Achenblog: March 22, 2009 - March 28, 2009
Spring Break
The view from the balcony. I could get used to this. OK, I'm planning my retirement now. [Or are others already doing that for me? Don't answer that.]...
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Joel Achenbach
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March 28, 2009; 9:34 AM ET |
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Newspapers Without Words
[Bulletin: We're off on vacation for a couple of days -- Spring Break!!! -- so any blogging will be sporadic at best. Back in the groove on Monday.] I am loathe to criticize the hard work of colleagues in...
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Joel Achenbach
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March 26, 2009; 8:03 AM ET |
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The Professor President
After Obama's presser, I clicked on Fox News, where Bill O'Reilly and Karl Rove were huffing and sniffing and snarling and wheezing, emphatically unimpressed by the president's performance. Fox needs to go with a different team there. The double...
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Joel Achenbach
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March 25, 2009; 7:06 AM ET |
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I'm Ready to Invest
Okay, I'm ready to put my money out there, like a good patriot, to buy up one of those thingamabobs laced with toxic, malodorous, mephitic assets. I'm ready to put my money where my revulsion is. Tim Geithner wants...
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Joel Achenbach
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March 24, 2009; 8:09 AM ET |
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Obama the Decider
First, that "swing set." Newly installed on the White House lawn, bristling with accessories, the swing set -- really more of an amusement park -- stole the show when Obama's interview aired on "60 minutes" last night. The president...
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Joel Achenbach
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March 23, 2009; 7:44 AM ET |
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Outrage Week in the Capital
[My story in today's paper.] History will record the third week of March 2009 as Outrage Week in Washington. The initial outrage outbreak followed revelations of million-dollar bonuses at bailout beneficiary American International Group. Like a spring fever, outrage...
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Joel Achenbach
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March 22, 2009; 8:32 AM ET |
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