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Vicki McClure Davidson | January 20, 2012

  For days now, we’ve heard that ABC News has been swinging back and forth on airing an interview with former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich’s ex-wife Marianne. Ultimately, they decided to go with it (it’s ratings, dontcha know, forget about ethics or privacy or any of that rot when a conservative can be [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | December 7, 2011

  Ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich has been sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for trying to sell Barack Obama’s U.S. Senate seat and all his other law-breaking activities back in 2008. Blago was found guilty on multiple corruption charges back in June. Today’s sentencing is believed to be the harshest sentence ever imposed on an [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | December 2, 2011

  I meant to get to this double-standard story days ago, but fell behind with the Thanksgiving holidays. Band leader/drummer Questlove of The Roots is stunned — stunned, I tell you — that some viewers actually became angry that his band had played Queen’s “Fat Bottomed Girls” when Michelle Obama strolled across the “Late Night [...]

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