Archive for the ‘Corruption’ Category
Sunday, July 20th, 2008
After a short conversation last night about Obama, I'm convinced now more than ever that he's only a variation on a consistent theme. Now, after a trip to Afghanistan, Obama is now trying to instill confidence in the constituency that considered his foreign relations experience nil. In a bid to ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
SAN ANTONIO - On the heels of AT&T's announcement last week that it is relocating its headquarters from San Antonio to "The Big D," as they idiotically like to call it here, Toyota today announced that they will shutter the brand spanking new production plant in San Antonio that went ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
SAN ANTONIO - The Express-News today reports that it has accepted the resignation of music writer Ramiro Burr after a lengthy investigation concluded that Burr had been publishing work for the paper that was, in fact, not his. A local writer, Douglas Shannon, reportedly came forward recently with allegations that ...
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
SAN ANTONIO - Vote, dammit.
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
SAN ANTONIO - In the wake of the release of his book indicting the Bush administration on its handling of Iraq and its propaganda campaign leading up to the invasion, Scott McClellan appeared on TV, radio, and everywhere else to say that his primary motivation in writing "What Happened" was ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
This is old news, but I just got burned by this today so I am posting. After getting my wallet stolen a couple weeks ago, you figure I would be more alert, but I guess not...
Internet domain name registrar Network Solutions is the subject of a class action suit filed ...
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
SAN ANTONIO - In what amounts to another modern day witch hunt, U.S. immigration officials last week arrested 905 undocumented immigrants in brazen sting operations conducted across Calif. In L.A. alone, 244 of those arrested are said to have "criminal records, ignored judges' orders or illegally reentered the country after ...
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
SAN ANTONIO - The manager of Blackrock's World Energy fund, Robin Batchelor, this week predicted oil prices to remain high well into the next decade, reports Britian's Financial Times.
The world's emerging economies, particularly China, are to blame for a rise in demand for oil. Batchelor suggested a continued increase in ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
SAN ANTONIO - As the death toll reached 100,000 in the Myanmar catasrophe, the U.S. this week assured the people of the military-ruled country that no U.S. government relief would reach the dying without explicit permission from the oppressive Myanmar government, according to AP.
"I cannot image(sic) us going in without ...
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2003
SAN ANTONIO - A little birdie tells Grande Mesa that the top editor at the San Antonio Express-News, Robert "Bob" Rivard, is cleaning house ridding the paper of moderate- and left-thinking columnists and replacing them with conformists.
The rumor also is that journalists at the Express-News are intimidated by Rivard.
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