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AP Takes The Red Marker To Sarah Palin's "Going Rogue"

Pams House blend  Nov 14 09

Or should we say red CRAYON?

PALIN: Says she made frugality a point when traveling on state business as Alaska governor, asking "only" for reasonably priced rooms and not "often" going for the "high-end, robe-and-slippers" hotels.
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A $100 Million Conflict Of Interest

Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish  Nov 12 09

Greenwald trains his fire on Peter Galbraith: What Galbraith kept completely concealed all these years -- as he traipsed around advocating for Kurdish autonomy -- was that a company he formed in 2004 came to acquire a large stake in.
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Health insurance companies asking their employees to lobby Congress on health care reform

America Blog  Nov 12 09

Conflict of interest much? The nation's largest health insurance carrier is urging its employees to lobby the Senate against reform proposals that would hurt the firm's bottom line, according to copies of e-mails released Thursday by a liberal advocacy group.
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FOX Flashback: Greta Van Susteren shouldn't be casting stones

America Blog  Oct 21 09

I'm thinking of starting a new feature called "FOX Flashback," where we remember the outrageously unprofessional things FOX News and its hosts, both opinion and "news" hosts, have done over the years to prove that they're nothing more than the propaganda organ of the Teabagging wing of the Republican party.
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Congressional campaigns invest funds on Wall Street

America Blog  Oct 19 09

Kind of a conflict of interest: While it may seem unusual for members to invest their political contributions in the market, the practice is legal under current campaign laws.
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Arthur Levinson departs Google board amid FTC probe

EnGadget  Oct 12 09

We kind of doubt the departure of Genentech's former chief executive from Google's board of directors will close all of this out in the FTC's eyes, but if you were curious about the impact of said probe, here's your answer.
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Engadget Podcast 158 - 08.07.2009

EnGadget  Aug 07 09

The gang's all here, folks! Yes, it's been a rough couple weeks apart, but Josh, Paul, and Nilay have finally managed to reunite, and Engadget Podcast 158 is the happy result.
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Google's Eric Schmidt resigns from Apple board over "conflict of interest"

EnGadget  Aug 03 09

Should have seen this one coming, right? Google CEO Eric Schmidt has resigned from Apple's board today citing a conflict of interest.
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Evan Bayh's wife hauls in millions serving on corporate boards of companies including "nation's largest health insurance company"

America Blog  Jul 27 09

For Evan Bayh, the Senator from Indiana who formed his own Blue Dog caucus in the Senate, health care isn't just a policy issue, it's personal.
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Jon Gosselin's Other New Girlfriend QUITS!

Perez Hilton  Jul 23 09

Star rag Senior Reporter, Kate Major is dumb. Big time! The other Kate just resigned from the mag because she's doing the nasty with Jon Gosselin.
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WaPo cancels event selling powerbrokers, lobbyists access to its reporters for $25K and up

Pams House blend  Jul 03 09

Holy crap -- conflict of interest, please? For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post is offering lobbyists and association executives off-the-record, nonconfrontational access to "those powerful few" - Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and the paper's own reporters and editors.
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Oakland Park attackers appear in court

Topix Gay News  Jun 09 09

The two men accused of assaulting two gay men in separate attacks in April had their first appearance in front of a judge on May 28.
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