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The Los Angeles Times Review of “Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned”

              http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/books/la-ca-john-farrell-20110626,0,4503692.story                            

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Watch Jack on Morning Joe, discussing Clarence Darrow with Jon Meacham and the gang

  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036789/#43393077

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Politico: John Edwards Could Learn From Clarence Darrow

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0611/56287.html

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Teixeira, Sabathia, Burnett and the Yankees’ Shatner Moment

The Yankees had their William Shatner moment today. Continue reading

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Parables, snakes, scorpions and good deeds

By Robert Schlesinger I’m big on similes, metaphors and the like. One of my favorites involves, depending on the telling, a good Samaritan and a poisonous creature of some sort — a snake, a scorpion, what have you. The serpent … Continue reading

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Fox News’ Shep Smith … My New Hero?

By Robert Schlesinger I might be developing a journo-crush on Shepard Smith. Here’s his latest act of professional heroism (which could only be improved upon by dismissing the notion of the “mainstream media” as the absurd artificial construct that it … Continue reading

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President-elect Obama’s First Press Conference

By Bree Hocking President-elect Obama’s first press conference just wrapped up, and I’m still reeling. I could understand everything he said.

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Week in Review: “The Mac is Back” and Other Tales from the Final Days of the ’08 Hustings

By Bree Hocking What a long strange trip it’s been — and I’m just talking about the final week of the 2008 presidential campaign. As the “year of living on the edge of our seats” (to quote a recent New York Times … Continue reading

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The “W.” Review: Of the Pointy-headed and the Privileged

By Bree Hocking This is cross-posted. If you are among the 25 percent of Americans who still approve of President Bush’s performance, Oliver Stone’s “W.” may not be a film for you. That said, the remaining portion of the U.S. population may leave … Continue reading

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Palin as President

By Bree Hocking There are several things wrong with this picture. Can you spot them? It’s interactive, so click away.

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