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Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh Tribune Review

November 4, 2009 - 07:03 am
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The Trib Does It Again. With A Twist

By dayvoe@gmail.com (Dayvoe)

This week's Midweek Briefing:
Newsmax.com's Chris Ruddy says what a growing number of War on Terror watchers are saying -- it's time to reduce our troop presence in Afghanistan. And he favors a plan put forth by Vice President Joe Biden "that involves keeping a smaller force (there) and focusing it on counterterrorism," especially against those nasty al-Qaida cells in neighboring Pakistan. It's likely the best way to better prepare us to handle the growing Iranian threat.
Same old same old. Newsmax is partially owned by Richard Mellon Scaife, owner of the Pittsburgh Tribune Review.

Want proof? In an article from October 2008 at the

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November 3, 2009 - 06:42 am
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Tribune Review. Again

By dayvoe@gmail.com (Dayvoe)

From today's "Tuesday Takes" we find:
The Allegheny Institute's Jake Haulk reminds that because Pittsburgh largely was bypassed by the national employment growth of the last decade, it did not have the private-sector housing and commercial building booms that went bust in other parts of the country. "But that does not mean the city should try to avoid strong growth in the future," he says.

Mr. Haulk cautions, however, that continuing problems with the city school district and basic city governance issues -- along with an "uninviting business climate" -- mean only "anemic" economic gains are on the horizon. Bottom line: Mediocrity does not a renaissance make.

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July 15, 2009 - 06:18 am
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Fact-Checking The Trib. Again.

By dayvoe@gmail.com (Dayvoe)

In an editorial today, the editorial board at the Pittsburgh Tribune Review writes:

Attorney General Eric Holder has renewed rattling his saber about investigating the Bush administration's torture policy. Whether that's a trial balloon, as even some Democrats suggest, is not clear. But in any event, it's actually Mr. Holder who should be the subject of an investigation.

In a stunning move, Holder's Justice Department decided not to pursue the most serious charges against members of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. They were accused of intimidating voters at a Philadelphia polling place on Nov. 4, 2008.

The editorial quotes from

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July 6, 2009 - 07:17 pm
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The Trib vs The P-G

By dayvoe@gmail.com (Dayvoe)

Yesterday, Richard Mellon Scaife's editorial board at the Pittsburgh Tribune Review got whipped themselves into a lather over something Dennis Roddy wrote at the P-G.

But curiously, they didn't mention Roddy by name. Nor did they ever actually get around to say that anything Roddy wrote was, you know, wrong.

AND they left out a big big BIG part of the story - and a hat tip to "Referee" over at the voyforum for pointing it out.

First Roddy:

A committee organized to welcome the world to Pittsburgh for the September G-20 economic summit has received a donation from a foundation that has, in the past, given millions of dollars to anti-immigration organizations including two listed as hate groups.

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