Marilyn Monroe, Donald Rumsfield, and Dan Rather
By | April 27, 2006
$1200
Amount that Tony Zirkle, an Indiana congressional candidate, paid for an original copy of the Marilyn MonroePlayboyissue, so that he can destroy it at a press conference to prove that he’s tough on porn and sex-crime issues.
4
Number of times Dan Rather says he was audited during the Nixon administration, even though his finances were in order.
6
Number of military generals who have called for Donald Rumsfeld to resign.
“I am honored to serve as your representative in the US Congress. I think you’re an asshole.”
US Representative Jo Ann Emerson’s (R-MO) mailed response to a constituent. A legislative staffer is believed to have written the letter, which Emerson apparently signed without reading.
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- Blackballed
Turner might want to avoid hitching his fortunes to those of such utterly disreputable pols as former DC mayor Marion Barry, ex-Newark mayor Sharpe James, and Dianne Wilkerson.
- Bad moon rising on local papers
Anyone familiar with the plight of newspapers knows how we have entered an era in which fewer and fewer Americans read hard copy anymore (if they can actually read), and that the Web is the place to go.
- Expanding the cloak of secrecy
Make no mistake: the Bush administration is attempting to codify Nixonian secrecy as official constitutional doctrine.
- Brief cases
This article originally appeared in the August 19, 1986 issue of the Boston Phoenix.
- The pick of destiny
The Maine Senate has confirmed Democratic Governor John Baldacci’s nomination of Charles Dow of Winthrop for a District Court judgeship, despite Republican criticism of Dow’s lack of courtroom experience.
- How's Obama doing?
Politics, an old cliché holds, is the art of the possible. Achieving the possible is a matter of power. And in a media-saturated democracy, power flows to those with good poll numbers.
- Burn, baby, burn
The Phoenix opposed President Barack Obama's efforts to help Chicago win the 2016 Summer Olympics on the grounds that doing business with the International Olympic Committee is always bad news for the host community.
- Say it ain’t so, Cindy Sheehan
The best place to observe the masochistic tendencies of the American left these days is in San Francisco.
- Disillusioning reality
It took the United States four years to get out of Vietnam.
- The Mormonator
With the single-minded discipline and cold-blooded calculation of a cyborg, Mitt Romney is executing an aggressive campaign plan.
- Beacon Hill flux
“Style,” according to Alfred North Whitehead, “is the ultimate morality of the mind.”
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