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Winner take all on healthcare
Los Angeles Times - 4 Hours ago
Trying to come up with bipartisan compromise is a a losing game. Let both sides place their bets -- and one will pay the price. Ihereby forfeit my claim to a vast right-wing conspiracy decoder ring by
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The missing Obama
Washington Post - 6 Hours ago
The speech, delivered in Philadelphia in March 2008, was compelled by the rantings of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who had been Obama's pastor and spiritual adviser. Wright, a man of a certain age with the
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Gregory Rodriguez: Ft. Hood and 'political correctness'
Los Angeles Times - 7 Hours ago
The Ft. Hood massacre was not the first violent tragedy that conservatives have blamed on political correctness. But it might be the first one in which they actually have a point. In March, commentator
Ft. Hood and the bugaboo of 'political correctness' Los Angeles Times
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Huff TV: Arianna Discusses Senate Health Care Reform On Countdown With Keith Olbermann
Huffington Post - 4 Hours ago
Arianna stopped by Countdown with Keith Olbermann Monday night to talk about the politics behind the Senate's approach to health care reform, including recent comments by Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.)
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In the Loop: A guide to grudges for holiday hosts in official Washington
Washington Post - 11/23/2009
Washington is a town where lots of folks have a "history" with one another -- a history that's not always the most pleasant. That makes the task of holiday dinner-party seating an especially exacting
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Arianna Huffington: Will The Unemployment Disaster Be Obama's Katrina?
Huffington Post - 9 Hours ago
Just as Katrina exposed critical weaknesses in the priorities and competence of the Bush administration, the unfolding unemployment disaster is threatening to do the same for the Obama White House. The
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Sunni Awakening, Afghan Version
The New Republic Online - 9 Hours ago
It's often said that you can't hope to apply Iraq strategy to Afghanistan because the two countries/conflicts are so different. But Stanley McChrystal seems not to agree: In Iraq, the U.S.-funded Sons
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Toomey's Two-Step
The New Republic Online - 12 Hours ago
Congressional Quarterly's Shira Toeplitz has a good rundown on all the ways in which presumptive Pennsylvania GOP Senate nominee Pat Toomey has moved to the center ever since Arlen Specter bolted for
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Obamacare Has Your Guns in its Sights!
The New Republic Online - 12 Hours ago
One of the most fascinating aspects of the health-care reform debate are the creative, highly targeted arguments that outside groups are marshalling to try and kill it. My current favorite is from the
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Faster, Please
American Prospect - 17 Hours ago
(Flickr/White House) The continuing rise in the unemployment rate, up to 10.2 percent in November, has to give a sense of urgency to Democrats in Congress and the administration about the work they have
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One More Bubble to Go
American Prospect - 17 Hours ago
The word from Washington and Wall Street is that the worst is over. Sure, it will take a while for jobs to recover, for housing to come back, and for wages to rise. But we are definitely on the road to
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Slideshow: Famous Filibusters
The New Republic Online - 21 Hours ago
filibusters in congressional history. More Articles On: , Popular 12345 1 2People Seem To Have Forgotten The Trade Center (And Pentagon) Massacre. So The Obama Administration Will Now Have Provided Us
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The Pit Bull in the China Shop
Keep Media - 22 Hours ago
Sarah Palin is far and away the most important brand in American politics after Barack Obama. Her 15 minutes is far from up. (The full text of this article is available free)
Pit bull in China shop Deccan Chronicle
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Andy Borowitz: Facing Criticism, Goldman Sachs Cancels Plan to Dance Around Bonfire
Huffington Post - 11/23/2009
The company had planned to perform a pagan dance around the inferno of blazing thousands while roasting a suckling pig as part of their year-end bonus celebration, but howls of protest forced them to
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Obama: First Pacific President?
MSNBC Newsweek - 11/21/2009
Barack Obama's irresistible, or at least unresisted, propensity for self-aggrandizement bubbled up yet again during his recent trip to the Far East when he proclaimed himself "America's first Pacific
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George F. Will: Fossil fuels belie environmentalism
Washington Post - 11/21/2009
What city contributed most to the making of the modern world? The Paris of the Enlightenment and then of Napoleon, pioneer of mass armies and nationalist statism? London, seat of parliamentary democracy
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Drug firms’ tired song and dance on reform
Boston Globe - 11/21/2009
IN MAKING a fool of President Obama, Big Pharma has turned itself into a poison pill of health care reform. In the summer, the drug companies offered $8 billion a year over 10 years in drug cost cuts,
Drug Firmsâ?? Tired Song and Dance on Reform Common Dreams
Drug firms tired song and dance on reform Boston Globe
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In the Loop: C Street house no longer fully tax-exempt
Washington Post - 11/18/2009
The famous rowhouse on C Street SE where disgraced South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford sought counseling after his affair -- as did Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) after his affair -- has begun paying D.C. real
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Visceral Has Its Value
New York Times - 11/22/2009
Barack Obama, who once had his own electric book tour testing the waters for a campaign, could learn a thing or three from Sarah Palin.
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Palin Quote of the Day
The New Republic Online - 11/21/2009
Palin Quote Of The Day The New Republic Cohn: Designing One of the Most Crucial Aspects of Reform Assistant Editor November 21, 2009 12:05 pm Related Articles More From this Author The Sports Gets Mad,
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Putting the Fond in Farewell
New York Times - 11/21/2009
By announcing that her shows 25th season will be her last, Oprah Winfrey provided a useful tip in navigating life: Quit while youre ahead. Member ID orE-Mail Address: Password: Remember me on this computer.
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Andy Borowitz: Inspired By Oprah, Homeless Guy Ends 25 Years of Shouting at Passersby
Huffington Post - 11/21/2009
NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) - A homeless man who began shouting at New Yorkers in 1985 said that Oprah Winfrey was the inspiration behind his decision to call it quits in early 2010. "I've had a good
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Shields and Gerson Review Road Ahead for Health Reform
PBS - 11/21/2009
JIM LEHRER: Now: the analysis of Shields and Gerson, syndicated columnist Mark Shields, 'Washington Post' columnist Michael Gerson. David Brooks is off tonight. Mark, are there going to be 60 votes tomorrow
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A federal budget-buster in the making
Waterbury Republican American - 11/22/2009
WASHINGTON The day after the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) gave its qualified blessing to the version of health reform produced by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Quinnipiac University poll
A budget-buster in the making Washington Post
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Den mother to an orphaned movement
Hutchinson News - 11/22/2009
What? Another Sarah Palin piece. A lot of people say they're tired of hearing about her. They think the media pay too much attention to Sarah Palin. Forget that. I think we need to pay more attention
Mother to an orphaned movement Chicago Tribune
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