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Thursday, June 18, 2009 12:00 AM

The Washington Post fires its best columnist. Why?

One of the rarest media commodities -- someone who criticizes Democrats "from the Left" -- just got rarer still.

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  • Thursday, June 18, 2009 12:45 PM

    The WashPost Death Rattle

    Fromkin was a sometimes brilliant writer with deep principles and always thoughtful...that the Post would chose to lose this indipendent voice while retaining the NeoCon booby twins of Kristol and Krauthiemer just show how far this great paper, and newspapers in general have fallen.

    It is a sad day for newspapers, But I know that it will not silence the necessary voice of Fromikin.

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