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Tag Archives: Wall Street Journal
WSJ’s Cycling Tour de Farce?
On the eve of this year’s Tour de France, there’s a major takeout in the weekend Wall Street Journal about blood doping in professional cycling. Blood Brothers Cyclist Floyd Landis gives an exclusive tour through what he and others say … Continue reading
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Ad o’ the Day (Ross Perot Edition)
Back page of Monday’s Wall Street Journal A section: TIME FLIES WHEN YOU’RE MAKING HISTORY (Body copy goes here, but I’m not willing to type it all) Regardless, it’s crazy Ross Perot’s 80th birthday! So it’s only fitting he has … Continue reading
Sal DiMasi Is Still A Small-Time Fraud
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that prosecutions of honest services fraud, as the Boston Globe reports, “should be used only to prosecute cases involving bribery and kickback schemes.” That’s mother’s milk to belegaled former Massachusetts House Speaker Sal … Continue reading
BP=Brutish Petroleum (NYT), Bash President (WSJ)
Saturday was surely Bratish Petroleum day, what with Typhoid Tony Hayward gone a-yachting and all. Via the New York Times: BP officials on Saturday scrambled yet again to respond to another public relations challenge when their embattled chief executive, Tony Hayward, … Continue reading
Wall Street Journal Gets Religion!
In its ongoing Come to Jesus initiative, the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday featured this headline and photo (but no story) dropped into the middle of Page One: ‘You Will Not Fear … the Arrow That Flies by Day’ Caption: RESCUE … Continue reading
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
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
Acronym o’ the Day (pat. pending)
From Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal, in an op-ed about a bill “proposed on April 30 by Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Chris Van Hollen to ‘blunt’ the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. FEC”: Moreover, the Democracy Is Strengthened by … Continue reading
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