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Washington Times Sold For $1, Just Like Newsweek
Tweet Share on Facebook August 31, 2010 Comment (9)The Rev. Sun Myung Moon is regaining control of the Washington Times after allies of the South Korean spiritual leader agreed to acquire the paper for just $1 and assumption of most if its debts, according to an internal memo.
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Democrats Try to Make John Boehner Into Newt Gingrich
Tweet Share on Facebook August 31, 2010 Comment (4)After Whispers received nearly 30 Democratic E-mail press releases decrying House Minority Leader John Boehner's attack on the president's economic team this week, it was clear that the White House is trying to elevate the Republican's profile to where the outspoken Newt Gingrich's was in 1994. But GOP-ers say making Boehner this year's election bogeyman won't work.
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O'Keefe, Son Recovering From Alaska Plane Crash
Tweet Share on Facebook August 30, 2010 CommentSean O'Keefe, the Washington-based CEO of EADS North America who survived the August 9 Alaska plane crash that killed former Sen. Ted Stevens, is expected to leave intensive care in the next several days, according to a family spokesman.
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Rewriting History on Kennedy's Chappaquiddick Accident
Tweet Share on Facebook August 30, 2010 Comment (184)For many, the name Chappaquiddick conjures images of a drunken Sen. Edward Kennedy hitting on Mary Jo Kopechne in his Oldsmobile, losing control, and plunging into the water of Poucha Pond on Chappaquiddick Island, adjacent to Martha's Vineyard where President Obama was vacationing. Kopechne, a family friend, drowned; and Teddy fumbled for excuses about what happened.
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Zogby: Summer Sours For Obama
Tweet Share on Facebook August 27, 2010 Comment (10)Pollster John Zogby updates our weekly Obama Report Card with a grade on the president's performance. Zogby uses his polling, expert analysis and interaction with major players to come up with a grade and some comments that capture how he sees the president's week ending.
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If Murkowski Loses, Republican Leadership Could Be All Male
Tweet Share on Facebook August 27, 2010 Comment (6)Some Republican leaders are worried about the monolithic nature of GOP leadership in Congress—it is almost wholly composed of white men—a fear which the apparently impending defeat of Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, the Senate GOP conference secretary, would only exacerbate. If she loses, no woman or minority would hold a top Republican post in the next Congress.
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Goodbye Girl Marsha Mason Doesn't Trust Washington
Tweet Share on Facebook August 26, 2010 Comment (6)Washington's a good place to star in a Shakespeare play, but Goodbye Girl Marsha Mason doesn't have a lot of good to say about the city's main business: politics and media. "I find that there is a real problem in communication between what's going on in Washington and what's taking place in the rest of the country," she says.
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Election Day Shocker: 10 Percent Unemployment
Tweet Share on Facebook August 25, 2010 Comment (12)Here comes 10 percent unemployment, according to chief Moody's economist Mark Zandi. The analyst the White House likes to quote told a group of reporters today that the economy is recovering very slowly and that jobs will continue to be lost for months, leading to an unemployment rate of 10 percent as early as Election Day and no later than the end of the year.
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Tea Party Group Hit With Death Threats
Tweet Share on Facebook August 25, 2010 Comment (780)One of Washington's principal supporters of the Tea Party movement, former GOP Majority Leader Dick Armey's FreedomWorks, has been receiving death threats and profanity-laced phone calls as it gets involved in the fall elections. The number and intensity have reached such heights that the organization is leaving its downtown location near the FBI and moving to a high-security building near the U.S. Capitol.
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Approval Ratings Down, Obama Still Tops Biden, Clinton, McCain
Tweet Share on Facebook August 24, 2010 Comment (9)President Obama's popularity continues to tumble, but at least he'd still win today in a do-over of the 2008 presidential election, according to a new Washington Whispers poll.
