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7:30 AM, Nov 28, 2011 • By MARK HEMINGWAY

Financial Times: "The eurozone really has only days to avoid collapse"

Wall Street Journal: "The Tax Mess Deepens"

Matthew Kaminski: "The New Tammany Hall"

The Hill: "Supreme Court hearing on Obama healthcare law sets up lobbying storm"

The Guardian: "Western nations 'used bullying tactics' at climate talks"

Outside the Beltway: Kimberly Webb Joyner, R.I.P.

3:32 PM, Jul 20, 2011 • By MICHAEL WARREN

An officer at the State Department awarded more than $52 million in contracts to a company owned by her husband and operated by her daughter, the Daily Caller reports:

Kathleen McGrade helped their company, Sterling Royale Group, win 43 federally funded contracts over the last few years.

11:00 AM, Sep 27, 2010 • By REUBEN F. JOHNSON

Kiev

There is a saying here in the Ukrainian capital: “The more I deal with the customs officers, the more I love the traffic police.”

Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton makes a phone call.

Sep 27, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 02 • By WILLIAM KRISTOL

House D.C. delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton left an interesting voicemail on a lobbyist’s answering machine a couple of weeks ago:

9:27 AM, Aug 20, 2010 • By DANIEL HALPER

Perhaps the most comprehensive account of the Rod Blagojevich trial comes from ... Taiwan's NMA News:

Michel Faulkner hopes to take down Charlie Rangel.

Apr 26, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 30 • By ELIZABETH POWERS

From my amateur vantage point there are three kinds of politi-cians. The first are the “process” types. They may have gone into politics for idealistic reasons or for the opportunities, but in the end, especially if they are long-serving, the process becomes the whole game, and they find themselves gobbled up by it. The result has been bigger and bigger government.

New York state government is a den of thieves.

Mar 22, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 26 • By FRED SIEGEL

New York governor David Paterson, beset by charges of witness tampering in the case of a close aide accused of assaulting an ex-girlfriend, has spoken of legalizing ultimate fighting as a revenue raiser to help close the state’s $8 billion plus budget gap. But New Yorkers looking for brawling entertainment need look no further than the Democratic caucus of the state senate where Paterson had been a member for 20 years.

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