07.28.2008 6:21 pm
Forbes magazine looked at cities all over the country to find the best places to buy a home. Houston, San Francisco, Atlanta and St. Louis all made the top 10.
Yes. St. Louis.
I love St. Louis. I don’t mind…

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07.24.2008 11:20 am
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te’s got a funny column this week about Jonah Goldberg, a syndicated columnist we run on Mondays. Read “Karadzic’s Gift to Jonah Goldberg” here.
Goldberg claims in his book that liberalism and New Ageism are descended from fascism. (Honestly. That’s what…

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06.26.2008 11:14 am
Obama seeks support from Hillary Clinton’s donors, gets the cold shoulder (via TPM media).
And he takes heat from the netroots about his support of telecom immunity (via Huffington Post).
It doesn’t get much funnier: Karl Rove is spearheading an effort to…

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06.24.2008 4:35 pm
The telecom immunity bill surfaces again. Sens. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., and Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., vow to filibuster. That’s a promise we’ve heard before. Read it here, via Huffington Post.
And she returns like royalty. Politico reports on HRC’s return to the Senate.…

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06.17.2008 6:19 pm
Hill and Barry to appear together again next week, the NY Daily News reports.
Katie Couric plays funny, via Poynter’s Romenesko.
DNC calls for investigation over McCain and public financing, from Huffington Post. (My advice: Get over it and talk…

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06.12.2008 10:50 am
At an event to honor her earlier this week, Katie Couric lambasted the media for its alleged sexism regarding Hillary Clinton. And last night, she used her “Notebook” segment to continue the theme. She didn’t name names, but she made reference to…

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06.11.2008 3:41 pm
A hedge fund manager disappears in murky circumstances. Maybe suicide, maybe not.
One member of Obama’s vice president search committee has quit after a “special mortgage” he received from troubled bank Countrywide was made public.
Talk of the Nation today featured…

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05.14.2008 11:54 am
BradBlog, a voting rights blog by Missouri’s own Brad Friedman, has the uncut video of Jon Stewart of the “Daily Show” interviewing Douglas J. Feith, author of “War and Decision” and undersecretary of defense under Donald Rumsfeld. The interview ran…

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05.05.2008 10:42 am
Watching the Derby Saturday was heartbreaking. When the camera cut to Eight Belles on the ground inside the track, all the excitement from the race drained.
I’ve never been a fan of horse racing (or animal racing of any kind), but…

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