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Made U Look: Hil’s Rough Night
Sure, she raised $1 million and successfully deflected the chanting of some pesky protesters.
But Hillary Clinton wasn’t immune to the unforgiving lens of a shutterbug at her New York fundraiser on Saturday night.
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The Wake-Up Call:
Loopholes & A Lost Watch
The Iraq War
Despite steep reductions in casualties of Iraqi civilians and U.S. soldiers, the 72 new death claims for civilian contractors in the country this quarter were about 22% above the quarterly average. Since reconstruction began, 1,073 death claims have been filed with the Department of Labor.
Health Care
Due to loopholes in federal laws, oil and [...]
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The Wake-Up Call
Scandal Sheet
How the Justice Department politicized the appointment of immigration judges.
Did a well-connected drug company, Emergent BioSolutions, get federal contracts to supply their anthrax vaccine despite dangerous side effects?
Corporate Capers
Who’s spying on whom over at Hewlett Packard? Former VP Karl Kamb claims that the company got his private phone records and spied on Dell.
Human Rights
Here [...]
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Girls’ School in Iraq Was Wired to Explode
A girls’ school under construction in Tarmiyah, a town north of Baghdad, was wired to explode as soon as classes started, according to U.S. Central Command.
Investigators believe that the IED “was not intended to be set off until the building was occupied,” according to a Centcom press release. (Tarmiyah Huda Girls School_2.pdf)
Last Saturday, April 28, [...]
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The Wake-Up Call
Scandal Sheet
Every liberal’s wet dream: The Office of Special Counsel will investigate Karl Rove for his role in the U.S. Attorney firings and other political activities.
Iraq War
The action on the ground in living color. The Islamic state of Iraq posted this photo, claiming it was taken in Diyala, where nine paratroopers were killed yesterday in [...]
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The Wake-Up Call
Scandal Sheet
The Countdown Begins: When will Gonzales resign this afternoon? I’m guessing 4:30, just in time for the barely-read Saturday papers.
The Paul Wolfowitz imbroglio at the World Bank meets “The Office” in this mash-up video.
Blogging the Revolution
Here’s the lawsuit filed by imprisoned Chinese cyber-dissident Wang Xiaoning and his wife, Yu Ling, against Yahoo, accusing the [...]
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The Afternoon Round-Up
Virginia Tech
- The heroism of professor Liviu Librescu, a Holocaust survivor, who gave his life so that others might live.
- Slain professor Jamie Bishop was also a talented digital artist.
Scandal Sheet
- Is sex a security problem for the CIA? Former top official Kyle “Dusty” Foggo performed oral sex on a prostitute at his own bachelor [...]
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The Afternoon Round-Up
Corporate Culture
- Wal-Mart skipped out on paying $2.3 billion in state taxes from 1999 to 2005, says Citizens for Tax Justice.
The ‘08 Race
- Sure, John Edwards is a handsome guy. But is any haircut worth $400? That’s what the candidate spent at Beverly Hills men’s stylist, Torrenueva Hair Designs.
Iraq War
- “In the past three months, [...]
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The Afternoon Round-Up
Scandal Sheet
- At least 25 Justice Department lawyers and 9 Pentagon lawyers also moonlight as GOP lawyers through the Republican National Lawyers Association. To be fair, I wonder how much this happened during the Clinton administration.
- The World Bank cracks down on those whistleblowers who’ve been leaking sensitive documents. Based on these comments posted on [...]
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The Afternoon Round-Up
Scandal Sheet
The Justice Department didn’t turn over all the relevant documents related to the fired US Attorneys… and the House Judiciary Committee wants them badly.
Corporate Culture
- Time Warner didn’t exactly punish executive Wayne Pace after last year’s revelations that he was Brazilian hooker Andrea Schwartz’s sugar daddy, showering her with money and jewelry. They’ve been rewarding [...]
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