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Monday, October 25, 2010

The Slate dozen morning addition

Pro-Republican Groups Plan Campaign Blitz
Anonymously-funded Republican campaign groups have turned from "carpet-bombing" to a "sniper" strategy to take out key Democratic opponents and secure a Republican Congress.
Read original story in The New York Times | Monday, Oct. 25, 2010
NPR CEO Issues Mea Culpa for Williams Debacle
Vivian Schiller sent an apology to NPR colleagues for her handling of Juan Williams' firing, including dumping him over the phone.
Read original story in POLITICO | Monday, Oct. 25, 2010
Bailed Out Companies Back Republicans
Firms that received billions of dollars in government assistance are now backing critics of federal bailouts.
Read original story in The Washington Post | Monday, Oct. 25, 2010
Deadly Haiti Cholera Outbreak Slows
The number of new cases being reported is slowing, even as the disease claims hundreds of lives.
Read original story in BBC | Monday, Oct. 25, 2010
Google "Street View" Collected Personal Data Too
Google "Street View" cars also viewed complete emails and passwords via unprotected wireless networks as they surveyed the world's streets between 2006 and 2010.
Read original story in Reuters | Monday, Oct. 25, 2010
College Kids Meet Midterms with a Yawn
No matter how he tries, Barack Obama cannot transfer his charisma to Congressional candidates, who are failing to stir the enthusiasm of young voters.
Read original story in POLITICO | Monday, Oct. 25, 2010
Controversial Gitmo Trial Resumes
The trial of a Canadian accused of killing a marine in Afghanistan when he was a 15-year-old resumes today.
Read original story in AP | Monday, Oct. 25, 2010
Rescued Turtles Return to the Gulf of Mexico
Turtles that were plucked from the Gulf for safekeeping during the massive oil spill are now returning to life in the wild.
Read original story in The Los Angeles Times | Monday, Oct. 25, 2010
Iraqi Prime Minister Not Happy With Leak
Nouri al-Maliki worries opponents will use the documents against him as negotiations continue over the formation of a new government. The country's highest court has ordered lawmakers back to work.
Read original story in The Washington Post | Sunday, Oct. 24, 2010
Three Republican Candidates Spend $243 million in Campaigns
In a season of freely flowing money, these rich candidates are taking more cash out of their own pockets than even the biggest independent groups. None of them are ahead in the polls.
Read original story in Politico | Sunday, Oct. 24, 2010
WikiLeaks Founder Is Paranoid, Increasingly Alone
Some of Julian Assange's closest allies have turned their backs on him, saying that fame and notoriety have gotten the best of a man who now suffers from delusions of grandeur.
Read original story in The New York Times | Sunday, Oct. 24, 2010
"What the Hell Happened to Randy Quaid?"
As the award-winning actor and his wife ask for asylum in Canada for protection from "star whackers," the New York Post takes a look at how the couple has seemingly descended into madness.
Read original story in The New York Post | Sunday, Oct. 24, 2010

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Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Dave Weigel Has More Work Than Ever Now That He’s Joining Slate by Michael Triplet

Dave Weigel Has More Work Than Ever Now That He’s Joining Slate

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by Michael Triplett | 9:41 pm, July 27th, 2010

Weigel Defying the advice that it’s better to look for a job while employed, David Weigel is adding Slate to his growing list of jobs after resigning from theWashington Post at the beginning of the Journolist scandal.

In addition to his already announced work for MSNBC, Weigel is now under a one-year contact with WaPo’s corporate sibling Slate to be a political reporter and start a new politics blog, The Upshot’s Michael Calderone is reporting and Weigel confirmed in a tweet... http://www.mediaite.com/online/this-is-ready-dave-weigel-has-more-work-than-ever-now-that-hes-joining-slate/

Dave Weigel Has More Work Than Ever Now That He’s Joining Slate by Michael Triplet

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