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First Snapshots from the First Obama WH Correspondents' Dinner (Photos)

Scott Shrake | Posted 06.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Warren Buffett, Arianna Huffington, Stevie Wonder, Todd Palin, David Corn, Will Arnett, David Brock, Glenn Close, White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, Colin Powell, Kyle MacLachlan, Washington DC, Richard Belzer, Christian Slater, Keith Olbermann, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Jason Bateman, Whoopi Goldberg, Chris Matthews, David Shuster, David Gregory, David Axelrod, Michael Steele, Rick Schroeder, Amy Poehler, Donald Rumsfeld, Media News

The mix of Beltway media personalities and Hollywood types was jarring but fun.

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What if Instead of the Nuremberg Trials There Was Only a Truth Commission?

Jeremy Scahill | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics

As some liberals make the case against a Special Prosecutor, the lawyers who fought for the release of the torture memos push back and explain why prosecutions are the only response.

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David Corn: Special Prosecutor's Job Is Not To Expose Wrongdoing

Mother Jones | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: David Corn, Bush Administration Torture, Patrick Fitzgerald, Special Prosecutor, Torture Prosecution, Truth Commission, Guantanamo Torture, CIA Torture, Moveon Special Prosecutor, Torture Memos, Bush Torture Memos, Torture, Politics News

The other day I ran into a Democratic member of the House of Representatives, and this person noted that he fancied the idea of appointing a special p...

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Chris Matthews Eviscerates Neocon Frank Gaffney: "4,000 People Are Dead Because Of The Way You Feel" (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 01.16.2009 | Media

Read More: David Corn, Video, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Frank Gaffney, Hardball, Chris Matthews, Dick Cheney, Media News

Chris Matthews revisited the decision to go to war with Iraq Tuesday night on "Hardball," hosting neocon hawk Frank Gaffney and Mother Jones' David Co...

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Gretchen Morgenson Takes a Scab Off Wall Street

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 11.27.2008 | Business

Read More: Phil Gramm, Barack Obama, Economy, Derivatives, Financial Crisis, Business, Accounting, Wall Street, Morgenson, John McCain, David Corn, Business News

These economic notes are consistent with the conviction that Barack should steer clear of advisers who were taken in by, or complicit in, the rape of regulation of the last decade.

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McCain Undone By Affect And Temperament
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The Media Consortium | Posted 11.16.2008 | Home

Read More: Taxes, Abortion, David Corn, Dana Goldstein, Joe the Plumber, Presidential Debate, John McCain, Don Hazen, Emily Douglas, Mother Jones, Laura Rozen, The Progressive, The Economy, Laura McClure, The Nation, #debate08, War and Piece, Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Barack Obama, Alternet, RH Reality Check, Elizabeth Gettelman, Acorn, Ezra Klein, Ari Melber, Nick Baumann, Ruth Conniff, William Ayers, Final Presidential Debate, The American Prospect, 2008 Presidential Campaign, Jonathan Stein, Home News

Special Debate Edition In the much-anticipated final presidential debate of the 2008 campaign season, the man who landed the greatest number of punch...

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McCain Fails to Vanquish "That One" in Debate
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The Media Consortium | Posted 11.08.2008 | Home

McCain not only pointed his finger angrily at his opponent, but chose to refer to a black man in a way that omitted any reference to his humanity. Even if that was not his intention, it was not a particularly deft move.

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Live From Denver: LiveBlogging The HuffPost Oasis

Verena von Pfetten | Posted 09.24.2008 | Living

Read More: Pangea Organics, Huffpost Oasis Liveblog, Dnc, Huffington Post Oasis, Huffington Post Dnc, Laurie David, Huffpost Oasis Denver, Smoothie Recipies, Smoothies, Huffpost Dnc, Arianna Huffington, David Carr, Don Hazen, David Corn, HuffPost Oasis, Living News

Greetings from Denver! Your friendly HuffPost Living Editor is here to keep you posted on all the happenings at this fine Oasis of ours, including visitor commentary and VIP interviews with David Carr, Laurie David, and Don Hazen.

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McCain Campaign Press Calls: An Investigation

Gabriel Beltrone | Posted 07.30.2008 | Home

Intrigued by David Corn's suspicion that the McCain campaign was screening reporters, we decided to dig into our archive of calls and see if there was in fact a pattern of cherry-picking favoritism.

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HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson's Resignation -- A Window Into Bush Administration's Corruption, Indifference, and Incompetence

Peter Dreier | Posted 04.10.2008 | Home

Read More: No Child Left Behind, Kellog Brown & Root, Resignations Bush Administration, Political Hacks Bush, Bush Administration Scandals, Government Mismanagement Bush, Crony Capitalism, Post-Katrina Louisiana, HUD Alphonso Jackson, Weeklyi Standard, Low-Income Housing Programs, Bush Administration Poverty Policy, Fluor Corporation, Dick Cheney, Bush Administration Poor People, American Enterprise Institute, Regulations Cutbacks Bush, Bechtel, George Bush Corruption, Katrina Corruption, Iraq War Bush Companies, Bush Administration Poverty, Iraq War Bush Cronies, Grover Norquist, Lies of George W. Bush, No-Bid Government Contracts, George Bush Incompetence, Halliburton Bush, David Corn, Health and Safety Regulations Bush, Heritage Foundation, Cato Institute, Conservatives Political Theory, George Bush Class Warfare, Halliburton, Post-Katrina Reconstruction, Military Spending Bush, Valerie Plame, HUD Resignation, HUD Secretary, Lewis Scooter Libby, Bush Economy, Saddam Hussein, Conservatives Government, Low-Income Housing Program Cuts, Political Appointees Bush, Bush Administration Low-Income, Alberto Gonzales, William Kristol, Americans for Tax Reform, Home News

The involuntary resignation of HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson this week provides an opportunity to underscore and distinguish the three major failings of the Bush administration.

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