Robert Murray meets with Donald Trump
Hey, a lot of people don't know what LNG stands for! (Most of them, however, are not running for President)
Apparently CEO Robert Murray of Murray Energy met yesterday with Donald Trump. According to the energy trade paper SNL Financial (no, it's not Saturday Night Live), Murray believes that Trump is "all we got" and "the horse to ride."
As Taylor Kuykendall in the SNL article goes on to report:
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So much for ethics
A desperation editorial: "Shoe on Other Foot on 'War on Women'"
A meeting of World War II Women Airforce Service Pilots
(source - National Museum of the U.S. Air Force)
Invoking their favorite metaphor (shoe on other foot), this morning's Intelligencer editorial argues that the Obama administration along with Democrats, are guilty of a war on women. The editorial about honoring the . . .
Posted in: dumbest editorial awardintelligencer editorialliberalsmost unethical editorial awardobamawheeling newspaper ethics
The Intelligencer's anti-Hillary campaign moves into high gear (updated 5/22)
Saturday morning's Intelligencer previews their election coverage
Balance removed from an AP gun rights story
Donald Trump spoke to the National Rifle Association convention yesterday and this morning's Intelligencer used only the first 40% of the Associated Press story -- essentially a summary of Trump's anti-Clinton remarks to the group. What was dropped from the Intelligencer coverage . . .
Posted in: anti-clinton biascoalhillary clintonintelligencer headlinesmike myerwar on coalwheeling intelligencer
An important Ogden guideline for political cartoonists: you can offend the Prophet but don't offend the profit
In the aftermath of the attack last year on the offices of Charlie Hebdo for printing a political cartoon satirizing the Prophet Muhammad, one of our local Ogden "newspapers" followed up on it with a column by Mike Myer. As I noted at the time, the Myer column discussed the attack and then focused on the question of why . . .
A divorced-from-reality editorial
Another shoe on the wrong foot? It's the Intelligencer's excuse for more projection
From this morning's editorial in the Intelligencer:
Just a few weeks ago, Hillary Clinton and other Democrat Party leaders were chortling with glee at what they called disarray in the Republican Party. . . .
Funny how . . .
Posted in: hillary clintonintelligencer editorialrepublican presidential candidateswheeling intelligencer
Exit polls on the West Virginia Democratic presidential primary
Some interesting questions
Will Trump win big in West Virginia in November? It would appear so. From the ABC News exit poll:
West Virginia Democratic voters were among least liberal so far this year; fewer than half said they were liberals, vs. an average of 62 percent in previous Democratic contests. And in one last notable result, about a third in . . .
Posted in: bernie sandersdonald trumphilary clintonhillary clintonrepublicans vs. democratswv politics
Updating labor stories
More on the right-to-work challenge and Alpha Natural Resources
As teachers frequently remind students: "Please do your own work"
Did the WV legislature, in their rush (it was SB 1) to prove how anti-union they were, fail to change ALEC's right-to-work model legislation enough to make it constitutional? In the previous post I noted the AFL-CIO's decision to challenge the . . .
