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4 opponents of Russian highway beaten
UPI - 4 days agoMOSCOW, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A local official in a city near Moscow is suspected of arranging the beating of an opponent of a highway project, Russian police said Wednesday. Three men have been detained on suspicion of organizing the attack, Ria Novos…
Read more >>Kay Hagan betrays key constituency
Daily Kos - 18th Dec 2010Sen. Kay Hagan is already running for Reelection in North Carolina for what she clearly sees as a tough hold in 2016. She will be a freshman senator running for Reelection for the first time -- the most vulnerable point for any elected official. …
Read more >>Pootie-Poot* Museum Opens in Russia
iOwnTheWorld.com - 17th Dec 2010from Oddity Central A museum centered on Russia’s Controversial president Prime Minister has been set up in Strelna, near Sankt Petersburg. Apparently, this small museum dedicated to Vladimir Putin is set up on one of the upper floors of L…
Read more >>Paladino, Cuomo hit key battleground -- the suburbs
theithacajournal.com - 27th Oct 2010WHITE PLAINS -- The suburbs of New York City are a prime Battleground this year in the race for Governor, and both Carl Paladino and Andrew Cuomo visited Westchester County on Tuesday to make a late push with suburban voters. Paladino, the Republi…
Read more >>EDITORIAL: Newsday endorses Cuomo for governor
Newsday - 24th Oct 2010
October 23, 2010 New Yorkers on Election Day will face a supremely important choice in deciding who should be the state's next Governor. Yet the truth is that they have hardly any choice at all. The Republican Candidate, Carl Paladino, is a Buff…
Read more >>Department of Unintended Consequences
Marginal Revolution - 28th Sep 2010Here's Stanley Fish : Commentators who explain smugly that ODonnells position on Masturbation (that it is a selfish, solitary act) is contradicted by her Ayn Rand-like attack on collectivism, or who wax self-righteous about Paladinos compar…
Read more >>A 'Salvage Operation' for New York Democrats?
National Review Online - 27th Sep 2010Readers send me articles like this one below from Nassau County, New York, and I say, “Pull out all the stops, GOP. You may never get a stronger wind at your back than there is this year.” 8. Seemingly out of the blue, the State Se…
Read more >>Well, at Least the Governor's Race Won't Be Boring
New York Magazine - 15th Sep 2010) Carl Paladino is not going to be New York's next Governor. Even if there weren't an Andrew Cuomo in the wings awaiting his coronation, Paladino would be an extremely problematic Candidate. But the Paladino pick also puts other state Republicans …
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