WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Day We Burned Ole DC Down? It was today, actually. But if this was big news 204 years ago, when the fire was actually lit by the Royal Marines and sundry British Army regiments – revenge for the Americans burning down York, now part of Toronto,
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Eclectic Lip: Obama regains “Eye of the Tiger” in 2nd Presidential Debate
I missed the first Presidential Debate last week, but gathered from the chatter that Mitt Romney stole a round from a woefully-underprepared President Obama. The commentary gave the sense that Obama prepared for the event in the way Apollo Creed prepared for the fight in the first Rocky movie. As
Continue readingAlberta Diary: All hands to Damage Control! Edmonton Journal tips east-end printing press over the side
Some of the Edmonton Journal’s printers at work in the newspaper’s Eastgate printing plant, which will be shuttered next year, as described by Journal Publisher John Connelly, who is pictured below. So much for the power of the press. As first reported in this space on Oct. 10, 2010, the
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