New York Post and New York Daily News uncover only real news in Christie report

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Thursday March 27, 2014 · 7:56 PM PDT

2014/03/27 · 19:56

Most of the news media are going with some variation of: What a surprise! Gov. Chris Christie's friends and hand-picked investigators found that the governor did no wrong in Bridgegate,

Leave it to the New York Post and the New York Daily News to find the new thing we learned from the report.

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Friday January 10, 2014 · 6:55 PM PST

2014/01/10 · 18:55

There seems to be another angle reporters are hinting at in news coverage of Gov. Chris Christie's Bridgegate scandal. It's not as serious as abuse of power and holding up of ambulances, school buses, and commuters. Read the following quotes and see if you're thinking what I'm thinking.

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Tuesday November 06, 2012 · 9:19 PM PST

2012/11/06 · 21:19

For a look into the mind of the reelection denialists, one need go no farther than the Twitter feed of @realDonaldTrump.

Follow past the orange squiggle.

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Tuesday October 30, 2012 · 10:32 PM PDT

2012/10/30 · 22:32

I just had to take a break from election and hurricane news and ran across this.

Island of Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell is the story of a young Native American woman who becomes stranded on one of the Channel Islands off the coast of Southern California and lives there by herself for almost 20 years. The story is familiar to two generations of California schoolchildren (and possibly those in other states, I don't know).

What many people don't realize is that the story is based on that of a real person. And now there may be physical evidence, too.

More after the orange squiggle.

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Monday March 09, 2009 · 7:21 PM PDT

2009/03/09 · 19:21

Washington Post columnist Harold Meyerson returned to his California stomping grounds to report in the Los Angeles Times that in the presidential election last year, "McCain carried just 11 of the state's 19 Republican districts .... Obama carried all 34 Democratic districts and eight Republican ones." I decided to take a look at those eight Republican districts to see what we can glean from them for the 2010 midterms.

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Monday February 16, 2009 · 11:04 AM PST

2009/02/16 · 11:04

Rutherford B. Hayes (president 1877-1881), when he is remembered at all, is known for his contentious election in 1876, which was finally decided by a Congressional commission after he agreed to end Reconstruction. This ignoble compromise meant that millions of African-American former slaves would be denied their full liberties for decades to come.

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Friday January 02, 2009 · 10:12 AM PST

2009/01/02 · 10:12

Like many papers around the country, the San Jose Mercury News published its top 10 stories of the year just past. Imagine my surprise when I got down to number 10:

Nancy Pelosi elected House speaker. On Jan. 3, 2008, something happened that had never happened in the 219-year history of the House of Representatives: Lawmakers addressed their leader as "Madam Speaker." San Francisco's Nancy Pelosi, the daughter of a Baltimore mayor and mother of five, defeated Republican John Boehner for the top House post, turning the lower chamber in a more liberal direction and becoming the highest-ranking woman in the history of U.S. government.

Writer Paul Rogers (or an editor) changed it in the online edition of the story:

On Jan. 3, 2007, something happened that had never occurred in the 219-year history of the House of Representatives: Lawmakers addressed their leader as "Madam Speaker." But despite the historic shift, Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic Congress struggled in 2008 to make their mark. ...

There you have it: the 9 1/2 top stories of 2008.

Worry, worry, worry

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Wednesday November 05, 2008 · 9:18 PM PST

2008/11/05 · 21:18

When the year started, I just wanted a Democrat -- any Democrat --
to get elected president. I would have taken any one of ours
against anyone from the other team. In the run-up to the California
primary, I seriously considered voting for Hillary Clinton or
John Edwards before I voted for Barack Obama.

It was a long haul waiting for him to get elected. (I didn't just
wait, however; I sent money and family members to the campaign.)

One of the polls here on the Daily Kos just before the election asked
readers how they were coping. I, along with a plurality, chose
"Worry, worry, worry." These are some of the things I worried about:

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What did you worry about most?

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What did you worry about most?

Democratic screw-ups

10 votes

Republican plots

21 votes

Incompetent and/or malign poll workers

3 votes

Other actors or events

3 votes

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Worry, worry, worry