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Date: September 24th, 2006

WaPo still can’t resist spinning toward the Left

24 September, 2006 (11:06) | Politics, The Media | By: ricjames

Dan Balz at the Washington Post has a story on the front page of today’s edition titled, “Both Parties Sensing Tighter House Races.” This title comes from the fact that Republican chances in November aren’t seen to be as dire as the Dems and the MSM have been gleefully predicting for these past several months. [...]

“Well, hang on a second.” Hamas suddenly “serious” about coalition talks

24 September, 2006 (10:54) | GWOT, Politics | By: ricjames

After cutting Palestinian President Abbas’ legs out from under him by categorically refusing to participate in a government that would recognize Israel, Abbas admitted to the international community that his attempts to set up a unity government were “back to zero.” By that he meant that there was no agreement at all – not even [...]

How many reporters does it take…?

24 September, 2006 (07:07) | GWOT, The Media | By: ricjames

…to present a biased view of a war zone? Well, let’s set that aside for a moment and find out how many new reporters you think – based on the coverage coming out of Iraq – are embedded with Coalition forces there? Did you guess more than 9? If so, you’re wrong. In a country [...]

More exploding laptops. 3rd party batteries at blame?

24 September, 2006 (07:02) | Technology | By: ricjames

Over at Pajamas Media I took note of this link to a UK Linux group where a discussion of an exploding laptop event is posted.  Alan was on the other side of the room from the laptop. I was elsewhere. He yelled out, I ambled towards the room in my own good time, and then [...]