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Salt Too (Much) Negotiations

The Great Salt War is officially movin’ and shakerin’, as witness reports in these two reputably liberal media outlets. 1) Hysterical The current issue of The New Republic features a piece with this headline: The Other White Powder Is salt … Continue reading

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Campaign Outsider Sports Trifecta™

On those rare occasions that the hardworking staff has three sports-related posts, we play the Campaign Outsider Trifecta (pat. pending). To wit: Prophetic Headline o’ the Day® Tuesday’s New York Times: Sweden’s Soderling Is a Force to Be Reckoned With … Continue reading

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Free Books!

Good news! The hardworking staff at Campaign Outsider just discovered (D’oh!) archive.org, “a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies & music, as well as 150 billion archived web pages,” not to mention a stash of 1.8 … Continue reading

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Jammin’ the Blues

From our Late to the Party bureau: A week or so ago the Wall Street Journal ran a review of the new six-DVD set, “Warner Bros. Big Band, Jazz & Swing Short Subject Collection.” Headline: What Swing-Era Audiences Saw and … Continue reading

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Memorial Day For My Father

Jack Carroll (1920-1987), a Flying Boxcar navigator in the U.S. Army during World War II, rarely spoke about his wartime experience, except for two set pieces: 1) He dropped toilet paper over the Burma Road, making him much loved in … Continue reading

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New York Times Neutered Web Headlines

Two standout pieces from Saturday’s New York Times, which for some reason declawed the web versions: C.J. Chivers, As In Shivers Another chilling Afghanistan report from the inestimable Chivers. Headline: When Afghans Seek Medical Aid, Tough Choice for U.S. The … Continue reading

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Campaign Outsider Update Event™

Whenever the hardworking staff at Campaign Outsider is faced with three posts to update, we promptly issue an official Update Alert© and host an official Update Event (pat. pending). To wit: Mark Zuckerberg’s Facetime Farce, Revisited When we posted about … Continue reading

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Mark Zuckerberg, CEO Of Facetime

For the past few days, Mark (“I’m CEO . . . bitch“) Zuckerberg has launched an all-out media blitz to tell Facebook users that he’s tightening up the social networking site’s privacy controls, while insisting that’s not what they really … Continue reading

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BP Spin Patrol Update

After inexplicably sitting out Wednesday, BP’s full-page (read: expensive) damage control ads reappeared in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal on Thursday. BP’s elaborate spinsite is here. Have a blast.

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Ads ‘n’ Ends (BP Edition)

Fun Fact to Know and Tell From George Will’s latest column (hat tip Politico’s Playbook): From 2000 through 2008, sales of “Atlas Shrugged,” which was published in 1957, averaged a remarkable 166,000 a year. Since Barack Obama took office, more than … Continue reading

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