Archive for September 5th, 2007
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
Nuclear Bomb Accidents in American History
Everyone’s up in arms today — as they should be! — about the B-52 bomber that flew over several states while accidentally stocked with nuclear bombs. Reaching back into the recesses of my “went to high school in New Mexico, birthplace of atomic weaponry” files, I’d like to point out that this is not the […]
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Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
Thompson Staffer: “Make Iowa Go Last.”
Iowa Independent’s Jay Wagner has a great catch today, noting that:
The new deputy communications director for the Fred Thompson campaign suggested last month on a prominent political website that America might be better off if Iowa didn’t play host to the first-in-the-nation caucus.
Karen Hanretty wrote on The Hill’s Political Pundit blog that the move would […]
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Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
The Gore Endorsement
Like Ben Smith’s dissenter of the day, I’m also not sure that Barack Obama has Al Gore’s endorsement locked up. Yes, there are commonalities between the two, but taking all the chatter I’ve heard over the past year into account, I would have to say that there are doubts in Gore circles — which may […]
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Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
Poison Barbie
You always knew it would come to this:
Mattel Inc.’s reputation took another hit after the world’s largest toy maker announced a third major recall of Chinese-made toys in little more than a month because of excessive amounts of lead paint….
The latest Mattel recall, whose details were negotiated by the Consumer Product Safety Commission, covers […]
