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Joni Balter's latest dollop of journalistic prowess and political insight thumbsucking is yesterday's column: "Cantwell's no Lieberman" Sen. Joe Lieberman, pro-war Democrat, got a deserved comeuppance in his primary loss to a well-heeled Democratic challenger.
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"If the ANC is worried about having to do 'thumbsucking' then they need only refer to the Joint Investigations Task Team Report, which was set up to investigate the arms deal and whose findings were accepted by the ANC," she said.
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Get ready for terms like "thumbsucking" and "podslurping," because it's a brave new world.
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By the end of the week, most experts forecast at least twelve katrillion thumbsucking "what does health care reform mean for X" pieces.
The Inevitable 'What Does Health Care Reform Mean for Climate Legislation' Post 2010
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Strategically applied Band-Aids as an anti-thumbsucking commitment device.
The Birth of Parentonomics: A Guest Post - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Strategically applied Band-Aids as an anti-thumbsucking commitment device.
The Birth of Parentonomics: A Guest Post - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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In addition to the thumbsucking story, there was the one about the girl who played with matches and burned to ashes right in front of her weeping cats.
Reissuing a Classic... or Not Editorial Anonymous 2009
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Mantashe said the party's National Executive Committee (NEC) wanted the report because "we don't want to do thumbsucking".
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Robert Novak is a reporting columnist, not a thumbsucking columnist, dammit.
Rachel Sklar: Russert Watch: Biden, Newt, Novak and World War III 2008
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But according to the latest Quinnipiac poll of Connecticut voters: "Ned Lamont's Democratic primary win was based on a very small percentage of voters statewide" and Sen. Joseph Lieberman, running as an independent, gets 53 percent of likely voters, with 41 percent for Democratic primary winner Ned Lamont and 4 percent for Republican Alan Schlesinger We'll see how well Balter's analysis thumbsucking holds up on November 7.
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