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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
A new poll purports to have predicted the vote in Austin’s Place 4 city council runoff five days before the election even though the firm didn’t release the results until this week, days after the actual voting took place.
Further undermining the pollster’s case is his misstatement of the margin of ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
Cinco de Mayo celebrates Mexican Gen. Ignacio Zaragoza's victory over French invasion forces at Puebla in 1862, even though the locals sided with the invasion forces (not their own general), and the holiday was created in California (not Mexico) and is still ignored throughout that country ...
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Saturday, January 5th, 2008
Family Feud Rules (about 4:50 in):
What do we find most unsettling about this story?
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Wednesday, December 26th, 2007
The retirement of longtime Travis Co. District Attorney Ronnie Earle seems to have set off a stampede of candidates talking about replacing him. And that’s just among Earle’s staff.
An early front-runner, State District Judge Jeanne Meurer, is taking herself out of the race before it even starts. That ...
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
In and of itself, this story from the Sunday edition of Da Man, isn't much to write home about. Heck, normally the thought of Will Wynn in a cheerleader outfit would make us too sick to continue one wouldn't even make it all the way to the bottom of ...
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Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
Former Democrat and ex-Republican Matthew Dowd of Austin, who helped guide the Bush White House to election, re-election — and on in to Iraq — no longer wants to be in partisan politics, according to the New York Times blog.
Dowd has been hired by another recovering virgin, former ...
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
Was it an inadvertent layout? Or a conscience “secret” message?
Today’s local above-the-fold newspaper headline on a story about President Bush’s surprise drop-in to Al Asad Air Base in Iraq’s Anbar province read: “Bush jets into Iraq for show...”
Picking up the paper and peeking below the fold uncovered the rest ...
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