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Presidential politics If Fox reports it, it must be so, right?

Posted by Max Brantley on Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 9:13 AM

        
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Saturday, November 10, 2012

Presidential politics If Fox reports it, it must be so, right?

Posted by Max Brantley on Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 9:13 AM

Comments (24)

More by Max Brantley

News conference this morning. Fox 16's first summary says that some of the people forced out of their homes by the deluge of heavy Canadian tar sands from the ruptured Exxon Mobil Pegasus pipeline could return home today.

Fayetteville District Judge Rudy Moore Jr. died this morning of complications from cancer. He was 69.

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Re: Mark Darr: "looks like they've done a good job" on Mayflower cleanup

Re: Jury in Hastings trial seated

Re: Jury in Hastings trial seated

Little Rock School Board member Dianne Curry, who is running for lieutenant governor, said that current Lieutenant Governor Mark Darr was "using the misery of the people, the residents of Mayflower, Arkansas, to garner feel good press."

Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen, injured in a bicycle accident last week near his home, sent me an update this morning from his iPad.

Josh Duggar — the eldest child of Michelle and Jim Bob — announced last night on Twitter that he's taken a job as the Executive Director of FRC Action, the Family Research Council's lobbying arm.

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We noted yesterday that, as Republicans lob attacks on Planned Parenthood, Insurance Commissioner Jay Bradford met with an official from the group on Friday to discuss their application to participate in the Affordable Care Act's "guides" program.

Mike Huckabee, who left Arkansas, where he built the platform for his media success and which, incidentally, has an income tax, is putting down expensive roots in a beach development in Walton County, Fla., east of Destin — a $3 million home.

Public for the first time, the woman who married Damien Echols discusses their relationship

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