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Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize, Cy Young Awards

October 9th, 2009 · 3 Comments

BREAKING NEWS ITEM #1: President Barack Obama has been named the 2009 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,” despite the fact that the deadline for submitting nominations for the once-prestigious award was only 12 days into the 44th president’s term.

BREAKING NEWS ITEM #2: [...]

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Rudeness Precedes Racism at Obama Inauguration (Updated)

January 21st, 2009 · 9 Comments

The rudeness that greeted President George W. Bush and Pastor Rick Warren was surpassed only by the divisive flavor of Dr. Joseph Lowery’s closing prayer at yesterday’s inauguration of President Barack Obama.
While walking a tightrope of propriety and keeping his remarks less vile than those Rev. Jeremiah Wright might have delivered if given the opportunity, [...]

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Bomb Explodes in St. Louis Parking Garage! (Updated)

October 16th, 2008 · 5 Comments

KMOX-AM 1120 reported on air — but not on the station’s web site — this hour that a loud boom rocked the downtown area of a the St. Louis suburb of Clayton this morning after an explosive detonated on parking level of a high-rise office building at 190 Carondelet Plaza.  One man reportedly suffered [...]

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McCain Doesn’t Give a Damn About Bill Ayers

October 14th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Mark Reardon, host of The Mark Reardon Show on St. Louis radio station KMOX-AM 1120, interviewed John McCain yesterday and got quite a statement out of the Republican Party presidential nominee regarding Barack Obama and his relationship with unrepentant domestic terrorist Bill Ayers.
Asked whether he would make the relationship an issue during the third and [...]

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Some Favored Bailout Despite Misgivings

September 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Upon reading my last post, BAILOUT GOES BUST — NO PLAN B!, my friend Mark Reardon at KMOX-AM 1120 sent me a link to a video of his friend, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.), speaking on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives last week earlier today.
Congressman Ryan, it’s important to note, is the ranking [...]

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