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Daily Brushback: Attorney General on line 1

Today’s two-part question is for Orioles First Baseman Rafael Palmeiro. LP: Mr. Palmeiro, in sworn testimony before Congress in March you said “I have never used steroids. Period.” In responding to questions earlier today about your suspension for juicing, you slightly modifed your earlier position to assert that you have never “knowingly” used steroids. First question: can you explain to

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Clarification, please?

Bush: Rove has ‘my compete confidence’ despite leak Reuters Monday, August 1, 2005; 8:38 PM WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Bush on Monday declared “complete confidence” in his top political adviser, Karl Rove, despite his alleged role in leaking a covert CIA operative’s identity, according to an interview. (Story.) Ummm, “despite” or “because of”?

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The Brits and reality-based security: an interesting e-mail exchange with O-Ring

This showed up via e-mail a few minutes ago from my buddy O-Ring. O-Ring applauds the Bobbies, saying: “Finally, common sense rules in place of political correctness. Look at the last graf, and how high the official is who is quoted.” The graf in question reads thusly: British Transport Police have been targeting specific ethnic groups for “intelligence-led” stop-and-searches as

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Another star inducted into Asterisk Hall of Fame

Hunh. So how do you think this will affect the debate over whether Rafael Palmeiro belongs in the Hall o’ Fame? Rafael Palmeiro was suspended Monday for violating Major League Baseball’s steroids policy, nearly five months after telling Congress that “I have never used steroids. Period.” (Story.) Somebody was observing a few days ago that Raffy’s numbers jumped significantly the

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Pay0la

Sony Agrees to $10M ‘Payola’ Settlement 07.25.2005, 11:41 AM One of the nation’s biggest music companies, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, agreed Monday to pay $10 million and to stop paying radio station employees to feature its artists to settle an investigation by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. The agreement resulted from Spitzer’s investigation of suspected “pay for play” practices

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Boy Scout deaths: sad and strange

The deaths of four Boy Scout leaders at the annual jamboree in Virginia make for an incredibly sad story, to be sure, and nothing about this next comment should be taken as minimizing the tragedy. But: it’s been awhile since I was confronted with something that’s quite as ironic as four Boy Scout leaders electrocuting themselves while setting up a

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Yellow 7

It takes an incredible athlete to even ride the Tour de France. I can’t imagine what it would take to actually win one (although having the Discovery Channnel team around you would help). Especially after nearly dying with testicular cancer. And if I recall, nobody had ever won more than five. Today Lance Armstrong won his seventh Tour in a

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