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Author Archives: Campaign Outsider
Globel Waning
Just gotta ask if the Boston Globe is composing its front page according to the actual news, or to Globe bylines? Case in point: Page One of yesterday’s Boston Sunday Globe. No quibble here with the two David Ortiz stories … Continue reading
Astrotruth
The debate over Barack Obama’s healthcare overhaul/reform/government takeover has been upgraded to “hostile,” according to this New York Times report. The bitter divisions over an overhaul of the health care system have exploded at town-hall-style meetings over the last few … Continue reading
Harry Patch, R.I.P.
Nice piece by New York Times writer John F. Burns about the funeral of Harry Patch, who died at the age of 111 as the last living British soldier from World War I. Mr. Patch survived “the fighting at Ypres … Continue reading
Gone Golfin’
To compensate for the boss’s recent vacation, the hard-working staff at Campaign Outsider got Thursday off and went a-golfing, the first time in ten years we’ve struck a ball in anger. It was not a pretty sight. We have long … Continue reading
Gone Fishin’: What I Missed
I know I’m late to the party on this – and I haven’t seen any of the commentary about it, so I’m probably Johnny Redundant – but what the hell was the New York Times thinking when it ran this … Continue reading
Gone Fishin’: What I Caught
The Missus and I ventured out to the Berkshires the last couple of days, and here’s what I caught: * An eye-candy exhibit, Prendergast in Italy, at the Williams College Museum of Art. It brought together 60 of Maurice Prendergast’s … Continue reading
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Dobbs Fairy Tale
Courtesy of Campaign Outsider’s Verizon broadband revival: The curent Lou Dobbs donnybrook is a total hoot. CNN’s resident xenophobe has been propping up the birthers who contend that Barack Obama was born in Kenya so is ineligible for the U.S. … Continue reading
Gone Fishin’
I wanted to post about the excellent dustup around CNN’s Lou Dobbs, Mr. Midwife to the birther movement that claims Barack Obama does not have a valid U.S. birth certificate, thereby making Obama ineligible to be president. But my costly … Continue reading
Why America Needs Daily Newspapers
Check out this heart-wrenching report in Sunday’s New York Times about suicides among Iraq war veterans, which are accelerating at breakneck speed. The number of suicides reported by the Army has risen to the highest level since record-keeping began three … Continue reading
Department of the Obvious
If the Wall Street Journal’s interview with John McCain on Saturday wasn’t the most self-serving exercise this side of the check-out lines at Shop ‘n’ Stop, it’ll do till something better comes along. Here’s McCain on how he was shocked shocked … Continue reading
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