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Weekend Watchdog

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Guest watchdog Rick Perlstein here, with a confession: I'm a politically junky of an unconventional sort. Specifically: I can't stand the Sunday political talk shows. I don't mean that, like many liberals, I watch them and shout angrily at the screen. I mean I don't watch them at all. The last episode of Meet the Press I saw was from 1966, three years before I was born. If you know that I'm a historian that sentence makes more sense. I saw it at the Museum of Broadcast Communications as part of the research for my next book, and the episode was a roundtable featuring Stokely Carmichael, Martin Luther King, and the NAACP's Roy Wilkins. more »

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Product Safety Chiefs' Industry-Paid Trips Raise Conflict-of-Interest Issue

IRS Investigating Whether Hedge Funds, Buyout Firms Are Abusing Tax Laws

Panel Says Army Failed in Properly Managing Billions in Contracts

Weapons Industry Dumps Republicans, Backs Hillary

Right On Plamegate

thenation.com — Now that it is clear that the White House outed a CIA agent for political gain, where's the apology?

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Politicized Voting Rights

alternet.org — The Justice Department's voting rights division has a pattern of favoring GOP constituencies.

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Feds Take Aim At Corruption By New Orleans Officials

Aide To Top Appropriations Republican Subpoenaed In Earmark Bribe Probe