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Monday, November 10

The apocalypse is here: Danny Williams says something nice about S. J. Harper

by DavidAkin on Mon 10 Nov 2008 11:26 PM EST

For the last couple of years, Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Wiliams has derisively referred to Prime Minister Stephen J. Harper as "Steve". But today, Williams referred to Harper only as the prime minister and said the time for partisan politics is over. "In times like this, in times of crisis, in times of a serious situation in this country, it's not the time for parochial issues or individual jurisdictional issues. So my message in there was quite strong: It's one of co-operation and it's important to put a united front and solidarity for the people of Canada to be working together to get through this. If we're divided in that room, then that's going to destroy confidence in the Canadian public ...

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Obama who?

by DavidAkin on Mon 10 Nov 2008 10:30 PM EST

The Terrell (Texas) Tribune did not -- I repeat, did not -- run a story on November 5 reporting on the first black man to ever win the presidency of the United States.... But on the day of the election, November 4, the paper's big story was about Republican candidate John McCain.

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