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Krugman On The Big Con
Columnist Paul Krugman on Monday wrote that he did something highly risky: He ate a salad. We are well familiar with the e. coli contamination of lettuce and spinach, and the more recent cases of pet food contamination. But Krugman, following on the heels of...
Weekend Watchdog:Letting Newt Slither Away
Once again, the Sunday shows go 0 for 3 on our Weekend Watchdog questions. Here's the questions we were hoping to get answered. • For Newt Gingrich (NBC's Meet The Press): You're one of the intellectual architects of the current foreign policy strategy in the...
Weekend Watchdog:Letting Newt Slither Away
Once again, the Sunday shows go 0 for 3 on our Weekend Watchdog questions. Here's the questions we were hoping to get answered. • For Newt Gingrich (NBC's Meet The Press): You're one of the intellectual architects of the current foreign policy strategy in the...
Weekend Watchdog:Letting Newt Slither Away
Once again, the Sunday shows go 0 for 3 on our Weekend Watchdog questions. Here's the questions we were hoping to get answered. • For Newt Gingrich (NBC's Meet The Press): You're one of the intellectual architects of the current foreign policy strategy in the...
Weekend Watchdog:Letting Newt Slither Away
Once again, the Sunday shows go 0 for 3 on our Weekend Watchdog questions. Here's the questions we were hoping to get answered. • For Newt Gingrich (NBC's Meet The Press): You're one of the intellectual architects of the current foreign policy strategy in the...
Weekend Watchdog Wrap-Up
UPDATE: Listen to the Weekend Watchdog segment from yesterday's "Seder on Sundays" Air America Radio show. Once again, the Sunday shows go 0 for 3 on our Weekend Watchdog questions. On NBC's Meet The Press, die-hard Iraq war supporter Newt Gingrich was not asked about...
Weekend Watchdog
Every Friday in our Weekend Watchdog feature, we post suggested questions for scheduled Sunday guests. You can add your own questions in the comment thread. We'll also include contact information for the shows, so we can let them know what their viewers want asked....
New Energy for America
Confronted with the Iraq War, Hurricane Katrina, rising gas prices and the "inconvenient truth" of global warming, Americans are looking for leadership on energy independence and the threat posed by catastrophic climate change. Even George Bush, Big Oil's pocketed...
The $21 question
Do you know how you could eat on just $21 a week? This week, you may have heard about the four members of Congress who have decided to try living on the amount of food they could buy with $21, the average weekly Food Stamp program allotment. One of the members,...
Speaking of Bad Compromises...
...Congressional leaders tried to cut a deal with the White House on the Iraq bill, offering President Bush the ability to waive -- effectively, ignore -- timetables to redeploy combat troops out of Iraq. The White House rejected the deal as not being a big enough...
