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COMMUNITY FORUM: HUNTING RINOS WITH THE HERALD
Here in Boston, it was the Herald’s Holly Robichaud who took on the task of dusting off her tan safari cap, loading up her musket, and setting off on a RINO (Republican in Name Only) hunt, with Rubio set squarely in her sights. Continue reading
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Tags: Arizona, Boston Herald, Charles Schumer, Community Forum, Democrat, DREAM act, Florida, Hispanics, Holly Robichaud, Issue 15.21, John McCain, JOLT Act, Latino-Americans, Lindsey Garham, Marco Rubio, Republican, Republican in Name Only, RINO
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MEDIA FARM: NO PRESENCE, NO ACCESS, NO INSIGHT
In days of yore, they were called beat reporters. The only local publications which still have these as regular features of City Hall and the State House are the Globe and the Herald—but even Boston’s biggies have reduced their presence in the over the last two decades. Continue reading
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MEDIA FARM: FAKED OUT
It turns out that daily communist rags have the same level of journalistic prudence as our own news outlets here in the States. Continue reading
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Tags: Boston Globe, Boston.com, Brietbart.com, Fake News, Issue 15.13, Kim Jong Un, Paul Krugman, Prudent Investor, The Daily Currant, The Onion, Washington Post
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GRUMPY YOUNG MAN: BIAS, BIAS EVERYWHERE
The reader is left to assume they know what they’re talking about, because they’re “official,” despite the fact that this “official” could be anyone. Continue reading
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NEWS TO US: #JUSTICE FOR AARON SWARTZ
What’s more clear is that such any effort would have to face the will of a public, which increasingly treasures free access to information—as well as the warriors, like Swartz, who fight to make it free. Continue reading
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NEWS TO US: NO PAYMENT REQUIRED
Strike Debt and the Rolling Jubilee aim to create a debtor’s movement. Continue reading
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Tags: 99, Andrew Ross, Debt, Debt Resistors' Operations Manual, Issue 14.50, Jubilee, Loans, News To Us, Occupy Wall Street, Rolling Jubilee, Strike Debt
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NEWS TO US: UNMANNEDSLAUGHTER
Study highlights drone program’s civilian casualties. Continue reading
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Tags: Bush, Drones, FATA, Issue 14.45, Living Under Drones, New York Times, News To Us, Obama, Pakistan, Terrorism
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Tags: Chicago Teachers' Union, Gary Bettman, Issue 14.42, Janitors, News To Us, NFL, NFLRA, NHL, NHLPA, organized labor, Rahm Emmanuel, replacement refs, SEIU Local 615, Unions
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DEFEND YOURSELF: KEVIN SMITH
“We all know how to tell a story. Even the most wallflower-ish of us has that back pocket story, to whip out like our biggest cock at the moment we need to in mixed company, when the eye of Sauron falls on you and suddenly there’s a quiet in the room and people look at you and you have to come forward with something or you look like a dick with nothing to say…” Continue reading
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