got that? “The fox guarding the henhouse is like asking a Congressman to … Continue reading

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Free The Philip Morris Whatever!

Good news for the last three smokers in America. Altria, the Potemkin corporation that fronts for Philip Moris, has just established a front group for itself. Via Convenience Store Decisions: Altria’s tobacco operating companies launched Citizens for Tobacco Rights, a Website for … Continue reading

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