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March 24, 2011 The Solomon Scandals

99-cent ‘Solomon Scandals’ Kindle sale: Just through March 28

Update: The sale is still on through early April—Scandals’s rank went from the hundreds of thousands to 1K. I paid

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December 11, 2010 Media / The Solomon Scandals / Washington area life

Washington Post update: iPad app still shines, Sally Quinn gets honored, and I remember the darker side—the Post’s role in Gary Webb’s suicide

Do Ben Bradlee and other Washington Post luminaries actually use the iPad app they touted in one hoot of a

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December 6, 2010 Buying info / The Solomon Scandals

How to read ‘The Solomon Scandals’ instantly, via the Google eBookstore, on your PC, Mac, iPad, Android phone or other gizmo

The new Google eBookstore, a rival to the Kindle Store, didn’t disappoint me when I tried it just now. Books

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December 6, 2010 Politicians / The Solomon Scandals

Leonardo DiCaprio may convert to Judaism: Five reasons for President Obama to do likewise (satire alert)

Groucho Marx once said any club that would admit him wasn’t worth joining. Marx was Jewish, of course, as am

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November 13, 2010 Politicians / The Solomon Scandals / Washington area life

Out of ‘The Solomon Scandals’? Arrests of Prince George’s County exec and his wife—complete with $79.6K hidden in her underwear and perhaps $100K flushed down toilet

For The Solomon Scandals I created a fictitious Virginia county with fictitious crooks. Across the Potomac River in Maryland, I

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November 6, 2010 Jewish topics / Politicians / The Solomon Scandals

Blame Ayn Rand for Rand Paul and Clarence Thomas? Are politicians and judges what they read?

Are politicians and judges what they read? Senator-elect Rand Paul is a “big fan” of Ayn Rand, the ultimate novelist

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November 5, 2010 The Solomon Scandals

‘The Solomon Scandals’ gets a sexy new cover—with a photo from one of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’s favorites

What was Sy Solomon—the D.C. real estate tycoon in The Solomon Scandals—-doing on the book’s blue cover shown here? Picking

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November 3, 2010 Politicians / The Solomon Scandals

A few words of advice for Tea Party folks—from the author of a novel on Washington corruption

Now that so many Tea Party sympathizers are headed for public office, I can’t resist offering their followers a little

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September 16, 2010 Media / The Solomon Scandals / Washington area life

A not-so-loving look at the Washington Post’s Marcus Brauchli from the Columbia Journalism Review—and my own take from afar

In The Solomon Scandals, George McWilliams runs a word-mill at the fictitious Washington Telegram—using his Rolex to time reporters writing

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