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Slate Magazine - Oct 6, 2008
On Oct. 3, the McCain campaign released federal tax returns filed jointly by Todd and Sarah Palin for 2006 and 2007. Although Gov. Palin's salary raised the couple's adjusted gross income last year to $166,000—a big …
Slate Magazine - Sep 24, 2008
A five-color flyer from Jesse Jackson and his Rainbow PUSH Coalition (see below) invites readers to picket the U.S. Treasury department on Sept. 26 to protest the "Wall Street Crisis and the Federal Bail-Out." A …
Slate Magazine - Sep 22, 2008
The Boston-based advocacy group Campaign for A Commercial-Free Childhood is taking a victory lap for forcing Scholastic Inc., the world's largest publisher of children's books, to halt sales of popular Bratz titles …
Slate Magazine - Sep 19, 2008
Sarah Palin's First Dude refuses a subpoena from Alaska's state senate. [more ...]
Slate Magazine - Sep 17, 2008
On September 15, Lehman Brothers Holdings petitioned the U.S. Bankruptcy Court to allow the company to work out a plan under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code to repay $613 billion in debt (excerpts below and on …
Slate Magazine - Sep 11, 2008
On September 4 Earl Devaney, Inspector General for the Department of Interior, submitted three related reports (PDFs here, here and here) to Secretary Dirk Kempthorne detailing investigations of "more than a dozen …
Slate Magazine - Sep 1, 2008
On Sept. 1, Sarah Palin and her husband Todd issued a statement through the McCain campaign confirming that their 17 year-old daughter, Bristol, is five months pregnant. [more ...]
Slate Magazine - Aug 26, 2008
The Minnesota State Fair's large-animal birthing extravaganza. [more ...]
Slate Magazine - Aug 13, 2008
Everyone thought the lightning rod in Tropic Thunder would be Robert Downey, Jr.'s comic turn in blackface. Instead, the American Association of People with Disabilities, the National Down Syndrome Congress, the Arc …
Slate Magazine - May 31, 2008
On May 21, Alex Barton, age 5, was escorted out of his kindergarten classroom at Morningside Elementary in Port Lucie, Florida, by the local police department's "school resource officer." Alex, who is autistic, was …