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I think Beltway-types were anticipating the Obama - Clinton photo op. Seriously, the first thing that went through my head when I saw this was: "burying the hatchet."
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Your Turn: Just Bo
BAGnewsNotes readers weigh in on Bob Staake's expansive and solitary Bo Obama cover.
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More Trials and Tribulations Of Administration’s Wall Street Posse
When I heard a major Wall Street private equity player -- as opposed to someone more directly connected to industry -- had become the point man in the GM takeover, I was was pretty confused. But then, shades of Milken, Icahn, Jacobs and Kerkorian, this is the culture that...
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Pecking Order
Given the terrific magnitude of the recession and the Wall Street meltdown, as well as the seriousness of the torture scandal, and the wide range of legal/constitutional liberty and ethics problems before the country, I regret the seating arrangement at Obama's first cabinet meeting.
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Hey Yoo
Besides the connection to "Watchmen," you can see the Bay Area is making a "marquee statement" about Mr. Yoo's moral authority to teach law.
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The Memos
Although physical documents are certainly not new or unique to the internets, the government's torture memos seem to have achieved a break-through, earning considerable recognition in their original form.
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Impenetrability
The image above is drawn from a TIME slide show of Adam Ferguson's photos, and does a convincing job of capturing -- almost exclusively through sequential, visual storytelling -- the almost futile task of American troops having any substantial impact in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley.
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The Sacred And The Profane
These photos emerged for me this week as defining images -- ones that actually have a larger resonance going forward. The first photo was taken at a GOP tax protest in Atlanta. The second came from Obama's "major speech" on the economy at Georgetown.
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Your Turn: Reading Matter
As the weekend's Obama-Chavez show continues, I invite your thoughts on the dynamics here.
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Hu Go, Prez!
(As compared to Bush) we see Obama and Hugo Chavez chating before the opening of the 5th Summit of the Americas in Port of Spain
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A Rather Troubling Newswire Image On The Day Obama Releases Bush Interrogation Memos
A Rather Troubling Newswire Image On The Day Obama Releases Bush Interrogation Memos
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If You Give A White House Parodist A Cookie…
If you thought Christopher Morris was moving away from the White House and political satire with the extinguishing of Bush and the Republicans -- look again!
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Women Protest (Men Answer) In Kabul
Not that they aren't strong enough on their own, but the images from yesterday's rare women's protest in Kabul are that much more powerful when compared to the "weak" tea protests that played out around the U.S. yesterday, as well.
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Underneath The Tea
What this "crest fallen" anti-tax/anti-Obama/anti-Government/anti-bailout/anti-(fill in the blank) tea-bag Lady Liberty captures for me is that Americans truly are hurting, angry and depressed ... and thus ripe for such cheap exploitation.
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"Resolving" Shaw, Chin And The BAGnewsNotes Mission
I want to thank the people at Live Books and their new "Resolve" blog for dedicating an extensive amount of space, time, thought and editing resource to examining our "journalism" here at BAGnewsNotes, and in particular, my collaboration with photographer Alan Chin.
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Franco, Apparently, Still Dead
There is just too much irony in this photo -- especially after yesterday's likely meaningless news a judicial panel awarded Franken the Minnesota Senate race ... again.
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Let’s Hear It For "The Prop Stylist"
Does this FORTUNE cover -- with out of work white-collar types holding hobo-style "Hire Me" signs -- seem offensive to you?
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