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Published: April 04, 2007 10:50 am In Washington, a stain on sacred ground Richard Kerns Cumberland Times-News If peace is flowing like a river, my backyard sewer line is sorely ill at ease. To maintain a modicum of taste in this demented space, I'll be brief and discreet in addressing said subject de yuck. But as surely as a flush will flow downhill until it can't, at which point it will reverse course into one's basement, such a diversion is inevitable. For images of the past week, to say nothing of scents, were so searing as to permeate my very...

A Democrat won the Ohio governorship for the first time since 1986 as Rep. Ted Strickland easily defeated Republican Ken Blackwell in one of 36 races for states' top elected office. With 10 new governors guaranteed to come out of Tuesday's elections, state governments were in for their biggest shake-up in years _ one that had a chance of being even more tumultuous if Democrats managed to reverse years of Republican dominance. Strickland's win in Ohio was based on a statistical analysis of the vote from voter interviews conducted for The Associated Press by Edison Media Research and Mitofsky International....

Dinasour Media bias in action, here is how the story was posted yesterday by AP. Notice how AP edited out the actual QUOTES that DIRECTLY contradicted their spin lie and had the writer write the story interjected their own interpretation of what was said by the sources. Here is yesterdays AP story. Gen. Steven Blum, chief of the National Guard Bureau, said that "arguably" a day or so of response time was lost due to the absence of the Mississippi National Guard's 155th Infantry Brigade and Louisiana's 256th Infantry Brigade, each with thousands of troops in Iraq. Blum said that...

The broadcast TV networks and weekly news magazines favor John Kerry over George W. Bush, according to a new study released by the Center for Media and Public Affairs (CMPA). But the study also finds that Fox News Channel was far more negative towards Kerry than Bush. Evaluations of John Kerry were positive by a two-to-one margin, while evaluations of George W. Bush were over 60 percent negative • Among non-partisan sources, Kerry's evaluations were almost three-to-one positive; Bush's were over two-to-one negative. • Among the networks, the gap between the candidates was largest on NBC; the coverage was most...

It was a zippety do dah day for many folks Tuesday when indictments against three of Tom DeLay's lap dogs were announced. Let's face it. There's nothing much more entertaining than the prospect of Republicans going to jail. From cuff links to handcuffs: It's a fashion transition made in heaven, and it just doesn't get much better than that. Accused of taking money from corporations such as Cracker Barrel Old Country Store and Sears, Roebuck to help elect a Republican majority in the Legislature were John Colyandro, Jim Ellis and Warren Robold. Colyandro, the former executive director of Texans for...

Mark Glaser Posted: 2004-04-22 ...While people on the left and right can turn beet-red with anger on TV shows such as ABC's "This Week," CNN's "Crossfire" or Fox's "Hannity & Colmes," the Internet provides innumerable forums and political sites so anyone can fire off a torrent of rhetorical brickbats. The Web is the birthplace of "flamers" and "trolls," people who launch no-holds-barred attacks on others with opposing views. ...[ship]...But despite the rise of so much partisan noise, it's hard to say without a doubt that we're living in the most divisive time, or that the Net is to blame. Research...

http://65.54.246.250/cgi-bin/linkrd?_lang=EN&lah=08a2160b4c9755f15c02a02da59de858&lat=1078952563&hm___action=http%3a%2f%2fdata%2ebls%2egov%2fservlet%2fSurveyOutputServlet%3frequest_action%3dwh%26graph_name%3dLN_cpsbref3 Sorry for the lousy link. Isn't this intresting. The current Unemployment rate is withing .02 percet of where it was in March 1996! Hmm, wounder if we were hearing all this fearmongering and hysteria about Jobs in our "Objective News Media" in 1996? Perhaps a Feeper who is more technically proficent then I can email me with this graph reproduced in an Email. I am going to find a way to put this in a body of an email and sent it to every single news editor, publisher and TV News producer asking why this information is not being...