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Today’s Ridiculous Charge from the Southside Crusader

June 9th, 2008 · 6 Comments

I’m starting to think Doug Hawkins has some sort of propaganda machine that turns out falsehoods every Monday.
But it’s just the thing to pick us up on a Monday. Hawkins claims in today’s e-mail newsletter that there’s a cover-up being perpetrated by the police and the Mayor. It’s all in this dramatic YouTube video that […]

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Tags: Doug Hawkins · Guns · Hype · Metro Council

More Crack Research from Hawkins

June 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

You gotta hand it to that crack research team over at the Doug Hawkins state Senate campaign (motto: Fear Everything, Trust Me). Hawkins says constituents out Dixie Highway sent him evidence that storing bombs is dangerous.
They combed the archives of the nation’s crime reports, and turned up a dead cat and some missing explosives that […]

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Tags: Doug Hawkins · Guns · Metro Council

So Who Stole the NRA Footage?

May 21st, 2008 · 1 Comment

This is not, as far as I can tell, an urban legend.
A crew of four people from an international peace and social justice movement obtained press credentials for last weekend’s National Rifle Association event. Cody Deeds, from the group’s Ohio chapter, was recording video from Oliver North’s appearance at the show.
Afterward, in a Q-and-A session, […]

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Tags: Guns · LMPD · Video

The Crazies at the NRA Shindig

May 16th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Ole Doug Hawkins must be in hog heaven down at the voter registration booth at the NRA Convention.
Karl Rove spoke for 21 minutes today, getting folks fired up for hatin’ Obama season this fall by insulting two groups — folks from San Francisco and Chicago, as Ryan Alessi points out in Pol Watchers.  Referring to […]

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Tags: Guns · Presidential Race 08

Journalists, Guns and Money

May 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment

A Fine Export: Used to be the Courier-Journal was a fertile training ground for journalists who went on to become national newsmen. There’s no better example than Howard Fineman, who had the political and environmental beat here in the late 1970s, when the paper truly covered the entire state. Now, he’s best known as Newseek’s […]

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