From the monthly archives:

September 2006

17 square miles of logic free environment! Freedom First!
Via YouTube, the Senator continues to offer non-denials and homespun observations.

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Conrad Burns certainly isn’t subtle, is he? In a response to a question posed by the Billings Gazette, Conrad has this to say:
Butte has made the transition from a town dependent on natural resources to a place where good-paying jobs are being created. Look at companies like Resodyn and MSE that are now doing cutting-edge [...]

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You know the old story about how people who heard the Kennedy-Nixon debate on radio thought Nixon won, while those who watched it thought Kennedy did?
Conrad Burns got his ass handed to him both ways.
Via YouTube, The Butte Debate:

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Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Part 7

Update: This playlist might be the easiest way to [...]

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There’s been a lot of talk in the Montana blogs about the nature of the corporate sponsorship of the Butte debate last night. Touchstone led off the discussion, and Shane followed up with some great details about the connection between Burns and the Resodyn corporation. Apparently, in exchange for their ’sponsorship’ of the debate, this [...]

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There’s a great line in the 1989 film “Say Anything,” when the protagonist Lloyd Dobler tells his friends, “If you start out depressed, everything is kind of a pleasant surprise.” It’s a lesson I wish I could learn in the context of the Montana media’s coverage of the Senate race. Every time I read a [...]

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