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1. October 3, 2012 06:40 PM

   Forbes’s myth of the Reagan boom

   A columnist's misleading economic history

   By Ryan Chittum

   Peter Ferrara, currently of the climate-change denying Heartland Institute and formerly of Jack Abramoff's payroll and the Reagan and Bush I administrations, writes for Forbes that Mitt Romney will cut middle class taxes, no matter what Barack Obama's attack ads say. Maybe so, but since Romney's plan is mathematically impossible, the candidate doesn't get the benefit of the doubt. Romney's...

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2. September 11, 2012 12:32 PM

   Homicide Watch revs back up

   Kickstarter cash in hand, the site will restart this fall as a student-reporting project

   By Brent Cunningham

   College students who want to learn crime reporting, 21st-century style, from two pioneers of the genre should get their résumés to laura@homicidewatch.org pronto. That would be Laura Amico, of course, who with her husband, Chris, built Homicide Watch DC into a startup sensation in the nation’s capital, and then watched nervously as it nearly fell apart last summer when they...

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3. February 8, 2011 12:53 PM

   Politico, Heal Thyself

   The first step to recovery is acknowledging you have a problem

   By Joel Meares

   Kudos to John F. Harris and Jim VandeHei for their narrative-dissecting essay, “How Obama plays media like a fiddle.” In the piece published yesterday, Politico’s editor-in-chief and executive editor argue that the “turnaround” President Obama has managed to (seemingly) orchestrate since the Democrats’ midterms “shellacking,” says more about the Beltway media than it does about the commander-in-chief. The bottom line...

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