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• DNC: AD WATCH: New Ad Shows Romney Will Say Anything to Hide Failed Leadership

  - 2007-10-24

  To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: Damien LaVera of the Democratic National Committee, +1- 202-863-8148 WASHINGTON,Oct. 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On the same day McClatchy News reports that President Bush and his fellow Bush Republicans have raised government spending to its highest level in more than 40 years, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is...

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• DNC: Those Wascally Wabbits: Romney's Hunt for Voters Missing the Mark

  - 2007-04-06

  To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: Damien LaVera of Democratic National Committee, +1-202- 863-8148 WASHINGTON, April 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following was issued today by the Democratic National Committee on Republican Mitt Romney: Mitt Romney's quest for Republican primary voters is beginning to look like Elmer Fudd's hunting expeditions. This week, Romney's...

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• DNC: Who'd Volunteer for This? Knoxville Voters Forced to Endure Romney's Smooth Talk

  - 2007-03-06

  To: STATE EDITORSContact: Damien LaVera of the Democratic National Committee, +1- 202-863-8148 WASHINGTON, March 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Former Massachusetts governor and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney will be in the Volunteer State today as part of his unrelenting campaign to convince Republican primary voters to ignore his election year conversions...

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• Domestic war: Locke's concept of prerogative and implications for U.S. "wars" today *.(John Locke)(Viewpoint essay)

  - 2007-01-01

  "The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the 'state of exception' in which we live is the rule" Walter Benjamin (1) Introduction A dominant strand of contemporary liberal theory distinguishes between the largely extra-juridical exercise...

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• The monthly journalism award

  - 2006-12-01

  Farah Stockman, Michael Kranish, Peter S. Canellos and Kevin Baron The Boston Globe, October 8-11, 2006 Early in his first term, President Bush urged Congress to overturn 40-year-old rules keeping religion out of government contracting. The bill failed, but a remarkable investigation by The Boston Globe reveals that in...

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• Democratic National Committee: Romney's Immigration Hypocrisy

  - 2006-12-01

  To: National and State desksContact: Damien LaVera of Democratic National Committee, 202-863- 8148WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following was released today by the Democratic National Committee on Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney:Days after Massachusetts Republican Governor Mitt Romney hired a key spokesman from the failed leadership that cost Republicans...

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• Article failed to get 'land rush' facts

  - 2006-08-25

  On Aug. 16, 2006, the Boston Globe ran an editorial titled "A Ruinous Land Rush." I am surprised that the Globe would write such a slanted article from information supplied by extreme environmental groups without first getting some factual information about Washington County. Our county is 1,550,000 acres...

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• Newspaper ideological bias or "statist quo"? The acid test

  - 2006-07-01

  I Introduction FOR 30 YEARS, debate has swirled around the alleged "liberal bias" of U.S. journalists, and especially journalists who write for publications such as Time, Newsweek, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. Sutter (2001) has written that a veritable "cottage industry" has sprung up as...

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• The Moussaoui question

  - 2006-04-24

  CRAZY or not crazy? That is the question! This is the paraphrase of Hamlet that al-Qaida terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui shouted during a break in his federal trial in a Virginia courtroom. The jury has already decided Moussaoui is eligible for the death penalty because...

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• Abramoff's Russia connections probed

  - 2006-03-20

  "The federal investigation into the lobbying activities of Jack Abramoff has broadened to examine his dealings with the Russian government and a pair of high-profile Russian energy company executives," reported the February 23 Boston Globe. A federal subpoena demands documents detailing Abramoff's involvement with "any department, ministry, or office holder...

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